Positive Mental Trip

All of the music Positive Mental Trip toured with and sold at shows from 2007-2010 was recorded using Pro tools 7 and a digi 003 console. The songs on change your mind at applehead we’re also recorded using pro tools but it was not LE. They use the Pro Tools HD there. All Positive Mental Trip cds sold out of the van before “Change Your Mind” on tour we’re definitely recorded by Luke himself with Pro Tools 7 LE and a digi 003. Luke spent years messing with Pro Tools but completely abandoned it for good. “I felt like the customer service was pretty terrible and overall I think your better off with ableton or Logic if your a producer. If your a musician like me I think Studio One Professional is the cheapest easiest and highest quality way to go. If you went to college and learned pro tools then your married to it ...maybe. I didn’t go to music school for that and I’m not married to pro tools at all, I actually hate pro tools. I hate production in general I’d much rather focus on the music then look at a computer screen.” 2 songs on the Positive Mental Trip album “Change Your Mind”(2012) were produced by Zach Howell (who is also one of the 30 or so musicians who have taken the stage with PMT since 05’) Zach had a really cool Great River Mic/instrument Preamp and was really good with Pro Tools. We had a lot of fun making “back up again” and “Hoping for the best” on that album. Zach sang and played guitar on a few songs on “Change Your Mind” and was a big part of that album. He took the 1 st 1/2 of the lead guitar solo on track 2 “smile(reggae)” as well.

Luke Weiler of Positive Mental Trip often works with producers who use Ableton Live. PMT is recording some sessions at Loud And Conscious Studios in Woodstock, NY and Ableton Live V9 is being used to track during these sessions. “The Road” was the only song on “The Black and White Album” (2017) that we had time to record together. We are tracking a lot down in Woodstock for “Love Never Dies” some of it will hopefully be ready for volume 1 released in August 2019. A lot of the stuff we are doing in Woodstock might take longer production wise and end up on “Love Never Dies” volume 2, which is set to be released in the summer of 2020. On “change your mind” (2012) “Passing Storm”, “out of my head”, and “Smile (hip hop)” were recorded by Loud using Ableton Live. “I like recording with Ableton Live a lot, as long as someone very skilled in the art of Ableton Live is running the session. I’m not a producer and I don’t enjoy that aspect as much. I like the instruments or microphones in my hands at all times during sessions. I like to watch what the producers do and sometimes even record it (for making a PMT movie out of all the footage we have from 2011-2019) because I think it’s really cool the artistic aspect of producing. I have a lot of respect for people who spend there whole lives mostly on the production aspect of music. I like to document our recording process what we used equipment-wise and how producers manipulated it. We have a lot of fun in the studio and a lot of musicians don’t get to do that. Studios can be a place that is extremely serious and sometimes even painful. A lot of the recording process and the shows that followed during the “Change Your Mind” (2012-2014 era) have a lot of darkness attached to it for me personally. I dealt with a lot of that on “the black and white album”(2017) and now I’m ready to really dedicate every moment of music to having fun. If we aren’t having fun in the studio during a session it won’t be on the album. I don’t want a record of a time that wasn’t fun on a Positive Mental Trip album from 2019- forever.”