Collapsis Remastering

Recently, I came across two old board tapes: Collapsis--Zoo Bar, 5/3/97 & Collapsis--Coney Island High 8/15/97. After listening to them, I decided it would be a good idea to digitize them and make them as listenable as possible. Collapsis was a band I fronted from 1997 until early 2001. Most fans of the band are only familiar with the version that was out touring in 1998. During the band's first year, the line-up was continually in-flux.

The analog cassette board tapes sound a lot better than I remember the shows being. The set lists are wild, at least from my perspective. At anyrate, the shows have been mastered to CD-R and sound about as good as they can.

Naturally, hearing the band in a live setting made me want to reference what studio demos the band had made during that time. I had a 1/4" analog tape of three songs, a cassette with a handful of 8-track recordings, as well as some digitally archived ADAT recordings. There were 11 songs in all that I found.

I had no way of listening to the 1/4" material, so I booked a half hour at Overdub Lane (where the tracks were mixed) to transfer the material. On the tape was early versions of "Superhero" and "Radio Friendly Girlfriend" as well as a song that was eventually phased out "High Caliber Grease." We did a 88.1 digital hi-res transfer. When I processed the tracks in my mastering suite, they sounded as clean and clear as mechanically possible.

I transferred the analog cassette demos as well as the ADAT stuff via my home cassette recorders. I wish I had the DAT master of these songs, but really, they were eventually recorded so many more times that a little tape hiss is almost welcome. It makes it sound...real.

Currently, I am encoding all three CD's worth of material to mp3 for you to download and enjoy.