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Hope you enjoy it!

As for the guest feature, we had to reschedule our studio session because the Focusrite preamp is still in the shop. Sorry for the delay! I know it seems like all you do as a fan of mine is wait.. but it wont be that way for much longer! A ton of content is being prepared, and I’ll be releasing it all periodically throughout the upcoming term so that I can focus on studies and feel like I’m accomplishing stuff online as well

Thanks again for all the support and patience, it means the world to me.

Ian

The way my schedule works out, I’ll be up to my ass in work and other appointments for another two weeks, at which point I’ll fly to Korea and set up another temporary studio space. From there, I’ll do some covers and finish the mixing of “Out of My Mind” along with “One More Day” – I’ve decided to release “One More Day” as well, since you guys already heard the teaser and it’s really never something I’m going to use for my demo anyways

Thanks so much again for your patience! As always, your support on Twitter and even Formspring continues to be a big part of me overcoming my own dissatisfaction and insecurity regarding my music. Thanks so much for the love!

Also, just a quick plug for what’s going on this summer – for those of you that haven’t heard, I’ll be putting together a lot of collaborative work this summer on top of honing my own skills for my upcoming demo. I’m not going to list any names here, but on the list of hopeful collaborators are rappers, pop stars, internet sensations, and even some trainees Names of course have been withheld for their own privacy (and also because I’m not sure if I’ll be allowed to release the tracks that I work on with these highly regarded musicians), but I’ll keep you guys updated on the situation!

Thanks again for your patience. I know it must seem like I’m always saying this, but new content will be available soon. I promise!

Ian

I’m pretty excited about turning my YouTube channel into a place where I can post covers of varying degrees of completion (from a cappella recorded via video camera to fully produced and recording via ProTools) while I continue to privately work on my demo.

There are tons of songs that I love to sing and play on the piano, and some that I love to sing and still have to learn. I was wondering if you guys had any input as to what I should cover next (or first, as it happens to be)!

A couple of ideas I had were some songs by John Legend, Ne-Yo, Usher, or maybe even Sisqo – don’t worry, I’d be singing “Incomplete”, not “The Thong Song”…

Hit me up here in the comments section or via Twitter (@ianchoe) to let me know what song you want me to cover!

Ian

You might have noticed a few changes on the website – namely, I’ve removed the old tracks.

After talking extensively with one of my friends at JYPE, I’ve come to the conclusion that the best thing to do for my future career is keep my original work under wraps until I’m ready to start submitting demos. Because of this, I won’t be releasing originals via my website or YouTube page for quite some time. I understand that in doing so I will lose many viewers, but I hope that you will understand when I say that this is the best move I can make for my career. I’m not a very good singer, but I’ll continue to update my YouTube page with covers and short clips of myself in the studio or other areas of my life (i.e. while I’m in Korea) where music abounds, and hopefully many of you will continue to watch and subscribe as I work towards my future goal of being a producer.

I will be releasing “Out of My Mind” once I finish mastering it for a limited time-frame, which I will tweet and announce on YouTube so that those of you who have been kind enough to support and encourage me over the past month or so won’t have been waiting in vain.

Thanks again for all the love and support! All the positive feedback I’ve received over the past month has given me the strength to commit to music fully as a future career.

Ian

Just a short (well, not that short…) video of me and David in studio. Thanks again to everyone who has made this process so enjoyable! I’ll continue to produce music as long as a have even just a single listener (which will probably be for a while cause I think my mom just found my website.. haha).

Hopefully the weather will clear up and I’ll be able to get plenty of work done this week – can’t wait to have some more tracks to share with you guys!

Just as a rough estimate, I’d say I have about 30 tracks in concept right now, and maybe 4 or 5 that are ready to mix and record. I swear I’m working hard even if you don’t have anything to download or listen to yet!

I really appreciate all the new supporters who have been sending me messages of encouragement via Twitter! I know you’re all trying to be nice, but the tracks currently out are a) not mixed, b) not mastered, c) recorded poorly, and d) not finished! That being said, I promise to work hard over the next few weeks so that I can release higher quality tracks (with less vocal errors if I can kick this cough before break starts!).

Thanks so much! I’ll also be redesigning the website and hopefully launching a friendlier interface so that people don’t have to just come to the blog to download stuff. I kind of want an “About Me” page, as vain as that sounds.. haha.

Thanks again, I’ll post a rough schedule for recording, studio sessions, and releases soon!

A/D Converter: Apogee Rosetta 200
Microphone Preamp: Focusrite Voicemaster Pro
Monitors: Yamaha HS50M x2

I also picked up a bunch of Blue Kiwi Quad Microphone Cables per the advice of Tommy Park. In case you guys haven’t seen in yet, go check out the Tik Tok drama/CF for Cass right away! It’s pretty sick and it very prominently features Tommy’s first #1 single (of many to come).