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2:22 term and
2:54 🎶 🎶 What can you do? Thank you
3:25 OK.
3:42 !
4:09 Music
4:12 Hello? Hey how's it going? Alright, so the first thing I actually have pued up here is...I am doing a bunch of guest work on my friend Bruce's album, and this is a song from it um we we were trying to no i do that's why
5:45 Uh... That's why I'm now gonna attempt to sing in...
5:48 just to get your input on how I sing it. And this is a rough take with one of the band members missing I'll be singing to so...
5:58 It may not be perfect but –
6:02 I need to make sure I can hear it.
6:07 Falling Down Hard
9:48 Yeah, I am uh I was starting to make a conscious effort to bring in more air which I liberation I helped canUGH shed shed shed com shed I shedAV
9:59 I definitely think This is the first time I've ever done it without playing the keyboard part at the same time I'm now fully engaged with the singing part I definitely think I need to breathe in and because this is for a...
10:29 hahaha
10:38 I think I, I think that was just me punching it harder, because I didn't touch the board.
10:42 I mean right when I...
10:45 First started before the music started, all I adjusted some levels just to pull... put me a little higher than the music in your feed.
10:55 But other than that. Yeah. Yeah. And so, so I'm no part of the songwriting here-
11:40 Um, I — you know, I'm supposed to play keys and sing. As a vocalist, though, I can, I can kind of try to, are you thinking more, kind of, ramp up and ramp down, or are you thinking,
11:52 you can more, um, singing more
11:55 complicated line musically?
11:58 for your well yellow
12:07 I can actually. That is the one freedom I do have because the notes for the lead line are not set in stone.
12:15 I mean, at all. I, Bruce has said I can do whatever I want with the vocal part. Whoa. Let's, let's try this. Let's do another run-through, and I will both try started out in the lower octave, um, and
12:53 Also I will try to make sure that I punch the chorus with more air while trying to differentiate...
13:01 it can level between the verse in the course and let's see how timing timing yeah I see what you're saying Okay, um let me see where it- let me see where it leads me be?
13:53 Falling Down Hard
17:37 Alright, so give me a second to punch few in-
17:43 Two buttons. I'm actually going to because it...
17:46 vocal track from the previous session, I'm just going to record a new one. Well, that particular set of timings is fresh in my mind, and that way I can ask Bruce what he thinks about it. All right, so... New... Remove......
18:45 What can you do? I can't get outta bed. ...Timing is wrong...
19:15 I'm going to drop the playlist so i can see the old waveform which will show me where to come in. Okay, there we go.
19:23 What can you do? Can't get out of bed. What can you do? What the heck happened there? Um, I had a dropout.
19:55 On my vocal mic which says the batteries are fine, well try one more time...
20:00 Falling Down Hard
23:41 Alright, well that should at least give me something I can play it for Bruce and see what he thinks. So I said, I said, right then, and it was like wrapped in kelp? And then it sounded like something like kelp? Your brai...
24:19 This whole thing is a concept album based around the stroke that he had a couple of years ago.
24:24 a couple years ago. So it's got some interesting, if somewhat dark at times imagery in it. But it's got a couple of really good songs.
24:37 There's one going home and then another...
24:40 sick as a dog that I think are potentially might, some people might enjoy. So I'm excited to get to work with him, and I like the, always like whenever any of my fellow musicians want me to guest on one of their albums, ...
25:12 What can you do when your brain turns to coal ...
25:16 Oh, like that?
25:24 What can you do when your brain turns to kelp?
25:29 All right. Let me actually mark that. Okay, great.
26:02 I'm not sure how much people listen to the lyrics on this style of music but yeah, no, I will definitely
26:09 I added a comma there. Yep. Yes, well, that and the, and the I think, so I've been working on holding notes, trying trying to be able to trying to be able to just sing these
26:26 You know, like And be able to not waiver more than say, 15 cents. I'm not yet to where I wanna be. I'm not trying to be autotuned but if you listen, you can hear a little bit. Whereas when you sing, you hold the note so ...
27:09 I lacked the pitch detection to hear it. I just...
