Finally. I think I've figured out whats buggin me about this track. Bad EQ on one friggen drum loop. Sorta made it sound all muffled and whatnot.... theres a lot struggling to get heard in this song below 500hz or so. nightmare. furthermore, everything I've written for this track in the last 3o days (jesus christ, has it only been 30 days? feels like I've been working on dork party on and off for a year, at least) seems to be basslines, bassline, more basslines, and the occasional harmony type part. what i really need, is to come away from that friggen 60's psychedelic distorted bassline and write something brand new - same key, same groove, different bassline. i think its somewhat working. tho, you would assume I'm stoned if you could hear what im writing in there. weird synth patches (thanks to the nord lead, again. i gotta move that synth, really. i use it entirely too much) through massive delays. (dotted 8th, 2 measure decay)

heres the deal with this song. its going to be 9 minutes song (not a lot i can do about that, there's literally that many vocals) - my position on beats is that each bus or for more important tracks, each track should be interesting on it's own. i.e. i can solo any bus, or any track, listen to the song and be entertained. that bassline im using right now is basically a 4 bar loop with one variation in 8. that gets old after about 35 seconds. not good. ive got all the source for it, but working with that line, and back in reason for that batter, is a real pain in the balls. this song is a production nightmare for two reasons. 1, its got CT syndrome. 2, it's got scary syndrome. i wouldn't have imagined in my worst nightmare that one song could combine both of those.

EMasterPiece Theater Lesson Of The Day:

CT Syndrome. Noun. CT=Crimson Twins. A 7 or so minute track on the GOTO 10 album. The bassline for the song is literally one note. Creating something interesting to listen to from one note is already insane enough, much less for 7 minutes.

Scary Syndrome. Noun. A ten minute track on the GOTO 10 album. Production spiraled out of control on this monster. I was in sub mix hell. There are nearly 200 tracks on Scary with enough FX and plugins to bring even our MOTU interface to it's knees. At one point, I couldn't even get soloed tracks to play. This led to busses like 'lightning', 'strings', 'chor vocals 2' and such to be in their own acd file, rendered, and bounced in to the main acd. tweaking anything meant re-rendering giant files without the ability to hear how shit was going to sound in the final mix.



Anyways, back to dork party. I'm dying to get this thing done, I know a lot of people would like to hear it and I feel like I'm stalling.