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Musical progressI'm very happy to report that I transferred ALL my relevant recordings from the 4-track. Now it's just a matter of mixing it all. I was also surprised to find a couple'o'songs I seemed to've scratched, like a very lovely version of "Star of the County Down". It was actually the Second recording I ever made on the 4-track. (The first was a recording of "Little Drummer Boy", but I didn't care for that recording).
All this mixing has gotten me excited. Ye see, when I started recording, I'd meant to take each of these individual tracks and put together an album. I sorta did that with Mountain Rain and Celtic Love & War, but I was never pleased with either of those albums. The reason for my dissatisfaction was the sound. They didn't sound as professional as I wanted my music to sound.
So why didn't I just remix and put together something professional? Well MP3.com was my intended distributor, and if you delete a song from MP3.com, then they leave the song in the stats since it may still get play in My.MP3.com. Well, that's just plain annoying to me. Then there's also the problem that some songs were added to MP3 radio stations and to delete them would run the risk that I'd never get back on those stations. So basically, it was for a silly reason.
So a couple days ago, I said, "screw that". I'll just delete the old one, and put up a new and better version. That's what I'm doing. Not only am I deleting and cleaning up the sound flaws, I'm also encoding it at a higher bit rate. This means every song on the next album will be of near CD quality in sound.
Now, the only problem is that in the past three years, I've recorded a decent amount of material. In it is very likely that I could end up with TWO CDs!
Okay, so that's not a problem except that it means I have start working on MORE artwork, but that's no prob. One thing at a time though...
So for now, I have a new question. A couple weeks ago, I asked for songs from that list I gave you. Well, now we're gonna broaden that list a wee bit. What songs would you like to hear on my CD(s)? Post your suggestions 16 song suggestions in the Bard Forum. I'll pick some of the best. This can be from Any song I've recorded on my MP3 site, plus maybe some bards stuff if ye're really interested in it.
Posted by Marc Gunn on Friday, June 06, 2003 |
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