| Navane said: Wow, I'm really surprised with the quality of the song! I'm not a supporter of drugs, but I thought that the song is really, really good. The quality of the production is very good, and sounds like it's been professionally mixed. If you did the mixing yourself, you definitely have some serious talent.
And now I got the song stuck in my head..."I do a doobie." |
I think it's more a matter of me doing it for a long long time. I started out recording to a simple 2 track cassette deck and by necessity using y-cable splitters and using a second cassette deck plugged in to the left or right channel to overdub, and to get stereo reverb images and such, then I moved on and bought a Tascam 424 4-track multitrack recorder so I didn't have to do weird cable splitting and stuff, then a Tascam 488 8-track multitrack recorder, then finally a Roland VS1680 hard disk 16-track multitrack, which is already over 10 year old technology but it still works for me. Nowadays, for most music producers it's all software based DAWs like ProTools, etc.
It still takes a long time to do stuff like Do a Doobie. For example, at times in this song, there are 5 vocal parts going on at once (melodies, harmonies, answer lines/countermelodies), and for each of those 5 vocal parts, I quadrupled each part, which means I sang each part 4 times to give each vocal part a really thick sound, then panned them slightly off from each other in the stereo field. That takes a while to do that and to get it to sound right.
