- album name
Voice of Memory
- band name
by Junto Studio
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Waters Edge
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- about
- This is a nice track that took a few months to come together. Voice of Memory is a duo originally from Cleveland Ohio.
I worked for a few months in advance of the studio getting the arrangement just right. So many times the arrangement stage is truncated. When that happens, the studio becomes a "writing" studio instead of a "recording" studio. My philosophy is to get the song composed and arranged before you even think about producing the recorded version. Then the studio time is so much more efficient and you get the most for your studio dollar. Often you can afford a better room as you don't need to spend time figuring things out when you are paying buy the day or hour.
The into to this track has some fun affected acoustic guitar. I like to play along throughout the entire song when tracking or overdubbing hoping for some happy accidents. In the case of the intro, I was adding some acoustic guitar to the bridge but I recorded from the top to see if anything jumped out at me. I kept some parts in the intro of that acoustic guitar and ran them through a few different reverbs and plugins to get the atmosphere effect.
The electric guitar in the first chorus is interesting in that the part as played never repeats in the song. We made the choice after feeling out the song. Often the instinct is to make things repeat for some for of continuity. As this is a complimentary instrument, not the lead, there is a bit more room to have a part that varies to fit, and most importantly, distinguish the different moments of a song.
I am a big fan of the second verse. Johnny Ziss nailed the guitar. So tasteful.
The second chorus has my favorite moment of the song. Right at 2:30, all the instruments come together so nicely. It's a subtle moment but everything just sits.
The bridge is a bit "me". There wasn't much material coming from the band in this part so I had more room to create. The acoustic solo is something I play when I rehearse the band. The boys liked it so we added it to the final recording. I love delay and really went off in the bridge with a multi-tap delay. That's how I got the swirling effect at the end. A delay feeding back into itself. Tim Newton just killed the fill leading to the outro. Man he's a great drummer and an even better human.
I like to mix things as they sound in the room, natural so to speak. Some engineers have success tweaking the sounds, but I like to use mic choice and placement with well tuned instruments. Honestly, I just don't like having to spend so much time using EQ later in the mix. The drums have a very light treatment on them. It's all the room and the performer. And for you Beat Detective freaks, you need to look else where. I hate when Beat Detective removes the personality of a drummer.
As for tracking, all instruments and vocals were tracked in my Stamford studio with the exception of the drums which were tracked at the Carriage House. I mixed on single driver, hemp cone speakers made in Norwalk by Omega Loudspeakers. They reveal the mid range as good as any speaker can.
I wore many hats on this track, producer, engineer, mixer, bassist, pianist, and guitarist. Heck I think I even have a hidden background vocal in the outro. Whew. - credits
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released 01 June 2008
Words and Music Voice of Memory
Produced, Arranged, Engineered, and Mixed by Jeremy Shockley
Drums: Tim Newton
Acoustic Guitar, Bass, Piano: Jeremy Shockley
Guitar and Voice: Paul Zachopoulos
Guitar: John Ziss - license
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