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I started this week's track by building out a chord progression for pads. After building out the melodic and bass elements, I decided to add a rhythmic pulsing element and started the arrangement with that. I did a lot of automations in this week's track, bringing parts in and out of the mix.

After finishing up the arrangement, I EQ'd the tacks and created output buses for the pads and basses.

I finalized everything with a custom Mastering chain.

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These last two weeks have been hectic, I missed last weeks deadline which was painful, but sleep was the healthier option.

This week it's quite down to the wire again, this was a one sitting track, not my best work, but happy to get something somewhat 'done' so i can get back in the groove of weekly beats.

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Trying to squeeze in a more fleshed out arrangement this week - still stuck for time, but thought I'd give it a go - had an hour to record everythign earlier in the week and about an hour again this evening to do vocals, 'mix' and 'master'. I fear the vocals are buried a little, and the guitar at the end come in HOT - but it's cool.

I kind of hear this somewhere between Noah Kahan and Pinegrove, with a little extra distortion here and there - Let me know if you think I am being overly confident with that comparison!

Bunch of little guitar layers - still loving the safari Audio stuff, though I am yet to upgrade to the V2 plugins - it s on my to do list, right at the bottom next to get some sleep and eat healthy!

Anyway, Thanks again for listening - single figures left!

Have a great week!

Lyrics:

Someone ought to name the feeling

When you're staring into space

Wishing you ended up there

Instead of this place

Someone oughta work out why

I never changed my ways

Even when I knew

thats what pushed you away

Its infuriating

When you know that youre to blame

Excruciating

When its yiu who caused the pain

And when you're looking back

Regardless

You'd still play it the same

And i'm just going round in circles

Pretending it'll change

And if i heard it once

You said it ten damn times

Its not me who needs to make up their damp mind

Someone needs to try to find out

What causes all this hurt

Why people say some things they do

Using daggers as words

Someone really should've written

A brand new set of rules

Things that we can live by

So we can start anew

Its infuriating

When you know that youre to blame

Excruciating

When its yiu who caused the pain

And when youre looking back

Regardless

You'd still play it the same

And im just going round in circles

Pretending it'll change

And if i heard it once

You said it ten damn times

Its not me who needs to make up their damp mind

Irrespective of

Your perspective

You know that things have got to change

The reason,

Or really reasons

Have always been the same

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I like the "sound" and feel of the track, but I feel it is an "unfinished" project. Not a fan of the song structure and I feel track sounds and feel fun for maybe the first minute then it kind of feel repetitive even if I did try to mute, focus on some elements, etc.

I might have some vocal tracks later (did ask to both Jegasus and Endojo), but it was just a bit late-short to get something this week... If I get something, I'll most likely polish this a bit and try to make a very cool song.

Did try to go for a "Trip hop" vibe. I like the sound of the guitar, but I did regret a bit to have track directly using a DI. (I have cool amps simulation that did the job done, but I like the sound of an "amp" in)

Did try to use "Claude" to do the mixing part, I like the mix, but I feel I should have put more sub kick on the mix... I might have been influenced by the inputs of the robot.

The robot did help me creating that bassline and some of the e-pianos chords as well, but I had to edit quite a bit.

So little summary of the track, it was pretty much done this Saturday.

I did track my acoustic drums first (used dry and open takes for 2 parts of the song) Bit of EQ and compression on drums.

Tracked the guitar as well right after using my Telecaster using my Focusrite ISA one as a DI in to my little sound interface. Added some reverbs, amps emulation to it, a bit of EQ (cutting lows and bumping a bit 1K)

Then tried to do an arrangement, asked for Robots to find me a bass line and e pianos chords. Didn't like what it did give me, worked a bit on it. Then asked to the robots to mix the track, then slapped it to the LANDR Mastering plugin. Voilà!

A pretty big racoon wanted to come to my home this week...

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whoop - I made it!

managed an actual proper real life full length track in what seems like an age.

my irl friends are probably rejoicing that I'll now stop wallowing.

acoustic guitar is my nylon strung double tracked with a ribbon mic then processed in my 404 for added wobble.

vocals are all an sm57 multilayered then processed in Ableton.  decided to leave all the breaths and whatnot in because, well, why not.

some iOS synths were run through my pedal board, namely mood and my tonal recall.

electric guitars were destroyed in my golden reverberator and gen loss

acoustic is in open c

thanks for being patient and putting up with me!

