If you go right here:
http://www.joltcountry.com/beaver/index.html you can right click and save-to-disk two of our songs. (A-K-Q and Becky Nailed Recchi.) If you go through MP3.com, you can download Pill and, er, the inferior-quality version of A-K-Q. MP3.com may ask you to register beforehand. I'll make it my mission to put Pill up as a download from the www site.
By lousy production values, I guess I mean things like the following:
1) While the guitar and the keyboards go straight from their source to the four track, the vocals and saxophone do not (a mic is held up instead). This has the effect of there being white space in the range not used by the vox and sax. I probably don't have the right technical term for what I'm describing. A sort of high "hissing" noise? Not quite that either. Any audiophiles know what I mean?
2) We didn't have access to a drum set on all but two songs. So we did the best we could. That unfortunately means "canned" drum sounds in some songs.
3) With four tracks available and only four tracks available, we didn't have space to fill out some of the songs with additional parts without mixing two or three tracks down to two, and the process we used for that killed a lot of the sound.
4) I was often in the same area as another band member for maybe a weekend, tops, at the end there. So everyone else would have to the learn and play the song well enough to make a take we could go with in a relatively limited and rushed amount of time. Ideally it'd be nice to have four hours a song, per track. But it never worked out that way.
We have addressed all of the above for the songs we currently have under development. Kurt (the guy who plays guitar) owns a much nicer four-track, I've programmed all the new drum tracks to be completely unique to the song, and we've taken a lot more time to get the tracks finished. If we get the new CD finished I'd like to think that it will represent the best 10 or 12 songs I've ever written and be a significant step forward. In the meantime, the old stuff is still out and about. I'll try to put the old stuff that seemed to come out allright up on the site.
If you go right here: http://www.joltcountry.com/beaver/index.html you can right click and save-to-disk two of our songs. (A-K-Q and Becky Nailed Recchi.) If you go through MP3.com, you can download Pill and, er, the inferior-quality version of A-K-Q. MP3.com may ask you to register beforehand. I'll make it my mission to put Pill up as a download from the www site.
By lousy production values, I guess I mean things like the following:
1) While the guitar and the keyboards go straight from their source to the four track, the vocals and saxophone do not (a mic is held up instead). This has the effect of there being white space in the range not used by the vox and sax. I probably don't have the right technical term for what I'm describing. A sort of high "hissing" noise? Not quite that either. Any audiophiles know what I mean?
2) We didn't have access to a drum set on all but two songs. So we did the best we could. That unfortunately means "canned" drum sounds in some songs.
3) With four tracks available and only four tracks available, we didn't have space to fill out some of the songs with additional parts without mixing two or three tracks down to two, and the process we used for that killed a lot of the sound.
4) I was often in the same area as another band member for maybe a weekend, tops, at the end there. So everyone else would have to the learn and play the song well enough to make a take we could go with in a relatively limited and rushed amount of time. Ideally it'd be nice to have four hours a song, per track. But it never worked out that way.
We have addressed all of the above for the songs we currently have under development. Kurt (the guy who plays guitar) owns a much nicer four-track, I've programmed all the new drum tracks to be completely unique to the song, and we've taken a lot more time to get the tracks finished. If we get the new CD finished I'd like to think that it will represent the best 10 or 12 songs I've ever written and be a significant step forward. In the meantime, the old stuff is still out and about. I'll try to put the old stuff that seemed to come out allright up on the site.