This blog is an attempt to document the process of songwriting, so that I and you, if you are a composer, will be able to write things better and quicker.
Lets see where this will go as we explore creativity....
Comments: Adventures in CD Land Part 5
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Two quick comments, Dana:
As much as I also like the complete control that home studios give you over your product, there's nothing quite like the interaction with another live player, if only to shake things up a bit. It should be a mandatory requirement for all of us.
Mixing [studio] as instrument. It sounds like you were going through the creative block that we all experience periodically, whether the "instrument" is a piano or a DAW. No time in mixing is ever "wasted"; it's all a learning experience. Eventually, beating your head against the wall reveals a breakthrough, and mixdown becomes as deliciously satisfying as an inspired improvised phrase on a saxophone.
Two quick comments, Dana:
As much as I also like the complete control that home studios give you over your product, there's nothing quite like the interaction with another live player, if only to shake things up a bit. It should be a mandatory requirement for all of us.
Mixing [studio] as instrument. It sounds like you were going through the creative block that we all experience periodically, whether the "instrument" is a piano or a DAW. No time in mixing is ever "wasted"; it's all a learning experience. Eventually, beating your head against the wall reveals a breakthrough, and mixdown becomes as deliciously satisfying as an inspired improvised phrase on a saxophone.
Keep up the good work.
Posted by: Tom Brockway | June 5, 2005 11:01 AM