re-recording your old songs

jeff robertson · Post by **jeff robertson** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 9:51 am

Ever go back and listen to your fight entries from a while back and decide that your song deserves better than what you were capable of doing back then? Did you re-record it?

It would be interesting to compare the before and after versions of such songs.

Billy's Little Trip · Thu Jan 24, 2008 10:31 am

I haven't, but I would like to. I was going to re-record old songs and put together an album for charity, last year. But it never happened.

Hoblit · Post by **Hoblit** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 10:51 am

I have a song called "Waiting For You" that I had re-recorded once. I'm glad I did because I lost the original song due to a hard drive failure. (I might have the old mp3 stored on a web server somewhere) I even took some of the files from the original to use in the newer recording.

I ACTUALLY WANT TO RE-RECORD IT AGAIN. Sorry about the yelling, but the song is dear to me and I've been thinking about updating it once again. I'm always discouraged though because I'm struggling to even work on NEW material. I have that attitude that I've already done that (twice) and I want to keep moving forward until I have oodles and oodles of EXTRA time in order to go back and waste time on it.

jimtyrrell · Post by **jimtyrrell** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 11:05 am

I re-recorded a few for the CD I put out last summer. And then on a few songs I just did retakes of certain instrument tracks, or added to what was already there. I don't have mp3 versions handy here, but I'll post an example later.

HeuristicsInc · Post by **HeuristicsInc** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 11:05 am

Yes, actually one of the official coverfights here was "Cover Yourself" where you picked a song that you thought you could do better. I re-did "Step Up" with assistance from Starfinger (the original is HInc and the remake is Brainpipe). Also, some of the DB&tI stuff we are re-doing at least the vocals, esp. "Under the Horse", for later CD release.
-bill

jeff robertson · Post by **jeff robertson** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 11:08 am

HeuristicsInc wrote:Yes, actually one of the official coverfights here was "Cover Yourself"

Are those numbers the vote count? The winners got 96 votes?!

Reist · Post by **Reist** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 1:08 pm

My old songs didn't deserve to be recorded in the first place.

obscurity · Post by **obscurity** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 2:29 pm

I've literally lost count of the number of times I've recorded one particular song of mine, and I still get the urge to have just one last try to see if I can finally do the song justice.

roymond · Post by **roymond** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 3:31 pm

Reïst wrote:My old songs didn't deserve to be recorded in the first place.

I always wondered when SF would confront the right to lifers.

GlennCase · Post by **GlennCase** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 3:57 pm

What strange timing for this thread! Rachael and I started re-recording "Need Stilts" last night. Most of the music is done, and I'm hoping to have it complete within a week or so.

ROCK!

Glenn Case

Dan-O from Five-O · Post by **Dan-O from Five-O** » Thu Jan 24, 2008 11:09 pm

jeff robertson wrote:
HeuristicsInc wrote:Yes, actually one of the official coverfights here was "Cover Yourself"
Are those numbers the vote count? The winners got 96 votes?!

No, it's actually a pretty complex "metric" formula as best as I understood it.

j$ · Post by j$ » Fri Jan 25, 2008 6:35 am

I have three unfinished songs for the last three songfights (including 'Cute Boots') which i will post sometime when i get two minutes to get round to doing them. i also want to re-do the Dollar Bill & The Inkpoints songs 'Goodbye Monster' and 'Chaos vs Order' vocals, for the aforementioned album, and also finish up the not-quite-there-yet 'And Counting ...'

Damn work to heck and back

Caravan Ray · Post by **Caravan Ray** » Fri Jan 25, 2008 6:58 am

for quite a while now I have had ideas of going though the 50 odd songs I have here, finding my favourite 12 - re-recording them and making a proper album...maybe one day. In practice though I lose interest very quickly. I get enormous pleasure from doing new songs - re-visiting old ones always seems like a chore.

jeff robertson · Post by **jeff robertson** » Fri Jan 25, 2008 7:22 am

Caravan Ray wrote:for quite a while now I have had ideas of going though the 50 odd songs I have here, finding my favourite 12 - re-recording them and making a proper album...maybe one day. In practice though I lose interest very quickly. I get enormous pleasure from doing new songs - re-visiting old ones always seems like a chore.

Yeah. All these discussions that go on around here about making CDs and mastering CDs and stuff... most of the songs that I'd like to put on a CD would need to be re-recorded before I would even consider letting a professional mastering engineer listen to them, lest he kick my ass for sucking. So if I ever wanted to make a "real CD" I'd either need to write all new songs for it, or re-record any non-new ones.

roymond · Post by **roymond** » Fri Jan 25, 2008 7:25 am

Dan-O from Five-O wrote:
jeff robertson wrote:
HeuristicsInc wrote:Yes, actually one of the official coverfights here was "Cover Yourself"
Are those numbers the vote count? The winners got 96 votes?!
No, it's actually a pretty complex "metric" formula as best as I understood it.

Wasn't the "metric" issue what caused the Mars explorer crash?

Glenn - I'm also re-recording my original Need Stilts which was entered as an IRC All Stars song.

JonPorobil · Post by **JonPorobil** » Fri Jan 25, 2008 7:33 am

I did a re-recording of my "So Aggravating," but I don't seem to have the newer version with me. It must be on my external drive; I'll post it Monday.

I also recorded a <a href="http://www.jon-eric.com/Songs/Attractio ... ).mp3">new version</a> of my "Level Best." Compare and contrast, if you will.

Also, I recently remixed my non-Songfight song "Maritime Winds."
<a href="http://www.jon-eric.com/Songs/Other/Jon ... riginal</a>
Remix

My next project is redoing my "Brown Boxes." I'll be keeping many of the original tracks, but ditching some, adding others, and completely redoing the vocal.

So, short answer: yes.

jeff robertson · Post by **jeff robertson** » Fri Jan 25, 2008 7:40 am

Generic wrote: I also recorded a <a href="http://www.jon-eric.com/Songs/Attractio ... ).mp3">new version</a> of my "Level Best." Compare and contrast, if you will.

Wow. The new one no longer sounds like its encoded at an insanely low bitrate, or whatever that weird noise was in the old one.

JonPorobil · Post by **JonPorobil** » Fri Jan 25, 2008 10:47 am

Yeah, they're mp3 encoding artifacts. They were one of the big reasons I had for wanting to rerecord it. The original was my very first attempt at multitrack recording, so I wanted to take another stab at it after I'd figured out a little of what's what on my program of choice. Thanks for listening!

obscurity · Post by **obscurity** » Fri Jan 25, 2008 12:50 pm

roymond wrote: Glenn - I'm also re-recording my original Need Stilts which was entered as an IRC All Stars song.

You're both a little late jumping on that bandwagon :)

Caravan Ray · Post by **Caravan Ray** » Mon Feb 18, 2008 6:12 am

I just re-recorded (and re-titled and slightly re-wrote) my entry for "Don't Break My Heart Again George Lucas":

Natalie Portman - Caravan Ray