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JEFFREY NORDSTROM

My recordings' uncanny valley.

5/24/2014

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I feel discouraged. I've put a lot of work and time into these songs. I hope to release them in August. I only have a few more people to record. They feel so close.

They don't sound professional, but I can't say they sound particularly amateur either. They kind-of fit in the middle, in the uncanny valley of modern recorded music. They aren't good enough for college radio, but they're not primitive enough to sound like mere demos.

I don't know what to do to fix them. I don't have the technical expertise to know what to do or how to make them sound more real. They sound like professional recordings in the same way that Christian Contemporary Music sounds like mainstream rock and roll, sort of. They feel like an attempt at emulation that misses the mark.
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Above I've posted a mix of "This is the Time." I hope to get my wife to join Nicola's voice, but I bet the song's pretty-much done. 

It sounds rough. I don't really know what to do to fix it. The bass doesn't cut through; the guitars sound kind-of dead; the vocals seem distant. It could rock, but it's missing some essential ingredients. And I'm not talking about the drum machine; the drum machine can rock pretty hard. I'm talking about everything else.
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