I wasn't happy. I just wasn't. It started a few days ago at a bus stop. I stood there, cold, feeling depleted and down. I didn't want to listen to my new songs: Hactivists (Welcome to the Anonymous), http://www.ireallyhatetherealworld.com and Klez the Conquerer. I have heard good recordings by great bands; hear the effects and mixing; and just felt mines was poor. Just thought to myself that night, why am I continuing? Why keep doing this when your recordings are essentially pish?
So last night, I had a very small window of opportunity to do something to the songs I have. I had already taken out most of the cut up vocals on http://www.ireallyhatetherealworld.com and I think it sound loads better. So I was looking at Hactivists because I knew I could make it better. It had a lot in it, but I felt it was rather bland. So what to do?
When I had a simple version of the song earlier in the month, I had put a nice acoustic riff with lots of echo on it at the start. It was quickly done, but essentially the song started with this nice guitar tune, and then the escalating electric tone would abruptly start, and the song would begin truly at this point. I didn't know if it worked really, so I left it. Turns out, after editing this and adding in random samples of music I had recorded and not used in other folders, the song started to become more interesting.
I then got all the levels done, and started making a different outro. Found a nice lead piece, added some repeated vocals, some noises. I then had the genius idea (something I had always wanted to do properly) of linking the songs at the end and beginning. So in the outro I put the synth from http://www.ireallyhatetherealworld.com in. Sounds great and mixes the song up even more. I then end the song with four bleeps of the first note of the piano tune that starts http://www.ireallyhatetherealworld.com. Got the idea from Radiohead's 'OK Computer', where at the end of 'Airbag' there are four bleeps before the acoustic in 'Paranoid Android' comes in. Sounds great. Will maybe still need to go back and edit some bits and pieces and fix sound levels, but all in all I have fallen back in favour with my own songs. It is kinda feeling a little like a Radiohead album, which was something I did not envisage for it; I was thinking more like Rage Against the Machine. I didn't think acoustic would work in it, but it starts of the song quite cool.
So, watch this space,
Wullae
www.soundcloud.com/welcome-to-the-anonymous (coming soon)
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