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AMBER SUN IN THE DAYLIGHT

from INSTRUMENTAL [Digitally Remastered] by The Santairs

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This tune was recorded back in 1998 when my son was still a baby. I used a mono tape recorder and a steel-string acoustic guitar, strumming all the strings, but emphasizing only the main notes on the high E string. I did this technique only on one other song called “I Don’t Believe You Anymore” where I played the acoustic lead similarly. That lead was actually created from this song. I felt the melody was somewhat oriental in feeling and flowed very nicely. While recording, I noticed that my battery power was nearly dead. I didn’t care since I knew I was going to re-record this in the studio someday, so I just needed a reference. But when the time came, and as I listened to this terrible recording, I noticed my son was screaming in the background in certain places. I can’t recreate that again, so I decided, more for sentimental reasons, to work with this particular terrible recording. Also, it gave me a challenge to put some of my “audacity” skills to the test, since that’s the music editor program I’m most familiar with. About an hour after working on this particular recording, I came up with a final product. It doesn’t sound as pretty or perfect as a professional studio recording (not even close as a matter of fact) but it retains that essence that I was looking for while still keeping the original feel of the song. I used a bunch of effects and compressed and EQ’d the living crud out of it, but I am totally satisfied with it. I used a Denon DRM-700 to transfer the song (which was on a Maxell metal tape) onto the Audacity music editor program.

This is song #462.


Recorded at MINE music Studio in Federal Way, WA.

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INSTRUMENTAL

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from INSTRUMENTAL [Digitally Remastered], released May 31, 2014
Wayde K. Brown

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The Santairs Auburn, Washington

I am a musician, singer, and songwriter doing this part-time but have been doing it all my life. I started singing before I could talk at the age of one, and wrote my first real song at 15 years of age. (If you count avant-garde as a song, then the age would be 7.) I currently own my own recording studio; and I write, perform, and record my own music (and other's from time to time.) I am Santairs. ... more

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