{"id":41,"date":"2008-11-22T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-22T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.digitaldin.com\/?p=41"},"modified":"2008-11-22T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-22T10:00:00","slug":"second-story-the-silent-giants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.digitaldin.com\/?p=41","title":{"rendered":"Second Story – ‘The Silent Giants’"},"content":{"rendered":"

“The Silent Giants” is possibly Second Story’s most ambitiously “proggy” song. It’s one of the longest tunes we had in our set, and it features full instrumental solos from John, Tom and<\/em> Scott. It has distorted chordal figures on the bass, about 12 different guitar tracks, contrapuntal vocals (think “Gentle Giant”), lyrics steeped in metaphor, Mellotron keyboards, and much much more. We loved playing it live, as it also rocked pretty hard.<\/p>\n

As you can imagine, it was with trepidation that I began work on it. When we originally tracked in Indre Studios, we had a total of about 34 tracks available per song – I’m pretty sure that this tune used ALL of them.<\/p>\n

What I found most curious, despite my worries – the song actually mixed quite easily! I was able to get a really good drum sound for the vibe of the tune, Danielle’s vocals sound really good, and with a little bit of judicious volume envelope swells, the vocal parts should also be great. I did a bit more fun stuff with the effects, particularly on some of the vocals. But again, you’ll just have to wait and see (hear, actually.) \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“The Silent Giants” is possibly Second Story’s most ambitiously “proggy” song. It’s one of the longest tunes we had in our set, and it features full instrumental solos from John, Tom and Scott. It has…<\/p>\n

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