So, curiosity got the best of me and I grabbed the Windows 7 beta soon after it was publicly released. After planning on installing it on an old PC (500mhz celeron, 256mb ram), and finding that it just plain wouldn’t install without at least 512mb RAM, I hatched a plan involving my laptop (a gateway 7422gx – 2.2ghz single core 64bit athlon, 1gb ram). When I got it about 4 years ago, I upgraded the…
I made my first educational video the other day. My friend Mike recently got Pro Tools and had a question about making overdubs sound smoother. So rather than typing out a huge email, I just broke out the video camera. After doing that, it seemed like it was something other people might find useful, so I threw it up on youtube. I might do some more some time if the mood strikes. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11owV-LZ5d4&fmt=18 [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11owV-LZ5d4&fmt=18[/youtube]
I spent a few hours this weekend re-recording the missing parts from that song “So Long”. I do quite like this song. So, now I’m back to where I was before with it, and I also have the new harmony ideas recorded. Cool. The song was inspired by an awful article I read last year about a kid who was killed. Apparently, this kid was at the site where his friend died in an accident…
So I have a ton of new songs I’ve been working on, recording demos as inspiration strikes and when I have free time. Last night I thought of a vocal harmony for one of them (“so long” is the title). So I brought up the Pro Tools session to record it. To my horror, the lead vocal and the bass guitar tracks were nowhere to be found! PT couldn’t find them, and I couldn’t find…
