Low

Audio

Original audio: http://www.archive.org/details/110427LorenzoPractice-RobBeatIdea

110518 - Practice Notes

Involved

Tom Ray

Rob Gugel

Working on a guitar line.

Audio

Original audio: http://www.archive.org/details/110427LorenzoPractice-RobBeatIdea

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110524 - Practice Notes

Involved

Tom Ray

Rob Gugel

Tom tightened up the drums and added more sounds from the Octopad running it through the Rakarrack effects rack using the Shall effect.

Rob played a slide guitar hook using a Leinie's bottle cap.

Audio

Original audio: http://www.archive.org/details/110427LorenzoPractice-RobBeatIdea

111203 - Practice Notes

Involved

Tom Ray

Set up to record in the back warehouse at DNA Studios and set up to record a vocal track.

Lyrics were inspired by the poem "Bowery Blues" by Jack Kerouac which Tom had been reading that day from the book "Pomes All Sizes".

Then re-arranged the song a bit with the lyrics that were written.

Lyrics

When it's low

all comes back

meant it well

can't change all that

pulled a load

way out west

something lost and something to forget

too sad, soo sad

did it while you can

one good need

not needed yet

old and blue let it go

save a time that you know

it's not low

drowsy memories

meant to be, or?

Audio

original audio: http://www.archive.org/details/110427LorenzoPractice-RobBeatIdea

111210 Practice Notes

Involved

Tom Ray

Did some editing on the song.

Rearranged and eq-ed the tracks. The drum part was too high and mid-rangy so worked on that.

After getting it to what it should sound like it still seemed too thin as a drum part.

Remade the drum line in Renoise and imported it into Ardour. This helped but since Rob played the original drums by hand the Renoise drums sounded to mechanical next to it all.

Adjusted each drum part from the Renoise loop in Ardour to match the original drum line.

The snare from this was still too over powering, added distortion to it and messed with the gain and output so it still had the punch and compressed it so it would blend well.

Audio

original audio: http://www.archive.org/details/110427LorenzoPractice-RobBeatIdea

111214 Practice Notes

Involved

Tom Ray

Rob Gugel

added a guitar line to the breakdown parts.

Started out with a strummy one for the first one but it didn't fit well with the second one so we went with a single note version and then when the main guitar kicks in did more of a mute/chord type of line that bounced well with the rhythm.

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120619 Practice Notes

Involved

Tom Ray

Rob Gugel

Working on a bass line for the song using Rob's pink guitar with piccolo bass strings on it.

Rob told me a story about how he got the bass string from a street performer from France.

Audio

Turned on the audio recorder and got a back story about where the strings he was using came from.