#17: You’ve Got Her Number June 11th, 2006
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First things first: We have a show this coming Wednesday night, and it’s not even in my living room! If you’re in Portland, Oregon on June 14, please come see Tryst (and five other bands!) play at the White Eagle as part of a local second-Wednesday songwriters’ showcase called Cocktail Hour. It’s free and “starts” at 8:30, which is to say that it probably starts at 9:00. Here’s the show info from the McMenamins website.
*does the woohoo-we-actually-have-a-show, we-might-be-a-real-band-yet happy dance*
Now then. SFoT went on vacation last week while I was running a marathon, but this week we’re back with more rehearsal tapeage. I think this must’ve been the second or third time that we’d ever tried to play this song. There are a few other takes from the same night (all bad in completely different ways), but I won’t subject you to the rest of them. I did, however, leave some stuff at either end of the clip so that you can experience for yourself how incredibly glamorous it is to be in our band. Lyrics. Also, if the file size seems really small for both this and #16, it’s because they’re in mono, ’cause we can’t seem to get GarageBand to bounce a stereo file. Us very professional.
See you Wednesday night!
At 1:16 pm on June 14th, 2006, unbottled soul » Blog Archive » You’ve Got Her Podcast wrote:
[…] It is odd indeed that it’s taken me days to blog about Lindsey Kuper’s latest podcast, but—just as she’s been having trouble with GarageBand*, reduced to mono for the duration—I’ve also been technically reduced. In this case, to transferring anything from the Internet to my computers via either a neon green floppy disk, burning a CD, or by hauling my laptop downstairs and Borgifying my parent’s computer setup (they wisecrack while I’m on IM, asking how the Borg are doing. It doesn’t help that my preferred colors—as any visitor to any non-blog part of my website will be assured—are green-on-black, very Borglike.). […]
At 1:17 pm on June 14th, 2006, Nick May wrote:
Perhaps Audacity could work in place of GarageBand, bring SFoT back to stereo goodness once more?
At 1:30 pm on June 14th, 2006, Lishan wrote:
I find it interesting that you changed the key of the piece– it gives it a less warm, more solitary quality, albeit I always associated minor keys without sharps with a more despondent, rather than yearning, sound. Did you change it because it was easier, or were there artistic reasons for it?
Besides that, this is quite interesting. “You’ve Got Her Number” is one of my favorite pieces of yours, and I was curious to see how it would sound with drum, considering one of the reasons I liked it originally is because it sounded so complete on its own. You changed some of the rhythm, and a lot of the background, and I’m just making observations rather than useful comments, aren’t I? My point is I like this take, and I like that you could make the two songs distinct. I look forward to hearing more of Tryst’s work.
Good luck tonight, on that note!
At 1:32 pm on June 14th, 2006, Lishan wrote:
–also, I didn’t really feel like it was rushing. I would’ve thought that of the original piece, but you’ve really thickened the orchestration here, which I think actually works better at a more ballad-y speed. However, I am not the artist. :D
At 1:13 pm on June 15th, 2006, Lindsey wrote:
Man, Lishan, that’s what Brian said immediately too: “Why’d you change the key?” Christ, you people have good absolute pitch memory. That’s not the way my head works at all. You want to know what it was? When I did it the first time, I was pitch-shifted up a half step or two because I wasn’t feeling well and was having trouble hitting the low notes. That’s all. No artistic reason whatsoever.
Actually, this version is old now, too. I can’t wait for you to hear it the way it sounds now, with a second vocal part added and everything a lot more solid…
At 8:19 pm on June 15th, 2006, pudders mcfly wrote:
Lindsey, just wanted to say again how much I enjoyed your performance last night!!! I came to support, but I was treated to some fine entertainment. I can’t wait for you guys to play again! You can set up in my living room any time…
At 8:06 pm on June 22nd, 2006, Lindsey wrote:
pudders, thanks! Hey, if you’re going to come to our shows, we figure the least we can do is actually make them good.
Nick, actually, I’m pretty sure it’s not GarageBand’s fault at all. I got this stuff into GarageBand in a way that seemed like a good idea at the time — by running a cable from the headphone amp to my computer — and, like most cables that are lying around a typical studio, it happened to be mono. Hence, mono mp3. A better way to do it would have been to bypass the headphone amp entirely and plug right into the mixer. Or, better yet, to bypass both of the above and plug right into the FireWire audio interface. But there’s another computer plugged into that (you see, none of this gear actually belongs to me), and I don’t want to mess with the way the owner has it currently set up. So we’re stuck with this for the moment. I should be able to scare up a stereo cable, though. My goodness, that was probably more detail than you needed.
At 12:57 pm on July 8th, 2006, Nick May wrote:
My goodness, that was probably more detail than you needed.
*chuckle* Perhaps so, but it definitely answered my question. And, by fully briefing me on the situation, have prevented me from piping up in the future about being deprived of stereo.