My Newest Recording – This Place (Is Not Your Home)
May 8th, 2010 . by Alexander Fisher
I originally wrote and recorded This Place (Is Not Your Home) in 1995. My inspiration was my father-in-law Dean Fuller. My mother-in-law, Martha (Butcher) Fuller, had passed away about a year before. They lived in an old beautiful brick home behind the Catholic church in West Jefferson, Ohio that Dean, a home builder, had renovated. They had been spending Thanksgiving and Christmas in Florida since the mid-1980’s. Prior to that we had some wonderful holidays with them and it made me sad that I no longer saw them except during the late spring and summer. Right after Labor day, they’d disappear south. Dean passed away two years later.
This song was written about that sadness, but also the journey that Dean, and all of us, make through life and that we really only have one real “home”.
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The analog tracks were originally recorded in about 1995 on a Yamaha MT-100 II 4 track cassette recorder using high speed (3.75 IPS) and dbx noise reduction.
The acoustic guitar I played was a Takamine. I played electric guitar on a Fender Stratocaster. The bass was a Rickenbacker 4001. The drums were added recently using a Korg nanoPad MIDI drum controller and Session Drummer 3. The keyboards were played on a Cazio CZ-101 FM synthesizer. I also replaced the tambourine from the original tracks with a new recording. Syncing the tambourine from the original recording would have been very labor intensive and I hated that performance anyway. During the lead break I obviously became distracted and lost the beat. (good riddance)
As on other analog to digital re-mixes I’ve done lately, I had to piece this together from audio tracks that were not in sync. This project was especially difficult because during the original recording, I did not use any rhythm device or metronome, just my own sense of timing. I think I did pretty good, but that made no real consistent timing reference to work with.
I played the original 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.
