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Today I noticed a similarity between the beginning of The Walkmen’s What’s In It For Me? and the end of cLOUDDEAD’s our name. This is a clip of one crossfading into the other, in respective order, and then panning out right and left, respectively.
I tuned our name up 32 cents to better match it to The Walkmen song. I think my brain is tricking me into hearing the two alternating chords from What’s In It For Me? in that huge outro chord.
Does anyone else think they sound similar?
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No For an Answer (take two)
Alright, so I rushed it last time. I had burned a compressed signal of the kick drum and forgot to mute the original, so there were two kick tracks in that last mix. Bad bad bad. I tweaked some other things and redid the vocal tracks. Overall I think it sounds much better than the original.
Let me know what you think.
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“No For an Answer”
Leftovers. Decided to finish this tonight. It’s been sitting on my hard drive for a while. I’ve also put it up on MeMeMeGimmeGimmeSpace, something I haven’t done in a long time.
The only really exciting thing I did in this song is the synths in the beginning and rubbing snares across a mic grill. If you consider that exciting.
Comments/criticism is welcome, musical or engineeringical. Bring it.
There’s a newer mix of this song here
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“John Locke Syndrome”
This is a piece I’ve been working on for a while. I tried to experiment with things I don’t usually do, and I’m pretty pleased with how it turned out.
I’ve also uploaded the Live Set if anyone wants to play with it.
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“Cascade Fat Head Test Song”
Here’s a little test song I did mainly with the Cascade Fat Head.
Drums: MS Stereo — MXL 991 as Mid and Fat Head as side. In front of and about two feet above kit. About a foot right (low tom side) of snare to try and stereo image the toms a bit more. My high tom is right above the snare, and MS accurately depicts that. SM57 on snare and some cheap Nady kick mic in front of the kick. I was more concerned with the overhead sound. No EQ on Fat Head, scooped out some high mids on the MXL.
Electric Guitar (both): Fat Head about 6” from speaker, on-axis.
Acoustic Guitar: MS Stereo with Fat Head and MXL 991.
Bass: Fat Head about 4” from speaker, on-axis. Rounded off low frequencies at 100hz.
Tambourine: Fat Head. Duhhhh.
There are no effects on any tracks, save for some EQing I talked about above and light compression on the drum bus and master track.
I talked about the Fat Head a little more in my original post.
