{"id":1591,"date":"2019-04-23T11:50:22","date_gmt":"2019-04-23T16:50:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alandmoore.com\/blog\/?p=1591"},"modified":"2019-05-10T13:52:22","modified_gmt":"2019-05-10T18:52:22","slug":"new-song-he-made-a-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alandmoore.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/23\/new-song-he-made-a-way\/","title":{"rendered":"New song: &#8220;He made a way&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;ve been working away at my next book, keeping well ahead of schedule, and decided to take a short break over the Easter holiday to record a song that&#8217;s been rolling about in my head.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The song is called &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.alandmoore.com\/lc\/aud\/Alan%20D%20Moore%20-%20He%20Made%20A%20Way.mp3\">He Made a Way<\/a>&#8221; and you can find it on my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alandmoore.com\/lc\">music page<\/a> in MP3 and Ogg formats.  Unlike most of my recent work, this song isn&#8217;t in an odd meter and doesn&#8217;t use fancy harmonic stuff; instead, I decided to dip my toes into African styles like Soukous and Rumba, because I don&#8217;t think there&#8217;s a happier-sounding style of music on the planet.   Sometimes you just want to write a happy song, you know?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>For those who want some technical details on the recording, here are some notes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The LP aspire cajon was recorded with a piezo pickup on the soundboard mixed with a Peavey SDC a couple feet behind the soundhole.<\/li><li>Additional percussion includes a talking drum, cabasa, and wooden frog, all mic&#8217;ed with the same SDC.<\/li><li>The cymbals are just a hi-hat with the plates separated and loosened so I could treat them like a crash or ride.  Also mic&#8217;d with the SDC.<\/li><li>Bass is my new Ibanez GSR 206 going through a cheap compressor pedal and into a passive DI.<\/li><li>Electric guitars are my trusty Washburn WI-64 going through the same signal path as the bass.  Yep, no POD, no amp, just a bit of compression into the DI.  Sounded more authentic to me.  That chorusy sound is just double-tracking.<\/li><li>The acoustic guitar is an old 12-string with the low-octave strings removed.  Nice little trick I picked up for thick guitar sounds without the thuddy junk in the low-mids.  I think I used the Peavey SDC on this as well.<\/li><li>The flutes are my Clake Sweetone tin whistle.  3 tracks.<\/li><li>All the vocals are just me singing into my AT3035 through an ancient Mackie 1202.  <\/li><li>Everything was tracked and mixed in <a href=\"https:\/\/ardour.org\/\">Ardour 5<\/a> with a few <a href=\"https:\/\/calf-studio-gear.org\/\">Calf Plugins<\/a> for compression, EQ, delay, and reverb.  Effects were used sparingly because my music computer is a Core2Duo piece of junk.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Hope you enjoy the song.  As per my usual, it&#8217;s released under the Creative Commons <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-sa\/4.0\/\">BY-NC-SA 4.0<\/a> license, so feel free to make copies and share it with anyone who might be blessed by it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Happy Easter!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been working away at my next book, keeping well ahead of schedule, and decided to take a short break over the Easter holiday to record a song that&#8217;s been rolling about in my head. 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