"Backdown" is the second track off of my album, Mindsketch, which was released in 2007.
I'm posting an entire back catalog of my music as a sort of countdown to my new album called Party of My Life. I'm doing this in hopes to show you of where I started and how I improved along the way in my lyricism, maturity, and overall recording process. With more advanced/cheaper techniques to record as technology evolved, you'll be able to hear a great deal of improvement through the years. Enough to show you that as long as you put time into your work, you can pull off some pretty incredible things.
Back when I made this album, I had a $12 plastic microphone from my local home-office supply store and the program I used to record was a freeware program called Goldwave. It wasn't until mid-way through the album that a friend of mine gave me an early version of Sonic Foundry's Sound Forge. I didn't even know anything about compression or EQ'ing or even really how loud things should sound in a mix. Any sound effects that you hear in the album were done by hand. Delays were added by chopping the vocal, cutting and pasting, then lowering the volume in each copy to create the delay effect.
Back then, my computer couldn't handle playing the music and recording at the same time. So I'd burn the instrumental to a CD, pop it in my cd player with headphones on and record into the mic. It was only afterwards that I'd go back and try to align the vocals to the instrumental and try and get everything on track. The dubs/voice overs were added after the fact and sometimes without listening to the song because it would've meant I had to re-burn the song to cd and replay it through my cd player and I couldn't afford to waste those resources.
Dsound apparently had some issues since the last time I uploaded music, so I'll reupload all the other stuff in due time. Links to traditional markets/social media:
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