Hey all, long time no type. I see some of you on G+ and FB, and a couple on IRC, but I've been absent from SF! for much too long. I've been super busy remodeling my house, which I'm sure some of my FB friends here have seen, and really jammed up at work, and I haven't had any time for music (or any energy.)
I'm pretty stoked to have finally got the set of Lindy Fralin split blade humbuckers for my strat that I've been wanting for years. My tech just called me to let me know they're ready! I'm also moving the existing strat pickups over to my old Fender XII. I've got my Reason environment all dialed in, preamp is patched in and ready, and I've got my live rig up and mics dialed in and ready as well. For the first time in over a year, all of my equipment is patched in and working properly!
Plan for February is to hit up FAWM, and my goal is to lay down the the initial album track using the Parhelion title that I still owe Niveous from GOM 2013.
QotD: What submitted SF song are you the most proud of the production/engineering on, and what'd you do differently than usual?
Cheers!
-Mike Lamb
2014-01-25
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Mike Lamb
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2014-01-25
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Re: 2014-01-25
That's a tough question, Mike. I'm very critical of myself. So I am never happy with my finished work. I can be 99% happy with a song, but that 1% kills it for me. But if the song is written well and the instruments are clever and sound great, I can forgive myself for a little bit of mix and production faux pas.
I think my happiest moment for an SF song was when I had a new awakening and hit a new plateau with my mixing skills on our Psychotics song A Conversation. That song was an example of good writing and good vocal delivery mixed with comfortable instrumentation layered simplistically and a nice mix with radio friendly production. It wasn't perfect, but it was a turning point, not only how Denise and I worked on music, but the way I heard things and used my techniques and ears to make a nice finished song. I heard things I never noticed before. It's always interest to me when my ears evolve and start hearing things I never have before.
Pretty much from that point of A Conversation, I was like a kid on Christmas with all these new ideas and abilities. Dee and I started experimenting a lot. Not that it was well received, like Starting a Witch Hunt and Happy to Be Here. Those songs were tongue in cheek and we were trying new things that lead up to other new things. Fill in the Blank and Come Out were songs that came from our new style we are honing and come out ended up winning that fight. So I guess I'm pretty proud of that song, even though it's heavy on the bottom. So yeah, still not quite hitting the mark with me but getting there.
Long story short, I'm going to go with Come Out as my favorite overall song at this point. It's a good mix of fun writing, cool vocal delivery, airy mix and well rounded production. It has been polished since the SF entry, but just on mastering and a small vocal addition on the last verse.
.....I really shouldn't post all hopped up on the coffee. I think too fluidly, lol.
I think my happiest moment for an SF song was when I had a new awakening and hit a new plateau with my mixing skills on our Psychotics song A Conversation. That song was an example of good writing and good vocal delivery mixed with comfortable instrumentation layered simplistically and a nice mix with radio friendly production. It wasn't perfect, but it was a turning point, not only how Denise and I worked on music, but the way I heard things and used my techniques and ears to make a nice finished song. I heard things I never noticed before. It's always interest to me when my ears evolve and start hearing things I never have before.
Pretty much from that point of A Conversation, I was like a kid on Christmas with all these new ideas and abilities. Dee and I started experimenting a lot. Not that it was well received, like Starting a Witch Hunt and Happy to Be Here. Those songs were tongue in cheek and we were trying new things that lead up to other new things. Fill in the Blank and Come Out were songs that came from our new style we are honing and come out ended up winning that fight. So I guess I'm pretty proud of that song, even though it's heavy on the bottom. So yeah, still not quite hitting the mark with me but getting there.
Long story short, I'm going to go with Come Out as my favorite overall song at this point. It's a good mix of fun writing, cool vocal delivery, airy mix and well rounded production. It has been polished since the SF entry, but just on mastering and a small vocal addition on the last verse.
.....I really shouldn't post all hopped up on the coffee. I think too fluidly, lol.