Remo Leomporra Jr

11/13/2024

A few years ago now at The Union League in Philly. I was attending a Valley Forge reunion with the brothers. I recorded a song about their plight but with a full band on the recording. At last I found an intune piano, so I figured out how to play and sing the tune with only piano. I think it works better with just a piano and vocal. I may re_record it someday. Possibly changing the lyrics as well. Not always a good shot while singing but I thank the photographer for catching it.

10/28/2024

🎡✨ The circle of life is all around us, and music is the soundtrack of our journey from youth to old age! Whether it’s the joyful tunes of childhood or the nostalgic melodies that remind us of our past, every note captures a moment in time. 🎶

10/07/2024

Couple things happening this week.

1) I received my 1st income from my in-store music with Faded Media.

2) I have a private pitch with an LA based supervisor to pitch 2 songs for use in sync music. Introducing my brand to him for future consideration. No fee as it was requested by One-stop music. He connected with me on linkedin so another good sign he wanted to remember my music, Rock On!

So maybe this is a good sign :>)

I will be pitching....RISE and "It's not too late" for songs

10/04/2024

----New Song----
RISE
I hope you enjoy this rally call to pursue each and everything you want outta life :>) Our inner drive is something you cannot ignore!
Please groove a lil with this dance/rock/pop offering, I hope it makes you move! Rock on,

RISE by REMO, Rock music from Medford, NJ on ReverbNation

09/10/2024

Here's a remake cover I did engineering wise way back in 1985 in Philly. This tune made it on a cover album of only David Bowie tunes, picked by David himself. I had soooo much fun with Loose Ends from England. I became good buds with Carl, I wish I could say hello to him again. This was so fun to contribute too but giving them that Philly sound of the day. Check it out, this is a big credit of mine!

Provided to YouTube by Parlophone UKGolden Years · Loose EndsCover To Cover: The Songs Of David Bowie℗ 1985 The copyright in this sound recording is owned by...

09/07/2024

New music on it's way. I would say it's dance,pop,rock
Simply called...RISE

08/12/2024

--New Tune--

In an attempt to strip down my songwriting style. I offer these thoughts in my head set to music of course. I hope it's inspiring and sets a calm mood upon you. Thanx for listening......



https://www.reverbnation.com/remo3/song/34614187-its-not-too-late.

It's not too late by REMO, Rock music from Medford, NJ on ReverbNation

08/07/2024

--Recording Analog from the 80's-- (part 5)

You have a finite amount of tracks in analog. So many ways to keep it under control but many you have to live with so experience is key.
After the basic tracks are recorded it's time for overdubs and vocal production. A good example of combining tracks would be the background vocals. Easily 6 tracks minimum. 2 for low voice, 2 for mid voice and 2 for high voice. Sometimes those would be doubled to 12 performance tracks. You can't use 12 tracks just for that in the end out of 24, so the goal was to blend them properly and see where they ride in the track. Tons of adjustments later they are sounding right in the track.
Now it's time to bounce them to a stereo pair of tracks.
If they repeated in the song there was another process to get them where they belong in the rest of the song. So we would send just the background vocals to another 2 track recorder (1/2 inch tape) so we could send them back to the 24 track on the fly. We would physically time playing the 2 track recording into the record where they belong. This took precise planning to do correctly time wise.
We called them fly-ins and we could also do that for anything else if we were looking for consistency which is vital to radio quality production.
Going backwards here, if it was a group of singers at the same time, we wouldn't need twelve tracks but the same process was usually applied.
Fly-ins are an eye-opening subject in analog recording and I may go back to explain more thoroughly later.
Stay tuned for part 6

08/05/2024

--The demise of modern music--

What happened to modern music?
Remember the iconic artists from the 50's to the 80's, Elvis to Michael Jackson to the Stones for example? There are almost countless artists that changed music within those years.
NOW, let's look how many since the 80's ended to present.
Good luck, I bet you can't name more than 10 since 1990.
Criteria is trailblazers in uniqueness.

There is no structure in the music business anymore, no advances, no real record companies with a stable of artists to develop. Sure a lot of creators got screwed but they got theirs eventually anyway.
Today, it's chaos, it's a free-for-all! Independant copycats without the means to be unique if they wanted. So, we the people are the ones that suffer in the end. Modern music has lost it's way.
Please bring back the dreaded record companies who develop artists to be great for the people!!!!
Streaming and it's other middle men control it all now, only a select few succeed anyway, but everybody gets paid less today with only a few exceptions.
The music industry is chaos and we suffer because of it 😡

Just my thoughts as I was there to watch it turn into todays bummer

ps, This is a shot of me backstage at a YES concert in 1987 in Philadelphia

Stay tuned for part 2 of this series discussion

08/05/2024

--Recording Analog from the 80's-- (part 4)

After we recorded the basic tracks there's plenty of decisions to make. Levels of course was a very important 1st step, but there are options there when recording to tape. For instance before routine automation there were things we could do right from the jump to help without automation.

