A message from Adam Morris:<\/strong><\/p>\n\u201cHere\u2019s the first of the new mixes I\u2019m doing of my reggae vinyl collection. Its been a long journey already and I feel I have just begun.<\/p>\n
I have so far been through four recording phases since I hooked an old PC up to my mixer last Xmas.<\/p>\n
Phase one was using Sound Forge, a programme I was familiar with, but I only had on demo version and when the crack codes stopped working I realised it was \u00a3150 + for the official thing. Not right now, thanks. I don\u2019t mind spending money on this project, but right now I need equipment, Ableton and CD DJ decks in particular, so if it makes any money, it is going on that.<\/p>\n
Off I went to the land of freeware and a programme called Audacity. Its good once you get used to it. But the default setting is for mono recording and I was well into mix two before I realised this fact.<\/p>\n
End of Phase two, the mono hours.<\/p>\n
I have issued the results of Phase three in these two mixes. The stereo hours part one.<\/p>\n
In a previous time, I lived in the Harlesden area of London when London was the reggae capital of the world. As a result, I worked as Lee Perry\u2019s tour manager for a short while, I shopped at Mr Pecking\u2019s Studio One shop and got to know George Pecking well and I was neighbours and mates with Dr Alimantado, to name but a few. So I feel I had good educators. I also feel the history and culture that this wonderful music represents and the need to treat these tunes with respect.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve abandoned the idea of recording one continuous live DJ mix like I used to do in previous eras. For one thing, recording a CD\/MP3 and mixing live are totally different performances. One is there permanently for posterity and the other isn\u2019t. And one requires interaction with a crowd and lights and volume and so on which do not exist in my backroom.<\/p>\n
Add to that the restrictions of the sound card and the fact you cannot use the EQ\u2019s on a recording as you would live without over recording, plus, ofcourse, if you make a mistake 50 minutes in, you end up re-recording the whole thing again not just the bit you messed up, which is not a good way to work.<\/p>\n
Not when you mess up as often as I do!<\/p>\n
Trouble with my echo box is the buttons are not very accurate. You get a delay between when you push the button and when the effect arrives. So its tough staying accurate. But, given this restriction, since the days when I heard a roland chorus echo in action (used by Killing Joke and Basement Five rather than a dub band), I\u2019ve wondered what reggae and Coxsone in particular would sound like passed through one, given that Coxsone didn\u2019t have one in Studio One when he made the tunes.<\/p>\n
The versions on his singles are sparse and full of space, making them prime material for adding dub echoes to.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m glad to say that now I\u2019ve heard them, the tunes sound pretty much like I suspected they would ie ACE !!!<\/p>\n
I have evolved a methodology of recording and mixing each track separately, then I am hooking them up into a DJ mix at the end. Still learning how to label the final file so the tracks show up individually, rather than as one continuous track in the CD player. Once I\u2019ve done that I am home free. Perhaps.<\/p>\n
Phase 4 started ten days ago.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m working on a 3rd Studio One mix, then I\u2019m going to change to another studio, I\u2019ll go back to Coxsone further down the line.<\/p>\n
I am now treating it more like a recording session with a band, so I am making multiple recordings. The first take is the track flat, not speeded up or EQ\u2019d. Then I record several different remixes. That way I will eventually end up with all vinyl archived digitally, which will be a good thing to have. And then, when I get the CD DJ decks, I can use WAV\u2019s of the original recordings and speed them up and dub them live if and \/ or when I start playing out live again. And I will only have to take CDR\u2019s out, not my heavy, vintage, rare vinyl. That can stay safely in my backroom where it won\u2019t get worn any more.<\/p>\n
My flat is now a home recording studio for DJ\u2019s. One morning I had an album recording in one room, a CD burning on the other PC and I was in the front playing back my mixes. It was infact the first time I\u2019d heard them all the way through.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m satisfied. I want to remix the tracks again of course, infact I probably will when I\u2019ve gone through everything else.<\/p>\n
So that\u2019s all my spare time for the rest of my life sorted then. I hope you like what i\u2019ve done, there\u2019s going to be a lot more if you do\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n
Thanks to Adam for sharing these tunes with me and allowing me to upload them here on this site.<\/p>\n
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These selections esp the second one\u00a0is dedicated\u00a0to my little man Aaron who has had his first (out of England) holiday very recently where he enjoyed meeting some of his cousins, aunties and\u00a0uncles in Kingston, Gordon Town (Blue Mountains above Kingston), Black River (St Elizabeth) and Georges Plain (Westmoreland) immensely.<\/p>\n
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The weather in Jamaica suited him a fair bit also, 25c in\u00a0that country’s\u00a0winter time, suited me as well to tell the truth!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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