These weeks seem to be flying by! The latest Song Assignment is up and ready for your ears: http://songassignment.wordpress.com/
Please listen and let us know what you think.
Thanks!
Tag Archives: home studio
This Week’s Theme: Dogs
We’re not really sure why, but somehow we ended up writing about dogs this time-I think it was Dave’s idea. Anyhow, you can listen to them both at http://songassignment.wordpress.com/ and tell us who’s got the best bark. And we’d love it if you dropped us an idea for our next assignments! 
Posted in Recording, Song Assignment
Tagged biscuits, Dave Millar, David Millar, dog, electric guitar, guitar, home made recordings, home recording, home studio, Lindsay West, love stop repeat, microphone, mixing, music, recording, shop, tracks, Vladimir Lad
Sweets for My Sweet
This week we’ve written about candy-so you can get over your Easter chocolate hangover to the sweeeeet sounds of our favourite edible delights. Many thanks to special guest Little Pebble who came up with the idea and has joined in for this one: http://songassignment.wordpress.com/
Posted in Recording, Song Assignment
Tagged allan oates, candy, chocolate, Dave Millar, David Millar, fence collective, home made recordings, home recording, home studio, Lindsay West, little pebble, love stop repeat, microphone, mixing, music, piano, song assignment, sugar, sweets, tracks, Vladimir Lad, white mice
SA No. 11-Cover the Song That Was No. 1 on the Day You Were Born
This was a very difficult one for me, as I felt I couldn’t possibly do justice to Spandau Ballet’s original “True”. I did my best and tried to stay with the 80s synth vibe, but discovered there’s no way I can sing like Tony Hadley. If you follow the link, you can listen to my effort and also DM’s “Bright Eyes” by Art Garfunkel. Who knew that we were born with such classics playing in the background?
Posted in Recording, Song Assignment
Tagged 80s Hit, cover, cover version, Dave Millar, David Millar, home made recordings, home recording, home studio, Lindsay West, love stop repeat, microphone, mixing, music, piano, recording, song assignment, Spandau Ballet, Tony Hadley, tracks, True, Vladimir Lad
New Song Assignment-lets paint!
Just a quick note to say that Wednesday has rolled around again and this week we are both on time with our homework! You can listen here:
http://songassignment.wordpress.com/
ps this is by Howard Hodgkin
Looking for new ideas
Does anyone have any ideas for our Song Assignments? So far we’ve covered lullabies, cooking recipes, birds, newspaper articles, buildings , plants and secret places. You can see it’s pretty varied, so if you have any inclination to hear your imaginings put to music, please get in touch here or at http://songassignment.wordpress.com/
Thank you!
Mixing…
Today I spent the morning mixing and polishing up four songs with Dave Millar, who has been instrumental in helping me to record a new demo/EP. I listened to them in the car on the way home below the rumble of the motorway, and I’m really looking forward to putting them up. They’re not quite finished yet, but I hope that they’ll be ready in the next couple of weeks. In the meantime, I will leave you with a couple of photos of my “vocal booth”, built from half a gazebo and some duvets, as well as an upright bed. It may not be Abbey Road, but it works.
Posted in Recording
Tagged Dave Millar, David Millar, home made recordings, home recording, home studio, Lindsay West, love stop repeat, microphone, mixing, music, piano, recording, tracks, Vladimir Lad
Yum! another Song Assignment up and ready…
Yes this week it is about making food, so listen after lunch to avoid hunger pangs. Dave has written a sexy little number about making pasta for his friends, while I have composed a Sesame St.-esque ode to baking chocolate cookies. Enjoy! And vote for whichever sounds the most delicious…
Recording Piano
Over the past few weeks, Dave Millar and I have been working on recording four of my songs to make an ep that will hopefully be ready very soon. It’s been lot of fun and we can’t wait to get them finished! I posted some pictures up of Tommy Field doing some drumming a week or so ago so I thought I’d post up some more photos of how we’ve been getting on lately…
Here’s me looking like a rabbit in the headlights at the piano-this often happens when a camera is pointed at me, even when Dave is behind it:
This was about a week ago, when Dave’s family were kind enough to let us take over their living room for a couple of days. Mabel the cat has also been involved, and even accidentally got herself recorded when she couldn’t find her way out of the room and yowled at the end of a take. We’re still deciding if we should keep that on the track…
Finally, I couldn’t let Dave get away with not having his photo on this blog, so here he is posing at the piano
More coming soon!
Posted in Recording
Tagged cat, Dave Millar, EP, home recording, home studio, Lindsay West, love stop repeat, microphone, music, piano, recording, tracks, Vladimir Lad
Lindsay West 