Nothin much to say...

I'm terribly GASSING for a Japanese Fender strat!!! Anyway, I can't wait to finish the album of Lovecore and for August to arrive so we can focus again as a band since as mentioned before, Paolo, our drummer, is a new dad again so he's taking a leave this month except for those dates he committed to. Lovecore's on twitter by the way so follow us if you want... our account is lovecoresound :) God bless Cy s i l v e r f i l t e r http://www.silverfilter.com http://www.myspace.com/silverfilter http://silverfilter.multiply.com http://www.facebook.com/silverfilter http://www.twitter.com/silverfilter

Decided to rest

I woke up earlier than usual coz an ant bit me and since I NEEDED to get up to pick up the car from the mechanic, I didn't try going back to sleep. I freed up my day to record the last 2 songs for the lovecore album but decided to rest today. my hands are still recovering. It's not because the songs were too hard or It was too much playing/recording... I just lack time playing (practicing?) that my fingers aren't used to it anymore hehe Spent the day doing research on studio designs and what I can include in the redesign of the new studio. I really do hope we can start building it in 2 weeks at the most. Initially, I called my studio Switch but when the new one's built, I plan to register it and I'm toying with silver switch or sonic switch studios... I dunno yet. Picked up a few ideas from my research and it was nice because I really didn't know what type of color scheme I wanted. I was willing to settle with something latte but I saw this green studio that looked so fresh! It literally gave me this warm feeling so I think I'll do that. the recording booth is gonna be orange and brown (wood). Exciting! Spent the rest of the night researching on digital distribution for the new silverfilter album and waited for the memorial service for Michael Jackson... I'm really speechless. Can't believe he's actually gone. I'll just save my Michael Jackson entry for another day... I'll be in a meeting tom for a future gig in Bora so I guess I'll be hitting the beach in a few months hehe 'til then. Cy ps... John Mayer kicks ass hehehe s i l v e r f i l t e r http://www.silverfilter.com http://www.myspace.com/silverfilter http://silverfilter.multiply.com http://www.facebook.com/silverfilter http://www.twitter.com/silverfilter

Little Studio update

I'm gonna be renovating my studio and finally it's gonna happen after half a yr of delay. Madz once dubbed it as a place where the Tazmanian devil lives. It WAS a bedroom studio so everything was there naturally. My new and HIGHLY improved studio would be JUST a studio and the room would be a separate thing so I'll have space for a couch and some chairs for lounging, the proper gear, furniture, cabinets, and the lighting. I'm also putting in a proper vocal booth sized just enough for a drum kit as well since I plan to do drum recordings in it. I'll also be opening it up to friends. Not as public as I'd like to but for people I know esp electronic acts for vocal recordings on tracks, or do and record session guitars if you need guitar parts on your tracks hehehe, etc. All my money is poured into the studio structure right now so upgrades inside would follow later on. I can still manage anyway with my current setup. The only thing I got for the studio itself were some pieces of studio furniture like a set of quiklok monitor stands paired with their workstation desk. As I mentioned, my current setup (at the moment) is typical. Not as powerful or expensive as I'd like to but I have to set my priorities. I just have a PC laptop, an NI soundcard (which I love), a pair of Alesis Monitors, an Akai controller, a couple of synths (left), and my normal band setup of drums and guitars. I also have a pair of those Bose speakers which I use just to change my listening environment to see how it sounds on hifi systems. I just have an AT 4040 condenser and a simple Shure SM58. My dream list would definitely be longer but my point is we can definitely make music with so little these days that it's really pointless to think and say that "if I had... I could." For my liveset, there's a different gear list for that haha I'm still thinking of a name. I came up with one already but I'll wait til something else hits me just in case :) For my modest wishlist: I want a new set of KRK monitors, A nice mic preamp, a full Mac System, Logic, and a few nice plugs. For now I'm not really looking into getting all the most expensive and high end stuff. I'm more into getting something that works and within budget eventually. As of now, I'm happy with my setup so a little upgrade bump would suffice. Maybe I'm getting old hahaha Ayun lang. nakwento ko lang hehe Cy s i l v e r f i l t e r http://www.silverfilter.com http://www.myspace.com/silverfilter http://silverfilter.multiply.com http://www.facebook.com/silverfilter http://www.twitter.com/silverfilter

lost what I typed

Typed an entry and when i pressed send, it refreshes and my entry wasn't there and lost the whole thing. so now I'm too tired to type the whole thing. The fingers on my left hand hurt as I type this. I've been playing guitar since yesterday afternoon for recording. I'm down to 2 more songs and I'm pretty happy about it. I really feel pissed I lost my previous entry! tinatamad nako magtype! Tom nalang hehe Cy s i l v e r f i l t e r http://www.silverfilter.com http://www.myspace.com/silverfilter http://silverfilter.multiply.com http://www.facebook.com/silverfilter http://www.twitter.com/silverfilter

