Kill The Messenger

So i am back. whoppiee!

i have a regular gig now for Rebel Thursdays in Gloucester City, NJ running sound there.  Everybody seems to be happy so far with the production, so good, that makes me happy

I am looking for work, if you need  a sound system for an event, including a ‘regular weekly’ event contact me.  If you need just an engineer, contact me   If you need a dj, wtf why not, contact me

Right now the mobile rig is like this:

Mackie DFX 12 Mixer

Behringer Eurorack Line Mixer

DBX Project 1 Compressor/Limiter

Lexicon MX200 Effects processor

Boss Se-50 Effects processor

PCDJ-1 Dual Flash Card Player

QSC RMX2450 Amplifier

3 – JBL JRX 115 15″ Speakers

2 Shure SM-58 Mics

1 Shure SH-55 Mic ( the elvis mic)

2 Whirlwind IMP-2 Direct Box

“sometimes” the rack contains additional items:

Custom Laptop running Ableton Live, Cubase, Reason, Battery, Soundforge

Access Virus TI Polar

M Audio Oxygen 8 Controller

Korg Padkontrol

ADAT XT 20 - want your bands set recorded? no sweat, we can talk about that, and about getting that recording mixed by Mike at Dark Asylum as well.

Ensoniq ASR-X Sampler

Rocktron Chameleon online  GUitar Processor

Korg Toneworks Tuner

Digitech Vocopro 300 - ie THE terrorebm effects unit

EMU XL-7 drum machine  Groove Box

Roland TD7 Electronic Drum Kit

I also have Ultimate Collumn Keyboard stands

Session Work

yes, i am a whore, you can hire me as a mercenary keyboard player for live gigs, or to play e-drums.  Contact me in advance of a possible show, and we can talk about it.  If  you think this might be something you want to do in the near future let me know, and get me the live material, so when im practicing my chops i can learn your material.

Select Short List of Artists i’ve worked with, sort of like a resume, i guess

LIVE SOUND, ENGINEER

EBM/INDUSTRIAL:

Android Lust

Nachtmahr

The Wired

MyParasites

Xentrifuge

Vicious Alliance

The Harvest

Jazz/Blues

Gil Scott Heron

The Mingus Big Band

Kevin Eubanks

The Isley Bros

Regina Carter

Jimmy Scott

more to write in

punk/hardcore/emo

dysphoria

american waste

oddnormal

hot rod circuit

the casualties

anti-trust

dead city psychos

sasquatch

Lighting/Stagehand/Rigging

Kiss

Sting

Red Hot Chili Peppers

Iron Maiden

Halford

Santanna

The Warped Tour

so yeah, here is the new viktim logo for 2010. stickers will be made up soon, and be umm, everywhere, i guess, haha.

The show on thursday went okay, on our end it went very well, on the physical club, it was hectic, as is expected at Ulana’s.

The way we ran things was as Dean called it, a “round robin” of the three bands. we work together very well, Myself, Jaws, and Myk. Thats pretty much ‘the core’ of all three bands: viktim, myparasites, and ninetwelve on a ‘live performance’ level.

Not slighting anyone else we play with, of course. I love everyone I’ve played with, and that has shared my vision with me. Sounds really pretentious when I say “vision”, but really, thats what they do, they help me live my dream, so anyway.

we had the stage set up, i was stage right, with my rack, where i set the drop from the FOH above. Myk also set up his keys there, as he and i would rotate mostly, on keys, except when i went to the other side and played Jaws’ keys for MP set.

There was no stage monitors, which really ended up being a nightmare. we are looking into two options. Either we are going to purchase at minimum ONE powered monitor, ala a mackie or JBL EON, or we are going to dive into debt and buy some in-ears.

Jaws wanted to process his vocals through his keyboard and his computer, but it was feeding back, and we couldnt get the volume we needed, because that mic doesnt have the gate/compressor on it, like we do with the sm58 chanell. So he ended up using our mic being processed through the SE-50.

The Set was:

1. ninetwelve – don’t say a word
2. ninetwelve – goodbye
3. ninetwelve – Kill it with a Chainsaw
4. viktim – waiting
5. viktim – dream
6. myparasites – emotional starvation
7. myparasites – nowfunction
8. myparasites – you and i
9. viktim – driven
10. viktim – brand new
11. viktim – a forest
12. myparasites – metal veinz
13. ninetwelve – mother of darkness
14. ninetwelve – cumhog

It went well. we switched up correctly, and myk straight up killed on guitar, i was impressed. He had assured me that he was proficient, and i knew he was great on keys, so i figured ” i trust him, so lets do it” and man, i was rewarded for my belief in him. he does indeed shred, he soloed his balls off on ‘ a forest’, and everything went well.

