Wednesday, September 12, 2007

Can't Quit (Don't Stop)

So, this is yet another song that I sent to James and everyone to listen to and with everyone's input, we were able to piece it together pretty damn well. We had a 40-fueled practice and put this song together. Be prepared to hear the difference between what's below and what we'll rock your faces off with at one of our next shows.

This is "(Can't Quit) Don't Stop."

You know it as "Don't Stop."

Mind you, this is a scratch track for me to mess around with harmonies and some stuff. Also, remember this is recorded with Audacity, which is open source and more importantly, has a significantly smaller memory footprint than ProTools. I can get about two mono tracks open in ProTools before I run out of memory. Plus, Audacity takes about 2 seconds to load as opposed to about 20 for ProTools.

So, I feel that Audacity's pros outweigh its cons or namely, it's one huge HUGE con for what I'm trying to do is that the tracks don't sync automatically. There is latency and unless you record an extremely short clip it's not going to sync, so you have to line it up manually and, if there are precision tools, I haven't bothered to find them. Plus, I like the slight temporal difference for the vocals... it's just on this song, for the guitar part, it's sparse and short and you can hear how off sync that part is.



(Can't Quit) Don't Stop
Take a moment and listen
To the sound of it all
Try to picture my thoughts now
Can't quit! Don't stop! Don't stop!

She's a silly sad girl
And that's her everslow clock
I'm addicted to her
Can't quit! Don't stop! Don't stop!

Don't stop looking back
At the tracks
Sealed in wax
Don't stop looking back
At the tracts that somehow you forgot to write

Ever murdered for profit?
Compromised for a buck?
It ain't bad so get off it
Can't quit! Don't stop! Don't stop!

She's a really rich lady
Not that I give a fuck
She could take up collections
Can't quit! Don't stop! Don't stop!

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