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posted by poppo (13 comments total)

poppo: Hey, haven't seen you around for a while. You write/record great songs man. I wish you would post more often.
posted by snsranch at 2:39 PM on June 8, 2007

Whatever else happens, I am digging how this starts...

...oh! The vocals just kicked in. It's the 60's! Flashing baaaaack...
posted by humannaire at 3:29 PM on June 8, 2007

lurve it
posted by acro at 2:06 PM on June 9, 2007

thanks sns. fwiw, this is posting often for me. this one took months :)
posted by poppo at 6:32 AM on June 10, 2007

nice. thanks.
posted by es_de_bah at 2:11 PM on June 10, 2007

Well I guess it was worth the wait!
posted by snsranch at 3:25 PM on June 10, 2007

This great, great stuff, poppo. The chorus just kills me; that big and rich and saturated and so-verbed-out mess of the vocal harmonies. Damn.
posted by cortex at 8:04 AM on June 11, 2007

thanks!

ps unlike the last song I put up, these vocals are actually by my friend and co-conspirator from many past bands. i wrote it, he did the vocals and acoustic guitar, and i layered the rest over.

i think we will redo that last one as well with him on vocals.
posted by poppo at 12:42 PM on June 11, 2007

Dude, this is great. Reminds me of Ariel Pink.
posted by ORthey at 11:05 PM on June 12, 2007

Wow great song! The production sounds great as well--I just came over from the askmefi thread about recording setups and you mentioned that this was done with a pretty low cost set-up. It just goes to show that it is the talent and artistry that matters not gear...

You mentioned in that thread that you played the drums with your fingers using a keyboard--is this done through midi? (I've never used midi/keys before, but I'm intrigued with the solid drum sound you got). What muti-track program did you use?
posted by shakobe at 12:30 PM on June 19, 2007

You mentioned in that thread that you played the drums with your fingers using a keyboard--is this done through midi? (I've never used midi/keys before, but I'm intrigued with the solid drum sound you got).

Not midi. I truly do not understand how to use midi. No, this is from a cheap Yamaha keyboard, this model , where you can just dial in different sounds, like organs, pianos, horns, etc. Many of these suck, however, thr drums sound quite good (after a minor amount of post-recording EQ'ing). I just run a quarter-inch cable out of it and into the quarter inch jack in the soundcard of my PC.

What muti-track program did you use?

I use Cakewalk Sonar, version 4 I believe. I don't do anything with that that you couldn't do with probably any other multitracking software out there (EQ + effects).

Thanks for the compliments!
posted by poppo at 9:02 AM on June 20, 2007

And in case I still didn't make it clear about playing drums on the keyboard, here's a YouTube example of what I mean, though this guy is way better at it than I am.
posted by poppo at 11:07 AM on June 20, 2007

Thanks for the info and link. I think that the "finger drums" are a cool way to make a drum pattern w/out the more robotic feel of a built-in or programmed loop. Thanks for your help and keep posting more cool songs!
posted by shakobe at 9:47 PM on June 21, 2007