27:12 Still learning inside in things that are impossible... Yeah, I want to be able to sing just one note and have it be that note and not...
27:21 all over the place. So I've been practicing that. Hopefully it shows a little bit.
27:38 a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
27:43 Uh uh... Yeah, y- You were-
27:46 Actually, it's kind of funny. You were singing a major series. She sings a minor series, but yes
27:51 yes and and I'd love to be like Ariel
27:57 She got all kinds of props for her singing if you recall. I'm not sure I'd want to you know have to choose whether to live on land.
28:05 and uh... you know that they yes the disney version is.. yes yes yeah i always think I was thinking
28:32 back to the the Hans Christian Andersson one, which is...
28:35 considerably darker in the basically she if she decides to be on land it's going to hurt her whenever she walks forever uh-huh but that a lot of the older fairytales were kind of grim uh-huh although there's a beautiful ...
29:35 Yeah, and so I know people in both Denmark and Sweden, so I
29:40 You know, my friend Martin Hald whose father's a math professor at Berkeley his whole extended family is from Denmark, so um and then I have various SPOD friends from Sweden, but the first
29:52 The first time I went to Sweden, the one thing that they don't tell you about Sweden is
29:56 Normally, getting over jet lag is a little bit hard, but it's not that difficult. It's very difficult for Sweden because when you wake up at 3 a.m. jet lagged, it's gonna b–
30:06 full-on sun light out if you're in the summer.
30:11 it's so, it's so cool, though, because you are walking around this city and it's it's a big city you know it's it's like could um it's not quite as big as Los Angeles, but it is a big city it's kind of like a Saint Louis...
30:29 appear and whatnot and otherwise it's completely empty but the sun enough so it looks
30:32 Looks like it's fall out— It's just it's a weird— it's the weirdest thing Yes Abba is Swedish Yeah, even Seattle's got, you know, it's five o'clock out and the sun is starting to set in the winter, but yes. We're not...
33:04 Orbit is a studio in downtown Seattle that I recro-
33:07 heard my vocals at, because they have, you know, hundred thousand dollar microphones. Which I can't quite afford, but I can rent time on. Plus I really like the guy who runs it, he's really laid-back, and has a lot of in...
33:51 A space themed song at Orbit Audio.
33:54 Let's roll tape here, are we? Oh, the one I did with Lee Hart, The Murphy theinia?
34:14 Um, it's definitely going on the album, I'm going to re-record the vocals on it too and we can...
34:20 run through it if I have time here. But I wanted to do this one first because I've already gotten even some very insight on the vocals on that, and this is brand new. Although we are apparently not at the start of the ta...
34:39 Music ...and I missed my...
35:03 you okay try this again looking for the
35:07 Any Better — Sheer
39:27 And that goes into the outro So, I guess the good the bad the ugly And I will double it in them Which one is this? uh...
40:14 When I fell in love again and again, I feel it now like I feel it then.
40:18 I think that's the only place where the actual word love is in. I fell in love again and again I feel it now if you could go more, yeah, hell then love, yeah, yeah, and again, you know, if you could just do a little bit ...
41:21 I fell in love, love I'm trying to find how it feels right Love, love, love, love Ha, ok I fell in love Again and again
41:36 That! Love! Love! Right. Love! Okay, so how... I'm I'm not sure so I think we may have I think
42:18 May have had a miscommunication what I'm working on is the ability to hold a pin
42:22 When you talk about breathiness, what you're talking about is the envelope or the character of the voice, not the pitch. So ... not just the inno, you know, minus the grotto... yeah, but if it was possible for you to be,...
43:11 I could do it a minute ago, it's like I was consciously moving where, Love, love, I fell in love, Again and again. I fell in love, love, I'm trying to consciously move down where the tone is being generated. Love, love, ...
43:43 fell in love like that? yeah i'm definitely you know it's almost like your yet yeah i i think i'm i'm gonna have to practice that some but i think i get what you're saying Right. Right. because you do really well in gene...
45:44 words move it lower in my head where the tone is being generated.
