Meridian Trailing Light
By ViridianLoom on January 16, 2022 9:10 pm
This one ended up being less of a song and more of a dark sp00ky psychedelic atonal jam. Some of the parts are kind of forced together simply because I came up with different concepts and just wanted to squeeze them all together to encapsulate the week since I like to go back and listen to these things to relive my state of mind at the time.
Anyways, I decided to try to focus more on my goal which was to spend more time producing than writing. As far as writing is concerned, the biggest challenge was trying to find forward momentum out of the tension build with the first chord progression. I managed to find my way towards a funky idea but it was still hard to find my way to the ending which I wrote unattached and then wanted to connect to the song somehow.
Production-wise, I'm getting more in the habit of trying to get sounds that I like from the get go and then EQing the instruments as I go to hopefully make some room for each other. I still haven't quit figured out what to do when I subtract instruments and how to go about making it fuller, I've just been using the volume automation to increase the volume for that section marginally. That's another thing, been making tons of tiny volume tweaks throughout the track or applying an EQ to a specific take that I want to come through the mix. It's all a crap shoot, I don't know what I'm doing really.
Kept the drums simple and tried to focus more on making them sound better too but, to be honest, I don't know if they really sound all that different from my previous tracks.
In general I'm relatively happy with the way this one came out. I figured it'd be hard to outdo last week's song so I opted to just get weird with it. This is actually a modified version of the song, as I didn't want to break copyright rules due to a monologue being included, so if you'd like to hear the way it was originally intended to be heard I'm going to leave a link here to an unlisted youtube video (also below). I *think* the rule is more about the song being stored on the WB servers and them being liable, so I think this circumvents the issue? If not I'll just delete this section of the description.
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I also like being able to read about what was going through your mind and what you were aiming for with a particular track; really interesting insight.