Baby, It's Cold Outside (2013)

O Come O Come Emmanuel (2014)

Covers: Hardcore

Jaundice MIX 1.5.18

Maybe my favorite song that Micah has written.  I was in recording school at the time, so I thought it would be cool to take two condenser mics out to the street and record cars going by and put that under the music.  I guess it wasn't a terrible idea, but still a bit over the top.  Justin Schipper (Josh Turner Band) played steel on this.

We used to joke about how so many of Micah's songs sounded sad, and how someone who didn't know him would think he had the worst life ever.

God's Lonely Man - "My Fall" - S/T EP - 2006

Nathan recorded this song with Andrew Collins.  I love how haunting and brooding it is, because I love music like that.  I also love the guitar tone.  I had actually left my amp (Bad Cat Cub II) and Telecaster at Andrew's house, and they used that.  When I heard it, I figured it was mine, but was excited at how well they had dialed in the tone.

Nathan Edwin - "Old Days" - Willow Spillow - 2011

After mastering several different projects for the Burnt Toast Vinyl label, Scott Hatch (label owner) asked me if I'd be interested in doing the new (at the time, obviously) Unwed Sailor record.  Obviously I said yes.

It was a bit weird, because even though I wasn't a huge Unwed Sailor fan, I'd completely idolized Jonathan Ford for one of his previous projects, Mr. Bishop's Fist.  Anyway, I got the mixes from the engineer and started working.  I noticed that on three of the tracks, the pitch of the snare was especially low.  I chalked it up to creativity and sent off the tracks for approval.  Jonathan texted me back and said that things sounded good, but that some of the tracks sounded "too slow."  At that point, wheel started turning, and I realized that the engineer had sent 3 of the files in 48 kHz sampling rate.  When I loaded them into my mastering template (which is set at 44.1 kHz), my DAW automatically slowed them down, which is why the snare sounded so low pitched.  Everything else would've sounded low as well, but I noticed it specifically on the snare, for whatever reason.

Anyway, I finished it.  In hindsight, I'm not especially thrilled with my work, but I'm also not thrilled with the original mixes or the recordings.  It's mostly the drum sounds that bother me.  They're not bad at all, but they're just not what I would've chosen.  A few months after I did this, Foxhole (the band I'd recently left) played with Unwed Sailor, and I filled in for them (Foxhole, not Unwed Sailor).  I talked to Jonathan about the masters and he seemed to be happy with them, but obviously he probably would've been too nice to tell me if he wasn't.

Unwed Sailor - "Little Wars" - Little Wars - 2007

Every year, I get together with some friends and record a Christmas song.  I do the engineering/production work and play drums, bass, and guitar.  My friends Nathan, Zach, Lisa, Dave, Jamie, Andrew, and Matt have done vocals, keys, cello, trumpet, and violin.

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