Rough Track #6: Cob and Pen
Not much to say about this song. It emerged from Jim and I mucking about. It’s about haikus, I suppose. It’s about some fictionalized/simplified/distorted manner in which swans fight, and how swans occasionally capsize and drown.
It started as a rough improvised recording and then had to be re-recorded to a steady beat—which I would prefer to avoid, but the way in which these songs are constructed doesn’t really allow for that. This is that first mix at a steady beat, made on December 7th, 2008:
okidoki here’s cob and pen at a steady bpm.
my statements before about this being stark and acoustic were incorrect. layer away like you’re dressing for
paris
in the
the springtime.
And then a few months later, in a discussion about reverb, and its questionable abundance, I penned this helpful handy rhyming guideline-rule:
REMEMBER THIS RHYME: it is oh-so easy to over-reverberate a mix to H-E-double hockey sticks.
