Well, after another sleepless night (doh) I'm up bright and early for a wicked day of uni. Even though I am half dead and really really really could do with some form of sleep I'm really up for today!!! Got to learn about the circuits and theory behind the distortion pedal I'm building, then in the afternoon a nice easy lecture/practical of another project I've got to do which involves chopping up and rearranging a song in Peak (made by Bias, basically the Mac equivalent of Wavelab/Soundforge... not used it yet but got my hands on the manual and highlighted the bits I'll need to reference, just differences in the layout etc). Should be really easy considering I do that kind of thing for fun anyway at home but at a much more advanced level.
I've decided to have a chop about with Bad Company's often overlooked classic 'Colonies', from their 1999 debut album 'Inside The Machine' (incidentally one of my favourite drum & bass albums ever!). As I've been up pretty much all night I've planned out how I'm going to do it and written out a step by step guide to what I'm going to do with the chops and FX... just shorten it to 2 minutes, do some cheeky edits and filter automation and try and do a slowed down half tempo choppy bit as well rearranging the drums around. I was originally going to do something vocal and lively (Rick James - Mary Jane or Earth Wind & Fire - September were my original ideas) but I figured I'd take the edity option and go with electronic music as a) I can get more technical on the edits and b) the tempo will be locked instead of fighting with a human drummer to keep the transitions smooth. Add to that the fact that vocals come in and out all over the place and that restricts you to merely rearranging the song pattern and cutting stuff out, I think it makes for a much more interesting proposition :)
Coffee, cigarette, shower, grab my stuff and I'm out! Take care people :p
G
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