Mixing Room

I spoke to PJ this afternoon and he told me he actually found my blog! So i'd just like to say HI to Piolo Pascual. We're still mixing your album bro... and it's going to sound really great.
I'll be blogging about his songs in my next posts.

After this long stretch of staying up late... mostly because of work, i decided on just staying home yesterday and working on a couple of reggae songs for a compilation album for Mylene of MxN productions. It's one of those things i do just so i get to practice my MIDI programming and arrangement skills, doesn't really pay much but it's always fun to do.
Except that my desktop PC's motherboard recently gave out and since i did not want to spend heavily on a PC that i might actually replace soon, i just went out to buy an old motherboard to replace my broken one.

hmmmph

Today or yesterday was the last vocal recording day for Piolo's new album. Technically now work gets harder since i have to take care of mixing all the musical elements to make it into the album.
I've always liked PJ or more popularly known as Piolo Pascual. I did his first two albums and now on his fifth album, Jon Manalo is producing.
Jon actually wrote a couple of good songs on this album... which will probably end up as a movie theme song or a possible single for airplay. I was fortunate enough to be asked to arrange two songs.
I did a re-arrangement of the song "Dahil Ikaw". Written by Marlone Silva and recorded by True Faith as a theme song for one of PJ's earlier soaps on ABS. What is unknown is that i actually did arrangement for that song for Michael Cruz. In fact, True Faith actually played my piano intro.
:-)
My re-arrangement this time is more guitar based and since Jon wanted this arrangement to sound like a band... i was only too happy to oblige.
As usual i played all the instruments including live Bass Guitars and Acoustic guitars.
Alexie Corbilla did the backup vocals... with vocal arrangement by Jon Manalo himself.

My other arrangement is for a Willy Wilcox song... which features PJ and Toni Gonzaga on vocals. A lovely duet.
I am kinda proud of my piano playing on this song... hehehe not bad for a guitar player.
:-)
I've started to use high resolution samples for my drums on both this songs and i must say that these are the best sounding drums i have used.
The only drawback is that i think i need to upgrade soon to a faster PC. I think i just want to justify my desire to get one of them Dual Core PC's. Wooohoooo!!!
OH and i am happy to say that i regularly hear Aiza Seguerra's new song on the radio, entitled "Para sa yo" written again by Jonathan Manalo and features Aiza on vocals and guitars and myself on second guitar. One of the rare times you get to hear me on guitars without drums and the rest of the instruments. Since this is actually an acoustic rendition. The full song would be on her next album which we are currently working on. Sam Milby is also currently recording his next album and i will probably blog about that as well.

All this work is making me BIG again.
hehhee as if i wasn't big enough as it is