Symbolic Dog Blues demo, 2nd Solo

Here’s my latest presentable audio. This takes us fully through the second verse, with all vocals mixed, followed by the second instrumental. The character dialog that belongs in the instrumental is muted for now, because I still have a lot of outtakes to sort through.

New to this song? Get up to speed here. You can skip the video, come back, and continue.

Sans dialog, you’ll need to know that the blowing sound and “duck call,” shortly after Brit finishes singing the second verse, is Jimbob trying out the Kazooka. He figures it out quickly and proceeds to compete with the guitar.

We are still doing the shtick with the interrupting guitar, and I think I’ve pulled it off better this time. Still not ideal, but I’m hoping to improve it a little (mixing-wise) with each demo. It will make more sense when the rest of the dialog shows up.

Don’t miss the bass! Use headphones or external speakers.

Next, I have to deal with all those dialog outtakes, and then I get to record the third and final verse. Jimbob will take a turn singing, and then Brit will grab the guitar and jam until he has knocked Jimbob’s socks off. Or something. In any case, despite the slow-grind tempo (60 bpm !!), we will crank it up a notch.

And, I’ll restring the guitar for Brit. The strings you are hearing so far are (I think) the same ones I used to record the Banemana demo of Feb. 2008, and they were already dead then! I actually had to shift the tuning several times to bring various sections of the guitar neck into tune for various passages. It will be worth it, though, when Brit comes on the scene with his shiny new guitar sound.

I can’t wait to be done—will likely be dancing in the streets after the final mix! This song is fun, but after months of the slow grind, it will be nice to have a change.