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00:00:31:17 Hi I am Laurence Currie
00:00:32:29 And I am Moe berg. Welcome to Master Tracks.
00:00:34:23 Today in the studio we've got the rock band Drive Faster.
00:00:37:25 They're going to do the song Analog
00:00:40:00 and we're here at Metal Works.
00:00:42:15 We've got one day to do it so let us get them in here.
00:00:52:19 We were Supernal for about 7 years
00:00:55:11 and we decided to change the name
00:00:57:02 and have a new sound
00:00:58:11 and it is a name that people can
00:00:59:28 pronounce better than our last name
00:01:01:28 and that is our new band
00:01:03:22 so we are pretty fresh as far as that goes.
00:01:05:28 Like the new band is like new name
00:01:07:07 this is kind of like the first thing
00:01:08:15 we've been doing since the new year.
00:01:10:23 This singer is great. Really good singer!
00:01:16:07 And it is a good vocal track.
00:01:23:23 So we'll kind of create some dynamics in this verse.
00:01:26:16 Verse maybe will not be quite as busy.
00:01:28:22 We'll move that stuff into a second verse and...
00:01:30:11 Are you keeping all the off beats and stuff
00:01:34:24 with the hats and the verse or is it pretty straightened out?
00:01:38:18 Well, it was kind of like to be
00:01:40:13 let him do at least one little fun thing in the song.
00:01:44:11 No!
00:01:45:20 Because the rest of it, I think that beat is going to be really
00:01:48:03 straightened out in this. -Great!
00:01:50:01 So that it rocks a little harder!
00:01:51:18 Yeah!
00:01:53:08 We're doing a song called Analog.
00:01:55:07 That one was written was a co-write... probably we wrote it
00:02:00:06 within the last six months or so.
00:02:02:14 We re-wrote it a couple of times like
00:02:04:29 the chorus has been re-written like I think twice.
00:02:07:22 The song actually came together with a guitar-line I wrote.
00:02:11:24 It was probably like 3 years ago
00:02:13:08 and we just kind of hung on to it.
00:02:15:06 It was the original...
00:02:16:17 [Guitar playing]
00:02:24:13 -Morning! -Morning!
00:02:27:25 The song is kind of about... like if you go into the lyrics
00:02:30:04 it is kind of about being in a big city
00:02:34:03 and being overwhelmed and kind of being like,
00:02:38:02 how do I fit into this big city you know I am still Analog.
00:02:40:28 It is like everybody is like ahead of me, you know.
00:02:43:18 And that is kind of what the song is about.
00:02:45:12 So that is the song we're doing.
00:02:46:28 So we're really excited to have you guys on today.
00:02:49:00 It is going to be great!
00:02:50:08 So yeah we're just kind of like straighten it out a bit,
00:02:52:07 I think the song is pretty together already.
00:02:54:12 So we'll just straighten it out a bit like we're going to get a
00:02:57:09 little bit more of a straight ahead beat and just kind of do a
00:03:01:07 couple of things and create some dynamics...
00:03:02:18 because a lot of excitement off the top of the song,
00:03:04:06 so we want to keep that excitement
00:03:05:13 going through the whole song.
00:03:07:00 So it should be pretty good, pretty easy.
00:03:10:08 Yeah you guys rock!
00:03:11:10 As long as you guys are awesome, we'll be awesome.
00:03:13:26 Make the arrangement a bit, it'll all be good!
00:03:15:22 Let us get in there.
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00:03:33:25 So Lawrence is in the live room now,
00:03:36:18 setting up with the band and getting them organized.
00:03:38:08 I think today, this song is pretty simple.
00:03:40:28 They're a young band so we're kind of trying to keep things
00:03:42:28 as simple as possible.
00:03:43:29 I think that'll be the challenge today
00:03:44:29 is to make sure that the band is giving their chance
00:03:48:00 to succeed today.
00:03:49:05 So we'll keep things simple, simplify the arrangement,
00:03:51:27 simplify everyone's parts
00:03:53:17 and I think we should probably do something really well.
00:03:55:13 It is a really good song
00:03:56:28 so I think it should go really well today.
00:04:01:03 Okay how are we doing guys?
00:04:02:17 -Good to go, I think! -Mike you ready to go?
00:04:05:13 [Music]
00:04:16:28 We've been working on a record actually the past year.
00:04:19:13 We've been writing and
00:04:20:14 we've been in a couple of different studios
00:04:22:16 and grappling with what is our sound
00:04:24:20 and that kind of thing.
