ALBION THE RECORDING

deadstring I decided to purchase a bass guitar and I will pick it up from the music store tomorrow along with another amp so I can play my ME-50 stereo this will add a cool dimension to the lead solos so instead of going direct into my digital recorder I'm placing a microphone in the middle of the two amps and setting each one different this will give a spacious effect as I can split the effects on the unit in addition is has a feature called a harmonizer its kind of cheating a bit but what the heck,I dont feel guilty because I am capable of doing it without it its just that it saves time, and at my age that's a commodity the extra time will let me work on the lyrics no sense in rushing this project and sacrificing quality for the sake of expediency

yes I have given this some thought,im reminded of the quote: " if you fail to plan you plan to fail"

Ark when you compose a new song is it the same way as I do by jamming some melodies and selecting several ideas to develop? I take the most promising and video tape them it helps me to remember not only the chord sequence but the strumming pattern

Ark I see there is a little different approach to ambient songs but as long as the results are what you are pleased with it works for you,Albion has been delayed a day till I can pickup my new bass it had to be ordered along with my new amp but I have been putting the time to use the important thing to me is I know what I'm going to do with it and I have no doubt it will turn out ok and I'm itching to add the other parts but the bass is very important it will enable me to be creative with the percussion and serve as a solid foundation to build the vocals and lead guitar parts around then comes the fun "Mixing" like a chef in a hotel combining all the ingredients into a feast for kings (or something like that I hope) somehow the old "its just a song" dont cut it as you get older you get more demanding and dont settle for "that's good enough"it has to be the best you can do and then it starts all over,"aah life is great"

OK I laid the bass and percussion tracks and next comes the lead guitar solos followed by the vocals,everything is going well so far hopefully I can finish this in two more days and upload

Yea Doug it is getting a little crowded but I needed the bass and the price was only $50 one of the pickups didnt work and they knocked the price in half and they will find one for me and replace it free (labor) everything I buy there is at cost so I do save a lot

Hi Russ
Sorry to hear you sprained your hand.
Hope alls ok by the weekend..
Ark

tonight I laid the lead solos the results were better then I had hoped for,I recorded 2 acoustic rhythm tracks first then laid a bass track after that came a drum track manually played on the pads and followed with a mixture of Congo and hand claps on tracks 4 and 5 and mixed it and bounced it to tracks 7 and 8 the lead solos were applied on tracks 1 and 2 and I did not record over the previous tracks they were shifted to my v tracks and are still there,next the lead vocal and counter harmonies then all of this is mixed and panned and fed into audacity and final eq's and rendering to mp 3 for upload,the lead solos were SMOKIN harmonies in thirds and add a really nice layered effect more to follow

That's ok if you dont understand the procedure but as long as you enjoy it when its finished that's good enough for me,in muti track recordings it takes time to mix each track and the best way is to turn all the other tracks off and concentrate on one at a time then like a chef you blend all the ingredients(mix) and open your recording software and it winds up on two channels in stereo from there its formatted as a mp3 which can be uploaded to a web site or made into a CD

Micky all the tracks are synchronized at the beginning so they all come in at the same time on the count of 4 just like in a band. that way I know exactly when the song starts and it makes adding more tracks a snap,:)