Recording on the computer isn't something that was even possible for all kinds of miserable reasons but yesterday the levels checked out all the way through ... so record something.
"Playing in the Cemetery" started out as a cemetery being a good place to play loud because you can't piss anyone off.
"Love in the Cemetery" is the same thing with a different video and the premise this time is if you can't get love from a vampire then you ain't goin' find it at all.
It didn't change much apart from the video in what may even be ten years.
But ... it didn't have an organ part and, much worse, the bass track was something I had recorded on a MIDI keyboard so it wasn't even an analog track ... plus it sucked.
The orchestration was inevitable as what else does a distortion guitar need in a cemetery. If you answered pipe organ then right you are. The bass is now a real one making it a whole lot more live than it was.
With a bit of panning to spread the instruments over the sound field, things got very large. That felt quite excellent but it was too loud and got overpowering after a while. There was some more balancing this morning and it sounds like major vampire bait now.
The O.F. part is asking myself whether I've got it in me to make something cooler than what I've already played and it's not neurosis as I've compared lead lines from now to some years back and thought hmmm. Listening to back tracks I haven't used in a very long time stirs up some unusual.
The reason any of this is germane is "The Paradise Song" and whether to do it all-out live or to use the computer. The latter yields suck video as the post-record mixdown is not going to make exciting television. The video needs the RL Silas playing as that gives the continuity to time melting like an ice cream from the start. If tracks are used to back that then the video won't show the other instruments being played and their availability is a huge part of what makes this musical Paradise.
So I jack around with other things while it percolates.
"Playing in the Cemetery" started out as a cemetery being a good place to play loud because you can't piss anyone off.
"Love in the Cemetery" is the same thing with a different video and the premise this time is if you can't get love from a vampire then you ain't goin' find it at all.
It didn't change much apart from the video in what may even be ten years.
But ... it didn't have an organ part and, much worse, the bass track was something I had recorded on a MIDI keyboard so it wasn't even an analog track ... plus it sucked.
The orchestration was inevitable as what else does a distortion guitar need in a cemetery. If you answered pipe organ then right you are. The bass is now a real one making it a whole lot more live than it was.
With a bit of panning to spread the instruments over the sound field, things got very large. That felt quite excellent but it was too loud and got overpowering after a while. There was some more balancing this morning and it sounds like major vampire bait now.
The O.F. part is asking myself whether I've got it in me to make something cooler than what I've already played and it's not neurosis as I've compared lead lines from now to some years back and thought hmmm. Listening to back tracks I haven't used in a very long time stirs up some unusual.
The reason any of this is germane is "The Paradise Song" and whether to do it all-out live or to use the computer. The latter yields suck video as the post-record mixdown is not going to make exciting television. The video needs the RL Silas playing as that gives the continuity to time melting like an ice cream from the start. If tracks are used to back that then the video won't show the other instruments being played and their availability is a huge part of what makes this musical Paradise.
So I jack around with other things while it percolates.
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