Peter sent me down some files yesterday and I resolved to tackle ’em today.
“Trigger Happy” is a new track. The demo is just Peter (how could I say just Peter…?) and his acoustic guitar. Not great on time signatures, but I’m guessing it’s in 6/8 – I’m sure I’ll be corrected on this. Sounds like it’ll work nicely in his acoustic gigs, but I can hear some sweet potential arrangements going on there.
Peter also sent me down new files for “12 Step” incorporating a click-track in 132 bpm. I prepared a rough mix for myself in CE5 which boosted the solo click track and mixed down the track which combined the original backing track and click track. I really just need to have the backing track loud enough to keep track of where the “changes” are – my main concern is to get a bass track which is tight with the click track, and leave it up to Peter to set his timing to that.
Of course, a combination and old age got in the way today, and I wasted 30 mins trying to find out why my Tascam 2488 couldn’t pick up the tracks which I’d made a number of attempts to transfer across to it. The Tascam is normally very reliable but I reckoned that since I’ve been using it a lot over the last six months, maybe I needed to re-format the hard drive. Did that – no good. Eventually, I copped the fact that the tracks I was trying to transfer across were in 24/48. I guessed that maybe the Tascam doesn’t like audio in 48, and sure enough, when I did new mixes in 24/44, the Tascam lapped them up. So a lesson to remember for the future then…
I wasted so much time on this stupid problem that I didn’t feel I’d have enough time left this morning to do anything meaningful with “12 Step”, so I decided to record a rough demo bass line for “Trigger Happy” (Rickenbacker 4003/Bass Pod XT) to see if Peter would be happy with it. I ran up a rough MP3 mix and popped it on Soundcloud for Peter to pick up. Hopefully, I’ll hear from him shortly.
In the meantime, I’ll give “12 Step” a go tomorrow…
Regards,
djp
A Bit Of A Session 