I'll never finish this, will I?

[Max Arwood]

I'm glad to see I'm not the only one that does this. I have a few mix versions topping out around 400. This 15+ years of tweaking. I get a new plugin and want to go redo all my songs lol. Sometimes it helps, but mostly the performance is king. Yes, I hate to say, I am a plugin junkie.

Sorry I can't post more today, I got to head over to DEALS NOW!

Edited Friday at 04:50 PM by Max Arwood

[Rain]

22 hours ago, T Boog said:

 

Congrats Rain. I'm more curious about ur song though. Any progress on it?

I'm curious if u changed ur approach at all or are u taking a break from it for a bit?

Thanks for asking.

Actually, I only did a few tests but my voice didn't seem to cooperate, so I quickly called it a night. But I did listen to a few takes from the previous week and I think I'm almost there - to a point where I can live with my voice without being particularly fond of it. Part of it is just a matter of singing more. And warming up. Which I've been trying to do a little more regularly. But there's something that's still locked in. 

[Rain]

13 hours ago, Max Arwood said:

I get a new plugin and want to go redo all my songs lol.

This. 

I have a few songs that I have allowed myself to go back to and completely rebuild from my old Sonar archives. To be honest, in most cases, I've lived with them for so long that no matter what I try and how much "better" they should be, they rarely sound right. For all their flaws, I've become used to those so much that something's missing in the better mix. They just feel a little flat and unexciting.

But there are 2 or 3 which actually ended up significantly better - although in each case, the process stretched over years and multiple attempts. One of those is a cover for Billy Idol's Flesh for Fantasy that I really dig. The original dates from 2007, but I re-made it in 2013 and again in 2017 I think. The problem is that it's still instrumental, and I would love to record vocals for it, but it's not in a key that works for me. And there's no way I'm spending another 15 years to rebuilt it in the right key. A friend who's actually a real singer offered to help me finish it, and I might ask her to. 

Sometimes I do miss the days when I didn't know better than to have every synth rendered to stereo with reverb and delay and things masking each other, and I would just shove everything through the stereo bus and call that my mix. And if the kick drum got buried, I would just add yet another track of a different kick...

Now I have better gear, a better room to work in, and I pretend that I know just a little better, but I really don't. lol 

[craigb]

Plus you need more cats. 😁

[T Boog]

5 hours ago, Rain said:

. For all their flaws, I've become used to those so much that something's missing in the better mix.

Im a big believer in that. Like on Metallica s And Justice For All the bass guitar is pretty much non-existent. But that crappy mix has a charm of it's own.

Also, the mix on Joe Satriani's song Surfing with the Alien sounds pretty amateur with a cheap drum machine. But again, it has a certain charm. 

It really comes down to how good the song is. The Beatles Yesterday would sound great on a old cassette bootleg. I think time is better spent moving forward than repolishing the old stuff.

[Rain]

15 hours ago, craigb said:

Plus you need more cats. 😁

I'm struggling with that addiction. 😁