EP On the Horizon

Hello! Man it's has been a while since I've last posted. I have had a pretty busy summer and fall, after graduating college and looking for a job and apartment I've finally struck a rhythm of balance between work and life. Since work does not usually assign homework, I've found that any time after work is mine for the taking!

I have been continuing to work on music and slowly continue on the road to release an EP hopefully in the next few months. It's really been a long journey and I've written a bunch of songs and after sifting through them, I finally have four that I am happy with that I consider quality and something I want to put out there. Out of these four, the first three are completely written, and mixed, but have yet to be mastered. The forth is one that I consider my best work yet and I am really excited for you guys to hear it. It's still in the works and I haven't completely finished writing it but it's coming along nicely. So, to summarize, I've got my space suit on, my seat belt on, my tray table in the upright position, and I'm starting to hear that countdown for takeoff! These are exciting times for me and, I'm really excited to show you what I've been working at!





If you're curious, I'm quickly going to describe my song writing process:

My writing process is to search through my library of software instruments I have and find one that inspires me. I'll play around with it on the keyboard with the goal of coming up with some catchy melody or arrangement. It is my goal to find a catchy tune but it's really a trial and error thing and it can take a LONG time to get something I'm happy with. Then, I write different instrument tracks on top of that one and put them all together. Finally, I rerecord certain software instrument tracks on real instruments if I have them and shift the tracks around until I'm happy with the overall structure of the song.

The next step is mixing and this part takes pretty long too. I try to set the different instrument tracks at the right volume so that they can be heard easily so any one track isn't overpowering the rest. Then I pan certain instruments to either the right ear or the left to give the song depth and spread the different tracks across the stereo space so that they aren't all stacked on top of each other. At this point I am listening to the songs on my headphones, car speakers, studio monitors, and at work on earbuds to listen to see if that bass is too loud (ha, impossible! ) or if other instruments are loud enough. Hearing the same music on speakers of different quality and size helps because ideally one wants to mix the music so it sounds good no matter what is it played through.

After that I take the mixed song and master it using different filtering tools, compression, and limiters so that its more polished for the final product.