Episode 35: New Gear, Fresh Start

Ippei brought up the idea of starting a band together again.

Apparently, after I left, the band kept going for a while, but the talks with the record label eventually fell apart.

I was already planning to restart with the new vocalist, but since I'd need a drummer for live shows, I asked him to help out.

So I wrote a few songs for the new vocalist.

This must have been around 2005.

I think I was using a Mac G5 at the time. The audio interface was, I believe, a MOTU Traveler. By then I'd switched to Logic Pro for DTM — before that, I'd been on Cubase since 1998. Honestly, there wasn't a huge difference in usability between the two. For drums, I used the Ocean Way Drums plugin.

For guitar, I was using my own Marshall cab and head. The head was a TSL60 — the distortion on that thing felt amazing.

Then one day, Ippei made me a proposal. I actually thought about it seriously.

It was...

To be continued.