Insights and Inside information, stories and songs, technical tidbits and more from music Producer Darren Clarke. www.ClarkeLaneMusic.com
Ladies and gentle friends. It’s finished and accessible!
Posted on Friday, March 15th 2013
Hectic but fun weekend. This is worship set/church #3 of 4.
Posted on Wednesday, March 13th 2013
You guys interested in tracking a solo Molly version of "Irish Whiskey"?
Asked by danielwhittington
Molly’s in New Orleans mate!
Posted on Wednesday, March 13th 2013
Dear Mr. Clarke - Be Still is one of my favourite songs after hearing it off the Home Again, Vol.6 CD. I would really like to introduce this song into my small group worship sessions in Copenhagen Vineyard but unfortunately I am unable to locate the chords among my Vineyard songbooks and the songteach-insideworship website. I would like to inquire if it would be possible to obtain a copy the guitar chords from you? With kind regards, Patrick Kierkegaard
Asked by patrickkierkegaard
Patrick- I’ll have to sniff around for a digital copy of that. Please send me an email from the contact page on www.Clarkelanemusic.com with your email…
Posted on Wednesday, March 13th 2013
Cd’s are here! Official release date 3/31. Beautiful cover art by @thehudson - (all done on the iPhone)
Posted on Wednesday, March 13th 2013
Lakes were at Clarke Lane Music on Monday, getting to work on their new album. I think we got through a chunk of 8 songs in that one session. I like these guys. And they’re talented!
Visit them at www.Lakesband.com, there will be pictures to come…
Posted on Tuesday, January 29th 2013
Listen to The Fire by Samuel Lane. We love this record, just released today. We got hold of the pre-release because Sam did a version of one of our songs, “Your Love Endures” and we got to play / sing on a couple of the tracks. BUT, even if that wasn’t the case, I’d be sharing this record. It’s a good one guys.
If you tend to hate Christian Contemporary music, for it’s lack of depth or samey sound, (or for whatever the reason) you’ve got to give this one a listen. There are songs that you’ll hear congregations singing before long, but there are also songs to brood over and linger in during your day.
Sam’s an authentic believer and a spiritual man, with lots of integrity, which makes listening to his heart felt songs about (and to) Jesus much more compelling. He sings to his God and to his soul. “Peace be with you oh my soul”…
The record is produced by Bobby Hartry of Cat Beach music (grammy award winner) and he did a superb job with Sam’s songs.
If you like rich deep ambient music with guts, very strong vocals and guitars guitars guitars, this one is a getter and a keeper.
Ha! My first music review. Done.
Posted on Monday, January 28th 2013
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Since I got my hands on this Vintage Urei 1176 (Rack Compressor) it’s been like learning a new instrument. My good friend Reggie Fisher who’s been producing since the 1970’s has been teaching me his tricks over the past year. It’s all about fine tuning the levels just right for each vocalist. There’s so many variables with gain and compression and limiting. But when you get each stage right that’s where the magic is. There’s no one setting that makes everything sound great, it’s more alive than that. Sometimes you just turn those knobs and it’s like magic. It makes it sound like a record.
Posted on Friday, December 21st 2012
Christmas Lights.
Posted on Wednesday, December 19th 2012
Here’s three of us (Clarke Lane). Left to right, almost hiding there is Seth Igarta on bass, Ryan Allshouse enjoying new heads on his kit, and on the right yours truly Darren Clarke. Jessie was behind the camera and we had Kristopher Chavez on mandolin in an adjoining room.
The good thing about recording live like this, is that as soon as you listen back you can more easily tell if you’ve got the take and ‘the magic’ or not. So it ends up saving a lot of time in the long run. You can also get a stronger sense if the feel is right and if the energy is there and you work off each other and feel it. This turned out to be a great session.
Todd Peterson of Red Canary Productions stopped by and got some behind the scenes footage, so hopefully we’ll have something fun to share of that sometime soon, and the EP should be done early in 2013.
Posted on Tuesday, December 18th 2012
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