Never Grow Old - Live Recording With Extras!!! Original Song by Darren Claxton fro DTube
Hello and welcome to my video exclusive to @DTube!
I'm really enjoying my time here and am finding the upload process very smooth and glitch free!
My transition from YouTube to Dtube has been a slow one and I'll be moving all of my older videos here soon.
Today though, I had a brainwave! well, not really a brainwave more of a crazy musician idea to show off my skills LOL.
I recorded my recent EP Never Grow Old on an old Zoom Porta- Studio I've had for the past 15 years, so, I thought, what the heck, I've got my sound to a really good standard so why not push it even further?
Right then, here's what I did.
- Hooked up my guitar and Condenser mic to the studio and used it as a mixer
- Loaded my track Never Grow Old up on the system
- muted the lead vox and guitar track and played those live as you can see
- took a stereo out of the desk, straight into a U-Control unit from Behringer then went into the laptop via USB
- Opened OBS which is a brilliant piece of FREE software and checked the levels coming in
- Had a quick test and went for it in 1 take.
Here's a quick shaky video of how I connected everything up.
I think you'll agree that it sounds pretty good for a live performance!
Now that I've got that all worked out, I can now go ahead and create more of these full 'BAND' sounding videos of my original songs! How cool is that???
Cue the round of applause!!!
'Never Grow Old' Is the title track from EP with the same name. It's about never letting go of your memories and staying young at heart. 'Growing old is compulsory, Growing up is optional. The photo is of myself and my beautiful children! I'm a 'Man Child' and still do crazy stuff like climb trees, make fart noises and act really silly most of the time! because! I just gotta! Stay fun and stay young!
I'd like to thank those of you that listen, vote, comment and share my music!
It means so much, and keeps me pushing forward on this Steemit creative journey.
Lyrics
Way down south
where the heather grows
I miss the lines
of your eyes, oh of your eyes
Fields of barley
and the river runs cold
summertime fishing
oh we'll never grow old
we'll never grow old
Summers last forever
when I was a boy
looking out for the weather
oh we were never told
dipped my toes in water
let my heart sink down
where were you my sister, sister
oh I'll never know, I'll never know
Thanks for your support here DTube and thanks for finding me and my music!
Darren
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Darren Claxton is a Songwriter, Musician and Producer of his own music, from Derbyshire UK. The music he writes is often heartfelt acoustic indie folk with a sprinkling of rock and country influences, with an occasional world music flavour as heard on his track ‘Dragonfly’ . But most of all, it's his passive emotive thoughts and feelings that are delivered through that soothing vocal, and intricate guitar playing of his.