whats posted now is being worked on.  the last 2 weeks in August should yield a couple more postings of the set list, with an attempt at final vocal tracks and mixes for the August 31st deadline for the UPLAYA – American Songwriter Competition (which I’m not expecting to win by any means but it has given me an unmovable deadline to finish the tunes up and move on

….I did re-do a couple vocals today, but I’ll be using the next couple weeks to make sure whatever vocals needing to be re-done are re-done.  These mixes were done using t-racks 3 Vintage processors and a couple of plugins that are bundled in with Protools 8

I spent yesterday and today reworking the mixes and vocals and that is what has just been posted.  The song ‘impressions’ has made a come back, song list is at 12.  check it out…

Uplaya has acknowledged the misprint of their July 31 submission cutoff date and have agreed to let me resubmit up until Aug 31.  They’ll be deleting the songs I already submitted so my Auddy Award Trophy Case might be empty until then.  Some of the songs I submitted I was dog tired on the vocals but did the best I could to finish them up.  I was working with 15 songs total, but now I’m in the middle of a process of elimination.  This will give me the opportunity to take my time and make sure both the mixes and vocals are the way I want them to be, and only to focus on the 11 tunes that the vecctones debut album will consist of.

also, I’m not so sure that ‘save yourself’ will be makin the cut unless I can figure out my place on it vocally, sometimes struggling with something for too long is a sign, I’ve deleted it from the new playlist for now

i just re-sang and uploaded “crybaby”, “save yourself”, and “the blues”

check this link out….

ok, I tweaked the EQ on the guitar tracks for the (follow up) tunes so that they have more mids, matching the (retro) tunes which utilizes a 6 string guitar (the ‘follow up’ has a 7 string that pumped out a lot of low end).  I also re-sang ‘crybaby’, ‘worry about’, ‘impressions’.  Then I re-arranged the order of the tunes, putting ‘worry about’ and ‘impressions’ at the end.  Now the order of the songs sort of tell a story and kind of follow one another logically somehow in my mind with 2 funkier tunes at the end.  This will be effective for a live show too.

Uplaya’s submission cutoff is July 31st for their competition

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(retro) get my thing
(retro) nothin to lose
(retro) cause it feels good
(retro) like this
(retro) the blues
(retro) save yourself

(follow up) crybaby
(follow up) flyin
(follow up) high on yourself
(follow up) i’m fine
(follow up) lost my mind
(follow up) same damn thing
(follow up) when it rains

(retro) worry about
(follow up) impressions

….see this previous blog entry for explanation

(retro) get my thing
(retro) save yourself
(retro) nothin to lose
(retro) cause it feels good
(retro) worry about
(retro) like this
(retro) the blues
(follow up) crybaby
(follow up) flyin
(follow up) high on yourself
(follow up) i’m fine
(follow up) impressions
(follow up) lost my mind
(follow up) same damn thing
(follow up) when it rains

I re-sang (and re-posted) all the tunes except for ‘get my thing’ and ‘save yourself’ today.  ‘the blues’ has been altered slightly as i’ve been trying to get it right since the original version.  the others just needed to be sang w/ just that right bit of attitude and personality.  i’m still working towards the jul31 cutoff date for the uplaya competition which at the very least may gain the vecctones more exposure plus their Auddy Award system intrigues me