Weekly Track for 2024-07-09
"Distortion" (instrumental)
I'm pretty sure this was actually recorded with the Sony portable (in the cover photo), unlike the "Stereo Piano" track (Feb. 5) [toot.cat]*, probably using the mic that came with it, probably on the same grand piano in the Dana Auditorium rehearsal room. (If I find the original 5" tape at some point, that will confirm this theory.)
If memory serves accurately, I then took that mono recording and transcribed it onto three tracks on the TEAC 4-track, physically slowing down or speeding up the reels as needed to keep it more or less in sync.
The point of that was to make it stereo -- but it also results in a swirly phasing effect which I like. (I used that technique again a decade later on MoG's "Electron Emotion", but that's another post.)
Then I recorded the guitar solo on the fourth track. I wasn't quite happy with the results, so I did another take on the same channel (wiping out the first take, because I was out of channels and didn't want to lose even more audio quality doing a mixdown-bounce to cassette) -- but it was worse, and I eventually realized the first take was actually pretty decent. Lesson learned. :-|
...so anyway, I don't have that solo anymore, so I can't remix this to bring it out any better. (Maybe there's a GenAI tool which can extract it, but my first attempt didn't work.)
* I've updated the cover-image on the BandCamp listing for that one [woozalia.bandcamp.com], but MastoGlitch won't let me.
higher quality (ha!) at: BandCamp [woozalia.bandcamp.com]