Attended church today and had a full dinner in Cafe Med... I mean FULL!!! headed for ice cream after... I didn't make it to Sebastians (which is my all time favorite!!!) so I had to settle for FIC (bummer). We then watched ice age 3. It was good for laughs. I somehow wish they never gave away most of the funny parts in the previews!!!  Oh well.... I'll be hitting the sack early coz I have to be up by 8 to have the car fixed... Cy s i l v e r f i l t e r http://www.silverfilter.com http://www.myspace.com/silverfilter http://silverfilter.multiply.com http://www.facebook.com/silverfilter http://www.twitter.com/silverfilter

Saturday blues... on a sunday mornin post

Had a Lovecore gig at Al's last night. It was a 3 song gig but I enjoyed it very much. We  played as a 3 piece act since our drummer's wife just gave birth and we had to play our commitment out. I played drums and sang. It was a trip I guess and I think I missed drumming that much I was just banging away... Lovecore album update - restrung my Strat and Les Paul for some of the songs since I'm doing my parts already and I'm glad to say that all those late night early morning sessions are paying off. I'm down to 4 songs for the album then it's just the vocals then mix to master and we're done. I'm still hopeful for an August release so stay tuned! Anyway, in silverfilter news... Just got word that the production company helping me out with the new album might take longer than expected to fix everything because there's a new requirement again and YET another agency to go through just for an artist to release something. It's really funny (not) how all this is happening now. I'm keeping it positive and it's still July anyway so I'll just wait it out for now. I'm pretty busy with tons of stuff at the moment anyway. We spent another Saturday shooting for the Video of Walis Tambo by my band and it was a good day of shooting and we all had a blast. Thanks again to all my friends who were willing to commit their time to help us out! Til then... God bless! Cy s i l v e r f i l t e r http://www.silverfilter.com http://www.myspace.com/silverfilter http://silverfilter.multiply.com http://www.facebook.com/silverfilter http://www.twitter.com/silverfilter

The Making of Devotion - part one

The Idea hit me early last year when plans on renovating New Life, my church, was announced. I am where I am because of what God has done in my life and I wanted a way to give back through my music and what better way than to make a fund raising album to build His house. I brought it up initially to some people in church but when nobody picked up on it, I had to set the project aside to focus on work. Fast forward a few months... when I finally got the go signal, I took on the project and worked on twelve songs... I ended up using eleven on the album. As mentioned before in previous posts, Devotion is something I call a soundtrack to prayer. It's an 11-track CD where the songs are more likely to be played in the background. I wrote the tunes with this in mind exactly to create music that doesn't jump out at you while your praying or reading the bible. It's music meant for "devotion" so to speak. I initially thought of simply creating ambient music but when it came down to praying, prayer is about being brought to places by the Spirit and I didn't want the music to be limited by something VERY light. The album is light as it is. For lack of a genre, I simply call it between ambient and chillout. But some of the tunes have that victorious feel or some of them simply bring a smile to our faces. More about Devotion in the coming blogs... I'm going over the master disc while typing this. I'll be delivering it later for replication and it's simply a waiting game after that before album release. I'm really excited! God bless and thanks for the support! Cy s i l v e r f i l t e r http://www.silverfilter.com http://www.myspace.com/silverfilter http://silverfilter.multiply.com http://www.facebook.com/silverfilter http://www.twitter.com/silverfilter

silverfilter remix

My remix in Billy Crawford's new album... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1HERy9IaI0 low res lang yung naupload nila eh hehe Cy s i l v e r f i l t e r http://www.silverfilter.com http://www.myspace.com/silverfilter http://silverfilter.multiply.com http://www.facebook.com/silverfilter http://www.twitter.com/silverfilter

Excited 'bout a lot of stuff happening...

I'm resting a while since I'm down to one more song to master for my upcoming album. It's very exciting. I was even mentioning to Bernice how I'd be waiting in anticipation once the Master disc is submitted and all that's left to do is to wait for the batch of silverfilter CDs to be delivered fresh and packed and ready to be sold! Over the course of the past months, I've been working on both my latest silverfilter album and finishing the recording of Lovecore's album. I'm producing the band's album and so I'm pretty much there the WHOLE process making sure everything is how I envisioned it. Pretty exciting times. I'll be delivering the master disc within the week as we finish the rest of the lead guitar parts for the album. After that, I'll be glued next week to finishing all my guitar and vocal parts. We're aiming to finish everything by July and release the album by August at the latest. I told myself I should make the most of 2009 and I'll be pouring everything in this yr... Cy s i l v e r f i l t e r http://www.silverfilter.com http://www.myspace.com/silverfilter http://silverfilter.multiply.com http://www.facebook.com/silverfilter http://www.twitter.com/silverfilter

bonding with dad

This'll be short cuz I'm off to do some work but it's funny how my dad and I do our bonding time... playing Text Twist! haha He's a big text twist addict on his mobile and asked if I can install one for his laptop. When I did, we kept playing and playing til after 4am! hehehe of all the things to be used for dad-son bonding, it's a funny thing it had to be text twist hahaha Cy