So, decided to try and master each guitar track as I go this time... about halfway done with the album--guitar-wise...
Found a cool way to record a Bass with an Electric Guitar... You just simply plug in directly to the program with a very low drive/gain, so the guitar is barely audible, play it like a normal bass [lowest sounding strings only], then pitch shift it down 12 semitones... sounds better than most basses come out on recordings...
When I play live stuff, I'm just gonna be like "Yeah, the drummer and bass player are invisible..."...ha.
Anyways, was thinking: since sound is such a big thing in society [all the subwoofers...surround sound stuff...and car modifications], why aren't there any stereo mapping programs around? And, I don't mean like little mastering program features...talking about all out specifically designed for stereo placement programs...
Something like this would be cool: Chop up a hemispherical kind of graph for sound...place each track [guitar...vocal....etc.] in a different area and choose where they blend over...then have some little adjusting mechanism for balance...would be a money maker. I'd buy one...
Obviously been compressing and stereo-izing with a bunch of different pans... Noticed when listening thru my copy [not the YouTube one] of the Ultraviolet Landscape that the guitars would have been nicer if I'd focused more on them before mastering the whole thing; no biggie, just a demo...but, also noticed that it works wonders on clearing out my brain as well... anyhow, gonna finish up some acoustic trax tomorrow...
This one is sounding mighty heavier than my other stuff... Some of my newer songs are pretty heavy as well... Kinda cool...
Worked a tiny bit on a distant album too... the electronica/trip-hop/hip-hop one... and wow, the songs sound better upon revisitation... gonna layer the album around the brain... Thinking of a title like "Mechanisms" or "Deadlocked"...probably just gonna use deadlocked as a song title though... who cares, right?
Ha.
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