the vecctones

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.

why should the afternoon be any different than this morning?  well, I wasn’t as irritated, actually i was pleased that i heard somethings that i could do to make the tunes sound better.  so i feverishly went thru all the tracks and tweaked away.  these mixes are getting closer to the master.  i removed the slight touch of reverb on the master track, giving it more punch and also more saturated because now the reverb isn’t there to wimp it out too much.  I also added some tube overdrive to the bass tracks and added some higher frequencies to the drum tracks giving them more air.

now i can focus on recording the final vocal tracks without having any weird quirky things distracting me in the head phones…it’s all pyschological…mind over matter

today I realized that i needed to bring down the vocals a little bit, so that’s what i did, in addition to patching in on a couple vocal parts that needed it.  i have to learn to be more compassionate and forgiving with myself…it’s just impossible to hear and do everything all at once.  i’ve worked diligently over the past few years in order to have a couple albums worth of material (the follow up to the ‘retro debut’ album is already completed pretty much) so I know that it takes many small steps to go great distances.  but today I woke up on the wrong side of the bed and was irritated like hell that i had to re-adjust some things…i mean aren’t i supposed to be some sort of fucking super hero or some shit like that?

i ‘ve done it a few times in the past, but after listening to other songs in itunes then back to the vecctones, it became apparent that i needed more compression and saturation.  so in addition to re-singin the vocals today, i also mastered it some more.  that is what’s posted now as of july 2

Don’t be surprised if new vocals are posted a few more times within the next couple weeks.  I’m tryng to finalize this retro debut album during the month of July.  What’s posted also contains new mixes with some more compression and a slight touch of reverb to smooth things out.  These drum tracks consist of some nice DW’s and a mixture of Paiste, Bosphorous and Zildjian cymbals The BD is birds eye maple, the SD is also maple with a partial brass shell.

just posted ‘should of tried‘, now the playlist is at 7, still got a couple more to do.  I just re-did the mixes (again), these ones are a lil more saturated, which I like.  I did the vocals for ‘get my thing’ and ‘save yourself’ (again) tonight.

I just posted ‘save yourself’, one of my original retro debut tunes.  I just did the vocals and mixes today for the other songs posted as well.   check em out

check em out

….more songs will be added in the coming weeks

….are now posted for the 3 songs in the playlist so far.  more will be added in the coming weeks