Barrett “Dreaming”

Sometimes with digital recording it feels like it all makes sense, sometimes it feels like I’m crawling around a dark room looking for something. This one was tougher to get to a good place than I expected, mostly my mix sounded good, then horrible on other speakers. In an effort to utilize the soft synths and drums I’ve been collecting and tinkering with, I wanted to do a super synthy, dreamy, slow take on Dreaming. The original has a lot going on for being as punk as it is, so I stripped it down. I played the drums on our keyboard, but getting them to work with the vibe took a bit of effects, maybe overdid them but like the warbly sound.

I used a mix of Garageband synths and a mellotron, Dexed, Tal NoiseMaker and Tal Chorus. Drums came from a synthwave plugin, super cheese but worked great.

-Barrett Haroldson