Well it has been a while hasn’t it folks?

Terry Syrek’s Machine Elves record is DONE. Just printed the final mixes yesterday. It was a long process this one, but very rewarding. There’s stuff on this record (musically) that’s going to utterly blow people away. I’m so happy that he has new music ready to go, people owe it to themselves to check it out when it’s released.

Next week I’ll be starting a mix for the 5-song EP from New Jersey based band Ashenveil. They’re a blend of symphonic/gothic musical elements among other things. It should be a fun one. The band also features Yuri Liak (from Operatika) and I believe will also have Mike LePond (from Symphony X) on bass for this recording.

AH YES I almost forgot…Dark Empire’s new record “From Refuge To Ruin” was released worldwide as of March 27th, and has been getting great reviews across the board (AND you can listen to a track from the record in the Discography section of this site). This is a major triumph I feel (even if on a smaller scale) because the record was released with an extremely dynamic and quiet master courtesy of the incredible Scott Hull at Masterdisk. To me it’s a big deal, because no one really DOES that anymore (let alone with heavier music), and I don’t really think there was a better person to do it than Scott, because the normal stuff he works on requires so much attention to detail and nuance and I really feel like he put such a nice spin on the record sonically. If you buy the record and listen to it and it’s too quiet for you, TURN IT UP.

That’s all for now gang,

-Jeremy

Hello folks,

I realize updates/entries/news has been pretty scarce…until right now that is.

Terry Syrek’s record is coming ’round the bend…going to be way cool, very organic, very spacious…it definitely has a mood to it. Wait until you hear the awesome reworked cover song he did too (which I of course won’t spoil).

ALSO, the 2012 Winter NAMM show is coming up this week, and yes obviously I will be there. If anyone wants to come say hello, a good chunk of the show I’ll be at Vigier Guitars (booth 4762). Feel free to come by, shoot the shit, tell me how much I suck, all the usual stuff…

I hope everyone (more like the 2 people besides me who read this) had a safe, happy, and healthy holiday season.

As usual, surprises a plenty are coming.

Until next time,

-Jeremy

WELL hasn’t it been quite a time since we saw each other last?

Between power outages, storms, Pro Tools upgrades…you name it…Dark Empire’s forthcoming album “From Refuge To Ruin” is officially finished and all the mixes are DONE. The album’s going to be mastered by Scott Hull at Masterdisk, we’re all very excited. I’m stoked for people to hear their new music, it really is their best release yet hands down (musically I mean).

Check out Dark Empire on Facebook here

And now for the newest new newer news….drum roll please…

In somewhat secret fashion (to most people at least) I have been working on another record alongside the Dark Empire record, basically editing/compiling/prepping it for mixing. I am just so extremely pleased and honored to announce that I will be mixing Terry Syrek’s new record tentatively titled “Machine Elves”. I cannot even begin to tell you how joyed I am to be able to do this for Terry. Those of you who know me probably know that I studied with Terry since about 1997 and he basically is the person most responsible for me being who I am today musically/playing-wise. The music he’s brought to the table for this record is beautifully heavy and atmospheric, it takes you on a journey (quite a few journeys actually). We’ll be hitting this thing full force starting this coming week most likely. Terry handles all the guitar, bass, keyboard, and vocal work while the very talented Greg Kalember handled drums as well as a large part of the engineering/production duties. Did I mention I’m excited for this one?

Laurie Monk at the Truth In Shredding site whipped up this awesome blurb about it here

I am extremely happy to report that as of about 5 minutes (and a slew of death vocals) ago, all the tracking for the new Dark Empire album “From Refuge To Ruin” is done. Mixing is going start on August 15th, faces will be slain, dogs and cats will live together, Bill Cosby will buy new sweaters, and marriages will be counseled.

-Jeremy

Well we’re now 7 days in…been pretty good. Lot of visitors, and a few new “likes” on the Facebook page .

News so far…new Dark Empire album titled “From Refuge To Ruin”, we go into mixing in August, we’re about 99.9% done with tracking. There’s not much I can really say, aside from that personally I think it’s their best songs so far (and I’ve been part of it since the beginning). Too many people want to try and constantly classify everything and stick it into a genre, I don’t really think the band cares, and it’s great. At points it will be the absolute heaviest material they’ve done to date and at other points it’ll conjure up memories of old 70s progressive rock. Should be fun, been a long process, but we’ve all been having fun doing it.

Two larger mixing gigs in the pipeline as well as tracking (and possibly mixing) for another bigger band. Also did a pretty sizable amount of work for Mick Guzauski and Chris Caswell over the last few weeks (I think we set some kind of record for how fast we were able to edit/prep/tune/mix a 14 song record).

Until next time, thanks for visiting, thanks for listening, thanks for the business,

-Jeremy

Hey people,

Welcome to the new Strategic Sonics site. We’re officially live and public, so take a look around. I’ll try to keep this updated with project-related news as often as possible. With WordPress it’ll be much much easier than before to keep everyone in the loop. Thanks for visiting, looking forward to hearing from you.

OH and be sure to “Like” the Strategic Sonics group on Facebook!

-Jeremy