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Terra's Theme

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X is blue.

We was never at war, so far as I know!

And if we were, obviously this makes up for it. Details on how it was made plox.

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If you've been mod-o-fied,
It's an illusion, and you're in-between.
Don't you be tarot-fied,
It's just alot of nothing, so what can it mean?
~Frank Zappa

Sins exist only for people who are on the Way or approaching the Way

Recording commenced at 10 am on 8-18-2013.

Final master completed at 1 pm.

This is all physical instruments, and me playing them. There was very little editing done to the cut, and no sequencing.

It was recorded on a Tascam DP-01 FX, by playing along with a live audio capture of the game's music.

This piece means everything to me.

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Oh analog. This is like if Mount Eerie were to do the Terra track. Excellent, sir.

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If you've been mod-o-fied,
It's an illusion, and you're in-between.
Don't you be tarot-fied,
It's just alot of nothing, so what can it mean?
~Frank Zappa

Sins exist only for people who are on the Way or approaching the Way

Domo.

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X is blue.

Interesting take on the snowfields version of Terra's theme. Has a bit of an old western movie feel to it. intriguing ending, too.

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That was really impressive, man. Usually these one-man-band recordings fall apart a little, but that was really tight. Would love to hear a high Q version.

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I fear my heart and fear my soul
Life goes on, it surely will,
Without me and I wonder:
Will I ever see light again?

Life goes on...

...This might be the best I can do with this equipment.

Thank you all for your kind words.

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Please be surly more often

Good job!

Quote (Sherick @ 19th August 2013 13:52)

That was really impressive, man. Usually these one-man-band recordings fall apart a little, but that was really tight. Would love to hear a high Q version.

Death On The Snowfield (Redux)

Ask, and ye shall receive. Remixed the main track to bring out the primary theme more, did some stereo fakery, added some delay/reverb, and I did actually add reinforcement tracks sequenced in my DAW for the drums and bass.

Weird trivia, but YouTube (and most streaming services) have what used to be referred to as a "broadcast standard" level for volume, measured in LUFS (Loudness Units Full Scale). If anything goes over -14 LUFS, these services will compress it down to -14 LUFS. I do not know how I did this, but the original version I recorded back in 2013 met this standard, it was just muddy and kind of badly mixed. I knew very little about recording back in 2013, I'd sort of just gotten started. This version also comes in at around -14.3 LUFS.

And one other thing; at the end you can hear a little "click" and the echo out of the guitar starts warbling like it's a SNES Sound Processor's "modulated reverb..." It bears a striking resemblance to how the last note of the original game's audio fades out. However, this was a complete accident that I will never forget. As I struck the last chord, I instinctively held perfectly still in the swivel chair I was sitting in...and the chair started to rotate, until the cord my guitar was plugged into rested against the fan I had pointed at me (it was hot in that basement), producing this modulation effect on the fadeout. I could not have done that again for a million dollars. It's one of those moments in my life that makes me question whether we have the whole picture of reality. I think they used to be called "Miracles," but I'm choosing to think that Terra Branford may exist in some reality and heard me recording this song, and cast a little spell for me.

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