Davester2296 B-Sides | DAR - Memoria @Davester2296-B | Uploaded January 2021 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
[UPDATED: January 27th, 2021]
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{ORIGINAL POST March 3rd, 2020 (youtu.be/YJZU7LFTAI8)}:
Surprise, its the beginnings of a brand-new album!! The idea for this album just suddenly came to me.

For a very long time, I've often thought about returning to my roots. I've thought about going back to my old style of playing and song-writing. A style that I haven't touched since my Solitude/RISEN/New-Genesis era (late 2014-early 2015). (The album art is also a bit of a throwback to RISEN's art.)

I was very tempted to start on RED PLANET III (I've even got several song ideas already floating around)... However, while messing with the Cyclic Divide Redux, I started to feel nostalgic for my old style once again. Despite being my 4th album, most of the songs in Cyclic Divide were all ideas that had their start from before the Solitude-of-Mind EP. Anyways, so at some point, while reworking Always Right, I realized that I was going to need to re-record the lead guitars (and would probably need to do so for Fate as well).

To be perfectly honest, I felt REALLY lazy, and wound up procrastinating a bit. I spent half of my time rediscovering Freespace Open and the Wing Commander series, and the other half was spent doing more research into audio mastering. I haven't touched any covers, mainly out of fear that I might horribly butcher something with a bad mastering job.

Needing a fresh angle to look at (or hear) things, I decided I'd write a new song to test the waters. I also wound up writing this because for the longest time, I was worried that after all of the DOOM covers and RED PLANET tracks, I thought I was incapable of doing something in this style again.

For better or for worse, my brain defaults to the darker, heavier, RED-PLANET-styled riffs whenever I mess around on the guitar now these days. So I was very excited when I had started on Memoria. Memoria actually got its start as a test song to try out a new guitar tone (when I thought I had totally lost all my old guitar presets).

Honestly, the new tone sucked and so I put this track on the backburner for a while. Thankfully, I figured out a workaround in order to get my usual guitar-tone preset working.

So anyway, when I sat down to work on this track again, I went and completely redid the guitars and bass. There had also only been about 1-minute worth of song as well. I wound up adding in the clean/chorusy guitar segments, in order to help give contrast to the louder sections.

I was going to add some string sections here and there, but decided against it. I decided to go with my old mentality of doing mostly without synths/extras and just sticking with guitars (and well... maybe the occasional piano). The idea was to hit that record button and just jam to my heart's content. Rocking out with as few bells and whistles as possible. Playing on impulse!

I think that's partially why this one's become my longest original yet... Just jamming out, paying no mind to track length.

After recording and mixing, it was time to do the mastering. It was then that I realized, I had fallen to the dark side... I goofed and completely fell into the loudness wars madness while doing the Fate redux stuff. It became very apparent to me on this song when I was using the settings I used for the Fate redux. The snare had been squashed to hell compared to the pre-master.

So from there, I tried pushing the audio as high as I could without getting such heavy compression. I think this time, I've finally got a better grasp of things.

Anyways, its been a fun learning experience, and even more fun to have written an upbeat and energetic track such as this one! Hope you all enjoy and look forward to more from On Impulse. No worries, the Cyclic Divide Redux will still be getting some love and attention too.

As for covers, I think I'm going to put out a few more originals before I set my focus back on covers again. I really just want to make sure I get all the kinks worked out.
~DAR


DOWNLOAD ALBUM: mediafire.com/file/qqbta5abf0ip3xt/DAR+-+On+Impulse+(2021)+[FULL+ALBUM].7z/file


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