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My Newest Recording: Sorry It Came To This

April 18th, 2010 . by Alexander Fisher

This is not a new recording but a complete restoration and re-mix of a song I wrote and recorded in the early 1990’s. It is about people who can’t see the big picture even when they’re looking right at it, and even still think they see it.

Sorry It Came To This

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The Guitars Used To Record This SongI have tried this much restoring and re-syncing analog tracks before, but not with this much success. Check out my blog post My Recorded Cover Songs – 867-5309/Jenny to check out my previous effort. The whole process of using my new copy of Sonar v8.5 to accomplish this deserves a post all by itself. (Coming Soon)

I thought I did an OK job on my previous analog tape restoration job, but there was something that just always seemed a little off beat. I can hear little timing problems here and there on this new project, but overall I don’t notice any real important timing issues. I am now getting the process right, I think. In addition I was able to incorporate MIDI timing and samples with the analog tracks. That is what really saved these recordings.

The analog tracks were originally recorded in about 1992 on a Yamaha 4 track cassette recorder using high speed (3.75 IPS) and dbx noise reduction.

I played lead and rhythm guitar on a Fender Stratocaster and an Ibanez Les Paul. I played the bass on a 1972 Rickenbacker 4001. The drums were a recent combination of MIDI patches and my Korg nanoPad MIDI drum controller.

I played the analog tracks into my Fostex VF-16 digital multi-track, then transferred the tracks to a computer. Then I processed the audio with Cakewalk Sonar v8.5 Producer and Sony Sound Forge v9.

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