After recording The Cow Song and sharing it on Bandcamp the following day, I have returned to and simplified the mix. It has a shorter, quieter reverb, and there are no doubles on any of the vocals now. I often double vocals in choruses - a common production trick - but on this, it sounded better with single vocals, so that’s how it is now. You could say I over-produced it on the first day and then went back and removed the unnecessary bits. We live and learn, us hoomans. I like it much better this way. You can hear the final mix if you like, same place as before:
Two more steps before we release our Cow hero into the streaming music wilderness!
Artwork
Audio mastering
Indeed I sent The Cow Song to Shannon Wheeler, and indeed he made some drawings, even WHILE working on his Too Much Coffee Man, the Original Comic Books 1-9 project AND running a Kickstarter campaign for it! A couple of my tunes are background music in videos he made to promote the campaign on Tiktok and places. It’s a thrill and honor for me, as an avid TMCM fan. Let’s see if I can embed one here..
Ah! That seems to work.
So, amid all that activity, Mr. Wheeler sent me three Cow drawings and the issue is, I really love all of them. We have meditating cow, director’s chair cow, and director’s chair Too Much Coffee Cow(!!) I think I’ve already decided which one to use for the single “record cover” for the song in Pandora and Apple Music and Spotify and such. But this fine Caturday morning I’m sharing all three, for funsies. These make me happy.
Last stop for The Cow Song, before international streaming grazing, is audio mastering. That essential and esoteric mysterious witch-stew of compressing the stereo mix just so, before calling it donesies, oh my. It’s in artful and expert hands.
More exciting news to follow in another mewsletter this very weekend, about a new album from none other than Dave Seabury! We have been busy Berkeley Cats, yes we have.
VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE VOTE,
Dinksy