I actually had a pretty productive day, although I didn't work on any of the things that I thought I would. I decided it was time to revisit "Yet I Tried for You", the song that I worked on with Seth Tiven of Dumptruck that's been collecting dust for quite some time. I've been arguing with myself what exactly to do with this track. I originally wanted to do a 4 song EP, of which I have the 4 songs, but then MWP stepped into the mix and so I was debating about rerecording the track with him, and then thought differently of that, and so on. My latest thought process is actually to go back to the original plan of the 4 songs and not do them with MWP, and instead come up with something totally new to work on with him. We'll see if this thought process sticks.
I hadn't listened to the song since Seth sent me his completed guitar track. It was a bit of mess because his track did not completely line up to the grid in my session, and why I don't know, and so I had to do a bit of digging to figure out how to make it work. I guess I had finally gotten it lined up but burned out after that since that's where I had left off. I listened to the track today, started working on how I'd use Seth's parts, and then just started messing around with harmonies, etc. Needless to say, I still like the track quite a bit and it sounds pretty damn good, I think. It really only needs a couple more things and is completely done, now that I've put the harmonies down. I'm thinking I might get the other 3 tracks in motion drum wise.
Next, I decided, since I was already in mix mode, to open up the Defrost Nixon song "Scapegoat" which is one of Cameron's songs that I had been fighting with for quite some time. I finally got the drum replacement to work about 2 weeks ago but there were a few vocal ideas I wanted to try out before sending him my progress. So, I messed around with a small harmony and an effect vocal that I think is kind of cool. Of course, he may not like it, and it's ultimately his call since it's his song, but I like to try this kind of thing out and see if it flies. More often than not, it does.
After that, I made a few more changes to "Across the Desert" after listening to it last night. It's getting better but there are still a few hurdles.
And lastly, since most of the day was already gone, I decided to attempt getting the dreaded last few redo phrases down for "Only With You" which is the latest thing that's been holding up the finishing of the "Mirror Land" EP. This EP is of course so overdue that it's disgusting. I can't even begin to tell you how much I want this thing done and over with. Ironically, though, this EP is almost a record of my entire mix learning so far, since I started working on it so very long ago and then I have to keep updating the session with new mix techniques, etc. It's been a real b*tch of a project but, if nothing else, it's a living testament of everything I've learned thus far.
I'm now debating if I'm going to go back upstairs and try to work on something else. Hmm. As much as I didn't work on any new music today, I'm kind of pleased to maybe make some positive progress on this older stuff laying around. I'm anticipating that I won't be able to wear headphones for most of June and all of July so it would be beyond amazing if I could get at least one of these EP's wrapped up mix wise in the next 2 weeks. It is possible...fingers crossed.
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