March Update (Patreon)

Hey all,

Sorry for the relative silence recently, it's been... a wild couple of weeks. Or not. There's a tl;dr at the bottom if you aren't a words guy/gal. Otherwise, uncle Gamz has a story for you.

As you may or may or not have heard, we temporarily pulled the Melodies of Life video from YouTube. If you had the chance to listen to it before it was pulled, you probably noticed a huge quality dip in the audio compared to other music services. Premiere garbled the audio and it sounded really, really bad. It has taken our poor editor Jason most of this week to diagnose why. We've been uploading videos for over 5 years, Jason many more and we've NEVER ENCOUNTERED THIS ISSUE. It's still our bad for letting it slip though and we take full responsibility for that. Many of you flagged it as soon it as went live and wow our community is great. All the comments were incredibly constructive, so thank you! We're expecting it to be back on YouTube tomorrow morning and if you wouldn't mind giving it another chance, we would very much appreciate it. It's one of our most ambitious projects yet and I think when the video file isn't actively trying to destroy your ears, you'll enjoy it.

This is had a knock-on effect to the rest of the pipeline, so here's the plan. Rather than an early video tomorrow, we're going to give you the .WAV for the next video we're uploading instead as the edits are backed up a little bit. BTS will follow next week as will your regular stream of early videos, we'll be recording again on Sunday to make up for the fact that...

Remember that big weekend of recording we had a few weeks back? We lost an entire day of audio. Gone bye thanks for everything don't call me can't get it back gone. I can't really go too deep into it except to say that it was one of those mistakes that no person could have rationally been expected to catch. A bunch of routing got screwed up overnight despite the fact nobody was in the studio between the days and yeah we reviewed the footage and instruments were just missing. That has knocked us back on our arses and we'll be hitting the studio again Sunday to try and recover. This + Melody needing surgery has put a real strain on Jason as you'd imagine so it's going to take him a little bit to get those videos done.

But there's hope! As you've probably seen on Discord, we've had some really nasty luck with streaming. If you've ever seen us go live and then proceed to not stream, studio internet is garbage and we're constantly relying on 4G to go live which varies wildly day to day. We're putting streams back on hiatus for about a month while the studio upgrades their internet. Don't worry though that's not the good part. In addition to Sunday we're going to take the time we would normally stream to do a few more tracking style arrangements to help fill out our upload schedule instead, so you're getting new arrangements more often. I suspect they'll start pumping out within the next fortnight.

So your tl;dr:

 - Melodies was on fire, that fire goes out tomorrow and you should check the video again when it does. It will BE fire instead of being ON fire

- Due to that + the fact we lost a day of recording, the heavily edited studio videos will take a bit more time to get up. Tomorrow you'll get the next tune as an audio file instead

- Streams are on hiatus while we record some other hot, possibly experimental stuff while we recover a bit. We'll probably kick it off again with Consouls Radio on the 29th and investigate other options in the meantime

- You get a BANGER audio track tomorrow and heaps of BTS coming over the next few days

Good on you if you made it this far, I'll be around in Discord or in the comments of this post to answer any questions. I hope this didn't come across as a giant excuse post, we just thought it was best to be as transparent as possible and explain what we're doing to get back on our feet. 

Thank you for your patience and continued support, I promise you'll have some fire content when we're through it

Gamz