45:49 We'll see how well that does. Right. Yes, I mean That's that's what I'm trying to learn to do and just haven't mastered it yet, but let's see what we get
46:27 Any Better — Sheer
49:12 Yeah, go ahead.
49:23 Will this ever get any better? Will it ever hurt any less?
49:31 And the tea isn't present enough there. Any less? You know, would you give a little bit more robes tops to that CREHE verse? Um, it totally makes me think of that dance now that it gets better, that they make it. It Ci e...
50:46 Ok that's the- Really? I thought it would be based on regret or regrets. Fight the urge. Urge!
50:53 ok what am I? urge urge
51:01 Eards... Eards...
51:04 Rhode. RhBE. Rh BI. RhBE. RhBE. RhBE. HAKI-INK. HAKI-INK. Stall. Anything contains anything ... in the middle. Bye dea-
51:27 urge urge to regret and regress like that urge to regret
51:35 Yeah, like, like, like, just as much emphasis on the word fight, like the urge to regress and regret. You're definitely coming down on regret and regret. I mean yeah, and that's, that's, that's what it's supposed to be d...
54:00 The old school ones that they only really gave you the right
54:03 temperature output at full blast and didn't really throttle up and down much. The modern ones have a little microcontroller in them in there. You can set a set point for any amount of water from a trickle to full on floo...
54:19 And I've gotten really tired, I will admit, this is a selfish gift because every time I go to his house, I take a shower, I've gotten really tired of the effects, where you get it finally dialled in so you have the right...
54:36 ice cold so yeah yeah do you do not turn on the kitchen sink all right well I'll see you thanks a lot bye of the And now I'm going to add actually here, I will cycle the pie.
0:00 Am I still... That's an interesting phenomenon. So are we gonna add to the middle eight. Turn off the harmonizer here. Check one. There we go. Add to the middle eight. I think it's about right here.
0:32 Music
0:52 All right let me get a little bit of head and space there, and I can bring the Vox back in.
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3:50 All right, let's try that again.
3:58 (unidentified song) unidentified
7:46 (unidentified song) unidentified
8:58 Check one. Check one. Alright let's see if I can not screw this up too badly.
9:41 Thanks for watching!
10:05 Oh. I can't. I give me a little bit pre roll, ah.
10:18 (unidentified song) unidentified
11:12 It doesn't work.
11:16 Ah, ohh... Ahhhh...
11:25 Thank you for listening.
11:31 ...the wacky idea I just had. But like all wacky ideas it deserves a moment in the sun, so ...
11:41 Nothing on my memory brigade. Delay tape 201. H300. SuperTap time adjuster. I swear I had a Air multidelay. I don't even know what some of these are. Let's see what Air mult wrapper looks like. A- pa!
12:09 Oh
12:16 Ah I think this is How do I convince this to make itself a stereo track because it's got a pan settings which always need to be outputting stereo What's in your area? All
12:45 Aum
12:52 I wonder if I'm supposed to start with the stereo audio track. That doesn't make any sense, though. Okay, let's try this. New stereo aux track. Create that, drag our friend, the multi-delay, into that. The number of inpu...
14:12 settings, clearly it wants to be stereo...
14:15 No it. Let's see. Air multi-delay. Air multi-delay stereo.
14:33 Yeah, it says it's Mano out, so I don't know...
14:36 how that happened, but...
14:39 Yeah, we have PN settings on a mono plug-in. That's not confusing at all. OK, what are the from and, oh, I get it, you can change it.
14:51 It is a real pity this thing doesn't have stereo output, because that would be all kinds of entertainment. But I think we are going to move on and try another Delay plugin. Definitely something that is mono to stereo. Al...
15:17 Um
15:31 not exactly what I'm looking for Interesting, potentially useful in some other situation SuperTap 6 monitor stereo Let's see how that does
15:48 oh
15:54 Let's try turning on some taps. Turn on more taps.
16:07 Oooooh Oooooooh ooooooh
16:16 Okay, and now we have to slide the delay values up a little bit because that adds a little bit to the entertainment value. Okay, anybody?
16:30 And now for the disturbing thing.
