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[Ongoing] Notes on the re-recording of "The Brink"

ok so that little experimental runt of a song has grown into this monstrous epic, as i said it would.
but it's different now!
what you've been hearing (hopefully) as parts 1 & 2 are now parts 3 & 4 of the total song. the opening sequence is a rerecorded slice of "rainbow six" in the new key and everything and then goes into a brand new second part. this section (with a latin name) was its own song that was just way too repetitive and boring by itself so voila! i smooshed into this song and it works well, i think. total song length is now a whopping 13:30 and although its gonna sound like crap in a low bitrate here on NG, it'll rock nonetheless. i made it and i love what i'm hearing, missteps in guitar-playing aside. i've done tests at the low bitrate and yeah it suffers but it still sounds ok. i won't know 100% fore sure until the vocals get recorded and added in. that'll be fun. what i'll probably end up doing is offer the full bitrate version on SNOCAP thru myspace, and/or put it on the demo or full-length cd i'll be putting out thru lulu.com. i know, i'm name-dropping like crazy but that's the way it is.
this song sounds awesome, and with each minute i complete i love it more and more. big sound. lotsa solos. great antiestablishmentarian message, and of course that trademark ross sound that you know and love or know and hate or don't know and love or hate or never really knew at all... or something. hang in there! :)
in the meantime... PLAY IT LOUD!
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>>UPDATE ON THE UPDATE<<
ok so that last 4 minutes is going along ok for right now. i'm at like 1:30 left as of right now, and then just going back over and making it all go nice and leveled out and all that. i blew out my bigass headphones, thats for sure, so i've been playing it loud while making it, which is fun.

my new plan (which shall promptly gang aft a'gley as soon as i write this) is to have an official demo AND the full-length album on lulu.com by the new year. the demo (DEMONStration) will be 3 songs that i will order myself and send out to record companies. my home-made hand-written ones were shabby as hell and probably got rejected on appearance alone. the full-length album (Manifest Destiny) will be most of the grunge songs here on newgrounds + the brink + some instrumental extras. i'm preparing the liner notes and all that jazz at the moment, but like i said... life keeps getting in the way.
see you soon!

[UPDATED UPDATE OF THE UPDATE]
09-27-08 0437

finished the basic instrumentation. getting the levels right is a bitch.
10 tracks = 1 tempo + 4 "dry" guitars + 4 "wet" guitars, generally the wet ones being solos and whatnot, with the dry tracks being the main rhythm parts.
3 bass synths to make a nice full sound.
one of my best drum setups yet, i think.
its a set i used already with a song i never recorded vocals to yet.
this is the problem with my releasing of new music as of late, or lack thereof.
whatever.
its getting done now.
more to come.
i've got a whole library of shit in my head, it seems.
i even figured out a way to extend the song a little bit at the beginning, maybe anothe 20-30 seconds or a minute if i push it.
anyway, i did a test of the bitrate with the song in NG format, meaning less than 8MB, and man it really does suck. if your headphones suck its ok, but if its a good stereo forget about it.
so, i may feel forced to release some kind of sectioned off version. i'm not sure where i'd even cut anything...
...it does kind of force you to buy the album when i produce it, though...
what the fuck is the symbol for like a smiley face with devil horns?
is there one?
thats what thats like.
anyway i'm pretty much just waiting for the mp3 to encode so i can listen to the latest mixdown on different stereos and see what the levels ought to be. its what i do. i played the first burn of the song in my car this morning on the way to work, and sang along.
fun.
but the guitars were way too loud at the end.
io can just hear how much my ears adjust to the loudness... and start to suck as ears.
anyway...
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