Ocean of Sound

A Sad Ballet Acoustic Demo 1 – Sounds

February 5, 2016February 5, 2016 NDavidson Leave a comment

Here is the first installment of the acoustic demo series. Each of these tracks has about half an hour of recording and mastering. Not a lot. They are by no means studio quality recordings. But, they are much higher quality than my average demos.

These have been practiced repeatedly and tweaked for the best sound in an acoustic set vs how the song was originally written. Many of these had additional changes while I was recording because I wondered how it would sound. (Disclaimer: It didn’t sound good every time.)

Eventually I will create a page that has all of these recordings on it alongside the lyrics, but for now it will be in regular posts.

So, without further adieu, this is Sounds.

Acoustic Set

February 4, 2016February 4, 2016 NDavidson Leave a comment

An Acoustic set of “A Sad Ballet” will be posted very soon. I’ll be uploading one song at a time every couple days and I will also create a page that will have all of them together.

I’d appreciate any feedback for these songs.

Thank you so much!

Sound Test

January 26, 2016February 9, 2016 NDavidson Leave a comment

This is a sound test of the new mixer to see how things are going.

As you can tell, the guitar is not balanced enough for a one-take. (Recording the guitar and vocals at the same time.)

Also, here it is after applying compression to raise the volume and not cause clipping.

You might notice that the guitar gets quieter due to the compression as well. That’s a problem. So necessity dictates that I record the separately and then only compress the harsh vocals.

See? I told you I’d record something.

🙂