Voodoohead Productions
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1/23/2013 11:20:12 AM
Add more to make the song better, or is less more?
What else can I do to make this thing jump, grab peoples attention, be cool, take it to the top
Production is such a key element and a personal thing to a recording artist, taht is why sometimes it is best to have someone to work with who can really help you do something worthwhile and a good engineer too. but let me say I have heard some spectacular tracks by indies working from their own gear and doing everything themselves. tip my hat to you fo sho
But sometimes Over thinking, Over production and just too much tweaking a music project is detrimental and could be something worth evaluating before one steps into the recording studio, of course it depends the genre.
All I say is this, lets be careful on overdoing those tracks and adding too much. I have heard some brilliant live off the floor recordings that to me seem to possess something magical. maybe it is the elements of capturing something like the old 60s tracks we all love, it is that kinda organic thing and seems more real. perhaps simplicity is genius.
what ya think
oh sure, rehearse your tracks the music you are about to lay down at a recording studio is critical before you walk in that door, the clock is ticking/ but. dont practice at the studio. I have seen that happen, go prepared. sure it takes some doing, laying it down live, but wouldn't it be cool , to capture that magic that is oh so lacking on many songs these days......practice then practice and rehearse over and over as a group and individually. get your parts down. then do
your thing at the studio or wherever. just try to avoid doing too much to your song and have it lose its innocence and luster ,
I understand not everything is possible these days doing things like that going live or doing a session where things are just right for that kind of undertaking, There are obviously different situations and circumstances that come into play and of course it is not as going to result in the best recording for many artists,since they just dont get together often and many artists dont have a band so have to hire pros and studio cats to help them out getting their project done. going live is not always a option for recording these days, but sure is fun seeing a good end result. just a thought
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Stoneman
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1/23/2013 11:49:29 AM
In my experience, less is almost always more. Like many of today's artists, I write produce and perform everything on my recordings. Can't afford to pay others to play for me so I do it myself. Sometimes I have so many tracks recorded on a song that going through the elimination process can be very time consuming. I like to record the music and then step away from it for a few days. Then, when I come back to it I have a fresher perspective on what really fits and what doesn't. I mix it all down and delete everything that doesn't fit. Then I go on to another project for a day or two and come back for one more pass at it. There have been times that I wond up with two different songs out of one. Because of my process I am often working on 3 to 6 different projects at a time. Going from project to project gives me a fresh perspective each time I come back to a project. There have been times that I have whittled 50 tracks of music down to 12. Vocals are another issue altogether. I do a similar process with them because too many effects or the wrong effects tends to make the vocals cloudy or inappropriate for the genre. I also often have too many vocal harmonies and may eliminate a few. Generally speaking, I usually wind up getting rid of half the work I produced on a song before it is all done.
Great Post Bryon,
Stoneman
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