we all got lost on the viktim song ‘brand new’ though. i couldnt hear anything, none of us could. it ended up being a trainwreck. i think thats part of why a forest came out so well, lol, was because we had just wrecked on ‘bran new’, so i was taking precautions. I hope there is a pic of it, haha, but myk and i are front of the stage, im bent down, slapping the front of the stage counting, and hes listening for the downbeat, and well, it worked. This is an example of how my idea from a couple months back, of getting one of those DJ LED metronomes might be a good idea. I could take a click off the track, put it to the metronome and put it dead front of the stage, facing us, so we the band could watch it.

there wasnt alot of people there, i think the door guy said 45, but hey thats not bad. we had booked and promoted the show in two weeks. We took advantage of the power strip fest being the next two nights after the regular infection X, and thought ‘lets see if any out of towners are in thursday, maybe we can get exposure to new faces” and we did.

The main draw back about ulanas, well, the main two, lol, is a) lack of subs ie. no banging bass and b) no stage monitors. The only time it really sounds right is when bands bring in there own back;line, and fuck man, for that short of notice, and the big chance of no one coming because they are broke, saving money for power strip, i didnt want to rent subs.

anyway, it went well. i guess, lol. yeah, it was fun. i think we had a good bonding night, if anything.

hopefully i will have some pics to post. The guys from The Wired came, and i think they snapped some pics. I was glad to see them, they’re great guys. I gotta get sometime when neither of us is playing and we can all get wasted and have a good time, without me having to worry about my gear the whole time.

Walking through the city the other day i came upon three computers in the trash by the curb.. two were the typical white office workstations, nothing on the front, not much to them, but the third was a Dell optiplex, one of the small format ones, kinda low, could go sideways, and i picked it up, nah, put it back down, and went to the bar.

walking from the bar i was going past the trash again, and well, couldnt help myself, i snatched up the dell, brought it home, and went to bed. The following afternoon, after work, i broke it up, and looked inside. It of course was missing the harddrive, that was to be expected, what kind of fool leaves a harddrive in a computer after throwing it away, not many anymore. So i again went to town with the contact cleaner and shopvac, got it looking all sparkly inside, and put it in front of a fan, and went to bed.

A couple days later it was the wekend again, so i went to the flea mart, and hit up the junk guy for a power supply. i didnt need the power supply, the PS in the tower worked fine, what i wanted was the end, when they removed the harddrive they just snipped the cord instead of pulling it out.

So i got some bugs out of my work van, my meter, checked polarity and power, snapped the bugs on to the power lines, and ta-da, i had a working end again.

So i went into my box of shit, and pulled out a harddrive i knew was on its way out, and had already yanked everything off of, like a year ago,, and i slapped it in, to give it a shot. Zipppp powered up. Nice.

So i went to bestBuy bought a 320 gb 7200 harddrive, and i priced out memory. this board in the dell can take up to 4gb of ram, nice, thats better than what i was already running. But i didnt buy the memory yet, i dont have 64 bit OS, so i couldnt run beyond two gigs anyway. It had 512 in it as trash picked.

Brought it home, downloaded the BIOS and all the drivers off the internet, put on an OS, and zoooom it works.

YAY.

so i have a machine pretty much ready to kick ass as a DAW. Oh, i forgot what i did today, i put in my pci-324 card for my MOTU and i put in a firewire card form another computer at home. That fucker hasnt worked yet thoough, The computer initially sees the 1394 card, but thats it, cant get to the WD drive i got on the other end of it.

im sure ill get it eventually, but im still kinda sick, my alergies are acting up hardcore, and i feel like garbage, so i took a nap., IM up now, but just cuz i had a phone call with raverjim. Anyway, im going back to bed.

well, im probably gonna browse over to tiger direct, but then straight to bed, i swear

I’m so great, so everybody see
Everyone of you should be looking up at me
I’m your god, the one you’ll never be
I’m the best, so you better kiss my feet

I’m God to everyone of you
Jesus Christ who died in pain for you

I’m life, I’m death, I’m the blood for you

It’s not easy being #1 in the world
I’m a gift for the women and all of the little girls
If your lucky enough to touch me, some day you’ll see
I’m superior to you and every human being

I’m God to everyone of you

Jesus Christ, died in pain for you

I’m life, I’m death, I’m the blood for you

I get high on myself, so get high on me
Worship me, when you’re down on your knees
Think of me, me in all of your wettest dreams
‘Cause I’m the ruler, I’m the king, I’m the super sonic machine

I’m God to everyone of you
Jesus Christ who died in pain for you
I’m life, I’m death, I’m the blood for you

I’m God to everyone of you
Jesus Christ who died in pain for you
I’m life, I’m death, I’m the blood for you

I’m God to everyone of you
Jesus Christ who died in pain for you
‘m life, I’m death, I’m the blood for you