A New Album Theme Was Needed

Realizing that a new album theme was needed, I scribbled off a few thoughts and composed one song of what will eventually be part of a much larger collection.

'Here Tonight' recorded by MPK 2012-05-31

 

 

 -eventually be part of-

That Distance

It seems that I really do try to make the most of everything that I work with; although, it is not always welcome.
Regardless of how some others feel/believe, I do enjoy these projects and other constructive endeavors.
A composition such as 'Any Distance Is Greater' can easily take five hours to simply sit down and play a few passages on a musical instrument. As much as possible is recorded onto the hard drive and it is then played back and attributes are added to the desired tracks.
I generally will separate the left and right tracks and change the synchronization timing by a few milliseconds; that is how the wide 'stereo' effect is achieved, I will sometimes chance the pitch to the guitar tracks as well.

'Any Distance Is Greater'
MPK 2012-05-18

This actually turned out much better than almost all of my previous work.

I do like the distortion of the guitar that is overlayed, it reminds me of 

Ten Years After, the live album Undead in 1968.

I have so many other projects that require my time and yet, 

I see some promise in screeching out these tracks.

It is nice to be able to post content that is entirely composed by myself.

'I Call It Here'
MPK 2012-05-17

Well.....I got a kick out of the guitar work in this piece.
I won't feel too bad if it is compared to a cat screeching in the night.

-I see some promise in screeching out these tracks.-

The Lesser Threshold

This was not an easy audio project and, the results were not as good as I had wanted.
After uploading the final mix, I realized that it sounded terrible.
I have been asking myself 'How much compression should I use on Facebook and VK?'
Although I am not entirely certain at this time, I am leaning toward no compression if the overall mix is exactly as you want to hear it.
If you have background vocals, subtle passages, etc......, compression will increase in priority for the upload.
I will continue to experiment with different settings and of course, style.

There a few subtle differences in the processing that some of the social pages apply to these recordings.
I have included both Facebook and VK.

'The Lesser Threshold'
is my first album in design/production.
I am mostly at the demo stage with few plans to re-record,
I will introduce material until the album seems reasonable.
After I have enough material assembled,
I will name the next album and start to work under that title;
whatever it may be.

 OK...I don't really use these colors, I used the 'Heat Map' effect in Google Picasa.

Anyhow, this is a snapshot of the Audacity project files, a few wave files and, one open project file.

Only a very small amount of the recording sessions were actually used to produce 'The Lesser Threshold'