00:04:25:20 And that is where the name change kind of came from too
00:04:28:06 let us narrow down our sound so it is not like,
00:04:31:18 we sound like this band and this band and this band.
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00:00:04:19 We've worked with a few producers in the past,
00:00:06:05 the biggest thing that you want to look for...
00:00:09:06 the obvious thing is just like...
00:00:10:16 they're kind of like the fifth member in the band,
00:00:12:11 if you have four member or whatever, right.
00:00:14:04 So, you have to get along, that is the most important thing.
00:00:17:06 You want to respect their space
00:00:20:26 and they respect yours but also...
00:00:22:13 you know when you are working in a collaboration
00:00:24:21 it is really important to get along on a personal level
00:00:28:05 but after that you want to dig their style.
00:00:31:08 So ya I am...
00:00:32:26 in that verse, I mean in the pre-chorus, I am not sure...
00:00:36:10 like in every once in a while you all kind of go,
00:00:37:19 you just do a one because I think
00:00:39:10 what you're doing where you're going...
00:00:45:12 and once like...
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00:00:53:02 Well, Moe was kind of listening
00:00:54:26 as I was over kind of... warming up and everything
00:00:58:07 and he was going through the parts
00:00:59:20 and listening to them and he mentioned certain changes
00:01:02:05 or certain things I missed while we were recording.
00:01:06:28 Very good ear!
00:01:08:07 I agreed with everything he said.
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00:01:15:08 This song Analog is kind of that up-beat,
00:01:18:12 fu-fighteresque, funky, rock 'n roll loud song.
00:01:23:07 Basically it is just three minutes of blare rock loud.
00:01:27:09 Specifically this song was very interesting actually that
00:01:29:29 Moe chose this song, when he picked this one really, Oh Cool!
00:01:32:19 because now it is like someone you know,
00:01:35:14 with the history and respect, you know what we want,
00:01:37:22 to hear what he has to say because
00:01:40:14 it is funny out of all the songs this was the one
00:01:42:11 we're like we don't fuck a damn.
00:01:44:08 As like we don't know anyone about the parts
00:01:46:08 and also he just came
00:01:48:01 and it was the easiest pre-production session ever.
00:01:50:19 He just came and he heard all the parts and he was like...
00:01:55:05 we were like... it was like all... it was all good.
00:01:58:00 So another thing is I feel like going in from
00:02:00:28 the pre-chorus into the chorus.
00:02:02:19 So I don't know if it is like...
00:02:04:04 not nothing really busy but just something to signal
00:02:06:17 that we're going into the chorus.
00:02:08:04 Do you want to just...
00:02:09:13 -Try something? -Try something!
00:02:10:17 Just try something right now like.
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00:02:27:07 I like the second one.
00:02:28:13 Yeah! Yeah! It is good! It is good!
00:02:30:07 Alright, we got this.
00:02:33:02 And it was funny because
00:02:34:20 he kind of brought it back to what it was originally
00:02:37:23 because I think with us trying to rearrange it too much...
00:02:40:19 any band, well any guy,
00:02:42:11 any person, girl, guy, girl, dog, cat
00:02:45:05 who is in a band will know that if you over produce
00:02:48:04 something it gets kind of shitty.
00:02:49:27 Okay so we just finished up with Mike on the drums.
00:02:53:13 He did really well, we just got to edit a few pieces together,
00:02:57:07 fix up little fill here or there
00:03:01:18 and once that is all done we'll move on to the bass.
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00:03:25:03 Like I've never really done anything like this before
00:03:26:22 so I was kind of walking to it a little blindly
00:03:29:07 and just you know, just to really tell me, you really.
00:03:32:22 In the intro and re-intro when they're doing the shots...
00:03:37:22 it might be good for you to follow that...
00:03:43:23 Yeah, okay!
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00:03:57:00 For this song the bass line is incredibly simple like...
00:04:00:06 and that is just the way the song is.
00:04:02:05 It is what the song needs it just needs a steady renotes.
00:04:07:02 Pretty much about the whole thing
00:04:08:16 and the funny thing about song is
00:04:10:11 we rarely actually play the first beat of a bar
00:04:13:27 so we'll always skip it, so it'll be like...
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00:04:20:28 and that is about as interesting as it gets.
00:04:22:14 So we just did Jon's bass part he did a really great job.
00:04:25:20 We decided to change a few things,
00:04:27:04 get him a little bit tighter with the drums
00:04:28:15 and now that we've got that we're going to
00:04:30:08 set up for Angela and she is going to do some rhythm guitar.
