Good Evening!  I am posting another song that I've been working on for a while.  It is another remix, but the next chunk of music that I will post will be me singing and playing.  This remix has a couple surprises that I had fun with.  A big portion of these assignments was to create the synthesizer sounds myself, something I had an absolute blast doing using Surge and Vital.  

Also!  I got a couple plugins recently over Black Friday, one of those being the Brainworx Masterdesk which is making mastering a breeze for the time being and what I need to master.  When I get to the full album portion of the degree, I plan to be much more thorough and personal with the mastering process, but right now I just want to share what I have been working on at a better quality than before.  I am still remixing the assignments from first semester (now that I know what I am DOING!) when I have time, so hopefully I'll be able to share those shortly.

Every time I sit to write about everything I did, I forget what I wanted to say until a week after I post!  With “Tear in My Heart”, I knew I wanted to do something with 21 Pilots.  I goofed around with changing the pitches of the original melody, and alternated between funk and synth bass lines.  I added some Kesha, and my absolute favorite part was taking out the original bridge (which is the best part of the original song, but I didn't want to switch meters and lose the flow) and adding some sweet rapping from Quad City DJ's.  I like how creamy the synths sound during the second chorus.  The ending was pretty loose.  I always liked how the original song ended on a really nice low D Major, and I wanted it to taper off a bit in the same way.  I liked the pluckiness of the synth at the end too.  Anyhow, I hope you enjoy!  TENSE and Brick by Boring Brick have been re-mastered and re-posted!  As always, I am curious to hear feedback of any kind.  Thank you for taking the time to read and I'll have more coming soon!

-Colin