erlkönig wrote: ↑Fri Aug 04, 2023 4:08 pm
What a great music! I really like every song.
Thank you !
"Drummer in a bluesband" 
My drummer is an old friend, I wrote the song for fun. He loves it.
What does it mean, if a licence plate is orange?
These days it's more likely to indicate that the car is from New York. But my song is about a practice by a local court here in Ohio. Some years ago a municipal court judge decided that if you were caught driving drunk the city would put orange license plates on any vehicle you might still be allowed to drive. Alas, they discontinued the practice - perhaps too many "better" citizens were embarrassed - but for a while we all knew who got caught.
"It takes a long hard time to make a cold hard man" really strong and impressive! Is there a story behind the lyrics of the song?
It's inspired by The Road, a novel by Cormac McCarthy, but it's not taken from any particular scene or passage in the book. The century could be any, 1923, 1723, 2123. Likewise, the location could be anywhere. The overall grimness implies some sort of unspecified disaster, as in The Road.
The recordings sound very consistent, did you track and mix them in a bunch, or where they done over the years?
They represent activity over the last 20 years, plus or minus. The recording circumstances vary. Some use MIDI-based instrumentation, some don't. The guitar parts were all performed, ditto the harmonica. Some of the bass parts are MIDI, some are live recordings.
I mixed the collection in Mixbus32C. Most tracks required some attention to levels, compression, and EQ. I must say that the Mixbus channel controls are outstanding.
Again, really great! Thanks for sharing.
My pleasure. Thank you for listening, I'm glad you enjoyed the tunes.
Best regards,
dp
