The First Album

Let's get this started with "No Real Excuse", this was the first Short of a Dollar studio recording from the Fall of 2000. This was recorded in one day at Outback Studios, a small studio located west of Frankton, Indiana. The original mix suffered from a lack of dynamic range and instrument coherencey. In 2010 I was lucky enough to acquire the equipment needed to convert all of the old Short of a Dollar ADAT studio tapes into the digital realm. I gave everything a clean up. The drum tracks were phase corrected and track trimming was applied overall to reduce artifacts and noise/hiss from the original studio gear. The resulting mix makes for a much more enjoyable listen, although it does amplify how new to the process and unprepared we may have been that day. Keep in mind, most of these songs were only a few weeks old at the time. It is what it is, just a bunch of kids having a ton of fun in a room full of microphones. So with that, enjoy!

No Real Excuse - recorded Oct 2000, released Nov 2000 (2010 remix)