Every year some of my friends, many dating back to Middle School, get together for what we call Thanksmas. It’s our own little Holiday between Thanksgiving and Christmas that we can spend time, deep fry a few turkeys, usually play some LAN games, it’s good times. We also do a …
I spent part of this afternoon finally getting around to seeing if I could fix the display issues on my Space Duel machine. Turns out that one of the wires that connects the HV board to a wiring harness had come loose so after some cleaning up of dust and …
As you know, I have been trying to get my Scuba certification and fortunately obtained it in time so that I could go diving on our cruise we took a few weeks ago. Lanna (Corey’s step-mom and family friend) also was able to obtain hers and so we ended up …
I had meant to post this weeks ago and just realized I never finished the draft post, doh! Holidays tend to be super busy for me so sorry for those that have not seen this yet! Regardless, I am happy to report that we finished and named our contest song. …
Last week, we went on our first cruise and had an amazingly good time (despite a few issues). Cozumel was absolutely breathtaking, both above the water and under it. We have a mountain of photos and video to sift through which will take some time and plenty to write about, …
This last Wednesday, I completed my final required dives to be Open Water Certified (via Scuba School International)! It took a bit longer since the second Open Water dive was cancelled due to flooding caused by the last big rains we had. In fact, I ended up going on a …
The Genesis Machine is out marking the 11th song of our upcoming album, Chipsurf Pipeline. I had an incredibly fun time mixing/mastering this one. It uses all the channels of both the GameBoy and NES, has some awesome guitar work by John, and the song itself I find captivating. I’m …
Over the past few days, I have been feverishly working on mastering our next song and it’s going incredibly well and something I am very proud of. But one interesting issue I ran into was weird artifacts that sound like ring modulation once I down-sampled from 96kHz down to 44.1kHz. …
Phoenix Down, the latest song off our latest album, Chipsurf Pipeline is finished! It started as our first attempt at using retriggers with the NES, but rather early turned more into the epic ballad that now defines the song. This is one of those songs we worked on off and …
