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Song: I Wished To Be Alone
Session Date: Saturday October the 28th 2006
Recording Gear: Tascam 488 MKII used as a mixer; Behringer C-1 condensator mic; PC - Audacity
Music Gear: Takamine Spanish guitar with steel strings
Log: A blurt. An improvisation. A heart that 'smacked like a stone' - is that English? Dunno. Whate4.
Lyrics: An unexpected visitor / Came waving at my window / The wind was howling like a baby / And I tried to hide my tears from the moon / What, what could I do for him / The house was empty / Could he fill it up for me / My heart was broken / Smacked like a stone / I wished to be alone
Song: Comfort Hell Session Date: Saturday October the 28th
Recording Gear: .Tascam 488 MKII used as a mixer; PC - Audacity; Behringer C-1 condensator mic
Music Gear: Godin Radiator electric guitar
Log: .What can I say? This is a processed piece of sound that began as an experimental jam with Dutch lyrics expressing misery.
Lyrics: Beyond recognition.
Song: Alone in the Silent Woods
Session Date: Sunday October the 22th 2006
Recording Gear: Tascam 488 MKII used as mixer; PC with Audacity; Behringer C1 condensator mic; SM-58 clone mic
Music Gear: Yairi Spanish guitar; Takamine Spanish guitar (both with steel strings); Godin Radiator electric guitar; Vox mini-amp
Log: This song was based on a sample I created from a guitar track. I repeated the 'sample' over and over again and used it as the base for the song. It wasn't too hard to come up with a melody for the vocals. The bassy vocal creates a special effect. I tried to make a drum-track playing live on the drumcomputer, but that didn't work out. So I just added some guitar parts. I played around with some effects in Audacity. And when I had mixed the whole thing, I realised I forgot the bass. I've been trying to add a decent bass track, but somehow I can't find the perfect bassline and everything that isn't perfect seems to waste the song...
You can regard this song as a first experiment with repeating self-created samples. The song doesn't feel/sound finished yet. And it's got a bit of an eerie touch to it, doesn't it?
Lyrics: I'm so tired but I cannot sleep / I've been workin' like Barry Blue /I'm gonna dive into the poignant deep / I'm gonna walk on the oldest shoe / When I rise, when I fall and weep / I'm so full of her starlight eyes / I walk alone in the silent woods / Forever banned from this paradise
Song: Can't Sleep So Tired
Session Date: October the 20th 2006
Recording Gear: Tascam 488 MKII used as a mixer; Behringer C1 condensator mic; pc - Audacity
Music Gear: Yairi Spanish guitar; pc keyboard drum program
Log: This is not a song, but more like a musical fart. I've always shrunk back from recording large experimenting sessions. The idea of just letting the tape run and play and sing whatever comes to mind is of course to catch ideas or perhaps even find ready made diamonds among the junk. But I'm afraid I'm too much of a perfectionist for that. Anyway, I do think it's a good idea to force myself into doing this, because loads of good ideas have already gone to waste simply because I forgot them.
So, yesterday I pressed 'record' in Audacity and played whatever came to mind. The cool thing about recording with a pc is of course that you can save loads of recordings to harddisk. Anyway, I picked out a short piece of guitar and vocals, added a stupid pc keyboard drum, put a wahwah over that drum, duplicated the guitar and vocals track and added distortion to the dup. Et voilà.
Lyrics: (Just wanna do something and see what comes..) / I, I don't know what to say now / 'Cause I'm so tired / Well, I can't sleep / 'Cause it's still light
Song: Split Second Killer Hook (1st mix)
Split Second Killer Hook (2nd mix)
Session Date: Thursday October 5 2006ssion
Recording Gear: rTascam 488 MKII, pc (Audacity), Behringer C-1 condensator mic, SM-58 clone mic
Music Gear: mTakamine C-128 acoustic guitar, uGodin Radiator electric guitar, Squier bass, percussion
Log: Worked like a dog this week, so when I got home I wanted to record a song. Taped some simple guitar parts on the Tascam, added bass, electric guitar parts, and then wrote some lyrics and recorded some vocal parts. Filled up my 8 tracks already, so recorded it on my pc in Audacity and added some percussion and the guitar solo in Audacity, using the Tascam as a mixer. And there we are.
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Worked on a second mix, added wah to the guitar solo, compressed stuff..
Lyrics: Putting sensors in the lion's den / Saving bugs for dynamite / Fencing in the danger area / Wish this time I get it right / I'm a brand new musketeer / I lift my thumb to the world / But now there's noone waving back / I don't know what I'm doing here / Guess only myself can only get help from heaven / I feel so lonely / I pray that you fill my heart with your love / I need your light so badly / Being fragile is like surgery / How it hurts to be myself /I know I have to leave the nursery / Get on my way to Galilee / I will impress you like an open book / But turn the page and I am closed / I want a split second killer hook / I want the truth exposed
really nice to see you experiment with sampling. allow me to interfere a little, with a couple of wild ideas
> why don't you play the sample way below the original pitch, thus slowing down the whole thing
> lose the bluesy guitar lines you added later, or reverse them like you do at the end of the track. the whole thing sort of oozes "c&w" now
> add some really heavy slap bass line, played in a totally different groove
> put in an amen break
see what happens!