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00:04:43:17 I play a song guitar.
00:04:44:27 It is a local Calgarian company.
00:04:48:12 So it is from Calgary where I am from.
00:04:50:22 But I got this guitar made for me actually;
00:04:54:02 it is hand-made for me... it is kind of
00:04:56:19 I didn't know it was going to turn out so pink
00:04:57:23 but I actually really-really like it now
00:04:59:17 I used to hate pink and I am like all over it.
00:05:01:28 The kick drum part, you have to play more.
00:05:03:24 One more! Okay!
00:05:05:02 So I think what we're also going to do
00:05:07:05 is we're going to have you, like you know,
00:05:08:24 from the intro and the re-intro, you go...
00:05:13:21 we'll get you play that chord into that thing
00:05:15:00 and we'll kind of...
00:05:16:09 Okay so play the D and then it'll kind of like fade out?
00:05:18:28 So the intro of the song goes with a lot of the hits
00:05:21:01 with the cymbal so...
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00:05:34:07 and then the verse is pretty basic.
00:05:36:01 It is just like some clean, but we're always pushing
00:05:38:00 it always it was on the earth not on the one.
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00:05:48:08 And in the chorus,
00:05:51:07 same thing, it is always a lot of pushes...
00:05:57:16 we always change it to the D which is the part of it...
00:06:00:27 [Music]
00:06:04:27 and then back to the intro.
00:06:06:14 So we just finished Angela's guitar part.
00:06:08:16 We split in to two parts for the
00:06:10:20 first one it'll be a little bit more of a clean sound for her.
00:06:14:06 So we did it sort of step by step.
00:06:16:05 She is a very good guitar player so it went down actually
00:06:18:16 very-very easy and we're going to start
00:06:21:00 Tony's guitar in a minute.
00:06:23:09 So everything is going really well.
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00:00:04:08 It is great to have someone who can
00:00:05:14 pick out all the little details of you know how we're playing,
00:00:09:05 everything down to like the high hat
00:00:11:08 how it is going to play out with the rest of the music,
00:00:13:21 things that we don't, you know we kind of glance over
00:00:16:09 when we're writing the song because it is
00:00:17:21 easier to not nick-pick and not getting anything done.
00:00:21:06 So it is good for the producer to come in
00:00:23:05 and kind of iron in all the details.
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00:00:29:28 This is the Goat-head guitar; this is kind of my main guitar.
00:00:34:08 But in a... it was a little too much of bite
00:00:37:28 and it didn't really lay in the track really well
00:00:39:17 so we used for the bed tracks, just a rhythm guitar,
00:00:42:18 we use Les Paul.
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00:00:51:13 Then we switched to Moe's strat for the lead work.
00:00:54:27 Let us do this over-done.
00:00:56:22 Yeah! Work it hard!
00:00:58:08 So we just like, switch over to like,
00:01:00:02 my strat or the other start or...?
00:01:02:13 Sure! I am more worried about the distortion out there.
00:01:06:00 it might actually, believe it or not
00:01:07:11 it have to be a little cleaner for this...
00:01:10:28 That is what you are talking about, don't you?
00:01:12:00 No, I am talking about that...
00:01:15:01 So I don't know what that part is.
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00:01:26:24 Originally we had...
00:01:28:14 we were kind of struggling to find a sound for the...
00:01:30:21 [Music]
00:01:36:05 it is kind of a hook that we repeat throughout the verse
00:01:38:13 and it took us a little while to come up with a sound
00:01:41:13 that was kind of fit in with that part.
00:01:43:26 Just play the part right now as you...
00:01:46:16 as you think it is.
00:01:48:05 Yeah! Just try it!
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00:01:55:24 Try the...
00:01:57:07 Is there a two-note thing?
00:02:01:05 it is just one note there or are you supposed to be playing
00:02:02:29 two notes?
00:02:05:28 Just one note! Okay, yeah! So that is it!
00:02:08:13 And there is a picking part that has to be kind of
00:02:10:27 played along with this...
00:02:11:29 [Music]
00:02:23:26 and it was difficult to kind of find a sound that goes with the
00:02:26:18 picking part and that really aggressive leap part.
00:02:29:27 [Music]
00:02:36:24 Well, we kind of had a rough idea
00:02:39:18 of what we're going to do for the solo.
00:02:41:07 So we just kind of running through different ideas
00:02:45:23 and kind of piece them together with the final
00:02:47:23 so what I was going to do...
