My mother-in-law got us a clock.
It’s a really nice clock. Seems to have some trouble though, in that it sometimes forgets to chime. But when it does chime, it is very soothing. When it is between chimes, it ticks rather loudly and quickly, not unlike a kitchen timer. Anyway, I love it, and it reminds me of this piece I recorded sometime in the early nineties. (How’s that for a segue?) Probably ‘91 or ‘92. Again, a 4-track of just me using up all 4 tracks with silly guitar. This was before I “stabilized” the bridge on my Japanese Strat. Sounds like a euphemism for…anyway, I was really using my whammy bar, if you know what I mean. The ’80s synth sound is actually just me with an ebow. And it seems to invoke thoughts of a clock ticking the time away…that is until it turns into silly newageishness. Tock tick.
June 15th, 2008 at 8:54 pm
Q: Are you remixing these as you go along, or are your mixdowns from the era just super-clean? Mine all sound like I stored the tapes in brine.
June 15th, 2008 at 11:41 pm
About 8 years ago I spent about a week mixing all my old stuff to wav and aif files. I just played with the EQ on the way in to reduce the 4 tracks of tape hiss. But they do sound clean don’t they? Just got lucky, I guess.
June 16th, 2008 at 9:25 am
They really do sound great.
I will say that my mixes in general were rushed and poor, which doesn’t help. I suspect it will be only a little better if I locate the original four-tracks, because a lot of the problems stem from track reductions there - bass and drum, for example. Too much of the former, not enough of the latter.
D.