Vitamin D – “Hard Times” is signed to Cold Busted (BUSTED20)

Release date is set for the first quarter of 2010.
20 Track album with a running time of 1 Hour 9 Minutes
File under Funk/Soul/Instrumental Hip Hop/Trip Hop

You won’t find any House or techno tracks on this release.

Sneak peaks can be found on Myspace.

Would you like to get an advance copy to review? Send me an email with a little bit about yourself, website, blog, press etc and I can make that happen.

All tracks from this regular long playing release were recorded between June 17th and July 7th of 2009.
Made entirely on a PC using Logic 5.5 for the arrangements, Acid 4.0 for getting it all matched to tempo,
and SoundForge 8 for the digital edits.

Hard Times was mastered @ The Highlands Studios, Denver-CO by Vitamin D using SoundForge 8 and
various plugins. The final mix was recorded to analog reel to reel tape using the Pioneer RT-707.
It was then re-recorded digitally to hard drive. 16 bit master wav files were used for this CD and
submitted to all online stores to use for the digital release.

Not a big surprise to be honest. Anyone that has ever been around a dj setup I have played on already knows this. I remember looking at the headphone volume on the Pioneer sometimes and it was set around "8". Trying listening to that at home!

I am not looking for anything here guys I just wanted to tell everyone to wear ear plugs if you can.

I really started to notice things around a month ago in the studio. I was using my headphones and they were loud as I was mastering a track and this sound came in and my head just filled up with pressure. Its been 4 weeks now and my ears have not unplugged. I knew it was time to see a Dr. My ears crackle every time I swallow.

I have a 50% loss of high frequencies in my right ear and 35% in the left. I would have thought the opposite as I always used my left ear in headphones. But I am sure it's from the loud monitors over the last 18 years. I have had tinnitus for a long time now and trust me you don't want this! It's fn annoying to say the least.

It's the same frequency that makes you hear words that were not the ones said. For instance if some said "beats" I may have heard "seats" or "beach".

They also told me never use earbud style headphones. These are horrible for your ears. They don't let your ear breathe correctly and many times they are not fitted properly inside your ear to block outside noise...so you end up turning it up more to drown everything out.

I am getting musician earplugs custom made. They are form fitted for your ear and cost around $200.00 for the pair. I am going to use these any time I am out at a LOUD event or making music. They don't help when using headphones so level will be much lower when using them.

The good news is my ears should unplug after I take these meds and my ear drums are not damaged.

Anyways, I know there are a ton of djs out there so just be careful when you can.

I don't really dj too often these days as I lost a lot of interest in it all. But I think this is the show stopper for me now.

Just wanted to give you a heads up.

Thanks,

D