THE EP IS HERE!

We are so thrilled to show you our finished work on our EP, please see below Artwork and tracks! We hope you like it!

                            

                           Track 1 - "Enigma"

                          Track 2 - "Return Home"

                         Track 3 - "Another Man"

                         Track 4 - Final Departure

 

GIG ALERT! DEWDROP INN 28TH MAY!

 GIG ALERT! 

We have managed to secure another gig in Worcester on Sunday 28th May, its a free entry event, where we have organised everything.

This show will consist in an opening act and then Rock Dove playing their set afterwords.

Please see below examples on how we marketed the show

"Final Departure" Mixed & Mastered

 Today we used our rehearsal session to finish mixing and mastering our EP's final track, "Final Departure"

We bumped into a few issues in terms of mastering, the biggest one being distortion of the sound when applying the limiter, so after some research and advice from Rob, we managed to find a solution, where we use the Gain plug in to reduce the overall gain on the master track and then after apply the limiter afterwords.

                 demonstration of gain use

This was the hardest master we have had to do, due to the recording process that we used, we had to use a lot more time in choosing the right plug ins and modulations for guitars and bass.

GIG Presentation, evaluation and critic

 On the 27th April, Rock Dove headlined at Drummonds in Worcester, in hopes to showcase their work and promote their EP to be released as part of my Final Major Project.

Please see below videos of the performance

"Enigma"

"Return Home"

"Another Man"

"Final Departure"

Evaluation & Critic

The gig went well, there were no major mistakes in the set list, and the ones that occurred were too little for the audience to notice (at least I hope so). We were offered another show in Birmingham which has been scheduled for 16th June at "The Victoria"as a supporting act for "Thrashead"

I start by evaluating my own performance which I think was appropriate for the venue and crowd that we had (around 90/100 pax), we were really surprised by the turnover considering we have only been a band since December 2022.  I would probably blame the nerves on my somewhat poor audience interaction, I think I was too focused on trying not to make any mistakes (but they still happened). It has only been my 4th gig since October last year so I'm still trying to deal with some new emotions.

The band as a whole behaved really well on stage, I would probably like to have some more clarity from the singer and a different/less spontaneous audience interaction/communication, believe that the whole band can prepare better when they know what and when the front man is going to say.

The tech side of the gig, the sound in the venue was. ok, my impression is that there was way too much bass which was overshadowing the guitars and even vocals, the drums sounded a somewhat poor when analysing higher frequencies.

Overall we believe the songs worked well with the audience and created a good vibe at the venue!