The Remix Project – Fairfield
This is one of these things I’ve been putting off for years. It serves two purposes. One is to have the songs sound better. Two is to clean up all the tracks on each song, and, remove all the unneeded files that can accumulate fast, AND, backup each song as I go. Whew! I’ve never made proper backups of all my music and it would totally blow if hard drives were to crash. So I suppose this would be called the Remix/Backup project.
After completing this first song, I’m slowly realizing what a daunting task this is. Here’s the deal. All the older songs were recorded on an older computer (makes sense) that was 32 bit. I upgraded to a 64 bit computer a couple years ago with the newer Protools. Protools decided to have a completely different format for their plugins in the process. What does this mean? All the plugins from the 32 bit system are now obsolete on the 64 bit newer Protools. Yay! So that sucks, but the computer runs better with more tracks more efficiently. This makes all these songs a true remix as opposed to just tweaking the same mix. Have I confused you yet? I’m confused myself so that makes 2 of us.
In addition to that, it’s preparing all the audio files on the old computer then creating a whole new song on the newer computer THEN importing all those audio files into the new remix of the song. This takes a lot of patience, notes, time, and screenshots. I hope to streamline this the more I do it.
Here’s the first song, Fairfield, from a Spintunes competition of yesteryear. It’s one of my problem children that I’ve always wanted to redo because a lot of the songwriting competition songs had to be done so fast. They really had no time for critical listening. The bass was a little overbearing and needed to be cleaned up among other things. So hear ya go. I hope it sounds better and hope you like it. It’s about the town I grew up in in Fairfield, New Jersey. It’s all TRUE!….well sort of.
Chris