Former Chomksy frontman Sean Halleck entered the studio to begin working on some new material with drummer Rob Avsharian and bassist James Driscoll. Blues Artist Tutu Jones began tracking for his upcoming studio release with Casey Diiorio and Jim King, finishing most overdubs during the three month period. Zest of Yore returned again to the studio to continue final touchups on their disc as did Lord Tracy. Bowling for Soup visited for a couple days to knock out two songs and Fireworks over London also came back from Memphis to complete a few more overdubs. Denton punk rockers Sleezus Fist came in to record another full length disc…in four days. Solly featuring frontman Marc Solomon re-entered the studio with Casey Diiorio to begin working on songs for their upcoming release.

Memphis based Fireworks Over London began working with Casey Diiorio and Mark Petty on four songs for a possible upcoming release. These guys are in the vein of Muse and we’re very excited about what we’ve tracked so far. Solly came in for a few days to continue overdubs on three songs while Zest of Yore came in to put finishing touches on their upcoming release. Bowling for Soup stopped in to record a cover of Eddie Money’s “Two Tickets To Paradise”. The British press called it “brilliant”….nice brits. Engineer Zack Krzmarzick manned his first sessions here at Valve. Zack is a super cool guy from Minnesota and likes hockey….you can find him during the day at GC Pro in Dallas. Check out the new gear section…we’ve traded in the Digidesign converters on the protools rig to Apogee. Not only does the HD rig sound way better, but we can now transfer the tracks from the Studer to ProTools or vice versa using just Apogee converters.

New Gear: Apogee AD-16x, Apogee DA-16x, Shadow Hills Mono Gama Mic Pres,
Neve 33609 Compresor