Technology

I went over to Martin’s today to work on Dust Covered Man. We picked through the guitar parts we recorded the other day and laid them into the track. It’s sounds pretty good.

Today’s technology is such that you can monkey with a song at the click of a mouse, which is nice. The art of sound and music is of course old, and antiquated. For the most part you’re using analog recording techniques and applying them to a digital format. There are tricks and secrets for capturing sound. It can be as easy as playing a guitar through an amp, or you can make it more complicated if you want. It depends on what you’re going for, what you want to hear.

           Guitar and voice is about as pure as you can get but it’s more interesting to me to try and come up with other parts to go along with the guitar and voice. Ultimately, I’d like to have two versions of the songs that I write. An acoustic version and a studio version. That way people can pick and choose what they want to hear, more or less, less or more, electric guitar, no electric guitar, drums, no drums. I suppose that’s where we’re heading. You can play a song and create your own mix by clicking a button. You feel like hearing the drums. Click. That bass line is driving me crazy. Click. That singer sucks. Click. Oh, that singer was me. Click.