Back in 2009 or 2010 (honestly can't remember) I was playing drums in a band named Tranquilizer Gun. The lineup was; 
Micheal Daly (vocals) 
Alex "Stew" Stewart (guitars) 
Sam Quinn (Bass) 
and myself Tobias Guzik (drums) 

We recorded 1/2 live of the floor (guitar, bass and drums in one room) and 1/2 tracking extra guitars and vocals, at Wix studios. Young, broke and naive the recordings turned out awful and instead of spending more money to re-record with the same audio engineer or a different one for that matter, we took what we had and left. Every single track in its raw form is clipping massively at about +10db for some tracks, hard to say if they were recorded that way or exported/rendered with the level too high, either way terrible sounding. The drums were sadly mic'd awfully and therefor sounded terrible and there were about 10 excessive room mics which I later threw out with this production. 

At the time we fired up audacity and did what we could with the demos and posted them on youtube. 

Now almost ten years later listening back I can say I have been part of better songs, but there is a great deal of sentimental memory attached to these tracks. I have decided "what the hell" I'm going to remix and master these tracks once and for all and see how much I can polish them. 

I replaced most of the drums while also mixing them with with the original sounds to prevent phasing and mic bleed echo issues. Each instrument is audible on each mic! Which made this a very tricky mix and I will honestly say I'm not happy with it but I'm also not spending weeks trying to turn something inherently awful into the less to the least awful. It will never sound good, plain and simple. 

Each track took about 5 hrs or less to rebuild, mix and master. 

All mixes and masters are completely different; the intention was not to make an EP that sounded like it should all be one album... there is no balancing or sonic matching to make sure it all sounds like one album, all tracks were a completely different process start to finish and were intentionally left very different on purpose. Half to see where things went and the other half to see what options and different techniques could be used to achieve a sound. A sort of let things be different mentality. 

Enjoy the tunes...
credits
released July 15, 2016 

Micheal Daly (vocals) 
Alex "Stew" Stewart (guitars) 
Sam Quinn (Bass) 
and myself Tobias Guzik (drums) 

Produced by Tobias Guzik

So Lonely

Shiver

Morning Sun

Good Night Moon

This album is the re-written, re-recorded, remastered version of the original band Vermillion City. 

More then 8 years later vermillion city lives again! On the internet only. and we shall see what songs were resurrect. 

Now lets get down to credits... 

For THIS recording credit goes to; 

Peter Becker (director, principal writer, all guitars recorded) 

Zach Guzik (Bass recording, bass edits) 

Tobias Guzik (drums recorded, almost bass guitar and drums edits, mixing and mastering) 

Old vermillion city for 2008 
Peter becker (guitar) 
Steven Ruttle (guitar) 
Tobias Guzik (drums) 
Josh Burnett (bass) 
Steven Anderson (vocals) 

Honorary contributers and founders of vermillion city 
Peter Becker (guitar) 
Tobias Guzik (drums) 
Matt Fox (bass) 
Brodie Maksymetz (vocals)

Monster Suit

Credit for this song goes to;
 Ryan Archbold (guitar)
Steve Ruttle (Guitar)
Eric Piil (bass)
Tobias Gzuik (drums, mixing/mastering)

The guitars I had to play to anyways were very old scratch tracks that were supposed to be used for production from early 2013 with the clicks embedded and all instruments bounced to one track. The strings performance is not perfect and therefore neither can mine be. The click track embedded makes it tough to edit the timing of certain notes in the strings since you would then hear audible inconsistent tick-tocks of the click track. This song is played on my Alesis DM10 triggered with Superior Drummer and not edited at all, mixed and mastered through reaper with various plugins. Video edited through Adobe Premier.

I had alot of fun with playing my favorite OFSB song. This nostalgic track seemed surprisingly familiar even though I had not heard it in years and I think I will be doing many more OFSB songs in the near future!

Toby Guzik