tracyshaun

This past weekend, I was really excited to start recording all these songs I wrote in ‘09. I recently found an optimal set-up in my office to record raw acoustic version of all my songs. I’m able to capture the natural sound of my guitar and keep my vocals as unadorned and natural as possible. I’m using my new-ish Zoom H4n and two basic AKG condenser microphones. My office doesn’t have the best acoustics but does provide a decent & natural “room” reverb that the H4n picks up quite well.

The only problem is that it’s not a bona fide studio and there are heaters and dogs and kids and spouse’s electric toothbrushes. They say that only the perfect takes get interrupted. I must be doing really because I’ve yet to be uninterrupted

Having said that, I’m still going to put this one recording out there to get some feedback on the song and on the quality of the sound/recording. There are flaws and the this won’t be the final release, but it’s “good enough” for now.

What do you think?

i didn’t want to drive / through the night for you
with everyone sleeping while I dream

but it had to come to this / speaking to you now
on the road to see you where you lie

oh you know that i don’t cry for you, no
i just want to know why
I was silent the day you fell

you never told me what to wear / what kind of shoes how to part my hair
with my reflection foreign in your eyes

’cause I just wear your life / like a broken melody
with all the changes you have made for me

oh you know that i don’t cry for you, no
i just want to know why
i was silent the day you fell

sleep on the fallen dreams of mine
rest in our undiscovered time

i never saw the sea / so hungry for your breath
the ocean only whispers in the night

and if I give myself to the tide / will you be there in the deep
or will I swim with nothing but the wind

oh you know that i don’t cry for you, no
i just want to know why
i was silent on that day when you fell

sleep on the fallen dreams of mine
rest in our undiscovered time