Album Making #032

Work continues...

The songs, which had taken an odd direction the other day, seem to have merely taken a detour. It turns out that things are considerably more in line with how I saw proceedings, it's just that I wasn't able to cast my mind further forward than what I was hearing in the rough mixes. It's an exciting sound, anyway.

Last night, a whole heap of work was done, and I slept through nearly all of it! It must have been a good sleep, because not only did it refresh me, but I'm informed that I made lots of noises during my slumber. Not snoring (which is a relief), but moaning intermittently in a curiously sexual manner (which is worse!). I only have Steve's word for this, who found the whole thing amusing, with claims of "I wish I was were Tom is right now" and so on. But I don't recall any saucy dreams and I didn't wake up with, you know, any embarrassing stains, so maybe it was more sort of moans of anxiety that Steve interpreted in sexual ways, such is his wont.

Anyway, it's starting to sound great. The fusion of 2 musical sounds (namely live & electronic) is starting to take shape, and this is why it was right to have faith in Christian's vision. Bones has laid down some keys and stuff for the other songs, and not surprisingly, it took them in entirely new directions, but they do sound good. "Across the Park" is particularly sublime, although I'd like to do a bit of editing and I'm thinking I'll need to redo the bassline anyway, as the newer beats are slightly out of sync with the bass -- and it's always the case: if it's a tiny bit out, it's much more noticeable than if it were a lot out.

And now, Bones & Christian are working on "Sittin on a Rock". It's a matter of getting the beats right just now, and that's a weird one. We decided to get a sample or samples of it, and it seems like this is the basis for the beat, but the boys are being fastidious about it, so perhaps it's going to be a blend of samples and live drumming, sort of a patchwork. There's lots of editing going on with the whole thing, so I'm not sure, but that's my guess.

As for myself, I haven't really done a blessed thing. I did bugger all last night, and this morning, before work started, I did a slight edit on the bass for "Seek It" so that it lined up more correctly with the vocals (it went into the chorus 2 bars after Christian did, but that's because when Christian redid the vocals, he went into the chorus 2 bars earlier than he did on the guide vocal). Otherwise, it's been a lazy time for me, playing Command & Conquer Generals and surfing the net and ... typing a blog entry. That's about all. I've kinda been Sittin on a rock fishin, I suppose.

keeponrockin
Tom Hauville
Juicy Mountain Bass Monster