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…
So, I’ve been trying to figure out how I’m gonna do the guitars for this here thing. Ideally, I’d record a mic’d up amp for all the guitars. Unfortunately, that also means having space for an amp and a mic stand to be set up for an extended period of time for consistent sounds between takes (which might be days or weeks apart at this rate!). I don’t really have all that much space here…
This is quite exciting. I’ve now got all but two songs’ drum tracks recorded for the new album. I went back down to Easter Island Studios in Coxsackie, NY (what a great town name!) on Sunday. Rick Little (the drummer for Split 2nd Alibi) played on “Drive Me”, “Status Quo”, and “Without You”. Chris Fisher (from Conehead Buddha and Brian Kaplan Band) pulled double duty, both engineering the session and also playing drums on “Sometimes”. …
For those keeping track (i.e. me), I’ve now rehearsed with four drummers for my new CD. The newest addition is the multi-talented Melanie Krahmer from Sirsy. She’s helping me out with drums on the song “Florida”. You might recall that as one of the tracks on my second acoustic demo CD “Wrote Myself“. Now I’m finally going to give that song its proper dues. (If you haven’t heard the acoustic version before, it’s up on…
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…
