By sheer luck after I posted in Mr Afternoon's new album thread early July about my last two albums being possible surround mix candidates, forum member Jared (Methuselah’s Grandpa) reached out privately offering his services. Not even two months later the 5.1 and Atmos mixes went live today on IAA and Bandcamp. Jared did an amazing job having only the stems from when I archived the project files to work with.
Our band's musical style is best described as alternative rock, not a genre well represented in the surround landscape. I joke that our music is kinda like "a guilty pleasure for prog fans", since I don't try to weave super elaborate or note flooded passages, but there's often wide stylistic diversity within and between tracks. My personal interests as a fan of music vary a lot, but I am admittedly not a classically trained musician or someone who spends hours everyday honing mastery at their instrument(s). It's the varied musical interest that comes through in unique ways as you'll hear by the third track on this latest album, "Middle Ages".
I [Kevin] play and produce the music, and my long time friend Scott writes most of the lyrics and does all the vocals. Scott also got more involved in compositional decisions through the use of remote sessions, streaming the DAW audio over the internet so he could make suggestions and fine tune things with me in realtime. It worked out quite well, several interesting ideas he had were only possible because we could work on them over the course of an hour what would previously have taken us many many hours of frustration composing over the phone with only adequate results.
Lyrically this is a dark album. Scott delves into self reflection and societal critique with an unforgiving sharp tongue. There's a beauty in exploring the darkness, and I feel like there's tremendous value in his level of sincerity.
Jared is trying to generate some clients from this (and the next) surround release, so please share (maybe purchase?) and hopefully we can help him gain some traction in the mixing space. Without further ado, here's the links to the album with various low cost price points and format options.
Ummm "Middle Ages" available here:
IAA 5.1 and Atmos ($5.99 / $7.99): https://immersiveaudioalbum.com/product/middle-ages-umm-5-1-flac-atmos-mkv-mp4/
Bandcamp 5.1 and DTS-CD ( ) ($6.99)
Our band's musical style is best described as alternative rock, not a genre well represented in the surround landscape. I joke that our music is kinda like "a guilty pleasure for prog fans", since I don't try to weave super elaborate or note flooded passages, but there's often wide stylistic diversity within and between tracks. My personal interests as a fan of music vary a lot, but I am admittedly not a classically trained musician or someone who spends hours everyday honing mastery at their instrument(s). It's the varied musical interest that comes through in unique ways as you'll hear by the third track on this latest album, "Middle Ages".
I [Kevin] play and produce the music, and my long time friend Scott writes most of the lyrics and does all the vocals. Scott also got more involved in compositional decisions through the use of remote sessions, streaming the DAW audio over the internet so he could make suggestions and fine tune things with me in realtime. It worked out quite well, several interesting ideas he had were only possible because we could work on them over the course of an hour what would previously have taken us many many hours of frustration composing over the phone with only adequate results.
Lyrically this is a dark album. Scott delves into self reflection and societal critique with an unforgiving sharp tongue. There's a beauty in exploring the darkness, and I feel like there's tremendous value in his level of sincerity.
Jared is trying to generate some clients from this (and the next) surround release, so please share (maybe purchase?) and hopefully we can help him gain some traction in the mixing space. Without further ado, here's the links to the album with various low cost price points and format options.
Ummm "Middle Ages" available here:
IAA 5.1 and Atmos ($5.99 / $7.99): https://immersiveaudioalbum.com/product/middle-ages-umm-5-1-flac-atmos-mkv-mp4/
Bandcamp 5.1 and DTS-CD ( ) ($6.99)
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