Mike Horvath

In high school, my older sister didn’t have a CD player in her car, so one night I brought a battery powered CD player in the car with us on a drive to show her “Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge” by My Chemical Romance.

“Helena” always spoke to me, and at the time I was going through my own experience with the death of a friend (I still think about Carl all the time), and going through life generally emo af. But this song just rips, and always has.

Even its progression is interesting to me, which is largely in C/Am with the exception of G # dim in the chorus. It’s a really haunting song and I thought a slower acoustic version would be fun to do!

Full version coming to YouTube soon!

helena

this is what I do when things don’t LINE UP

I went and ran the acoustic lead part through distortion…I think I dig it. This is an acoustic-ish version of my 2022 release “The Storm.”

I also fixed some things that were bugging me from the last mixdown. Basically I’m in that endlessly tinkering phase I should get out of soon.

I only learned what ADAT and S/PDIF were like last year! But now that my Presonus interface seems to be having input issues, an ADAT expander seems like a solid solution for my ever-changing input needs.

also shoutout to my Sweetwater homie Derek lol, featured in the screenshot 😎

I wrote The Storm in 2019 and finally made an acoustic ish version of it!

Wanted to show some BTS of a video I started the I the day!

wrote this yesterday on my lunch break!
CATCH MORE THIS FRIDAY 5/22 at Bumbling Fools Meadery!

BEHIND THE LOOP. A look at some of the effects I use when beatbox live looping!

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more of my “Into the West” by Annie Lennox cover, fully up on YouTube!