'Miles to go' composition recording

Date: 16/2/10
Duration: 5.5 hours


I recorded a jazz/blues piece for a solo artist. One of the difficulties facing this recording was the artist never played along with a metronome for any of his music. He wanted drums with his piece but he doesn't play drums so I had to manually input drums for the recording. The biggest difficulty (beside the metronome) was figuring out the complex time signature of the piece of music.
I dabble in drumming but playing complex jazz time signatures were not exactly my specialty and the artist had little clue about drumming so together we inputted the drums until we were satisfied with the results (hopefully it will be replaced with real drums in the future)

(complex and unusual time signatures)

After all the time signatures were figured out and the drums inputted, we started the recording. Bass was recorded first then rhythm guitar and then lead guitar.
The recording so far sounded slightly sparse and I felt it needed more variation instead of repeating itself so i suggested to do some overdubs on the guitar. Although most of the overdubs didn't make it to the final mix, they gave the artist some materials to work on in the future.

The recording was quickly mixed, mostly adding compression where needed including EQ. For some reason the Focusrite preamps were not working as smoothly and I was ultimately not fully satisfied with the quality of the recording but I promised the artist I will fix the problem and to do a another recording with him in the future.

Here is a part of the recording: