the vecctones

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.

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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

you can’t have a retro debut album without a retro mixdown….by that i’m referring to making the drum tracks mono and some other slight adjustments to give it more of an indie sound and feel.  from what i’ve read, mono drum tracks were the thing back in the day.  i like how they hit the compression/limiting and also because they seem to have more punch but with a warmer centered tone.

i actually made the decision based on the vecctones follow up album which is pretty much done. you see, i almost bailed on these ‘retro’ debut tunes by moving onto another set of songs without releasing the first set.  after completing the follow up album, i decided to go back and rework the first set.  all along growing and developing as a vocalist and producer.

so now i’m ready to hit the scene with 2 albums, each about 30 minutes, actually i think the retro is under 30 (though i have one or 2 other songs that could make the cut) and the follow up is over 30 minutes.

i also have guitar riffs worked out for the 3rd album which i did months ago when i got a new guitar and was all excited to play it (around the time i was finishing up the follow up album), but then put those ideas off to the side to rework the retro tunes…..

summary:

retro debut tunes (posted) = a bit more funky and abstract ….09 release date

follow up album = more guitar driven (still some funky elements)   ….09 simultaneous release date possible

3rd album guitar ideas = guitar driven  ….maybe end of 2010 probably 2011

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 plan on resingin “lost my mind” & “why”…not too much will change but i can hear that i was exhausted…and even though that seems to be somewhat of my vocal styling…those tracks will be redone this weekend most likely

now it’s time to take another walk then hit the weights

what your listening to (vocal wise) is me as I was coming down w/ a nasty flu, I’m better now & I do plan on re-tracking some of the vocals as I’m actually ok with some of them….anyway, after that, the tunes will be downloadable right here thru PAYPAL.  Have a happy new year, see you on the flip side!

i really need to resing some tunes posted on here, but i will probably dedicate january to that, as i have been somewhat exhausted lately