My first album recorded in my small apartment studio in Houston, TX. All sounds were created using Line 6 modeling plugins and pedals. Drums were recorded using a Roland TD-9 electronic kit used to trigger a real live sounding drum program called BFD2. This album was my first attempt at recording all the instruments on my own and playing drums for the first time. It was an attempt to get the completed songs I had out of my head and on record. The songs were then sent to a brand new company called Tunecore who was having a really good deal at the time on mixing and mastering with Universal Records. After Universal finished the mastering, the album completed however shortly after that, the hard drive containing all my recorded music for the prior 10 years crashed. I had no back up and the data was unrecoverable. This was a tough pill to swallow and it felt like I had to start over. This prompted my move to Austin, TX in hopes to start over and find other like musicians to help me create the vision I had for The Ambient. Due to the poor performance of the vocals and drums on the recording,  I decided to stream the album for free using sites like Reverbnation and Soundcloud to promote the album.