They were inspired by Death of a Modernist, A Tale for the Ages and a bit of philosophical readings. Glad you caught that, Yakbebe :]

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Yay I did it :3

Daddy is proud of you, little one

They grow up so fast.

You best have listened to the new jam, Ec!

Indeed they do. Our baby Yak is still quite young though

On bandcamp or your soundcloud?

My soundcloud! It's a couple posts up, you poop

Listening now.

Not sure if I asked you before, but do you do play everything on your recordings?

I most certainly do! I record it all in my living room on my piece of shit laptop with some cheap ass MXL mics

So, which instrument do you start with when you record?

I tried doing a one-man band thing in college, but I wasn't very good at recording everything individually. Plus, I have a terrible time playing to a metronome, even though I can play along with a drummer just fine, which is very perplexing.

I tab all of my songs out in a simplified format in GuitarPro and then import the midi into my DAW. From there, I start recording all of the guitars played to the midi track and usually I start improvising and altering riffs and shit here and there. Listening to some of my songs in GuitarPro after recording them is like WHAT THE FUUUUUCCKKK weird cause sometimes they turn out insanely different

That's a great way to do it. I never thought about that.

I have been thinking about getting a cheap set-up since I don't have access to a studio anymore like I did in college. My main problem would be that I don't know how to play drums, though.

It's pretty much how I've been recording for the past 6 or 7 years. It really helps cause it gives you something to reference other than a click track, which can be hard to record to when you are literally playing to nothing.

You can always start out using programmed drums until you teach yourself or get a friend them for you

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which software do you use to mix the recording?

Mixcraft 6. It's a pretty basic and cheap program but I like to think I am really efficient with it. I tried upgrading once to Reaper and I just had no idea what the fuck I was doing

Actually I think I've been recording this way for like 9 years. In my old band, our guitarist would write everything out in TabIt. Good times, good times

I use Powertabs to tab out stuff I have written. It's pretty much a free, cheap-o version of GuitarPro.

I haven't really messed with programmed drums. Are they fairly easy to work with?

I honestly hate everything that isn't GuitarPro because everything else just seems inferior. I can hook you up with a pirated version of GuitarPro 5.2 (I think) if you'd like!

It really depends on you. If you don't know anything about programming drums, they will likely be boring and sound shitty. If you put a lot of effort into them (and I mean A LOOOOOOOT) then you can get them to sound convincingly real. I don't like Invalids that much, but these are programmed drums and they sound absolutely amazing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSAp_f4nMCg

Wow. This song is ridiculous.

I've actually used GuitarPro before. A friend 'gave' me a copy. It has a better midi bank than PowerTabs, and I liked the fact that you could export to a PDF if you wanted, but other than that, they aren't that crazy different. I def didn't think it was worth paying for. I might take you up on that someday. I lost all the stuff for it after my laptop crapped out a while back.

Ever listened to Cloudkicker? He plays bass/guitar and uses programmed drums. I can't really tell that they are programmed, but I don't always pay a whole lot of attention to drums, so I might not have the ear for it.

If you have a facebook, just hit me up on there and I'll message it to you
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We shall see! Invalids drums are definitely insane. He uses Addictive Drums and then alters the pitch and throws a million filters and EQs to get them to sound convinging. The guy actually records everything himself too. It sounds sooooo good that you'd think it was professionally done.

Checking out Cloudkicker right now and if these are programmed drums, I sure as hell can't tell. They sound great!