I had a big fight with this song.
The title reflects an idea to have two guitar lines throughout, that would intersect at different points, hence “Union”. The lead lines came together in about 10 minutes, as did the intersecting ones, but I ended up ditching the latter.
The arrangement was mostly done quickly (the piano and bass), but it became obvious the guitar line was too low, and in the way of the bass. Also, the bass sound was rubbish…
…And I was having all sorts of problems with pops and clicks. I tried a new cable and the pops disappeared on recording. I transposed the guitar lines up an octave, and we were good.
I added a break at the end, which was written pretty quickly.
Next came the orchestration, which took two attempts.
As I’d been watching a lot of Steven Lipson/Trevor Horn videos, I was doing lots of doubling of lines, i.e. figures played on different instruments for effect. That didn’t help mixing.
Maybe 2 hours of writing. 2 weeks of debugging, 2 days of recording, 2 hours of mixing.
Worth it, I think
I cried when I wrote this song 