The drums are almost done and the bass sound is tuned up. By the way, I switched to a Music Man Sterling 5. Smaller body, shorter scale and a killer sound. Thanks to Derek and Aziah at Music Man for their confidence and for delivering a top quality instrument just in time for the recording. It took a while to define the Mosquito-B bass sound using the Bass POD XT from Line 6. But with the great help of Serge Poulin in the studio, the bass recording will be finished in a few days.

Everything is set up for the guitars as well. The instrument used in the recording will be all Epiphones : Elitist series (Les Paul, SG, Casino, Sheraton and J45), a Korean Sheraton with custom pickups, an Explorer with 498R and 500T ceramic pickups, a Les paul Junior DC 2 p90, a Les Paul Deluxe with mini humbuckers and a Union Jack Supernova. All those guitars will go through the gear box from Line 6 installed in Cubase 4.5. The audio interface and sound processor are a Studio Konnekt 48 and a X8 Module, both from TC Electronic.

I am obsessed with planification getting crazy trying to have every possibility available. It takes time but usually, once done, the recording goes incredebly fast. I also did a first working session with Jeff Richard (guitars) who did a great guitar solo on a song called "Won't Beg a Thing". Dom Fournier did a great job programming drums with FXpansion BFD2. I was afraid doing the drums this way but the software is so hot, you can't tell the difference with a real drummer, except for the hundreds of possibilities of BFD2 for the sounds, the fills, the whole thing !

Just got a new pair of Sony Headphones MDR-7506... got to go ! I have tracks to records. Talk to you very soon !!!

I want to wish everyone the best for 2010.We're deep in the studio for the Killing Mars album. The drums are 95% done. 2 new songs heve been added to the set (Inside and Lost In Soho) so there are 16 songs on the way. Will they all remain on this concept album ? Only time will tell. I just returned from another road trip in Cocoa Beach Florida. I spent some time at the Kennedy Space Center to get some inspiration for the Killing Mars theme. I wrote a lot of lyrics but the cold wave that has hit the USA gave me a hard time focussing on something. I'm back, half rested lolll! Killing Mars should be released on June 21st or around.

High expectations and a lot of anticipation before the Montreal Gig at The Petit Campus. I've been working a lot on new sequences to compensate Gab's departure. The gig went OK but again, it was strange to play as a trio, to spend the show on one side of the stage. The guys were ready and the public liked it. After the show, we drove to Cornwall where we spent the rest of the night, trying to sleep and fighting the stress of playing the day after at THE Mod Club in Toronto. The place was awesome and it was good to see again the promoter Kim Williams who also worked on the Niagara gig with us in August and the guys of MarKZ who were again great on stage. The guys from Honeymoon Suite were very kind...strange to share the stage with idols from my teenage years... Was also happy to see my long time friend Colin Forrester and his wife Lisa drop by to see us...I miss you so much ! The gig went OK...35 minutes at full speed, full stress... Thanks to Steve Robert from RTSYS who did the whole trip with us for the 2 gigs...gave us a lot of confidence as a trio.