Yeah, it's been ages. I have been both slack and undecided about where to go next with this project. I went through the paces and ended up not 100% happy with the outcome of my drum tracks.. which was a pretty big downer on the whole thing considering how much time I spent on it. Turns out all I needed was a bit of time. Months down the track I found some motivation and played along to my drum tracks and laid down some rough instruments to see what it'd sound like. It sounded great, I probably just needed a break and to come back and listen to the tracks fresh. So I am back into it and laying down bass guide tracks so that I can start the guitars. I have also decided to drop 3 songs, the album will only have 8 songs now.
In the meantime, i am finding other ways to hone my skills. I am going to be helping Tim record a live band this saturday and then in March I will be recording and then post mixing a live event at the shoalhaven entertainment center. The final mix will be going onto a dvd or onto some videos or something. But a more recent feat was last weekend just gone. I went away for a weekend to kangaroo valley, recorded and produced a song for which I also played drums for. Here's a rough mix of the song:
Pretty happy with how everything turned out in that bar the drums. They were very quickly miced and I pretty much learnt the song as I recorded it since it was freshly written.
Also, I videoed some stuff along the way, it's kind of long. If you want the short version: I record some shit, talk allot, change my mind allot and in the end I get the girl. (ps: the songs in the backround are all old pre-production versions and do not have real drum tracks in them). It's me waffling on and you'll only find it interesting if you care how or why I did/do certain things. The second vid is me recording "My Mistake" on day 2 of recording, plus a tour of my mic setup.
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