My entry for the Winter Riff Wreckage competition. I'll put full details on my website eventually (www.scarebear.org), but the basics are as follows:

Clean tone achieved using AmpliTube's American Clean Tube (through Reaper). All distortion achieved using my Pro Tone Pedals Skumstortion pedal. I alternate between the bridge and neck pickups on my custom Reedsdale from Moniker Guitars. The Pickups are Seymour Duncan (Distortion on the bridge and Jazz on the neck).

Oh, this is my first attempt at anything remotely close to mastering. I use that term loosely out of respect to talented engineers and producers.

Rise (Wreckage)

Reignwolf - Lonely Sunday

I got a worried mind
Keepin' me from sleep tonight

I need some cool, cool water
And any peace I can find

Now, I'm not usually a sad man
Not one to shuffle my feet

But tonight my heart is heavy
For no good reason that I can see

Gonna go down to the shoreline
And watch the sunrise
Give my troubles to the morning tide
Let'em drift away and out of sight

Some people like to pray
Some people don't ask for anything at all

Some people are living just to get high
Some folks I know are just waiting to die

And everyone I know has got plans for me
Without really knowing what I really need

Professing to know what a man should be
When I all I need to do is breathe....just breathe 


Sunrise

The Quiet Below

The hold track for the estate agents Let-Leeds.com (produced by Benjamin Mark)

Benjamin Mark - Let Leeds Holding Track

SOMEONE LIKE YOU
Written, Performed & Produced
by Andrew Borderick Copyright 2018/2020
Re-Mastered by Andrew Borderick OCT 2020

MAY'BE IT'S ALL FOR YOU,
MAY'BE IT'S ALL FOR ME,
TELL ME WE DID'NT SAY,
THIS IS THE GAME WE PLAY,

I'VE JUST TAKEN YOU FOR YOU,
MAY'BE WE'LL FADE AWAY,
THERE'S NOTHING LEFT HERE TO STAY, BUT

IT'S ALWAYS ABOUT THE TRUST,
IF YOUR LOOKING FOR LOVE AND LUST,
LOOKING IS HARD TO DO,
WHEN YOUR LIVING IN AND OUT OF THE BLUE,

IT'S BEEN RAINING HARD WITH TRUTH,
IT'S NEVER GONNA FADE AWAY,
THERE'S NOTHING LEFT HERE TO SAY, BUT

YOU'RE LOOKING FOR, I'M LOOKING FOR,
YOU'RE LOOKING FOR SOMEONE LIKE YOU,
(break)
MAY'BE IT'S ALL FOR YOU,
MAY'BE IT'S ALL FOR ME,
TELL ME WE DID'NT SAY,
THIS IS THE GAME WE PLAY,

I'VE JUST TAKEN YOU FOR YOU,
MAY'BE WE'LL FADE AWAY,
THERE'S NOTHING LEFT HERE TO STAY, BUT

YOU'RE LOOKING FOR, I'M LOOKING FOR,
YOU'RE LOOKING FOR SOMEONE LIKE YOU,
YOU'RE LOOKING FOR, I'M LOOKING FOR,
YOU'RE LOOKING FOR SOMEONE LIKE YOU,






not every thing is always as it seems.

2018 PRO TOOLS

Someone like you

SOMEONE LIKE YOU

The first track I've written and recorded using only an iPad. Multiple synth apps were used (will list them here soon) and recorded and sequenced in Auria. Exported as an AAF and mixed and mastered in Logic Pro.

Formant Shift

This Is Normal Control is Dan Biggins, who plays guitar, records, arranges, produces, mixes and masters, and yet somehow still finds time to make the tea.