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Check out how PHAT this audio file is – but yet never going above 0.0.

I’m so proud.

There is a compressor that magically “appeared” in PT called MAXIM. I hear it doing the thing that the DBX always did – bubble wrap sheeeen. No matter how hard I crush with my other compressors I cannot make that sound happen. So, of course I have to put it on everything!!

It’s on the main mix. But more coolly it’s on the vocal and its making it have that THING that I like to hear. You can really hear it when I say “GIVE” in the chorus – it goes – “and forever and ever I GIVE my praises to you.”

Hey – this song actually has a guitar solo!!

Think the BASS is LOUD enough? LOL! <– ~~

This song has a killer PRE CHORUS. The secret is the old RUSH F# chord that lets the 3rd and the 4th create that patented RUSH texture – then the bass raises up a step to G# and now the same pattern that was creating coolness against the F# is now relationally the 2nd and the minor 3rd – creates a great atmosphere – lush with the lead guitar supplying some major 7ths against an E that remind us that remind us that B is still “home” – and then a nice melody over top that grinds perfectly to lead into the release of the chorus.

Don’t know who wrote the song originally – but this version is based on the Hillsong version – and they did a great job with it.

My Eventide H3000 Harmonizer made its way into the mix today. I should have been working on additional tracks for the service but found myself trying harmonizer effects on everything from guitars to vocals to the chicken we had roasting on the oven – “Here hun, let’s just try a little harmonizer on that and see what we get.”

So this has a couple layers of harmonizer on the guitar and one layer of it under the lead vocal. I use presets 101 and 232 pretty much exclusively – never tried anything else.

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This of course sounds best at hypmotizingly loud volumes in the headphones.

I took the electric guitar track and ran it through a Fender Bassman – so this is a real amp now – not an amp simulator plugin thing. Nothing like REAL IRON!

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Here’s a song I’m working up for the group. This song just washes over me – and I’m gone.

This is drum loops and MIDI piano that I put together in ProTools and then I put the guitars and vocals on to complete it. But when we use it in the service we just use the drums and piano – the rest is done live.

This arrangement is from a band named KUTLESS. I think they wrote the tune but I’m not sure.

Drum loops! Who knew how wonderful such a thing could be? I’ll never program another MIDI drum track as long as I can find loops like these to use.

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-Rob

i’ve been putting together backing tracks for the band we have at my church. it’s a blast. we have bass and 2 guitars and 2 vocalists and i put the rest of the instruments together in ProTools and at the worship service we do it’s like having a whole band there – keys, strings, flutes, you name it.

so, tonight i was working on a drum part for a tune called “All Who are Thirsty.” it’s coming together pretty well. i’ll start posting some audio clips of that stuff.

i have taken a break from writing the material for the Home Away from Home collection. i’ll get back to it when the time is right. this music i’m working on right now is taking a priority because the time is right for it – the other stuff can wait.

that said… i am still working with Mark on getting a final mix for SLEEP! and It’s You – and when they are ready they’ll be posted on here for all you wonderful music lovers out there!

til next!
-rob