To those of you who I used to regularly talk to, sorry I've been hard to reach. I am currently in the last stages of closing on a new home in an upper middle class area of FBX. It's a 4-bedroom, 2-bath with a beautiful yard and alot of footage, so we'll have alot more room after the move. The studio will be in a larger, more expansive space and I've a few tricks up my sleeve with improvements. I've had the current studio torn apart for over a month now, originally to improve it in it's current space, but we began looking at new homes and decided to postpone putting everything back together if we were planning on moving.

When we finish at the new home with paint, moving, and improvements, the studio will be in a much better position, business-wise, than it was before the move. We'll go from being 13 miles out of FBX (where, while I do love the forests, it is hard for clients to find us), to right inside one of the most affluent areas inside of FBX itself. Better schools for when my wife and I have children, better business opportunities, a large layout home, and a great lawn, what else could I ask for?

On the studio front, we'll be figuring out the layout of the new studio room once we have the keys after closing, but I already have some ideas. The front bedroom/studio is a nice size with access to a side entrance into the house so that I can have clients come in through that rather than the front door.

I am also switching my entire recording/mixing queue over to Sonar 8. I will still produce predominantly in FL, but Sonar gives me so much more flexibility in mixing down and loop recording vocals and live sections. With the equipment I own currently and the addition of the equipment on my ever-growing list of studio needs, Sonar will provide a fast, efficient workflow for the mixing side of things. I have tried Live 4 & 6, as well as Cubase SX3 in the past, but none of these had the ease of use, workflow, and intuitive design that Sonar affords me. Since I have been using FL since FL 3.x or so, any extreme departure from it's system takes a bit of getting used to. Thankfully, though Sonar and Cubase have alot in common as far as sequencing and Midi go, Sonar retains much of the Mixing capabilities and workflow that FL has. Live was entirely too gimmicky for my tastes, relying too much on it's grid and a DJ-friendly, though not exactly Producer-friendly, design.

But I digress. Thank you to those of you who've kept in touch through the last 6-8 months as I spent less and less time devoted to any of my websites, from Reverbnation to Soundclick, from NG to Myspace, and spent more time cementing my local business and getting the studio into a full working order. Just wait until I get this thing churning out the hits. '09 was JP and Mr. What It Do, '10 will be Mid-Nite Sonn Productions and the PitBull Studio.

Deuces