16:37 Yeah, see what the fat
16:40 goes.
17:08 I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. All right, let's try turning a few switches. I'm gonna turn the internet, see if we can get some more.
17:20 KOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAA
17:26 Oh, that's just the PAM position. OK.
17:42 (unidentified song) unidentified
19:14 Works, but it was definitely an interesting little moment there. And I'm just going to mark this experiment one, and then we will disable that track so that it doesn't continue to burn CPU. OK. Make it active. And we'll ...
20:10 This is my son. I actually wonder if I want...
20:40 Another guitar part on that, let me fire up the old guitar here. Nothing else will be good for my fingers, do a little bit of mmm alright so the question
20:57 (unidentified song) unidentified
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25:32 alright let's check and see if we're in tune
25:35 And then we would need to add another good.
26:01 Other stereo audio track, no do not group tracks, add new track, new stereo audio track, which we would then add. And I think it's 15 and 16.
26:24 (unidentified song) unidentified
30:54 These
30:57 So what that means is the internet
31:00 this guitar needs fixed, which if you know, I've only had it for like 10 years now
31:07 (unidentified song) unidentified
32:31 that I don't think I can do better.
32:37 All right.
33:17 We can do better than that.
33:20 ma class Medicare was a Still better, but we can still –
34:03 All right, I'm going to keep that take-two.
34:08 (unidentified song) unidentified
34:54 Oh, that was so close and yet gotta stick the landing
35:01 (unidentified song) unidentified
36:16 All right.
36:20 (unidentified song) unidentified
37:10 And let's make some...
37:13 (unidentified song) unidentified
38:01 Let's not record over the guitar part while we do that though. We do record, okay, and then can't undo. You know, I think I lost the guitar part. I'm not sure how I even managed that. Oh, no. I didn't. and just looking t...
38:48 (unidentified song) unidentified
41:15 No.
41:18 (unidentified song) unidentified
42:41 (unidentified song) unidentified
43:30 Looking for one from the virus. And let's pop up another stereo track here. And let's turn on the virus here for a minute. And turn off record on the trumpet. And we're looking for pads. Let's see how that one meets.
44:04 music
44:53 Today's series was done by waking up, telling us how much we love and celebrate, and sharing Thank you.
45:33 That stereo audio track I just added. What inputs are the pad? It is currently on 17 and 18. Interface 17 and 18. And if we arm that, yes, indeed. All right, let's do this.
45:52 🎶
46:34 Nice. Okay. Let's save. And then let's go see if we can give the intro a little more love.
46:53 (unidentified song) unidentified
48:45 of
48:51 (unidentified song) unidentified
49:56 Okay, I'm gonna add a second vocal track again as we did previously. Let's see what happens when we turn on the Juice on that.
50:15 I can't use a dime for the place. I can't hotel. not right at all. I can't. I can't.
50:47 Mm-hm. One more thing.
50:54 (unidentified song) unidentified
54:39 Alright, that's just- Let's try there.
54:47 known for the summer
54:51 Let's actually, let's go back a little bit further. Probably somewhere around there.
54:59 (unidentified song) unidentified
56:30 Oh, that ain't bad. All right. I'm going to save that, and I will bounce it to send to people. Bala, bala. Oh, that should be interesting. OK. I can do a bouncing track. Actually, I should listen to the bound. Now listen...
56:47 Yeah, it's that link that follows that line.
56:51 Before I get too involved here
56:56 (unidentified song) unidentified
58:58 Let me tamed a little. Got a little to... We'll try pulling that down by about 3.8, and see how that sounds.
59:13 On the list of other
59:38 creative spliceries that we're gonna do, see if we can also move the time one out a little, so that matches, I don't know if that's.
59:49 That's going to work. And the answer is no.
1:00:06 What I actually need to do is split it into two places. And remove part of that note. So if I do this...
1:00:18 (unidentified song) unidentified
1:01:54 to this mic and see if I could get that or not. Actually, I'm just going to bounce it now and I will add the Viber Slap on my next work session on this. Alright. Any better, still more, and I should, I should probably go...