So here's my song. Christmas Pork - During Christmas in Puerto Rico, we eat quite a lot. This song is about eating pork. Haha!
Anyway, here's the link to the song:
http://dannycruz.com/songs/christmas_pork.mp3
There's English and Spanish, so here's a key:
Cuajitos: Pig Ears
Lechon: Pig (usually cooked on a stake)
Monton: A lot (as in Lots of food)
Pasteles: Folk Puerto Rican food something
Hay que rico: Well, you know that!
Here's a bit of info on the recording:
I recorded it in Logic Pro 8 and wrote it with my wife specifically for this contest. The guitar tracks (only 2) were done with a Telecaster Special Editon with Humbuckers and recorded into a Line 6 Toneport UX2 with a Vox AC30 clean simulation. For the lead track, I also put an Ibanez TS-808 in the chain right before the Toneport. Somehow, the lead track sounds like trumpets in the mix! I love this pedal!
My wife did the bass, also with the Line 6 Toneport using a Warwick bass. Apart from the initial pads, the drums were the only part of the song created with MIDI keys and loops. I would've liked to record the drums live, but I'm short on mics still.
Keeping with short on mics topic, I had to record the vocals with an SM57 since it's the only decent mic I have at the moment. (Oh, and no pop-filter - too bad the song has so many P's) So given, my wife had been sick with the flu a few days back, and we were using the wrong mic, it didn't come out half bad. The preamp was the studio vocals settings in the Toneport.
Oh! And I almost forgot! There's an underlining track in there too. It's a Classical Spanish nylon-string acoustic guitar. It's a guitar that's almost 25 years old, (my mom's old guitar, that looks like new still!) That was also recorded with the 57.
Well, there you go. Enjoy! I was going to add a speed-up punk section as an outro, but after putting it together I didn't like it and decided to take it out.
Finally, I decided to attach some photos of the sesh! Done! Vote for us! -Danny