An old tune revisited.
An old tune revisited.
Do you know what you were doing at 15.02 on Saturday 25th February 2006?
Personally, I was recording take 34 of a banjo solo.
I've a backup on my current laptop of the hard drive from the laptop I was using at the time, including a few Cubase projects.
I ditched Cubase for Reaper in 2008 so can't open the projects but the raw audio files are in the project folders.
This is a re-working of a song called Debauchery, using the original recordings of vocals, acoustic bass, 12-string and, yes, banjo, though not they're not all the same takes I used in the 2006 version.
The drums/percussion and synth parts are new.
It's not finished yet and, as I've mixed it on headphones, it probably sounds ropey but I'm having fun.
This is the original 2006 version: https://pmudd.com/debaucherysc
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Sounds pretty fun! I've noticed you have electronic drums on this. If it were me, I'd do acoustics here, unless this sort of pop-song feel is what you're gunning for. If I were doing pop style track here, then I'd make the synths more pronounced. I noticed that the only synth is playing in some places as an accent, and I would just add in a second one that will compliment the whole song so that the electronic drumkit doesn't feel so detached. Then the rest of the work is just tinkering with compression on every instrument.
I'm quite certain you have good grasp on all of that though, just my thoughts! When you were making music in 2006 I was busy being a pre-schooler, lol. I'd give anything right now to be able to play an instrument and record more, but living in an apartment makes it damn near impossible sometimes. It's a really fun track you're making, hope to see the final version soon!
Hi,
Thanks for the suggestions. I'm tempted to do both an 'acoustic' mix and a dance mix, but I'm currently just mucking about with the version posted above, the latest mix of which sounds like this:
https://pmudd.com/debauchery2023-mix02
I'm staying with my Dad for a couple of months with very limited equipment, hence mucking about with an old tune.
