Elliott shot me a few text messages yesterday about Valhalla, which he seemed to enjoy, though there are volume issues from track to track. I was aware that it might be an issue, but neglected to do anything about it. Just know these things: everything is set to boost its volume by 100% when you load it into iTunes. The insturmental tracks DO NOT need to be increased, but most things with vocals do. It boils down to the difference between Reason’s mastering and GarageBand’s normalizing.

It seems both needlessly authentic and horribly stupid to use GarageBand for vocals, but my laptop can’t run all the programs I use and still take ProTools (Celtex, Adobe Creative Suite, Final Draft, iLife, Swich, Various converters and encoders, CyberDuck, etc.)

None of this matters, except that Valhalla’s release date just happened because Jess and I have been fucking around with recording. I was smoking a cigarette with Jess out back of the Lashly house and said: “I think I’ll release Valhalla today.” Jess laughed, then we came back in and listened to some of the shit we’ve been recording.

Like “Happy Landings” a 50-second song that really should be made right, but might be good just how it is:

So, yeah, more things are on the way - after Valhalla, Mirrors & Masks, Get Ur Laffs Out/Sour Patch Kid, Yard Sale In The Ghetto - for God knows what reason.

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Download the full album in MP3 quality by clicking the above image.

Download the full vector piece by CLICKING HERE.

Download the full cover HERE.

Enjoy?

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If you know where I am physically, all you have to do is ask to get yourself this DVD. Full Internet release in July, as promised.

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Hey y’all. That’s right. I write “y’all.”

Got bored today and work was a chore, and I’m still a little ways out on getting CN5 finished, so I thought I’d give you a little Valhalla teaser. It’s Track 4: The Winning Team.

And like all tracks on Valhalla, this one is available for download in two formats:

A 192kbs MP3 that clocks in around 7mb [MP3]

And a 24 bit AIFF file that’s 27.6mb [AIFF]

Both are free, obviously, but one is just better sound quality. Why? Who knows. It’s not like you guys really want to hear me a) at all and b) in high quality.

Whatever. I knew that if I didn’t put something up, Elliott was going to complain again…

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