So in 1997 I did this CD of orginal music that I called Sand Made. I was in college and I recorded the whole in in my dorm room with a PC microphone, a keyboard that wasn’t even mine (really bad) and an acoustic guitar. Back then, I had a Cyrix based computer that couldn’t process Stereo .wav files very well. So I recorded everything in mono.

In addition, I used a free wav editor called Goldwave to do all my mixing and effects. If I wanted a drum beat over a guitar part, I’d open the drum loop wav and mix it in to the guitar wav. That meant that my guitar wav was “destroyed” with drums. It’s not like modern multitracking where you can mute channels and all that fancy non-destructive stuff. So needless to say, it was extremely horrible and painful.

However, despite my painful learning process and limited resources I recorded this tune called Exodus. It’s about the end of the world. I pictured people leaving major cities, commuting out to rural areas. It sounded spacey and “end-like”. So I put it as the 11th out of 11 tracks, at the very end of my album.

So humbly, here is the original. It kinda breaks down into this lame guitar solo at the end. But the coolest part was I played with the effects until I got that opening pad sound. That’s actually the guitar part that comes in later. It’s reverbed to hell over and over. Pretty cool.

The Original – 1997

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A favorite of mine but hey, I’m bias. So considering that the song just plain sucks as it stood, I decided I would re-record the whole thing. I had to figure out the voicing and the chords again. And I worked for a couple of hours on the Virus to get the pad effect sound. I cut out the lame guitar solo at the end and I cut out the long intro.

The Reduex – 2006

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It was fun. I’ve listened to this song for 9 years. It was no problem singing it, I knew how it should have sounded the first time.