To Take Sides
By Cursory on October 13, 2024 7:20 am
Happy W41! In some ways this style of song feels like something I’d have written years ago before I’d ever recorded anything, kind of a meandering, strummy thing. I still haven’t decided whether I’d like this one more as purely a vocal/acoustic track or as something more produced/layered. Landed on a bit of a middle ground.
Funny tidbit - I really wanted to double the main guitar and have one panned to each side, but for the life of me could not match the timing closely enough. After many failed takes I realized that “low latency mode” had somehow been switched off in Logic 
but even then I still couldn’t do it right >.> Landed on panned chord hits instead, more forgiving with time and gives things a bit more movement and dynamic range.
Some clear inspirations for this track are things like Drawn to the Blood by Sufjan Stevens and (the chorus of) Creature Fear by Bon Iver, or any indie song where they just hammer eighth notes the whole time.
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Hope the latency doesn't bother ya next week this was a calming song to reset my mind. Thank you