studio diary 4/5/08
“the state that we’re in”
Spent some time working on the chorus, specifically the bass and guitar tracks. Was shooting for a Peter Hook sound on the bass. Plugging straignt into the board made it sound too pretty….like phil collins (aaahhhh!) Then the effects made it sound too thin. Mic’ing it up and running it through guitar rig made it sound much better.
Recorded a couple dozen takes and will come back to it later with fresh ears. I’m learning that dwelling on a particular part for too long will not only make you insane, waste time, hard disk space, and fatigue your ears, but suck all of the life and inspiration you initially started out with. Best to go with your first instincts, make the best possible recording to make mixing easier, and move on.
Besides, you can always go back and remix multiple versions later!
Once the bass & guitar tracks are done (the “bed” of the chorus) it will be time to break out the synths. Will probably be some minimal modular synth patches tweaked to hell.
basic vocal melody is written but the lyrics need work. It’s mostly sung in gibberish to be translated into actual words later!
When completed we’ll post all of the final tracks on mend-remix.com for anyone to download and remix.
