Nandemoyasan
Standing guard
- AKA
- Johnny
Original 2013 Notes: Recording commenced at 10 am on 8-18-2013. Final master completed at 1 pm. This was all physical instruments, and me playing them. There was very little editing done to the cut, and no sequencing. It was recorded on a Tascam DP-01 FX, by playing along with a live audio capture of the game's music.
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Last night, I remixed the main track to bring out the primary theme more, did some stereo fakery, added some delay/reverb, and I did actually add reinforcement tracks sequenced in my DAW for the drums and bass.
Weird trivia, but YouTube (and most streaming services) have what used to be referred to as a "broadcast standard" level for volume, measured in LUFS (Loudness Units Full Scale). If anything goes over -14 LUFS, these services will compress it down to -14 LUFS. I do not know how I did this, but the original version I recorded back in 2013 met this standard, it was just muddy and kind of badly mixed. I knew very little about recording back in 2013, I'd sort of just gotten started. This version also comes in at around -14.3 LUFS.
And one other thing; at the end you can hear a little "click" and the echo out of the guitar starts warbling like it's a SNES Sound Processor's "modulated reverb..." It bears a striking resemblance to how the last note of the original game's audio fades out. However, this was a complete accident that I will never forget. As I struck the last chord, I instinctively held perfectly still in the swivel chair I was sitting in...and the chair started to rotate, until the cord my guitar was plugged into rested against the fan I had pointed at me (it was hot in that basement), producing this modulation effect on the fadeout. I could not have done that again for a million dollars. It's one of those moments in my life that makes me question whether we have the whole picture of reality. :| I think they used to be called "Miracles," but I'm choosing to think that Terra Branford may exist in some reality and heard me recording this song, and cast a little spell for me.
