[HAM] "Save Ours Seas" New song by Dan Bonow

[Scott Hawthorn]

At 08:02 PM 4/28/2008, John Freund wrote:
> > >Also the lead organ ain't the clone is it?
> > You mean the organ that plays the little ditty at the opening? We call it
> > "the little bird." That's my C-3, done in a later take.
>
>It's the randomness of the key click that gave it away.  You can't fake that
>and many have tried.

I'm ready to take this thread private after this-- I can't imagine what 
benefit it might have for the public at large. But yeah, right own. But we 
have to use what's available-- Dan wanted to and did build a studio in 
Seattle so he could use his favorite musicians. I'm an hour-and-a-half 
away, and eve worse, his BC is being store down here. What's really funny 
about this is that after we recorded this CD, the studio had to be ripped 
out; the house was a rental.

>Lower the threshold (is the track maxing at unity?)

What's that mean? I've never heard the term.

>  and futz with the
>attack.  I can sorta guess, but what's an "auto-volume track".  Do you mean
>"fader" automation?

Yup. I swear by it and I'm not a big fan of compression. And don't forget, 
a "clean sound" is not something Bonow places a high value on. His stuff is 
funky in the old-fashioned sense of the word.