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It's Tom Waits so it's based on a pre-rock n roll "standard" chord progression yes, that minor key three chord trick is a staple of latin music and crops up in proto R&R stuff like I Put A Spell On You.
Here's the original:
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lovely working of a track I imagined, and EB created
https://soundcloud.com/jay-sonic/mountain-story-dub-mix-1 -
Shame I moved recently and ditched a fuck load of SoS mags.
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Jockey update 2:
Recorded banjo last night. Reasonably happy with it but as the nylon string part is fairly busy i've had to really rein it in.
When we play live I sing and play a full-on picked rhythm banjo part all the way though but that was just way too much on the recording. My banjo doesn't record terribly well either and can be quite harsh sounding so I tend to keep it for occasinal flavour as opposed to the main instrument. So I've recorded much more laid back part which nails the intro riff then sort of comes and goes throughout the verses. I'll have to edit it to make sure the occasional flourishes don't clash with either the spanish guitar or the main vocals. That will have to wait for the mix though.
Main reason for that is that with this project I'm determined to leave the mix until the end and am going to resist the temtation to mix as I go. Apart from being good practice and i've found that with working "in the box" as-I-go mixing, as I load up track after track with CPU taxing compressors and reverbs I start to get horrible latency when tracking. Keeping everything bare until the mix is going to help with that a lot.
I want to get to the end of tracking this week then do a pre-mix then a final mix. Next week when I'm off work.
The missus is away overnight tonight so i'll be drinking wine and recording electric guitar, percussion and maybe vocals.
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Jockey Update 3:
After fucking about with the loops and kits in logic for hours... gave up and recorded some some live percussion. Found a guiro in my bass player's bag of leads that he left here and scraped it with two wooden kebab skewers. Spent a while choosing the best sounding of two dozen scrapes. Srsly.
No wine but am now well alight on good bourbon. *fingerbang
Forgot to zero the counter before bouncing this so it's only 20 secs or so towards the end but you get the idea.
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Just had this mad synth kit turn up. Unfortunately had to pay £34 import duty. Big sound though
Little Bits Korg synth kit - YouTube
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Deeeeay Threeeee:
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Deeeeay Threeeee:
In news that literally no-one will care about I've decided that these recordings are not working for me at all. They're totally lacking in ambience, feel and atmosphere. I'm going to bin them and start anew with a whole different approach.
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I just got this - pretty special
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Anyone got any recommendations in London for mastering/cutting and pressing a 7" single?
I'll ask a few friends. Last time I did this we mastered in the UK but cut the record in Czech Republic.
I know Ursa Major in Stockwell seem to have a permanent mastering sale on. http://ursamajorsound.com/category/blog/
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About to stick up a classified for a pair of these: £100
http://www.thomann.de/gb/esi_aktiv_05.htm
http://www.esi-audio.com/products/aktiv05/
http://www.dv247.com/news/ESI%20Aktiv%2005%20Active%20Monitors%20Product%20Review/133402
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I'll ask a few friends. Last time I did this we mastered in the UK but cut the record in Czech Republic.
I know Ursa Major in Stockwell seem to have a permanent mastering sale on. http://ursamajorsound.com/category/blog/
Cheers. Curved in Hackney, which is near to me, seem to be a decent place to get mastering done. I'd rather not send the lacquer off to GZ if possible, but other options appear to be rather limited.
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Ok here's yesterday's doings. No edits, no Eq, no compression no reverb, no processing of any kind. This is as it went to "tape" warts and all
https://soundcloud.com/elvers/jockey-in-progress-v1
I'm getting on with the banjo now.