Received an overnight visit from The Muse a while back with an insistence I cover this wonderful Bob Mould piece in a waltz tempo. It's not a song I knew all that well to start with, but I'd heard it on the radio in the preceding hours and, well, The Muse simply will not be denied. Per usual I did not wind up close to the production I hear in my head: Limitations of hardware, software and musicianship always leave me wanting. Still I trust it's at least a unique and not a wholly unpleasant version.
I got the jangly guitar sound from a direct feed of my Epiphone into my laptop along with some miked acoustic Guild touches here and there in REAPER's "dark corridor." The Epi is forefront in my hardware limitations since it simply will not hold a tuning and has a permanent 6th string buzz, but at least a direct connect means no need to constantly stop-start for outside noise interferences.
The cello and music box flourishes are courtesy of my Yamaha keyboard. There is also an underlying C note heard throughout most of the track. If anyone can guess precisely what I used to record that drone sound, I'll award you a Dewey button (or whatever equivalent the kids are saying today ;). [Arranged, performed, recorded and produced by Kathleen Martin 1/2015] See Mould's superb performance here: https://youtu.be/oNGsacYoGec
