Tuesday, 8 January 2008

First Mix!!!

Just finished the first mix of How Come I'm Never Around and it ROCKS!! Oh hell yeah, can't fait for this to see the light of day! Its on the cards to have some gang vocals added, to redo the bass guitar and perhaps to record my guitar parts again with a different amp, but its almost ready to go as is.
And I'm, as WrongDonalds say, Lovin' It.

This is something I have wanted to do for many years, record everything using real instruments, and hear it all come together, and its giving me a great feeling of satisfaction to hear it actually happening. Its so easy these days to put tracks together with loops, synthesized parts, fabulous drum samples and modern tech amp modelling, which almost makes it impossible to get a bad mix. And I know, cos I do it loads! But this is realworld; non perfect instruments in a non-perfect room and I am learning tons doing it. I mean, as well as finding the best ways to record the parts, we're even having to go away, analyze the results and come back and change setups when problems appear as we have no control room as yet. So when you hear what you hear, you're getting the actual sound of the band. No drum sound replacements, no autotune, just modern technology used in an old fashioned way!

Its actually kindling in me a desire to have a go at a true analogue recording one day. But not on this budget.

Peace y'all. C'est tout que j'aime. Rx