An Album to Remember

This whole concept started from my days at the leagues club, listening to rock n roll and wondering why all the bands sounded the same, even though they were playing "different" songs. I realised that if rock n roll must live on, the only way to do it is to make it more exciting.

The plan then is to make a 3 track album of rock n roll songs with a modern twist, I will be personally taking the centre stage as the artist for guitar, bass, vocals and synth accompaniment, while I will be wanting some real drum sounds for songs too, I want to modernise it a little and make them samples. I will outsource the talent to play drums, this will help with an LO.

The songs themselves have a very blues based feel, and already work as acoustic guitar songs. I'm not trying to recreate the style of the past but bringing the 1 piece band feel along with synth backing to try and bring some people back to this genre.

Potential LO's

LO4 - the drums will be played by David

Song 1 - is a dark sombre blues backing, I want to try and create a darker atmosphere to the song using the synth elements as well as choice reverb and eq specifically for this purpose. The lead guitar part I am subbing out for an eery yet powerful synth. The vocals on this track I want done a certain way, I'll be distorting the vocals similar to what MUSE do in their song (insert song here) this is to harshen up the voice and to sculpt the tone of the voice to match the rest of the music.

Song 2 - is a happier song even though it's in a minor key, the guitar parts will take centre stage, this will be a vibrant song with lots of air around the layered guitar parts and more drums than the previous song. The sound will be reinforced with Logic X 4 piece string backing section.

Song 3 - is a slow 12 bar blues backing, that I want to sound a lot like something from the 30s, try and style the sound of the song with vinyl crackle and mimic the style of microphone they used back then in the vocals. if this one goes well I might have to grab a harmonica and include that in the song too.

Team members:

Fraser Williams - artist and mix eingineer

David Kormany - recording engineer and artist

I will be writing up a contract for us both to sign, and I will update in a seperate blog post.

I feel the guitar, bass, drums and vocals can be achieved in 2, 4 hour sessions and I will be recording them each individually starting with the guitars from a click track. These instruments will be recorded in protools but mixing and the background synth atmosphere will be created in logic x.

Session 1 will be week 4 in the neve

Session 2 will be week 5 in the neve