Clockwork

I've had a terrible cold/flu for about a month.  I bought myself a new guitar (Simon & Patrick acoustic) and a new microphone (Rodes NT1A) just before I got sick.  I've been dying to put them to (good) use.  The rhythm came off the S&P acoustic one evening then I finished off the rest the next morning, using some of the grandkids' shaker toys for percussion!!!  This was a blast to put together.  First time using a djembe and first offering using a harmonica.

As for the song, well it is just about relationships and how usually one person becomes more dominant which makes it (sometimes) frustrating for the other.  Pent up frustration leads to saying mean things.  Saying things which one regrets almost immediately but you can never truly take it back (and have it all forgotten).  Been there.  Done that.  Have the bloody t-shirt.  

Can’t Take It Back
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Been on the road for
So many nights
How I miss
Our warm bed
And I know I can’t take back
All those things I said

I’m just too old
For you to be so young
I can’t turn back
The hands of time.
All I can do is make you listen
To my tearful rhyme.

[SOLO]

Oh how I miss your eyes
And the gentle way
You caress
During the deep dark night.
Yet I stand here alone and no way
To put things right.

Been on the road and
I’m so damn tired
Wishing I was
Back home with you.
What can I say to make this right?
Please tell me what to do.

[SOLO 2]

Been on the road for
So many nights
How I miss
Our warm bed
And I know I can’t take back
All those things I said.

I know I can’t take it back.
What can I say to make this right?
Please tell me what to do.

[SOLO 3 - Outro]

:: Words, music and art work copyright Rick Engler

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Blue Prints From My Soul

Can't Take It Back (Original)

From the album "Live - Off the Floor", a live, off the floor recording at Cardboard Alley Music Studio on Jan 16, 2016. Recorded with 5 mics into 4 tracks.

Jeff Wyatt - guitar & vocals
Phil Howell - upright bass & vocals
Vince Iormetti – drums

Produced by Jeff Wyatt
©2016 Jeff Wyatt [SOCAN]

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Sounds from Wednesday evening

The most common question I’ve been asked since starting the show is - “how do I balance songs against one another ?”. Especially balancing quiet and loud songs, or when they’re from diverse genres. So in this show, we try to answer that - and touch on many other topics, too:

* The mastering tip that’s almost too simple to say - but embodies the heart and soul of mastering
* Why Ian doesn't master single songs any more (if he can help it)
* Do all digital EQs sound the same ? And Ian’s new favourite (free) EQ plugin
* Why we need "Album mode” to stop loudness management sucking the heart out of our music
* The first thing Ian does in every mastering session
* A ninja loudness trick when balancing quiet & loud songs
* Should you use automation when mastering ?

Links

The Heart & Soul of Mastering
http://productionadvice.co.uk/heart-and-soul/

iTunes Sound Check has “album mode” - finally !
http://productionadvice.co.uk/sound-check-album-mode/

TDR Nova EQ
http://www.tokyodawn.net/tdr-nova/

Multiband compression – the mastering engineer’s secret weapon ?
http://productionadvice.co.uk/multiband-compression-for-mastering/

The Mastering Show

The Mastering Show #23 - Balance (Or, How to Master an Album)

What is re-mastering ? Why would you want to do it ? And how ? And even - should you ? 
Topics include:

 * The ultimate goal of great remastering
 * Why getting an ideal source isn’t always as simple as it sounds
 * Restoration tools for mastering, and how to use them
 * When remastering goes bad - the remastering backlash
 * One of Ian’s most challenging remastering projects

Full show notes
http://themasteringshow.com/episode-28

The Mastering Show #28 - Remastering & Restoration

Keep The Faith In You

Get ready, folks, because the government—helped along by Congress (which adopted legislation allowing police to collect and test DNA immediately following arrests), President Trump (who signed the Rapid DNA Act into law), the courts (which have ruled that police can routinely take DNA samples from people who are arrested but not yet convicted of a crime), and local police agencies (which are chomping at the bit to acquire this new crime-fighting gadget)—is embarking on a diabolical campaign to create a nation of suspects predicated on a massive national DNA database.

Uncle Sam Wants Your DNA: The FBI’s Diabolical Plan to Create a Nation of Suspects

Дети эпохи

Being a guitarist and songwriter since 1967, Jeff Wyatt has been affected by many musical influences that inevitably rear their heads in his music. But when it comes to overall preference of musical styles, he often falls back onto composition that includes some type of blues or blues/rock influence, although he would not strictly try to label himself a blues-man. Even though he tinkers with a variety of instruments, guitar is by far his specialty (electric, finger-style acoustic in standard and open tunings, and slide which he uses on both electric and acoustic guitar). Since his work is both instrumental and lyrical, electric and acoustic, it is difficult at times to strictly categorize. People compare his guitar work and vocal style to a combination of Ry Cooder, David Wilcox, Mark Knopfler, Neil Diamond, Johnny Cash, Gordon Lightfoot, Jeff Beck and others.

Jeff has performed in and around the Vancouver area along with a host of talented musical friends, who have included Kevin Rintoul (bass & vocals), Brian Dierks (drums & vocals), Clyde Griffith (congas), Phil Howell (bass & vocals), Stephen Berne (drums), Vince Iormetti (drums), Al Fauteux (bass), Dave Fauteux (drums)... in various band combinations. He had performed in the blues trio Jeff Wyatt & the Wreckin' Crew, with a solid rhythmn section consisting of Phil Howell (bass & vocals) and Vince Iormetti (drums).

Butt Burger Boogie - JEFF WYATT & the WRECKIN’ CREW

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