The Juliana Theory Studio Update

[Frank Giaramita]

The Juliana Theory (www.thejulianatheory.com) has another studio update and you can check it out in the replies.

[Frank Giaramita]

"STUDIO DIARY 2005 - ENTRY #3 - 01/15/2005 Studio Diary 2005 - Entry Number Two Saturday January 15, 2005 - Greensburg, Pennsylvania Yesterday, here at Studio 66, things got a little interesting. We have been due our major equipment malfunction, and it finally happened yesterday. Not only did my main firewire hard drive short out (shooting sparks and smoking), but in attempts to repair it, ANOTHER drive went down for the count. My assistant/engineer Steve and I spent all day long taking apart drives, downloading programs, calling tech geeks, and staring 4 different computer screens. MOST of the vocals were backed up on an additional drive (as they ALL should have been). But by way of a large oversight on my part (I thought I was backing everything up, but evidently I was not) I lost a LOT of my raw vocal takes. They are gone forever. They shot out of the back of the 250 gb hard drive in the form of smoke and blue sparks. Insane. My lead vocals, for the most part, are all still in tact. However, many of my various takes along with 5 hours of work from Thursday night are all history. I guess it is six of one, one half dozen of the other. Tapes can get erased. Tape machines can go bad. Adat's and DA 88's can break mid album (not unlike while tracking Emotion is Dead), and hard drives can crash. Something is always bound to break while making a record. Steve and I bought Disk Warrior to fix the sparking drive and it 'fixed' it well. The only problem is that it was missing some 3,500 crucial audio and session files. Awesome. So anyways, things ARE progressing still. Thank God for backup drive number two... I should be putting the finishing touches on the lead vox for 'We Make the Road by Walking,' and 'This is a Lovesong... For the Loveless,' today or tomorrow. Monday starts Kosker singing. He'll be doing more backups and harmonies than he ever has for us. I am excited about that. I believe we also confirmed the final tracklisting for this thing yesterday. I'm not tellin' yet, but I'd say that it will be our record with the most continuity (both lyrically and musically) of anything we have done. Stuff that does not fit the record is just not going on the record. There are no questions of songs going on the record to make anyone else happy or because they are great songs that don't quite fit the vibe. This whole thing makes sense. Now we just have to figure out the album title. Will it be 'A Small Noise?' Will it be 'Deadbeat Sweetheartbeat?' or will it be something completely different? What do you say?"--Juliana Theory

[juan_believes]

oh man that hard drive thing sucks, but oh well, this album is gonna be great

[stabmeNthefront]

i like "deadbeat sweet heartbeat" more than "a small noise"

[splitsecond]

Its deadbeat sweetheartbeat, two words. Some people get it, others dont. I think its a fucking excellent title.

[peristalsis]

good thing part of the backups survived otherwise we'd have a finch type delay from their part :O Now we need some more samples to get us excited.

[TD-McInnes]

when i saw them over the summer they played a few new songs, one seemed to be pretty rocking which i thought was a good thing. hopefully on their upcoming tours they will play SOMETHING off of the first album