Scott Andrew

Posted December 9, 2010.

We Had A Good Thing, another instrumental mix

Is it uncool to admit that I was going for a big, epic Coldplay-esque sound?

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(There's also an an acoustic demo of this song on the Demos page.)

For the remix, I pushed the drums further forward and added some snappy reverb. I also had to create a track just for vocal reverb, because the bit of delay you can hear during the choruses was automated in Cakewalk and I didn't want to have to recreate it again in REAPER. So I ended up exporting just the delay as a separate track, plopping it onto a USB stick and importing it into the new mix.

I dig the guitarsenal sound I managed to get and I'm especially pleased with bass lines. I'm less happy with my vocals -- I was pretty stressed out when it was time to record them and there are a few spots where I wish I would have done just one more take. I generally need to be more choosy with my vocal takes. But now, nah.

Fun fact: the electric guitars in the first verse originally had a reggae arrangement that sounded a lot like Roxanne, but the Police. So much so, so scarily so, that I ditched them and replaced them with the echoey guitars you hear now.

Here's the full track from Look Back On This And Laugh.