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00:02:53:18 Try it one more time?
00:02:57:12 So we just finished doing Tony's guitar.
00:02:58:29 The more we got into the part; we realized that we needed
00:03:02:02 sort of different sounds for different sections
00:03:03:17 of what he played.
00:03:05:07 So, one guitar part it turned into
00:03:07:13 about four different guitar parts.
00:03:08:27 But we had them all and it sounds great
00:03:11:08 and we're going to move on to vocals.
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00:03:37:00 Great!
00:03:37:29 Wonderful-wonderful performance!
00:03:39:17 -Thank you! -Delightful!
00:03:41:01 This is so fun!
00:03:42:24 This is like my favorite part of the whole thing,
00:03:44:19 So Yay! Yay for me!
00:03:49:12 Well Moe is just coming up to try to give you a few notes
00:03:51:07 and a prep talk.
00:03:52:29 Okay one thing...
00:03:54:03 you know when you do the...
00:03:57:13 there is one you do in the re-entry
00:03:58:28 and there is one you do in the solo.
00:04:00:11 I think it is just too much I am still analog
00:04:02:16 I think we should lose those!
00:04:04:07 Okay!
00:04:05:10 But honestly I can't think of anything else,
00:04:07:14 everything else sounded just great!
00:04:09:13 Okay! So they're like the tags after the chorus...
00:04:11:20 There is two of them! You want to lose those?
00:04:13:28 Yeah! Okay! We're doing great!
00:04:16:00 So, you like at the end where...
00:04:18:27 like I am switching to the 'roll on and on'...
00:04:20:11 And we'll double them after?
00:04:21:22 Well, no! I think it'll go roll on and on
00:04:23:16 and that song will end with...
00:04:26:08 but when you go roll on and on we'll still have
00:04:28:10 I am still analog underneath that.
00:04:29:21 So we'll just record another one or you know maybe grab one...
00:04:32:12 Okay! So what I am doing is good?
00:04:33:15 Just do it the way you are doing.
00:04:35:00 Yeah because I kind of like that to be this sort of main lead...
00:04:36:12 lead vocal thing.
00:04:37:26 And then the I am still analog will be underneath it.
00:04:40:17 Okay! Okay! Cool!
00:04:42:01 Okay! Cool!
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00:05:11:10 So I just want to ask you about two things,
00:05:13:07 one this doesn't... like how do you sing that.
00:05:16:04 It kind of sounded... it sounds a little crackly in there.
00:05:17:29 But I am not sure if that is just some kind of
00:05:19:20 vocal infection thing.
00:05:22:15 I am not trying to.
00:05:24:07 Okay! Because both times you've done it...
00:05:25:28 it sounded a little garbly or something.
00:05:32:08 Okay! It is just supposed to be normal.
00:05:34:00 I wasn't intending to so, okay!
00:05:37:28 Okay my hand is here, never hear the H...
00:05:42:05 It just says 'My ands' and it sounds a little funny.
00:05:45:11 -H the hands, okay! -H the hands! That is it!
00:05:47:03 You're doing great! Really good!
00:05:48:16 Thanks! I've been waiting all day to sing, I love it!
00:05:52:08 So we just finished vocals with Angela.
00:05:53:23 She did a wonderful job. Just amazing!
00:05:56:14 Yeah! One of the most outstanding vocal performances
00:05:58:07 we've had the history of Master Tracks.
00:06:00:02 Yeah! Wayne is just putting together the final copy of it
00:06:03:11 which shouldn't take long at all.
00:06:05:01 And it is going to be great.
00:06:06:25 And then Lawrence is going to mix.
00:06:08:22 Exactly!
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00:00:04:15 Moe and Lawrence are great to work with!
00:00:06:09 They've been like amazing, I wish we could just like
00:00:08:25 record for the next month.
00:00:10:01 So if you guys are listening No I am just kidding.
00:00:13:06 But it was really-really fun.
00:00:14:29 The process was really clean simple
00:00:18:14 and the changes I am really happy with
00:00:20:19 and like Yay! for Dry Faster. Yay!
00:00:27:08 Alright so now we're mixing,
00:00:29:14 where have mixed the tune Analog and
00:00:31:28 it is pretty straight ahead modern rock tune.
00:00:36:02 It is got a lot of guitars on it and loud bass and drums.
00:00:40:11 So let us take a listen.
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00:00:46:18 Got a riff right off the top!
