I really like a good closing track on an album. I like it when a band uses to the opportunity to use the last track, to end the album with a particular mood. Sometimes this is used to round off the contents of the album in epic style with a real show stopper song with… Continue Reading
Wow, nice! Hang on, what is mastering? This is the response that a lot of people say to me why I tell them that I am having my music mastered at the world famous Abbey Road Studios. Most people have heard of Abbey Road Studios. Mentioning immediately evokes images of countless bands and artists that have recorded their… Continue Reading
In Time is a song that I wrote almost by accident. Sometimes you can play a chord, a sound or a melody and song just sort of tumbles out. In the case of In Time, I was playing around with a a favourite instruments plugin of mine called Omnisphere by Spectrasonics. Recently Spectrasonics have released a… Continue Reading
I’ve Found You started off as a very simple and short song that I first wrote many years ago when I had a little 4-Track studio set up in my bedroom. Over the years as I have recorded different versions, it has grown into a much longer song with four distinct sections. Why not have… Continue Reading
I wrote in a previous blog how much I like making music using all manner of things. In fact if I can get something to make an interesting sound then the chances are I’m going to end up sticking it in a recording somewhere. I also mentioned that I am very difficult person to buy… Continue Reading
We recently had a holiday at the lovely and beautiful Portmeirion Hotel in Wales. It is one of my favourite places in the world, quite unlike anywhere else that I have visited. You may have seen it before because of the splendid television series The Prisoner that was filmed there in the 1960s. We have… Continue Reading
Close My Eyes is a song about one of my favourite things in the world, the moment when you start to drift off to sleep. Why not have a listen to it here: Close My Eyes actually started life as two different sections of a song, one in 6/8 time and one in 4/4. The verse… Continue Reading
On the September 20th 2010 my second single Tonight will be released. To celebrate this I thought that I should tell you a little bit about the song and how it was recorded. Firstly here it is, why not have a listen to it? (Or buy it if you’re feeling generous): Tonight is actually a fairly… Continue Reading
I received something very nice in the post the other day. For the past couple of years I have been working with my uncle Joe Dooley on an album of his songs. They are performed by just Joe with his guitars and produced and mixed by me. Joe had written a number of story songs… Continue Reading
I am a big fan of what computers can do in terms of creating virtual versions of instruments and effects. As a result of this I have been able to use sounds that I never would never have been able to get hold of in the real world, let along afford. Recently however, without even… Continue Reading
Stephen Caulfield 