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.
rendering is boring. I can't begin to explain how often I'm sitting here looking at a status bar. Sometimes making music is really not very glamorous at all. On the bright side, got the track for Betty Rebel out the door and just received mCRT's vocals for CrappyCompy.
Rocket Propelled Geeks - GOTO 11 preproduction scheduled to begin this Thursday.
Another insane weekend....I get the idea normal weekends won't be something I'll be participating in for a long time. Saw EPP, KK, CRT, and a new rapper along with the Killer Robots at Dukes in Orlando...Awesome show!
Dork Party is neary arranged. What a fuckin monster that track is. Also, just now starting preproduction on GOTO 11. (working title) Finally got some vocals in for CrappyCompy collab - compared to Dork Party, this thing is nice and easy to work on! Nothing more then vocal EQing at the moment.
Been getting really good responses to The Undead Ballad. Kelly Morgan's mesmerizing vocals could turn any track in to gold. All I've got to do is press the red button.
And we're off! New bloggey crap on the website...
Anyway, hopefully, I'll be able to keep this crap up to date. Right now, I'm bouncing between pre planning GOTO 11 (working title), the WriteaChorusForus track, and the most epic nerdcore collab track ever, Dork Party. Looks like Dork Party is gonna get done before the rest of this other stuff is. EQing 13 or so rappers isn't easy, and dare I say, was the hard part. It's all up to arrangement and a bit of chor work at the moment.
As of right now, Dork Party is comming together somewhat like this: intro, KonArtis, TCP, Chozo, CHORUS, blank blank blank....seems they flow well together. We debuted that piece on Yellow Alert last week and I haven't heard any complaints yet...so....I suppose, keep movin forward. Fingers crossed! I feel right now my only job is to not destroy the track.