If you could just put all the faders to zero and the song levels are close to right, track to track, it was a good place to start. Before automation this was very important because most engineers didn't take the song from start to finish. Somebody else had to work at times on it, and the producers sure don't want to pay 2 hours just for the engineer to get the song going again. So the best engineers figured out how to make it play ok from the 1st minute working on it.
So, because it's tape, bleed is a problem, if you recorded the high hat for example too loud, it would bleed through to many other tracks. This was set very low as it's not up front in the record and the fader can be set closer to zero because you recorded it low on purpose.
Anything with punch of course you rode the high side as long as no clipping.
We always recorded with as many hardware fx we could going to tape. But if your a novice your in trouble because your stuck with it.
My rule of thumb was, levels, compression of some sort on every track to tape. Anything that might be hard to deal with mixing would not go straight to tape in the beginning. Sometimes if I had a creative sound idea that I or the producer or artist liked, I would record it to the track next to it, this way it can be changed or adjusted to the track later.

Grouping and bouncing are the next subject on part 5

08/03/2024

My hometown, one day I will be moving from this special place. I'll never forget raising our daughter here. Please enjoy this special video of our most celebrated weekend in the lakes. I tell people I live in the forest, it's true and magical with our lakes as well :>)

08/03/2024

--Recording Analog from the 80's-- (part 3)

Now that the tape machine is aligned you can start recording. Knowing you can have crossbleed from 1 track to another on the tape. It's time to decide what goes where. The edge tracks take the most abuse with the most fluctuation, so it's important to consider using those tracks differently. I usually placed the drum tracks 1st and it was common to put the bass drum on track 1. Reason was because you would gate the bass drum anyway and that cuts anything bleeding in between beats to be silent. Sometimes I would put toms 1st depending on the song and how much it's used.
Then I usually put the Bass after those tracks as I loved to solo the bass drum and the bass to get them together EQ wise.
Keyboards and guitar would follow in tracks and now on some songs you'd only have 10 tracks or so left which was used for vocals and background vocals on the 24 track machine.

I'll start with recording instances on part 4 soon. None of this is necessary in digital recording as you have unlimited tracks depending on your computer power. Thanx for reading I'll be back soon :>)

08/02/2024

--Recording Analog from the 80's-- (part 2)

Remember all those hits from the 50's to the 80's that you loved hearing on the radio? Ever wonder how things were done and why, even today the public has interest in analog recording.

We needed lots of guts to make a record/radio sounding song. Groundbreaking techniques were crucial for the sound industry and greatly improved during those years to evolve into what we hear today. 4 track recorders, to 8 track recorders, to 16 track, to 24 tracks! 1/4 inch tape all the way up to 2 inch tape. 7.5 ips up to 30 inches per second sure made a difference in quality.

When recording to a tape machine the 1st problem to overcome is,,, Does the signal sound the same going into the tape machine and then the playback sounding the same? Those machines needed careful alignment for input and output to sound the same for each session. Now, you can start recording.

I won't be going into the technical jargon so both musicians and just listeners might learn something from my sharing.
Stay tuned for part 3 tomorrow.

08/01/2024

--Analog recording of the 80's--

A lot of times we had to have unique approaches to achieve the recording based on the complexity of the song and still make our lives easier and get the end result we desired.
This took careful thought and innovation to achieve most of the time as there are always multiple choices and of course you wanted to go the route with choosing the best way.

I'd like to post a series of these thoughts because everything we did recording analog has been transferred/translated to digital recording today.
2 thoughts here, it's interesting for everybody who enjoys music and of course musicians can learn about what's inside your software to record today.

This post is just an introduction to some instances I will write a short paragraph about in the future. Stayed tuned for the 1st instance I'd like to talk about. Thanks for reading in this instance, I'll post my 1st thing real soon, Rock on

07/31/2024

In a fun play on thoughts and remembering my youth I wrote this offering just last year. I hope you can enjoy this as I think it's one of my better artistic works. Thanx for listnin, rock on........

Brick from Heaven by REMO, Rock music from Medford, NJ on ReverbNation

07/28/2024

I sure do miss the feeling of being in the middle of everything musical in a big city. I was so proud when I received this card from the studio back in the 80's. Credibility meant everything and led to many opportunities to work on tunes that would make it onto the Billboard national/worldwide charting system. Although it did burn me out, I surely did love it. Ahhh, never forget your musical accomplishments, I ignored them for years, but no longer, I was proud to be a part of it for 13 full time years of my life :>)