{"id":1061,"date":"2011-01-31T15:49:10","date_gmt":"2011-01-31T15:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nargalzius.com\/blog\/archives\/2011\/01\/31\/closer-to-the-edge\/"},"modified":"2017-02-08T05:52:58","modified_gmt":"2017-02-08T05:52:58","slug":"closer-to-the-edge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/archives\/2011\/01\/31\/closer-to-the-edge","title":{"rendered":"Closer to the Edge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A quickie recording &#8211; didn&#8217;t really spend much time mixing it properly. Partly because the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=b_FKHrOkj_w\">backing track<\/a> I filched from the net sucked, so I kinda lost the motivation along the way hehehe.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<!-- iframe plugin v.5.1 wordpress.org\/plugins\/iframe\/ -->\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/306054111%3Fsecret_token%3Ds-Ukqsb&#038;color=ff5500&#038;auto_play=false&#038;hide_related=false&#038;show_comments=true&#038;show_user=true&#038;show_reposts=false\" class=\"iframe-class\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p>The reason I tried it though was for three things:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>\n<p>I wanted to see if the [Shure] Beta58 could be used for my vocal recordings. While it&#8217;s an inferior mic compared to the AKGs I&#8217;m using, it does have a great polar pattern to block out the noise that comes from the road beside my room which would mean less EQing\/noise-gating to get the sound I need&#8230; assuming, of course, I could even do it.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>A couple of the plugins I use particularly for my vocal tracks have been discontinued, and are now incompatible with the 64bit Windows 7 environment I&#8217;m running Sonar on. So I&#8217;m trying some plugins that come stock with Sonar in the hopes to get a sound I like&#8230; and hopefully future-proof my vocal workflow while I&#8217;m at it.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>I wanted to see if I can actually <strong>sing<\/strong> a <em>30 Seconds to Mars<\/em> song. I love the band, and idolize their vocalist &#8211; I wish I could even sing 1\/8 as good as Mr. Leto.<!--more--><!-- \/\/ --><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Here are the lyrics in case you&#8217;re interested.<\/p>\n<h1>Closer to the Edge<\/h1>\n<p>I don&#8217;t remember the moment; I tried to forget;<br \/>\nI lost myself &#8211; is it better not said?<br \/>\nNow I&#8217;m closer to the edge <\/p>\n<p>It was a thousand to one; and a million to two<br \/>\nTime to go down in flames; and I&#8217;m taking you<br \/>\nCloser to the edge <\/p>\n<p>No, I&#8217;m not saying I&#8217;m sorry<br \/>\nOne day maybe we&#8217;ll meet again<br \/>\nNo, I&#8217;m not saying I&#8217;m sorry<br \/>\nOne day maybe we&#8217;ll meet again  <\/p>\n<p>Can you imagine a time when the truth ran free<br \/>\nThe birth of a song and the death of a dream<br \/>\nCloser to the edge  <\/p>\n<p>This never ending story<br \/>\nPaid for with pride and fate<br \/>\nWe all fall short of glory<br \/>\nLost in ourselves<\/p>\n<p>I will never forget<br \/>\nI will never regret<br \/>\nI will live my life <\/p>\n<p>Closer to the edge<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A quickie recording &#8211; didn&#8217;t really spend much time mixing it properly. Partly because the backing track I filched from the net sucked, so I kinda lost the motivation along the way hehehe. The reason I tried it though was for three things: I wanted to see if the [Shure] Beta58 could be used for &hellip; <p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/archives\/2011\/01\/31\/closer-to-the-edge\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Closer to the Edge&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,8],"tags":[754,803],"class_list":["post-1061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-music","tag-media","tag-music"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1061"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1622,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1061\/revisions\/1622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}