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Song: Happy Shalom Searching
Session Date: Saturday, September the 30th 2006
Recording Gear: Fostex X-12 fourtrack, SM-58 clone mic, PC (Audacity)
Music Gear: Takamine spanish guitar
Log: This is another song made on the couch. Really, literally. I take my fourtrack downstairs, put it on the couch, and record a song. I put the mic on some big books to capture the guitar. Improvized a little something a couple of times. Lo-fi charm. You can hear some household-sounds in the background, and in the end you can hear my eight year old foster-sister whistling.
Lyrics: The day outside is beautiful / Inside the struggle lingers on / The children and the butterflies / Are paintings that have come alive / Oh, lord creator you are great / You show yourself in what you've made / Oh, teach me on this seventh day / To be a humble jar of clay / Your love is not an artefact / You know the pain of being cheated on / You are the greatest lover
Song: Lester, Lester
Session Date: Sept. 8th, 2006
Recording Gear: Victory LT-200P MP3-player; PC - Audacity; headset-mic
Music Gear: Takamine and Yairi acoustic guitar
Log: Got out of bed and recorded this song on my MP3-player. A program that I used for converting my MP3-player-wavs to normal wavs had expired, so I looked for free similar programs on the web; couldn't find anything. Finally, it dawned on me that I could just play the song with quicktime (which recognizes rare wav-formats) and then record the audio in Audacity. In Audacity, I just duplicated the track and had the second track begin a fraction later, thereby creating an echo-effect. I also added second and third voices with the headset-mic on the second and fourth strophe. Finally, I added one chord at the end.
Lyrics: Lester, Lester / Where have you gone / Missed out on the mustard /Struck a son /Whereby, whereby / Oh, will you survive / Together with baby /Fire and a knife / A new day broke / Too late.. / Lester, Lester / Why don't you come back / Life's not just a tester / Free to try / Somehow, somehow / You will be renewed / By the power of him who's / The A and the Z / A new day breaks / Step in!
Song: I Need Your Love in Dangerland
Session Date: Friday Sept. the 1st 2006
Recording Gear: PC; Audacity; Tascam 488 MKII 8-track used as a mixer; Behringer C-1 condensator mic
Music Gear: Yairi Spanish guitar; Squier bass
Log: 15.36: I've composed a new song - guitar and vocals, lyrics need to be written still - about an hour ago. Got an idea while playing my guitar and worked it out, recording it with a headset-mic in Audacity so I wouldn't forget it. Now I've just created a drumtrack in Tuareg. Cool program. I've exported the drumtrack as a wav-file and gonna import it in Audacity now...
19.28: OK.. The song is ready! I recorded the guitar track two times and panned them a bit. Then I recorded the bass - I really had a good time playing this track until it was good enough. After that, I did the vocals: I quickly wrote some lyrics and then recorded the vocal track two times standing in front of the condensator mic. After that, I started mixing... It was a hell of a job, as usual, and in the end I dedided not to use any reverb on any of the tracks. I 'endorphinized' the guitars (that's basically pumping them up a bit) and used compression on all tracks except the drums. And here it is! I think I like it, but I've been mxing too long to be able to listen to it objectively.
Lyrics: But now dangerland appears / And I don't know what to do / Should I welcome back my fears? / Or should I try to steal the clue? / Completely lost anew / I need your love in the middle / Of crazy goings-on / 'At least I have some fun' / But that's just me on the fiddle / And I come back to your heart / I don't need to leave my room / Will you please rip me apart / And reassemble me in your womb / (You're) the sacred supergroom / We need your love in the middle / Of crazy goings-on / 'At least we have some fun' / But that's just us on the fiddle
Shabbat shalom!
Song: Sentimentally Yours
Session Date: a couple of afternoons in summer 2006
Recording Gear: PC, Audacity, Tascam 488 MKII used as mixer, guitar directly plugged into Tascam
Music Gear: Godin Radiator electric guitar
Log: This recording took me hours and hours.. It was done in Audacity, using the Tascam 8-track as a mixer. It was meant to grow out into a song, but the recording and mixing process didn't work out as I hoped it would, so I forgot about it. Today I incidentally stumbled upon it.
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