Winners!

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Caroline Meeuwen CD+free entrance
Stoffel Jannsens Tshirt + free entrance
Glenn laeveren free entrance
Romy vrancken free entrance
Gretha serroeyen free entrance

Contest

So with the releaseparty coming, we have a contest for you!!
What are we giving away?

1st Prize: Brand new Rovic CD + free entrance to the releaseshow
2nd Prize: Brand new Rovic Tshirt + free entrance to the releaseshow
3rd - 5th Prize: Free entrance for the releaseshow

QUESTION:
On Tuesday 20 May, what is the sum of all the ages of the Rovic members???
In case of ex aequo:
How many answers will we receive??


Send your answer before Friday 23 May via Message, and we will pick the closest answers and we'll announce them on our blog!

I...you mastered!

And it can be found at:
OUR MYSPACE

Cd release party!

So, it is finally coming!
Our new album is being mastered as we speak and we are siked!

So we have a releaseparty for you!

24 may in JH De Klinker in Aarschot.

With lovely bands such as:
The Whesley
Draw me a cow
The maple room

It all starts at 19h, first band 20h.

AT LAST

Okay, we are getting where we have been waiting for! The mix is done, and can be sent to the mastering. Release date is set. Merch and design are on the drawing table. The Rovic machine is rolling again!

I'll post you some snippets soon!! ;)

Rovic and Draw me a cow

Welll on February 8 our friends from Draw Me A Cow will be releasing their first album "Lets end this"! Check their myspace, it sounds great! Draw me a cow myspace

We will play their release party in Silly near Ath together with Draw me a cow and Milk The Fish! Fun fun fun! ;)

The plans?

Well the plan is finishing the record by Februari 1 2008! (Without mastering)
Stick to the plan, cause the plan is right! ;)

Rovic @ Negasonic Aalst

Last weekend we played at Negasonic in Aalst.
Thanks to Niels for the cool video!
This is btw a new song! Home in the maze!

Happy NewYear!

Welll we all wish you all the best for 2008!

What do we wish for ourselves?
- A new rockin album
- Great shows
- World domination
- Groupies of all sorts (Well Sabine has decided to give up on groupies and say yes to her all time favorite groupie for life, so we'll divide her share fairly!)
- Oh and futile things like health too! ;)

We'll keep you posted!

Rovic needs you baby!!

We really need you!
Not only is our new album on the way, we are also nominated as myspace talent by cuttingedge.be

How can you help us? By voting!!
You could get us a gig in Charlatan in Gent and the award!
And you are not only doing this for us, because you can win an Ipod for yourself too!

VOTE CLICK VOTE CLICK VOTE CLICK VOTE CLICK VOTE CLICK

We are in the last cetegory, best myspace talent.

We would really appreciate it!
And be grateful untill the end of times!! ;)

Working hard again!

Well there has not only been a lack of updates of this blog but also a lack of work for the new album. But no worries we are back on track and everything is starting to get very real now. We are in the final mixing and recording phase where we are adapting the sound a little bit to our wishes. I'll update some sound snippets very soon so you can hear what we are up to.

Still a few shows planned but wait till the new album comes out we are going to book our weekends completely full.

Rockvonk!

Hi there,
Well last weekend we played the first round of the Rockvonk contest and guess what? We are going to the half finals! We'll keep you up to date on where and when the show will be, so we expect a lot of people there! ;)

Fun fun fun while producing

Lots of vocals recorded at the moment. Sabine went to Luc on sunday to record 4 songs, and I worked my ass off on monday. Well to be honest not all work but also some play... we happened to visit the local tuning show as a sort of "break". Okay, when in Rome do like Romans do (but then projected on Tienen city) ... so we couldn't say no to this great opportunity.

So Jeroen (my friend and Lucs neighbour) drove us to a freakin' tuning show... after arriving there we immediatly heared that there would be a 'sexy-show' in 10min... you can't imagine how happy Luc was! ;) Well, we still had 10 minutes until the grand finale so we decided to check out a collection of the most disgusting cars you've ever seen. Lime green, orange, pink,... even an old Opel Corsa in the same color as the one I'm driving with an enhanced front was showing itself... why???
Oh yes mom?!!? Look at the things you can do with your Twingo below!!!

But hey, then came the famous 'sexy-show'. Happened to be a striptease act with a very troubled 16 year old as the lucky one. I don't have to mention it was funny as hell??

Look for yourselves:
Mom's dreamcar!!!


Oh yes, we are at a tuning show! Jeroen loves it!


Well he had his 10min of luck...


Must say it was a good break. Had a laugh, cars, woman and an ice cream...
Oh yes, and I finished my vocal parts too later on... Didn't lack any inspiration.

After two days Luc...

Welll I've been in the vocal booth for two days singing, screaming, sweating,... but mostly sweating! Goddamit it gets hot in an iron shower booth! But it doesn't sound bad at all! So hooray for transpiration!

Here you all get some pics but more important a soundbyte of I..you as its being recorded at the moment! This can count as a preview, 'cause you are the first to hear what it sounds like! Comments, comments, comments!

On track again!

Howdy! Sooo, goddamit this has been a while. Have we been doing nothing at all? Hell no!!! Have we been recording any further... well, no... There were some troubles with a new preamp and mic that had been ordered for the studio and didn't arrive on time... so we have some small delay. But don't fear. This afternoon we start again. Welll... I start again! ;) So, vocal session in the afternoon, more news to come!
But we have been rehearsing the new album already.

And we've also been playing some really cool shows in the meantime. Riorock, Soccerrock, Rotarock... we'll be adding some pictures soon!

Waiting days...

