I did this for GuitarWar.com while in the studio recording my last album DanziLand. When there's nothing for me to do when they are rendering files, I go to this little pre production room and noodle. I did most of the work there, and brought the tune home to my home studio and added drums and a few other goodies.
I didn't have time to load up the original work files and mix it for high quality, so I took the master file that was made for GW and tried to tweak it a bit. As you may or may not know, GW has a file size limit that forces you to EQ things a bit differently due to the artifacts you pick up when you are using a file size less than 128. We have to mix the master files to accommodate for this, and the end result isn't something you'd want on an album. So I did the best I could remastering this to make it more sonic and pleasant to your ears...but I think I hate it. LOL!! My explanation of the tune (most of it I pulled from GW and added a few things) is below. I hope you enjoy it, if not, that's ok too.
Life sure can be great sometimes, can't it? Then again, sometimes we get dealt a bad hand and we can hate life pretty fast. But ya know, sometimes those bad hands make us who and what we are, and of course life is what you make of it. This is happiness to me everyone. You know, the sounds of children at the beach, that good feeling you have inside when everything in your life is where it's supposed to be. Your family and friends alive and healthy, music in your life, maybe a new girlfriend or a new car or house.
I'm a very happy man probably 20 hours 7 days a week. The other 4 I sleep of course. I felt like sharing my happiness with you in song. I wanted to do a theme-oriented piece here that spoke for itself. One that wasn’t a super shred “look what I can do” piece. Not much tech goin on here, but definitely one of the best theme pieces I've ever written and that was what I was after. Something that really went somewhere and told a story and showed how I was feeling inside.
I needed a very triumphant and majestic ending here. I tried asking God to send me a choir of Angels, but I couldn't afford them. So I searched for a few keyboard samples to simulate what I was looking for. No dice. :icon_frow So, I decided to simulate the Angels myself and sing 15 "ahs" per side to give that choir effect.
I used old faithful "Goliath" on this one. That huge 25 space flight case of mine full of goodies. I've not fired him up in about 3-4 years to record with it, but I sure am glad I did. The heart of the distortion is a Digitech 2101 limited edition tube pre-amp.
For bass, I used the Bass pod and am quite happy with it. For drums, what a nightmare! LOL! I've not played since my first album came out in 1999, so this was quite an experience to which I still have blisters all over from. Anyway, I used Roland V-Drums on this, without any quantizing. I went for total human feel here.
It's not perfect but it sure is happy and reflects my true personality. I hope you enjoy it, and thanks for stopping by. Just remember, any time you think you have a problem, there's some poor person in this world that has one a million times worse! Man, I'm just “happy to be alive!” :icon_peac
I didn't have time to load up the original work files and mix it for high quality, so I took the master file that was made for GW and tried to tweak it a bit. As you may or may not know, GW has a file size limit that forces you to EQ things a bit differently due to the artifacts you pick up when you are using a file size less than 128. We have to mix the master files to accommodate for this, and the end result isn't something you'd want on an album. So I did the best I could remastering this to make it more sonic and pleasant to your ears...but I think I hate it. LOL!! My explanation of the tune (most of it I pulled from GW and added a few things) is below. I hope you enjoy it, if not, that's ok too.
Life sure can be great sometimes, can't it? Then again, sometimes we get dealt a bad hand and we can hate life pretty fast. But ya know, sometimes those bad hands make us who and what we are, and of course life is what you make of it. This is happiness to me everyone. You know, the sounds of children at the beach, that good feeling you have inside when everything in your life is where it's supposed to be. Your family and friends alive and healthy, music in your life, maybe a new girlfriend or a new car or house.
I'm a very happy man probably 20 hours 7 days a week. The other 4 I sleep of course. I felt like sharing my happiness with you in song. I wanted to do a theme-oriented piece here that spoke for itself. One that wasn’t a super shred “look what I can do” piece. Not much tech goin on here, but definitely one of the best theme pieces I've ever written and that was what I was after. Something that really went somewhere and told a story and showed how I was feeling inside.
I needed a very triumphant and majestic ending here. I tried asking God to send me a choir of Angels, but I couldn't afford them. So I searched for a few keyboard samples to simulate what I was looking for. No dice. :icon_frow So, I decided to simulate the Angels myself and sing 15 "ahs" per side to give that choir effect.
I used old faithful "Goliath" on this one. That huge 25 space flight case of mine full of goodies. I've not fired him up in about 3-4 years to record with it, but I sure am glad I did. The heart of the distortion is a Digitech 2101 limited edition tube pre-amp.
For bass, I used the Bass pod and am quite happy with it. For drums, what a nightmare! LOL! I've not played since my first album came out in 1999, so this was quite an experience to which I still have blisters all over from. Anyway, I used Roland V-Drums on this, without any quantizing. I went for total human feel here.
It's not perfect but it sure is happy and reflects my true personality. I hope you enjoy it, and thanks for stopping by. Just remember, any time you think you have a problem, there's some poor person in this world that has one a million times worse! Man, I'm just “happy to be alive!” :icon_peac