00:00:48:16 [Music]
00:00:51:17 Drums come in!
00:00:53:28 And then bang!
00:00:55:18 [Music]
00:01:01:01 And that is several electric guitars, bass mostly the amp
00:01:09:28 and the vocals are in.
00:01:11:25 [Music]
00:01:16:18 Now we have a little riff here. Did you put this riff in?
00:01:19:29 -When you worked with the band? -This was there!
00:01:21:08 This was there originally?
00:01:22:22 I mean the real magic with this song is the vocal.
00:01:24:26 I mean the vocalist is just so outstanding.
00:01:27:15 The singer, Angela, is just great.
00:01:29:02 It is like you almost get a rush when
00:01:30:29 when you're recording somebody like that.
00:01:32:19 I don't know how you feel but it is like...
00:01:33:29 you know with live recording, it is like hard work,
00:01:35:23 you're trying to encourage the people who're playing to like,
00:01:39:00 you know, be at the top of their game.
00:01:40:08 It is not like play it.
00:01:41:11 it is like play it as good as you've ever played it.
00:01:43:06 Well yeah and almost any take she sang we could've used.
00:01:46:25 Yeah, yeah and so that when you get some of that comes in
00:01:48:11 and she is like so great
00:01:49:16 it is almost like a rush,
00:01:51:04 it is almost like having a drink or something.
00:01:52:26 You just get this feeling of well-being all over your cyclone
00:01:55:28 listening to someone who is really-really great,
00:01:57:29 doing something really great.
00:01:59:03 It is more like you are listening to
00:02:00:26 -the best stereo ever. -Yeah exactly!
00:02:03:02 That is a good analogy.
00:02:04:14 Well they... usually what you're doing
00:02:07:08 when you're playing live is either
00:02:09:18 you're playing the entire song in one sound
00:02:11:10 or your stepping on pedal here and there and that is just
00:02:13:28 that is not you can really do in a recording situation.
00:02:16:09 So we had to sort of like break things into chunks and say
00:02:19:02 okay what is the sound they're going to work for this
00:02:21:00 and so for each sort of part of the song Lawrence
00:02:23:08 would come up with a different guitar sound and so.
00:02:26:00 But altogether it really sounds great.
00:02:27:24 It does sort of sound like a guy is just kind of stepping on
00:02:29:27 pedals and Angela is kind of stepping on...
00:02:31:15 But that is what took time too.
00:02:33:01 It took a little while to fine-tune all the sounds,
00:02:35:01 they'd actually work with one another and yeah...
00:02:38:26 That was a big job with this one!
00:02:41:02 [Music]
00:02:44:17 Guitar is solo sort of!
00:02:46:20 [Music]
00:02:49:19 The guitar solo was kind of a tricky thing to try and get.
00:02:52:00 The guitar player was playing something really
00:02:53:29 bluesy kind of guitar so it didn't really
00:02:56:10 it didn't really sound like it'd fit in the song.
00:02:58:19 It wasn't really modern rock sounding.
00:02:59:27 Guitar solo so such a tricky thing now
00:03:02:25 so I was kind of trying to get him into play
00:03:04:27 something that sounded a little more modern.
00:03:06:23 In the context of the song maybe...
00:03:08:19 -A little more riffy than... -Yeah!
00:03:10:08 Little more like Fu-fighteresque like you know I don't know,
00:03:13:11 like zapping or something.
00:03:14:26 Yeah I mean... I think this sort of illustrates the
00:03:17:22 magic of the studio because it is like,
00:03:19:26 we listen to a song, it just sounds
00:03:21:23 like they just jammed it out in that live room.
00:03:23:16 But it really was kind of pain-staking process to get.
00:03:26:05 And again it wasn't the playing or the singing,
00:03:28:10 everybody performed really-really well
00:03:30:06 but it is just like, we really sort of had to
00:03:31:28 sort of meticulously get all these parts together
00:03:34:19 to make it sound like this.
00:03:36:12 Well, it is also the part of the genre too.
00:03:38:01 It is like, it is got to feel energetic
00:03:40:17 and live but at the same time
00:03:42:08 it has to have a certain amount of polish to it.
00:03:44:08 So, you know, you don't want to be hearing mistakes
00:03:47:03 all over it or anything.
00:03:48:08 You want it to be a great performance
00:03:50:09 that the band is happy with.
00:03:51:26 I think we got it.
00:03:53:16 Yeah! Yeah! this track sounds great a lot!
00:03:55:17 Fantastic
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