Hold Fast, by DAODA

Hold Fast

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1.	Hold Fast 03:03	lyrics	buy track
I’m lost. Unknown. Promised to let it go. Why don’t you float? Rest. Breathe in slow. Promise, do what you’re told. Unconscious woes. Now, do what you’re told. Phased out, for the first time I feel woken. Can you hold me up? I need you to show me.
2.	Hold Fast (Instrumental) 03:03	info	buy track

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This track was written & recorded back in 2019 when I was still living in Manhattan.

A lot of DAODA songs start by coming up with a picking guitar part, looping it, and building around it. This track was no different. When creating a song this way, the process is unique because it's built gradually. You never know exactly where the song is going to go & this can often take time, leaving you with an idea that's never fully finished.

In NYC, I would record the vocals in a small closet that was in our tiny bedroom. My vocal approach is typically rifling off 5-8 good takes with the intention of comping a vocal track and stacking as many vocal parts as I can on the final mix.

It goes without saying, but the track sat on my hard drive for a number of years. There's no real other explanation for this other than life gets in the way and creatively, you're always chasing something new. It's more fun to sit down and create a new song than it is to pull up an old project file & continue to work on something that's "old" to you.

My plan was to release a newer song called "Forevermore" before dropping "Hold Fast." However, it didn't make sense to put that out before this song - it would be like I'd be stepping backwards sonically.

Instead of doing some tweaks to the original session and putting out what was essentially a demo, I wanted to "complete" the song. This is the last full song I recorded while living in NYC and I felt I needed to close that loop to give the track the attention it deserved. I even found a photo from around the same era this was recorded and used it as the cover art for this track.

The guitar and bass were recorded straight to DI. Back then, I was taking a minimalist / in the box approach by using Ableton plugins for guitar/bass sounds. This could have been an aesthetic approach, laziness, or the lack of a direct inject box to use my VOX AC15 (no surprise, but neighbors don't like when you crank amps in apartment buildings). More recently, I bought AmpliTube 5 to create samples to send to hip hop producers. I tossed a couple different amp models (JC-120, Fender Twin Reverb, etc.) and the plugin instantly brought the DI tracks to life. It sounds like there could have been some signal processing from guitar pedals that was printed to the original DI recordings, but I'm not sure what was used.

I replaced the drums with the "1987" samples from a company called, Circles Drum Samples. These really help play into the different late 80's / early 90's vibe I was looking to capture, while still keeping the song sounding modern.

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released June 9, 2023

Performed, Produced, Engineered, Mixed, and Mastered by Mike Sacchetti (AKA DAODA)

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