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Monday, September 25, 2006

Song - Mont Blanc

I woke up Saturday morning with a bit of a hangover after an excellent night out with Emma. I picked up the guitar that I have given Emma and this is what came out my brain. I spent the best part of that day Composing this on Emmas laptop using just a barebones Live setup while she slept.

I emailed the set home where all my kit is and layed down the guitar tracks. I learnt that the live drum kits and Groove agent don't midi map the same which is a pain :(

Its influenced by TV on the Radio I think, been listening to them loads lately, definatley my fav band right now, return to cookie mountain is genius.

There is 2 drum tracks there. The first is groove agent with the disco kit and the 2nd is Live's native "impulse" kit with the "Tresor 1994" preset. I'm running through a resonator too, a trick I descovered earlier in the week, it reminds me of the drum sounds used by radioheads elctronica stuff. The bass is a new plugin I got today, its a 303 emulator (audiorealism bass), it's far better than rebirth because you can fully sequence it in your DAW. I love that 303 sound. I expect it will turn up in many other tracks. The guitars are just 2 tracks (except for the intro where theres that fedback sustained guitar). They are recorded through my Line6 guitarport, with the deeper guitar just playing powerchords and a higher slightly less disorted guitar playing fuller chords. There are parts you'll hear around the pre-chorus and chorus that sound a bit off key. Not sure if its my bad playing or I've messed up in some other way.

Going forward need to lay down some sexy dark vocals from Emma or Scott (theres a vocal line in my head) and need some lyrics. Needs a solo and obviosley to be better structured and tidied.


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