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Reimagined: Sighting Through Stars

blinder — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 17:15:54 +0000

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.

Remembering Forgotten Toys

blinder — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 20:30:02 +0000

I’ve been working on this piece for about a week or so. You probably won’t notice, but to me this is a very sad song. Its mostly about mourning a childhood that is surely dead and was dying the minute it started. I used a lot of “metaphors” in sound design, certain instruments treading new ground trying to make it OK for others to come in and take the place of those that came first. Stuff like that. I know its a stretch, but its just was what I have been thinking about.

I was a good kid, and I never wanted to hurt anyone, but the world had other ideas. This song is about realizing that, and seeing that good kid who has died, put to rest finally. He’s done his job and has stood up to so much that its time for him to take a break… let someone else stand guard and take the hits.

Its a song about understanding that you can never go back, and you can’t make it better or make up for the bad in the present. It just doesn’t work like that. There is no making up for a bad past. I’m trying to realize that and writing this piece is just an exercise to help me remember that.

Remix Versions Available

blinder — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 03:11:00 +0000

So while doing a “car test” of two songs I posted I realized the mixes needed some attention. So, I took a stab at cleaning up a few things.

I cleaned up Airport Exit, by taking out some of the muddy lower-mid frequencies from the distorted guitars, which did a lot in clarifying the mix.

The other song that got some attention was Something Not New got a whole new mix, mostly cleaning up the bass line. The apparent loudness is also improved.

These are probably much closer to what will be on the record.

Something Not New – Rough Cut

blinder — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 01:49:45 +0000

As I mentioned yesterday, I worked up a rough cut of this song I have been working on.

I would stress that this is a very rough cut. The song is NOT complete, I just want to put this out there, and maybe get some feedback.

The idea is simple, the images and concept is that of a life spent waiting, biding time till the end, and we get to watch from start to finish.

0×000000: A Rough Cut

blinder — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 01:38:43 +0000

As I mentioned in an earlier post, I was working on two songs. Well, I think I finished a first rough cut on one. The final version will have a much cleaner edit, and I think the mix needs some attention. Its noisy, and I was going for noisy, but perhaps its a bit too noisy.

You can find it here, but I also stuck it up on Snocap as well.