Finished last bass tracks yesterday. Even Antti hasn't heard these yet, but I have a feeling he'll accept the sound choices I made : ) Nice distorted edge with a warm low end, that should do the trick.
Next session coming, I'll start figuring out the vocals. This will take a lot more time, the bass was relatively easy, although at times challenging. The easiness was mainly due to the tabs Antti was kind enough to provide. A true timesaver!
Timo
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Tuesday, June 26, 2012
Wednesday, June 20, 2012
Coverart under works
I started finally working on the front cover for this forthcoming SF release during past weekend. Finally, because it was in July 2011 when I took series of pictures already SF album coverart in my mind ... well about a week ago I was taking some pictures again, this time not SF in my mind at all. When going through that set of pictures on bigger screen I instantly felt that one picture is definitely a pair for the July 2011 picture(s). So, I went on with trying how the two pictures fit together, one picture from July 2011 and one picture from June 2012. It was right away clear that it's a perfect fit!
The album coverart won't be so black this time, intentionally. It could had been very black since especially July 2011 picture was quite dark one - and June 2012 picture had very dark elements as well. But the idea is to make it different kind of coverart this time. The two pictures are main elements but some starscapes have been thrown in and some drawn manually, too. The colors of the coverart will depict Finland (our homeworld ... I mean country ;) while the contents of the coverart can be seen very much scifi, and you can see all kinds of things / shapes if you look closer.
I think it will make a great and different colorart. Contrast and also a mirror to the music, at the same time.
The album coverart won't be so black this time, intentionally. It could had been very black since especially July 2011 picture was quite dark one - and June 2012 picture had very dark elements as well. But the idea is to make it different kind of coverart this time. The two pictures are main elements but some starscapes have been thrown in and some drawn manually, too. The colors of the coverart will depict Finland (our homeworld ... I mean country ;) while the contents of the coverart can be seen very much scifi, and you can see all kinds of things / shapes if you look closer.
I think it will make a great and different colorart. Contrast and also a mirror to the music, at the same time.
Monday, June 18, 2012
Hell, yeah!
The cymbals are done. At least, the preliminary drafts. There might be some editing and slight fixing, but mainly, they're done.
Next stop, bass. I already received the tabs from Antti and it shouldn't take too much time to finish those tracks. The question is, when do I get to it. Expect more news right after something happens.
Next stop, bass. I already received the tabs from Antti and it shouldn't take too much time to finish those tracks. The question is, when do I get to it. Expect more news right after something happens.
Sunday, June 17, 2012
Great news
The problems with recording live cymbals were solved (I'll leave the technical details for Timo if he wants to explain them later) and all the songs now have drums pretty much completed. Yeah! There might be some fixes needed to be made, but nothing that would prevent this drum experiment from happening. And believe me, this will make a dramatic impact on how the material will sound. It gives a whole new dimension to the music. A dimension which already has a name; "antidroid" ...
What I've been doing during past few evenings with free time, is tabbing (making tablatures) all the 24 songs. Why? (Why not?) Because that will make the bassguitar planning & recording job much more easy for Timo.
What I've been doing during past few evenings with free time, is tabbing (making tablatures) all the 24 songs. Why? (Why not?) Because that will make the bassguitar planning & recording job much more easy for Timo.
Tuesday, June 12, 2012
Writing more lyrics and ...
I have now lyrics written for 10 songs. Recently I've been busy doing some heavy duty gardening stuff, but I still feel I might have a tale or two for some more songs. We'll see how it goes.
Something else happening as well; Timo has started drum/cymbal experiments. Good and bad news ...
Let's start with the good news: I already heard the opening song with bdrum / snare / toms as programmed ones, and all the cymbalworks as played by Timo. It sounded really good to me. For a moment I was like "yes! this is it! it will be maniacal ride!" ... until I heard more from Timo.
The bad news: The opening tune is pretty much a piece of cake when it comes drums (and tempo, too) if compared to what follows it. So unfortunately it won't be easy task to do all the cymbalworks just like that. We are working on it, combination of multiple smaller solutions so that the lunatic tempos with mad cymbalworks would be possible to record live by Timo. Hold your thumb(s) up for things to be sorted out, because this is a huge factor in the forthcoming SF package.
Something else happening as well; Timo has started drum/cymbal experiments. Good and bad news ...
Let's start with the good news: I already heard the opening song with bdrum / snare / toms as programmed ones, and all the cymbalworks as played by Timo. It sounded really good to me. For a moment I was like "yes! this is it! it will be maniacal ride!" ... until I heard more from Timo.
The bad news: The opening tune is pretty much a piece of cake when it comes drums (and tempo, too) if compared to what follows it. So unfortunately it won't be easy task to do all the cymbalworks just like that. We are working on it, combination of multiple smaller solutions so that the lunatic tempos with mad cymbalworks would be possible to record live by Timo. Hold your thumb(s) up for things to be sorted out, because this is a huge factor in the forthcoming SF package.
Thursday, June 7, 2012
Writing lyrics
I started writing lyrics for the new material yesterday. Yeah, me. When was last time I wrote lyrics for Scumfusion? It was about 10 years ago! And I can say that those lyrics back in 2002 weren't exactly serious ones in the same way than these space/scifi lyrics I've been writing now. It's like a whole different world if compared.
Originally in this current case I thought I'd write just something like 1-2 songs' lyrics - and let Timo write most of the lyrics as in past few releases. But it seems we are going to share the lyrical burden this time. I'm having a great inspiration currently, ... and as a result I've got already lyrics written for seven songs since yesterday. I'll continue as long as I have good ideas - I feel I still have some more ideas I could use, so it might well be that half of the songs have lyrics written by me, and other half is done by Timo. That should bring some nice variation to the lyrics too, since our writing style is clearly different.
I've been drawing influence from some classic scifi movies (like Alien & Aliens), as well as the post-nuclear Fallout game series (I've been a big fan since first two Fallout games already), and I've been mixing my own space visions as well as using Timo's "tales of Lossidia" in some ways too. I feel that the lyrics I've written will fit the songs in a great way - and I'm as much looking forward to tales Timo will create for this package.
Originally in this current case I thought I'd write just something like 1-2 songs' lyrics - and let Timo write most of the lyrics as in past few releases. But it seems we are going to share the lyrical burden this time. I'm having a great inspiration currently, ... and as a result I've got already lyrics written for seven songs since yesterday. I'll continue as long as I have good ideas - I feel I still have some more ideas I could use, so it might well be that half of the songs have lyrics written by me, and other half is done by Timo. That should bring some nice variation to the lyrics too, since our writing style is clearly different.
I've been drawing influence from some classic scifi movies (like Alien & Aliens), as well as the post-nuclear Fallout game series (I've been a big fan since first two Fallout games already), and I've been mixing my own space visions as well as using Timo's "tales of Lossidia" in some ways too. I feel that the lyrics I've written will fit the songs in a great way - and I'm as much looking forward to tales Timo will create for this package.
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