{"id":660,"date":"2017-02-08T06:00:33","date_gmt":"2017-02-08T11:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/simplecarnival.com\/site\/?p=660"},"modified":"2020-12-20T14:46:58","modified_gmt":"2020-12-20T19:46:58","slug":"14-days-of-the-simple-carnival-day-8-smitten-cheesy-laptop-demo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/simplecarnival.com\/site\/2017\/02\/08\/14-days-of-the-simple-carnival-day-8-smitten-cheesy-laptop-demo\/","title":{"rendered":"14 Days of The Simple Carnival, Day 8: \u201cSmitten\u201d cheesy laptop demo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n
\"14-days-of-the-simple-carnival-03\"Welcome to Day 8<\/strong> of the 14 Days of The Simple Carnival<\/strong>!<\/em><\/p>\n

Every day until February 14 (Valentine’s Day), I’ll be posting one cool, free Simple Carnival thing. <\/em><\/p>\n

On February 14, The Simple Carnival’s new (and final) album, Smitten<\/a>, will be released. It’s been <\/em>nine years<\/strong> since The Simple Carnival has released an album, so I’d like to celebrate the occasion by sharing a bunch of good stuff over these 14 days.<\/em><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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For the past<\/a> two<\/a> days, I’ve mentioned “Smitten” — the opening track from The Simple Carnival’s Smitten album.<\/p>\n

Today’s Simple Carnival thing is a cheesy but entertaining demo of that song.<\/p>\n

First, some context.<\/p>\n

All of the songs on the Smitten album were initially written on piano or guitar. I’d play the song in a very rough form into a terrible-sounding microcassette recorder.<\/p>\n

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I’d transfer that recording into the computer and turn it into a mp3. I would listen to that mp3 again and again, determining whether the song held up upon repeat listens.<\/p>\n

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Once I decided that I wanted to go through with fully fleshing out a song, the next step usually involved coming up with an arrangement. I would play bad sampled imitations of real instruments with a MIDI keyboard into my laptop.<\/p>\n

The final (and most time-consuming) stage of production was to replace all of those fake instruments with real ones, one part at a time — and that’s the version that would end up on the album.<\/p>\n

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Today’s recording is from the laptop demo phase. It’s pretty similar to the final recording, but the fake-sounding instruments lend a thick layer of cheese to the track.<\/p>\n

Enjoy!<\/p>\n\nhttp:\/\/simplecarnival.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Simple_Carnival_The_-_Unreleased_-_Smitten_demo.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n\n\n\n
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And in case you haven’t heard the finished version, here’s the music video for the song.<\/p>\n