The Daily Melodies June 16 - 20

Hey hey

The weeks just hook past don’t they?

Here’s last weeks Daily Melodies:

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

tell me what you think

cabs

I listened to these last week, on the day, and I'm enjoying doing that so much. As I said before, I love your music immensely. Today's was fabulous. Sometimes I like them less, but they're so often so fresh, beautiful and exciting, and that's astonishing when you write one of these ever day, in the same format.

I'm intrigued as to how you record them - I'm no guitarist but I guess there are sometimes multiple guitars - do you sequence yourself? It comes out great, really well polished for a morning's work, I must say. (If it is just one guitar - o.O lol).

It's a great project as I said before. Thank you very much.

hey great terve... thanks for listening in...

the recording process is pretty simple... i plug directly into my computer via a MOTU 828mkII firewire interface... it has some simple mic pre's built-in... then i track direct to Logic v.7... i simultaneously track a reverb through a tc electronic g-force... this gives me independent control over reverb levels when mixing...

once i've tracked the first part, i set about seeing what could be added... sometimes nothing (17th June) other times up to 6 parts... it depends on the tune and the mood... and also the time... if it took me a long time to write/track 2 parts, then i'll leave it... if i belt through a few tracks easily, i have more time to explore...

all the parts are played in entirety... i don't cut and paste and I don't sample and sequence... i want to know it can be done live

after all the tracking is completed, i do some rough mixing... nothing more than some simple compression and panning to help with part separation, and lately some simple eq (the strings are old now and some frequencies are a little boomy)

then some quick mastering using an adaptive limiter to regulate the peaks, a little fade here and there... then bounce, convert and upload.

now that it's been happening for so long, i have some nice templates up and running so it's very quick to get started and a very familiar process from start to finish...

that's the beauty of process repetition, it becomes less and less of a chore leaving most of the time spent composing...

thanks heaps for your support and replies, means a lot

don't forget to spread the word if you think anyone would enjoy it... free for all....

dan