The Journey is complete!

Well, after over a year of work, our album, Across The Wires, is finally released! It's hard to believe that the songs were written over a year ago but people are finally just hearing them now. While KT is a big focus for us, we still have day jobs, lives, etc. that take us away from doing music 24/7. Thankfully, all the time and hard work has paid off and the album is complete and is something we're very proud of.

For those of you who read our blog more for the gear info, you may still be interested in our album. All of the gear we've talked about so far was used on the album. The songs were recorded with only analog synthesizers and many of the drum sounds were also created with the synths. For instance, if you want to hear what the Macbeth M5 sounds like in a mix, just listen to any track on the album- it's featured heavily on every song. Also, many of the FX heard on the album were from things like MoogerFooger pedals instead of plugins. We also did quite a bit of step-sequencing with the Doepfer MAQ 16/3.

So, without further ado, go check out Killing Thursby's "Across The Wires" at CDBaby.com.

M5 Synthesizer Intro Video!

Here's a quick intro video on the Macbeth M5 analog synthesizer. We're going to go into much more detail in future videos, but here's a short overview to get things started.

Mastering? What's mastering?

We wanted to share the exciting news that Killing Thursby's new album, "Across The Wires", just came back from the mastering facility! Uh, okay, what does that mean? I'm sure there's a lot of you reading this that don't know what we mean when we say our music's been "mastered". Basically, mastering puts the final polish on your music and optimizes it for playback on the radio, in your car, etc. They apply careful equalization, compression, and volume normalization to make your music sound consistent across the whole album. It's done by a third party facility that uses a fine tuned listening environment, specialized equipment, and a trained engineer to get the best results. Every major album you buy has had this process done. It's a key element in making your music sound 'finished'. So, when we say our music's come back from mastering, we mean it's gone through the process and we've received a gold pressed master CD to use for duplication. We'll have the full album up to listen to soon so you can hear the mastering for yourself!

In the studio photo.

Going over the vocal takes for "Hole In The World"

A quick video tour of the KT studio!

Behind the scenes of "Hole in the World"!

Below is the finished track, but I've added a sneak peak of the vocal tracking session after! Can you pick out where Scott's harmony is in the final?!


Hole in the World by Killing Thursby

A Quick Tour of the KT Studio

Before we get into specific gear profiles, examples, etc., we thought we'd give you a quick overview of what we, KT, have in our studio. For synths, we're using a Moog Voyager and Macbeth M5 (much more to come on this crazy beast later!). We've also got a rack of MoogerFooger FX pedals, an analog step-sequencer, the DSI Tetra, and a vintage Moog Prodigy. For recording and sequencing, we're using both Logic and Pro Tools running on a Mac Pro tower through a Digi 003 control surface. Also, all the drum tracks we're programmed using an Akai MPD24 and the songs were mixed with Mackie studio monitors. So there's a brief overview of our setup; we'll get into much more detail in future posts so check back often!