Post by ninworks on Apr 29, 2021 18:17:29 GMT -5
This is one of the songs I transferred to digital last week. I remixed it yesterday.
This one was recorded in 1987 at my home studio on a 1/2" 8 track Otari machine. It was written and produced by a dear friend of mine who committed suicide last year in April. He played all the keys, programmed the drum machine, and sang on the background vocals with me and another friend of mine. I did this as a remembrance of the best keyboard player I ever had the pleasure to work with. He was also a close friend of over 40 years.
There was lots of internal track bouncing in order to get 5 keyboard tracks, guitar solo, rain storm, lead vocal, drum machine and 7 background vocals. To say I was locked into a lot of mixing decisions is an understatement. I had 4 composite background vocal tracks to work with and a stereo mix of the drum machine and the main keyboards which consisted of a Yamaha CP70 electric grand piano and 3 Yamaha DX7 tracks. The Minimoog bass synth was on its own track. The rain storm and guitar solos were on the lead vocal track where there wasn't any singing taking place. 8 tape tracks turned into 17 Pro Tools tracks. I separated as many things as I was able so I could have better control.
Spoiler alert, the s--- word reoccurs throughout the song. Rated PG13.
soundcloud.com/ninworks/life-is-sweet-mix-4-29-21
This one was recorded in 1987 at my home studio on a 1/2" 8 track Otari machine. It was written and produced by a dear friend of mine who committed suicide last year in April. He played all the keys, programmed the drum machine, and sang on the background vocals with me and another friend of mine. I did this as a remembrance of the best keyboard player I ever had the pleasure to work with. He was also a close friend of over 40 years.
There was lots of internal track bouncing in order to get 5 keyboard tracks, guitar solo, rain storm, lead vocal, drum machine and 7 background vocals. To say I was locked into a lot of mixing decisions is an understatement. I had 4 composite background vocal tracks to work with and a stereo mix of the drum machine and the main keyboards which consisted of a Yamaha CP70 electric grand piano and 3 Yamaha DX7 tracks. The Minimoog bass synth was on its own track. The rain storm and guitar solos were on the lead vocal track where there wasn't any singing taking place. 8 tape tracks turned into 17 Pro Tools tracks. I separated as many things as I was able so I could have better control.
Spoiler alert, the s--- word reoccurs throughout the song. Rated PG13.
soundcloud.com/ninworks/life-is-sweet-mix-4-29-21
