A Thousand Cuts
By Paisleyfrog on November 3, 2024 6:42 pm
Another song from me and my wife that we've never recorded. We're hoping that we can finish our second album before the year is up, we're really close. 
Probably one of the heaviest songs we've done. She wrote these lyrics about seven years ago, and it took a bit to figure out what the song wanted to sound like. It was initially a LOT angrier. It gained its footing when it went from angry to resigned - and a major key.
Continued experiments in minimal recording - this is a live take with no overdubbing. We had tried recording it earlier this week, and neither of us were really happy with it. I had already re-tracked the guitar and added bass, and was starting to go down the road of adding more instruments (with my wife in agreement) - when I thought that I'd prefer taking another run at it. Two mics - go. I just replaced my condenser mic, but my wife still used the SM58 - I prefer her vocals through it. Condenser duties went to the guitar, which I think benefitted from the added high end. Two tracks and a bit of compression and reverb. Done.
Speaking of guitar: this song is the debut of Mary Moon, my Kalamazoo KG-11 (a Gibson budget model from 1938). Found it at a Music Go Round for $10. It was literally in pieces - someone had tried to replace the internal bracing with modern X bracing and given up. Local luthiers told me it wasn't worth what it would cost to fix, so I tried it myself. It plays now. Is it great? Nope, still needs new frets, the intonation is pretty bad, and I wasn't able to keep all of the belly bulge away. But I really really wanted to play it on this song. I thought it was fitting.
Happy to have this one in the can. It's taken a while for us to just appreciate this one as a song, and not have to do a deep cleansing breath afterwords.
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