"Wow. This is surprisingly impressive. Though I liked your artwork at first sight, seeing "The Beach Boys, with Jacob Borshard" kinda made me giggle, like that old movie that had "By William Shakespeare, with Extra Dialogue By Sam Taylor" for its writing credit." - onkster
Obviously I felt a little guilty, which is why I wrote my name as graffiti on the back of the building.
A few other details about the artwork - I drew the Beach Boys in the order they appear on the back of the original SMiLE sleeve, but I added Brian to the end. On the new back cover, I added the poster for the 'Psychic' to reference the goofy Astrological signs on the back of the original.
"Do you think you could split each song into seperate tracks though? I would like to a combination of your mix with other mixes I've used, and it's kind of difficult with having 4 songs in one track." - Biggus Dikkus
Do you mean separate tracks as in completely individual tracks that don't overlap the song or segment before or after?
Basically turning each track into a 'single' that could be shuffled with any other Smile track from any other mix? That's a good idea.
I mixed each 'cluster' together in ProToolsLE, then mixed each of those down and joined all the clusters together in another big Pro Tools session. I added all the new recordings to that mega-session - so to chop up the clusters, I'd need to output my new recordings solo, go back to the original files, drop in the new recordings and mute the overlapping tracks at the beginning and end so that I could get clean un-dovetailed snippets . . . yes it could be done.
After finishing this concise version, I was listening to some old sprawling bootlegs, and do I miss the 'am-radio station from another planet' quality that the disjointed all-inclusive collections have - I thought it would be neat to have a playlist meant for shuffle that would 'un-finish' SMiLE, basically turn it into as many different strange, rough and fragmentary elements as possible - like a four hour version.
This could all drive a person nuts!
3 things:
1. Fantastic, maybe even try doing the whole album if you can get all the instrumental parts together!
2. I assume where you have made the tracks stereo, there are some odd noise clashes, nothing major, just a small point
3. maybe see if you do anything with 'I Don't Know'
P.S Can we have your carrot muching overdub Grin
- mrmoustachioto
1. I'd rather not - the advantage of singing the BWPS parts is that they were written by and for a more limited Brian singing solo - so it's easier to approach than tackling the vocal parts that got finished in 1967, which cannot be bettered, in my humble opinion.
2. In a lot of spots I'm mixing the mono master mix with the stereo instrumental track - I don't have software to sync the two up perfectly, so I had to choose between a phasing effect or a delay effect. I chose delay, since Brian used delay on some tracks, and since delay is a natural element of reverb / true stereo recording. I tried to make the delay as subtle as possible, with my ear pointed towards what sounded 'the best'.
3. I don't know - It seems like it's almost a sister segment to Tune X, doesn't it? I think I was influenced by it's downward marching melody on the vocal intro to 'Tune X'.
'P.S.' - do you really want the carrot munching by itself?