See Seven States

Recording Continues

2008-11-16T14:38:00.000-08:00

Dave and Aaron are back it, working on the recording process after a brief hiatus. Aaron welcomed his baby girl into the world and shortly after stepped back into the studio to get bass laid down.

Here are a few pictures for your viewing pleasure.

Melodic notes being played by Aaron.

Dave and Aaron recording bass in the Dave's home studio set up.

The tools.

Stay tuned for more coming soon. Bass is done. Currently keys are being recorded along with some additional strings.

We'll keep you posted as the process and progress continue.

Dave Finds Tone

2008-09-03T18:23:00.000-07:00

While Aaron prepares for the birth of his daughter, Dave travels to the most remote region of one of the hottest areas on earth in search of pure guitar tone. Actually, Dave just went to a family reunion in west Tennessee where his mother-in-law suggested a post barbeque lunch excursion, across the street, to the local junk store where located on the floor of an almost overlooked room lie a very dirty 1967 Ampeg Gemini 2 guitar amp. After picking up his jaw he offered the owner $30 and in the car it went, delivered to the car ... by the owner!

After bass tracking is complete and after a thorough cleaning the hope is to record a good deal of the guitars through this amp. It is somewhere between a Deluxe Reverb and a Twin, without the overpowering volume. It purportedly hosts one of the greatest reverb circuits ever made.

This means rich layers of smooth dark chocolate between each byte of recorded goodness!

Stay tuned for more updates ...

See Seven States will keep YOU the blog reader informed each step of the recording process. Please also keep the Sillers in your prayers as the due date nears!

Recording Resumes! - Bass

2008-08-11T18:23:00.000-07:00

Dave and Aaron finally decide to take matters into their own hand, spend a bunch-o-money and finish their project! With Davey Staton's drum tracks recorded at Glow In The Dark and tons of tinkering the currently 2-piece have begun finishing their long awaited release. Hopefully this will be something worthy of a place in your iPod very very soon!

Here Aaron shows off his amazing ability to play a bizarrely tuned bass while simultaneously leaning into the shot of an obviously staged photograph.

Here, most likely Aaron and Dave are running down some bass tracks in Logic. Note that Aaron is indeed playing a chord on the bass, yes folks a chord.

Below Dave is staring at the screen probably dowsing every track with modulated delay. For all you geeks out there that is indeed a 4G Seagate SCSI Hawk drive on top of the rack on the right.

Here is what fell out onto the desk: Earbud foam, guitar picks, bottle cap and a USB-to-PS2 adapter. This symbolically represents See Seven State's affinity for guitars, computers, Coca-Cola and hearing protection.

See Seven States will keep you posted every step of the way as recording progresses.

We promise to keep you updated!!!

Studio Shots

2008-01-20T08:49:00.000-08:00

We completed our recording of drum tracks for 7 songs with Davey last week. Here are a few photos from our two days in the studio.

Recording drums

2008-01-04T09:08:00.000-08:00

We currently in pre-production to do a decent iTunes-worthy release this year. We have borrowed see seven states original drummer Mr. Davey Staton to track some real live drums at a real live studio in the ATL. Although Mr. Aaron Siller is known nationally as "THE one-take wonder" , Mr. Staton did after all have a drum machine named after him. Meanwhile the Lord has continued to bless us with time off from work to prepare for a busy and productive year ahead. So don't close your web browser, see seven states will be back to spin more hits your way!

Planting the Recording Seed

2007-12-10T17:56:00.000-08:00

We are gearing up to record a full length "record album" early next year, Lord willing. Please keep us in your prayers as we embark on this endeavor as there are a few hurdles to jump along the way. We are excited about the prospect of turning out a recording that doesn't involve a drum machine and won't require we preface it with "It' just a rough demo". More details to come.

More Photos from the Vineyard

2007-12-10T17:52:00.000-08:00

Check out these amazing pictures taken by Jared Swafford!

Photos from Trinity Show

2007-11-04T14:28:00.000-08:00

Thank you to everyone who came to see us this weekend. We were excited to finally perform for family and friends and honored to help support Lazarus. Here are a few pics for those who couldn't make it.

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Dave and Aaron rockin' out.

Dan's final performance.

Thanks Dan for all your support. We hope you take the animation world by storm or at least by brute force. Now let's go hit the river.

Performance at Trinity Vineyard

2007-11-01T14:54:00.000-07:00

See Seven States will be performing at a benefit concert for Trinity Vineyard's Lazarus ministry. The show is at 8:00 PM this Friday, November 2, 2007. The church is located off Howell Mill Road in Atlanta.

North Carolina Show

2007-11-01T14:01:00.000-07:00

See Seven States played in Cullowhee, NC Sept. 21st. It was each band members first performance in years, but the show was great. It felt wonderful to get the musical juices flowing once again.

SSS Blog

2007-11-01T13:33:00.000-07:00

Dave and I decided to throw this together while we bang out a web site. I'm not much of a blogger, but I figured this was a quick way to let you know what we are working on as a band.

First a little history, Dave and I started playing together in 2002. After a long hiatus we picked back up in 2007 with Daniel on drums. See Seven States, as we call ourselves, began playing out again in the fall of 2007.

Check out our sound clips to get a feel for the style. We'll post concert dates here for now. Enjoy.

Great I Am (Clip)
Midnight Sun (Clip)
Rock City (Clip)