Preview: Studio Day 9
March 28th, 2010 | By Kal
Tomorrow – Monday 29 March – Rob and I will be heading to Riverway Studios for our ninth studio day. It looks as if the development of our five songs, which you can listen to here in our song section, is coming to a natural conclusion and tomorrow we will most likely be concentrating on mixing the tracks. That’s why it is so important that you tell us what changes you’d like on these songs before it’s too late.
Tell us what you’d like to see done to All I Ever Wanted. Our plans right now other than just mixing it more cleverly are to redo the acoustic guitar (thanks Jon for your suggestion). With regards to the mixing, we are going to heed April’s warning and make sure that the vocals are more audible in the bridge, whilst also letter Dave’s beautiful violin part stay in the foreground. What else could we do?
We’ve already had a comment from Adam, and we fully intend to bring the Piano back to the forefront – there might even be a remix in it as we agree that the piano/vocals had a “real charm” to them. Martin Ross recently gave us a philosophy overhaul – he wanted music that demanded attention, rather than anything shy and retiring. While we might not be able to totally pull that off with this song, we’ll definitely give it a go here and on the other tracks tomorrow. Thanks for that Martin. If anyone else has comments about Can’t Help Me Now, now is your time to air them, because come 6pm tomorrow night, we might have shut up shop – but then again, that’s for you to tell us!
I Wanna Know has always been my favourite song deep down, but as the other songs have developed, I’ve started to like all of them more and more. Is there anything that we can do to this song to make it stand out from the pack again? Russell The Armchair Critic suggested we turn up the heavy guitar towards the end, and that’s definitely something we will look at doing during the mixing tomorrow, and if it doesn’t work we might even bring another guitar into play. We’ll see. What else would you like to see on the track? We’re making moves to follow up Marta’s suggestions of some Cello!
Of all the songs we have been working on as Rob and Kal, this one has received the most positive feedback. Even when it was just a piano and vocals people voiced a preference for it and as it has developed, with some overdriven guitar and violins the comments have remained positive – there must be something about this song. But with that said, is there anything you want to hear on the track? Darius has suggested an Oboe part and Lani has suggested a flute or female vocal. If anyone can woodwind, or is a female vocalist and you want to come in and collaborate with us, drop us an email at robandkal@gmail.com!
And last, but certainly by no means least, Vedere. Since the second version of this track with the soft electric guitar, this song has been the most polished of our song ideas, and with the addition of Dave’s Violin parts, it became almost untouchable! We realise we need to sort out the levels on the drums, but what would we change. We thank Alex for her comments – we are going to really work on getting a more dramatic sound particularly in the instrumental part tomorrow when we mix the track. Apart from that, this track works well for me now, but then it always has done. Give us your suggestions and we’ll be sure to give them a try tomorrow or possibly in Studio Day 10 if you really grab our attention.
And the same can be said for all of the tracks. Thank you for all of your comments and contributions so for. I’ve got a feeling that soon enough you’ll be able to hear a fully mastered version of all 5 tracks, which will sound about 100 times better than what’s here currently – until then, take it as read that you can comment and help us change these songs for the better.
Just click on the song titles or pictures, give the songs a listen, and tell us what you think!
I’ll get back to you after tomorrow,
Kal – over and out.
