Quick update. I’ve found myself using Twitter (which in turn updates my Facebook page) a whole lot lately, as it’s easier to write a 140-character “what I’m working on now” update than to write a full blog entry. And more people tend to read Twitter and Facebook than my blog here. But to recap, for those not on Twitter or whatever, I’m still working on this solo album! I’ve got guitars recorded for just about…
Over the last two weeks, I’ve recorded the guitars for just about half the songs for the new album. It’s quite the process. I’d done fairly fully-fleshed out demos for most of these songs, and so started out the “real” versions by importing the demo parts as a road map once the drums were tracked. So all I needed to do was to re-record each part in place, like color-by-number for some of them. But…
I’ve been getting these calls a couple times a day. “This is your second and final notice that your automobile warranty is about to expire…” Or some variation on that theme, anyway. I ignored it for a few weeks, but it didn’t stop or even slow down the calls. So yesterday, when I got the call again, I dutifully pressed 1 to speak to an operator. As she started into her fast-paced scripted sales pitch,…
I finally got my Pro Tools setup stable on the new computer and got some work done on the solo album over the last couple of days. I decided to start with the guitars in “Everything’s Fine”. I re-recorded over the imported demo tracks (which were time-shifted as I imported them to fit the song’s new tempo) and added another track to beef it up a bit. Multitasking as ever, between takes I watched an…
