the vecctones

turns out that vocal changes I made to the song ‘crybaby’ proved to yield better results with Uplaya’s Hit Song scrubbing Technology.

the vecctones recently was awarded 4 Platinum, 1 Gold and 2 Silver Auddy Awards with it’s song scrubbing “hit song science technology”.  They have also given the vecctones an opportunity to be a guest blogger on their website.  check out the blog entry.

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.

check this link out….

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the vecctones got 4 Platinum Auddy Awards, 1 Gold and 2 Silver. Uplaya.com has this hit song science technology that scrubs songs to see if contains patterns that other hit songs have.  The submission of the vecctones music to this website is also for their American Songwriter competition that will yield more exposure for the winners.

Check out this clip:

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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

thank you to Protools for offering up SansAmp PSA-1 as a free download!  holy fuckin shit…this things is unbelievable in what it can do to fix up existing guitar tracks already recorded w/ distortion.  I feel I am getting the guitar tone that I originally wanted but couldn’t seem to get.  It also made the bass tracks nasty & gritty…nice! yummy!!!!  I’ve become excited about these retro debut tunes all over again, even more so as things are getting closer to becoming finalized.  now it’s just vocals, vocals, vocals…not that what is now posted is bad but I have a july 31st cutoff for the uplaya competition which might at the very least gain the vecctones more exposure.

So it turns out that I got a Silver Auddy award for the song “time to get my thing together”. From Uplaya:

“Auddy Award™ winning songs will be reviewed by an expert panel of judges. Judges will choose three winners including one Grand Prize Winner. All winners will receive special-edition Supernova promotional widgets and featured profiles on AmericanSongspace.com. The Grand Prize Winner will be interviewed by American Songwriter.com and receive special recognition through American Songwriter Online and American Songspace.com.”

Not bad. Check out this Numb3rs clip that explains the technology, it’s kind of cool.