Soo we are waiting for the tracks to be mixed so that the new recordings can start. Have we been doing nothing at all then? No way, we've had two great gigs!

Saturday a super cool gig at the Rock&Trolls festival in Leuze-en-Hainaut! Great location, blasting sound and enthusiastic crowd. We love "La Wallonie"! We say it every time but it always occurs to us that the organisation of a show is always a little bit better in the French speaking part of our country. I'm sure it has something to do with the fact that they don't have the overkill of a show every weekend, so when they do something they rather do it good. And as a band, you notice that...

Yesterday it was the big "De Moens en Vounckx birthday show" at jh De Klinker in Aarschot. Great lineup, Funeral Pyre, Second Base, Rovic and Homer. No way that could go wrong! And it bloody hell didn't. We all had a great time!! Nice job birthday boys, same place next year???

Day 4 and 5: the click track, more guitars, the vocals and mixing time

Okay I skipped a day to blog. Not that it was all my fault, didn't have internet when I woke up day 5 so couldn't blog on day 4... and afterwards I had to sing... But no prob I'll give you an update on what we did these 2 days in the studio.

Day 4 was mostly about the guitars. We Joris, Jimmy and I started early in the morning with setting up the guitars and looking for some cool sounds for our songs. We finetuned Joris his guitar sound and made sure he could bust some balls hitting his rocking chords! When Luc arrived we immediately started with the recording of Jimmy's guitar. Like we were getting used this didn't quite go as easy as planned. But hey, we want to work hard to get it as good as we can! At about 9 in the evening, Joris could start with his first guitar parts. Some songs were recorded but the rest was for our final day...

Day 5 started with Joris his final guitar riffs. Jimmy also did some final tweekings from some riffs and then we had a long listen to the whole tracks. We ended with Sabine and me doing a pilot of our vocals so Luc can start with the mixing of the tracks we have so far.

Looking back: we could say we started recording with not enough rehearsals to actually play our songs without effort. Thanks to Luc we all fell that we were reaching a new level in music playing. That was looking back the most rewarding thing of these first 5 days of studio... we learned how to operate and play as a rocking machine instead of 6 people playing together. Have we arrived at that rocking level? Hell no! But from now on we have an idea how to improve our playing. On both a live rocking but also a recording level.

So for now, Luc is going to mix the tracks and then we hit his studio again for a complete vocal recording session.

Joris recording:

Day 3: More pain, some frustration and a bass

Some days, doesn't matter what you do, it will go wrong! Today was such a day... after recording the last parts of the drum, it was time for Joeri to take up the bass and hit the strings. Unfortunately the mighty Rickenbacker didn't quite agree... after plugging it in we noticed that there was a remarkable volume difference between the low strings and the higher strings... troubles, troubles troubles... after searching and tweaking with everything we could imagine: different cables, batteries, you name it... we decided to start the bass lines with the "Music man" bass. Not that thats not a good bass, it's in fact also a very cool instrument... but once you set you're mind on a type of sound its hard to think differently.

But well, after all the bass was recorded! Tomorrow the guitars...

Here the photo gallery of day 2 and 3! Where you see the last recordings of the drums, the bass troubles and the final recordings of the bass.

Day 2: the pain, the agony and the drums at last

Goddamit what a day! As a band when going to studio you do your best to rehearse your songs at the best possible level to make the record as tight as possible. So did we... we thought!!!! Thats why Luc tortured us for like 8 hours with click track playing 2.0. (When we ended in the rehearsing room we arrived at 1.0, but boy did he get us to 2.0 already!) So thats why we hired the guy, to make us sweat! And we liked it too!

It went that intensive and hard that Bob broke like 8 drum sticks... and we had our friend Berger from Hestia come over specially from Aarschot to bring Bob a box of spare sticks! Thanks a million to him! We owe him a big "5 euro thank you"...

After these 8 hours of playing, breaking sticks and some cursing we finally got to a point where we according to Luc, actually sounded like a band! (Yeah, the guy is full of compliments ;) )

So we started the actual recording of the drum at like 8pm... and after so much practice finished 5 songs at 11pm. So the plan? 5 more songs on the third morning, and then we start doing the guitars and the bass! We were all kinda tired so we decided to call it a day and hit the sheets... well I was kinda stubborn and stayed in the studio in my sleeping bag... owww yeah.. south park, a hot chocolate coffee... I'm easily pleased you know!

For today we have a little video fragment for you. The irritating noise you here is the click track... Imagine that for 12 hours in a row and you know why we were happy to see our beds... but you get an idea of how tight it got at the end of the day! The story continues tomorrow!

Day 1: the buttons, the food and the pilot

Our first day is already over.
10 am we arrived, kinda had troubles getting in but once in, we stay in! Basic thing we did today was record a pilot record so that from tomorrow on, we can one by one record the instruments on that pilot... it's some sort of map if you would like to call it that way. We encountered some troubles on the way... mostly due to some differences in the protools version that is being used and the one Luc is used to. (think prehistoric vs 21century... thats like Fred Flinstone vs Predator, guess who would win?)

But, after some struggling all fell in place and we are on our marks, set and ready to gooooo. We did have some major luck that Tineke and Sara came along to provide us with our last decent meal before starting the junkfood rally... well we will try to eat decent, but picture 8 guys (Matti and Thomas too) in a single house... think they will eat decent? Well yeah, thats what we thought too!!

Here you have some sights on how we worked today... tomorrow the first things on tape so maybe a little video? That if I can get the internet working in the studio! Damn, as an internet junk it isn't easy to live without the precious net for 10 hours... brrrrr...

Expect an update soon.