It will be a song
By horatiuromantic on February 11, 2024 10:10 pm
Another one from the bar. This time acoustic piano, vocals and effects. I had fun recording it and playing with the effects. Hope you have fun listening!
› Lyrics
‹ Lyrics
Looking in yo eyes
There can be no surprise
The kind of stuff you're capable of
...
I was a fool to fall for you
Of all the things that I could do
I ended up doing what I'm not supposed to do
...
Everything I thought I did was wrong
I learned that all I did was wrong
But I learned it won't be long
It will be a song
It will be a song
It will be a song
› Process
‹ Process
I wrote the lyrics for this one but then I did a few takes and kept one of the rough ones because it's "live".
I tried bringing Levi for the upbeat part but he wasn't behaving so I kicked him out of this jam.
I added two types of tape saturation, compression, and heavy reverb, plus a hint of tape reverb from the galaxy tape effect. without good monitors this would have easily devolved in pure noisy dirt, this way I feel like I kept it pretty tame while adding the right amount of color. I considered using a cheap plugin on the ipad because I think it sounds better when it comes to tape distortion, but chose the low effort path.
The concept for this week was to lean into it and repeat a phrase many times to craft the song, inspired by Ragnar Kjartansson's The Visitors piece. However I couldn't write anything better and this "it will be a song" was stuck in my head so I had to use it. I'll keep exploring this idea tho, ideally on a week when I'm less tired.