My Newest Recording: Mean and Cruel
April 26th, 2010 . by Alexander Fisher
Like Sorry It Came To This, Mean and Cruel is not a new song or a new recording. I didn’t even redo the drum tracks. I think I could’ve made the drums better in a technological way, but not performance wise.
I haven’t ever written too many “story” songs. I’m not even sure what my motivation was then. But I know Mean and Cruel is about a man from a different time, maybe the American west around 1900, that was just out of control, that no one wanted to try to control, and no one could control. A really bully of a guy.
Go east young man…
Mean and Cruel
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The analog tracks were originally recorded in about 1990 on a Yamaha MT-100 II 4 track cassette recorder using high speed (3.75 IPS) and dbx noise reduction.
I think the acoustic guitar I played was a Yamaha. I played electric guitar on a Fender Stratocaster. The bass was a Rickenbacker 4001. The drums were played on Yamaha MIDI controller pads connected to a Boss Dr. Rhythm drum machine.
I played the analog tracks into my Fostex VF-16 digital multi-track, then transferred the tracks to my computer. I processed the audio with Cakewalk Sonar v8.5 Producer and Sony Sound Forge v9.
