These are tunes for the album "So Whaddaya Think," by my last full band in Austin, Mark Lint and the Fake. These tracks were recorded mostly Fall '99 with overdubs in spring '00, mixed this past winter.
1. Shabby
2. Wake
Me
3. The
Last Time
4. Poor
Lover This is a new mix, not the sole mix done by Sam my bass
player; I had to redo it to make it sound consistent with everything else.
5. Luscious
You
6. I
Die Desire Unlike the previous, it has
added horns and piano, making it trickier to mix.
7. No
Relief
8. Dumb
For all the piano songs, the piano seemed a bit flat, so I manually tuned it
up using a plugin.
9. Job
More goofy effects than any of the others.
10. Not
A Woman This has trumpet, piano, hand
percussion, and other goodies.
11. Minnesota
Freak Manually
tried to get rid of clipping on the overhead drum track. Like all the other
tracks, the stereo track was really just one track run through the Q123 plugin
to create a fake stereo overhead drum track. I also, on all of these, kept the
mono version in the mix, pretty soft, run through a hi-pass filter so only cymbals
really come through, and time shifted to be .01 second later than the stereo
version. This has the effect of fattening the drum sound further. On this song,
I also added a funny vocal effect.
12. Fall
Away
13. Spiritual
Insect
14. The
Thickening Had
to mix 3 different guitar solos into what you hear here.
15. Her
Death In coming to terms with the fact
that the bass parts we intended to redo probably won't get redone, I did EXTENSIVE
editing on this bass track, using the original track as source material for
individual notes and then fading volumes in and out between that track and two
tracks with these sporadic inserts to replace a phrase, fix a rhythm slightly,
etc.
16. Some
Act This was a bit of
a pain to mix, what with ELEVEN electric guitar parts I have to sort through
and mix properly; pulling more than half of the noises emitted out of the mix
completely.
17. So
Whaddaya Think
18. Obvious
Boy
These are songs from a recording project nearly completed in the 6 months before I left Austin. There will be 15 songs on the eventual album. For the most part, all that remains are my parts (rhythm guitar, vocals, bass) plus some keys and extra stuff.
Axiomatic
Posted 3/31/03. This is done, I think, and it being issued on
a Mark Lint sampler CD and posted at a higher bitrate than the in progress mp3's
here.
Reasonably
Lonely
Posted 4/21/03. Not quite final mix.
My
Friends
Posted 11/7/01.Also done, I think, ditto to above.
I
Recall
Posted 11/6/01. Planning to add electric piano (over 2nd half),
upright bass and violin (over at least the da-da-da-da parts); might add more
random stuff to the coda at the end.
Write
Me Off
Posted 11/28/01. This needs my rhythm guitar and backing vocals.
Also high bitrate.
Bedlam
Posted 11/11/01. I haven't yet added bass
to this, and will probably add another lead guitar at the end. Also may double
track my voice at the end to bring it out further (right now it's on the same
track as my rhythm guitar). I had to detune both electric guitars to get them
to match my guitar/voice, and spent A LONG time figuring out how flat to bend
them.
Uncomfortable
Pace
Posted 10/4/03 as a rough demo mix. I
still need to add my rhythm electric guitar and real lead vocal part to this.
Waygo
Finale
Posted 3/12/03. I've started remastering my 1993 album Spanish
Armada for CD and tried my hand at completely remixing these two tunes.