Reimagined: Sighting Through Stars

so i really liked playing this song and recording it originally. its really a fun song to play no matter what instrument because it just kinda meanders around, as it fades from one part to the next and closes with this really loud mournful guitar thing… but when i originally tracked and mixed it came out so not what i heard in my head.

i gave it another go last night. i think its closer to what i hear in my head.

i guess that’s the problem, when i write a song, i have the entire thing in my head… how all the parts work, how the mix should be, the fades, the everything… but my skills as a mix and mastering engineer are not so good so i have a hell of a time trying to translate what i hear in my head to what i hear in my ears.

this is closer. i wanted this really almost over-modulated distressed quality to the drums, and i wanted them to fill up the entire back ground. i wanted the guitars to be fuller and more airy… i wanted that whole synth string thing to come and go more like a cumulus cloud floating weightless but very present.

so now when i head into the studio to record this for real, i’ll have a better template to work with and the engineer can then hear a closer representation of what i’m trying to achieve. so, this process of demo recording isn’t just “get it down” so much now. i have to get things closer to where i think they need to be.