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Let's get back on the Doomwhistle train! CHOO CHOO

Photo is from the Dayton Museum of Art, of Head of a Woman by Jean-Jacque Henner, ca 1900. Yeah, her hair isn't black, but I thought it was sorta perfect.

I have my son to thank for this one - I was driving him to a doctor appointment in the next city over, and we were listening to one of his playlists. A song comes up - I look at the title and say, "Isn't this a traditional?" He quick looks and says, "Yup - origins are in Scotland!" Awesome! And come on, the title just screams Doom. I checked out the history, and this song also has roots in Appalachian music. Sort of fitting that the electric guitar part at the end is an electric mandolin :)

Decided to go more full on guitar this week - starting a little noisier than in the past. As per normal this year, not a lot of time. I got it done in some quick sessions on three nights...roughed out the melody and chords, then made up some sections, then made it into a coherent song. The chugging middle section was the last thing to come together - just needed something different in the middle! There's a little more I would have liked to do there, but I ran out of time.

I found a free music box instrument, and thought it might be fun to end quietly with that, rather than the normal whistle. A few other different methods - the initial rhythm guitar is the rhythm part processed through a cinematic texture generator, and the choir is made by applying a choral harmonizer to the recorder part.

The mix fought me and it still feels harsh to my ear. Then there’s more I would have liked to do with this, add some more parts…but time just wasn’t available. So, I went the opposite direction and decided to tighten it down and make it rip. It’s the rare Doomwhistle track that’s barely over three minutes :) 

I have a ton of catch up listening to do, my apologies to everyone I missed last week! Let's keep on rolling, week 52 is in sight!

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Those kids scare you. They're the ones who hang out at the abandoned part of the mall and smoke cigarettes. They have really cool looking T-shirts, though...

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Sorry, yet another rushed composition! Just about 1h10m of work on this one. It sounds like most of my other last minute compositions, super simple and repetitive with basically the same chord progression and song structure. Tying it to the M8 Community Jam's theme of "Mall Musak" by the barest of threads. Been with family all week, almost no time for music making.

Cheers, folks!

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Going to be a busy rest of the year breaking my studio down and moving to another city. Was not feeling very creative but was commissioned to complete this track. Very minimal production as I did not want to ruin the vibe trying to extend it longer then I felt it wanted to be.

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collab week with jwh & surprise guests

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lyrics:

you can plant the beans

maybe they will grow

in the shade of the watermelon vine

you could try a pot

you can try a pot

maybe then a hawk will come by

and say "hello"

surprise guests:

my brother came to town a week earlier than i expected  - jwh & i had planned to work on our collab & kinda roped my brother into doing a live session with us - thankfully it was a beautiful day outside

we have some uncomfortable neighbor situations so we rarely just sit out in our garden & enjoy it

but the little delights, wonders & surprises kept coming this saturday

we were able to find a little moment of peace/calm out in the garden 

jwh as he is wont to do - was strumming pretty things

i got my brother to play a few covers & ressurect a joke song that we made in high school that beck stole the title of... jwh brought out a zoom mic to see if we could make something for WB

while we were singing and chatting i was processing some haricot green beans that had been left to dry out so i could share the seeds with my brother - we had been discussing where he could plant them in his garden…

josh started playing something really pretty so i turned our bean discussion into song lyrics and then the boys joined in on vocals - we lost the first take as josh's zoom mic lost power...

we all turned on various recording equipment to see if we could come up with something usable for collab week on the WB

we tried again but this time - in the middle of this jam -  a large hawk (who we think had flown past us about 10 min. earlier when we had gone for a walk) landed on the power line right above us and was intently watching us - especially jwh & his guitar… then a red taild hawk landed near the first hawk and joined in the party - it was so lovely - a beautiful autumn wonder & a memory that i will treasure

lot’s of nice surprises this week eh? 

i get the sense that things are gonna get rough in the USA & on the whole planet

before they can really get better - i'm hopeful but also apprehensive in equal measure

so i’m trying to savor the good stuff as much as possible 

hope ya'll are also enjoying some happy surprises and autumn delights/gatherings!

“What if wonder was the ground of our gathering?�

― Ross Gay, Inciting Joy: Essays

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