Me & The Fly/This Is Going To Take, Like, Forever - 050615

Sponsored by  "Music (random)".

...FLY

Finished the first half of my Twitter promo campaign. Second half starts tomorrow

...FOREVER

Another "window" opened for me this afternoon, so I managed to mix/master the track in CE5/AA3.

The track truly lived up to its name as it was way more difficult to mix than I'd thought. The main difficulty was trying to get the bass to sit nicely in the mix. Took me a few hours but I finally cracked it. A certain amount of judicious editing of the Ric bass parts was required.

The mix is fine. I thought I'd missed an aspect of the track in the mix that I thought was present in the rough demo I'd made a few months back, but when I reviewed the demo, that aspect wasn't there as I'd imagined it. Starting to come a little unglued here...;-).

Only one more mix to go. I won't be able to manage it this weekend and I'm on a road trip pretty much all next week, so it will the week after that again before I'll be able tackle that track, In the meantime, I'll continue with my promo efforts.

Regards,


djp

This Is Going To Take, Like, Forever - 110415

Sponsored by "djp".

Spent the morning in my PJs (you probably didn't really need to know that...), radically re-editing the Ric bass parts in CE5.  I got them as tight as I could, but certain issues have had to be covered-up in a dub stylee...

One of the big problems I've had to deal with on this track has been trying to sync a MIDI kick drum with a reverse kick drum. This may have lead to some of the concerns I had with the bass part timing. But I finally sorted that out, so the track sounds really well.

For a while there, I thought it was going to live up to its title...;-).

Time to move on. More work tomorrow, most probably.

Regards,


djp

This Is Going To Take, Like, Forever - 100415

Sponsored by "Disco".

Edited/dubbed-up the vocal parts in CE5. Came together rather easily. I used some "wild" vocal parts to form an outro. Sounds intriguing.

Also discovered some Squier Strat parts which I'd tracked but hadn't edited. Had a poke around to see what was useful, but only kept a few little snippets.

I think I'm going to have to do an emergency edit on the Ric bass parts. They're not quite as tight as I'd like 'em. I'll have a go at that over the weekend.

Regards,


djp

You Have My Heart Scalded/This Is Going To Take, Like, Forever - 260215

Sponsored by "Allez Allez".

...SCALDED

Tracked four vocal parts on the Gulag Mobile, using the Sennheiser e855. Audio cleanup in AA3 and inserted into the relevant project file in CE5.

Various shouty improvisations. Quite fun to do. A bit concerned that the takes might have been a little "hot", but the wavs look OK. Should sound fine in the mix. Much editing required, however...

...FOREVER

As above, but only two vocals parts tracked. Whispers. Some editing required - maybe not too much.

More work tomorrow. Not so much shouting this time...;-).

Regards,


djp

This Is Going To Take, Like, Forever - 190614

Sponsored by "Bing Satellites".

Finished off editing the Ric bass parts in CE5. Everything's pretty much sorted now, although it's hard to judge just how tight the bass is played when you're working against a backwards backing track. But only an out-and-out pedant would find fault with the track. And I have a useful dubwise workaround for those parts that I just can't fix.

More effort tomorrow.

Regards,


djp

This Is Going To Take, Like, Forever - 110614

Sponsored by "Amon Duul I & II"

Started editing the Ric bass parts in CE5. Got most of done. A bit more to do. Not sure if I'm really satisfied with the edit, so I'll let it stew for a bit and revisit.

Who'd be me, eh...?

Regards,


djp

This Is Going To Take, Like, Forever - 100614

Sponsored by "Ambient etc."

Nice quick session today. Tracked 8 Ric parts on the Tascam using the Line 6 Bass Pod XT. Audio cleanup in AA3 and inserted into the relevant project file in CE5.

Fair bit of editing required, but should buff out nicely.

Regards,


djp

This Is Going To Take, Like, Forever - 090614

Sponsored by "Alvin Lee".

As mentioned the other day, I decided to have a bit of fun today. I took a few rough mixes of the backing track of TROPES..., reversed them and then inserted them into a new project file in CE5.

Then I edited a few short clips from the backing tracks and "repeated" them throughout the track. Each track was treated differently using VST plugin effects.

I toyed with importing the Strat parts that I am unlikely to use for TROPES... Suffice it to say, I'm unlikely to use them here either...;-).

I also got the mad notion to programme in an MIDI softsynth part (HALion One Sample & Hold Pad), purely because when messing around with that tone, the s&h synced with the tempo of the project file (no sync control on the synth, so I presume this would happen regardless of the tempo). For dub purposes, I tracked that part to audio using the Phonic Firefly and the Behringer Xenyx 1202. The net effect of this new part is to shed the polyrhythmic nature of the TROPES...backing track. It's much more "four-to-the-floor" now. No harm.

I have an idea for a nice Wobblesque bass part which I'll have a pop at tomorrow. And I hear massed choirs of moi in there too.

Regards,


djp