{"id":62,"date":"2012-08-25T08:04:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-25T08:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/blog\/post\/2012\/08\/25\/Lose-a-little-gain-a-lot"},"modified":"2020-08-12T08:28:55","modified_gmt":"2020-08-12T16:28:55","slug":"lose-a-little-gain-a-lot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/25\/lose-a-little-gain-a-lot\/","title":{"rendered":"Lose a little, gain a lot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes you just have to acknowledge that things aren&#8217;t working out. For whatever reason, I could not get the drum, bass, and acoustic guitar tracks to gel. I got tired of tweaking to no effect, and decided it was time to shake things up.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mute the drums and the Chapman Stick.<\/li>\n<li>Activate the click track.<\/li>\n<li>And break out the <a href=\"\/blog\/post\/2005\/07\/24\/Carvin-BK5\">Carvin BK5<\/a> and lay down an alternative bass track.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In my head I&#8217;d always heard the bass lines played on a Stick, and almost instantly, the feel of the piece changed, but in a <em>good<\/em> way. The change in feel is inevitable: a normal bass guitar lends itself to a completely different vibe than the Stick, but suddenly I was thinking of alternative cool riffs and laying them down in places where, before, magic was missing. This was a good thing. Sure, that one particular riff that kinda wanted to be a Stick riff didn&#8217;t sound so cool anymore, but this was offset by all sorts of good stuff coming in elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>Once I had a good, clean, complete take, I moved to the acoustic guitar, and re-did any part where it wasn&#8217;t locked in to the new bass line. Yeah.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Now it&#8217;s back to the drums for the same treatment. There&#8217;s some places that need tidying up, and the second half of the track never had anything more than guide drums on it anyway. So&#8230; it&#8217;s progress. I wish it was faster, but at least I&#8217;m happy with the results.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a teaser:<\/p>\n\n\n<audio controls=\"controls\"><source src=\"\/mp3\/Into_The_Shade\/shade_teaser.mp3\" type=\"audio\/mpeg\">Your browser does not support the audio element.<\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes you just have to acknowledge that things aren&#8217;t working out. For whatever reason, I could not get the drum, bass, and acoustic guitar tracks to gel. I got tired of tweaking to no effect, and decided it was time to shake things up. Mute the drums and the Chapman Stick. Activate the click track. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-studio-diary","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}