In Heaven For A Conference/Whatever Happened To The Citizens Of My Abandoned Evony City? – 260511

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Good day/bad day…

I finally worked out what was wrong with …HEAVEN. The signal going into the CE5 stereo output was too weak, so that when I mastered and normalised the track, there was too much normalisation required and everything got distorted. So I reckoned the only thing to do was to scrap the entire mix and start from the perspective of having adequate signal at the output. And this worked a charm. I got a very decent mix put together which  mastered nicely via Cubase VST/24 and AA3. And I even took the opportunity of adding in the Sawstrings 2 file which, for some reason, I’d omitted from the mix.

That having worked out nicely, I then got the mad notion of re-introducing the Ice Hall part in place of the Tabular Bells part and did an alternative mix. That worked out fine too. So now I have two different versions of the same track – which one will I put on the album?

Things didn’t go so well with …EVONY, though. Spend a lot time tweaking the mix and just when I thought I’d got it all sorted, I discovered some clipping in the X/Y/Z part, which seems to be have been due to some interference picked up by the Behringer mixer. I re-recorded the part, both through the Behringer, and even through the Tascam 2488. Not too sure if I’m happy with the results, and I ran out of time eventually, so I’ll have to have another go at this tomorrow.

Grrr…

Regards,

djp

Whatever Happened To The Citizens Of My Abandoned Evony City?/Fly Me To Hecuba – 030111

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Try and get out of your head the mental image of me mooching around the house all day in a ratty old dressing gown and imagine instead an artist hard at work on his latest oeuvre…

WHATEVER…

Took a listen to the demo I’d programmed a while back. The “tune” was good, but I couldn’t get a grip on the tempo. After some trial and error, I re-programmed the main bed of the track using the  JV-880 (X/Y/Z) in 6/4 time at 60 bpm.

Couldn’t come up with any suitable voice in the D-110, so I found a nice voice on the Juno-D (Strobe-J). I also decided to hit the VST plugins, using the 7th Follower voice on the Majken’s Chimera freeware plugin.

Did a rough stereo mix for transfer to the Tascam 2488. I think I might do some Ebow guitar parts and very simple bass parts in due course.

FLY ME TO HECUBA

Wha’…?

This is the third demo I worked on recently. Didn’t do anything with it really other than give it a title. Who/what is/was Hecuba? Click here to find out. No significance really, just a bad pun…

Regards,

djp