back to it
sunday
its been almost a month since my last post, but i'm back to it. daily life is getting more balanced. i have had a lot on my plate teaching, and editing the cd. today we went back to record mvts 1 and 2 of retrace. mvt 1 just needed a few touch-ups and we redid mvt 2 to reflect the faster tempo that we were playing at cerritos. all in all, low key day but very strong recording session. it will be nice one day when we can actually spend more than a few hours in the studio.right now i feel like it is a luxury to ask for a second and a third take, especially when the first two were pretty close. but that's life self producing your own music.
on the other hand its great that the cost of a decent recording rig has fallen so much. i bought mine (g4 866, 1gig ram, motu828) in 2001 for around $3800. it suits us fine for recording. it's also cool that we can rent $20,00-$30,000 of great mics and a preamp for $100-$200 a day. i never could have dreamed of getting that in kansas.
tuesday
just got done listening to the tracks from the first mvt of sunday's session. the playing is tighter, but some of the sound isn't as good. this time we picked up a little more ambient noise on the vibes and missed a buzzing keyboard chord for the first thirty minutes of recording. will get home and work with the second mvt. today.
as for concerts, things are messed up. kyoko had a band concert moved onto the march date, so it is all but dead. we are looking adding anther show in may. our first choice got bagged because of more scheduling problems, but right now i'm just trying to confirm where and when we are going to play in may. the vocal recording should be coming up soon and mixing will take place in late march and early april.
its been almost a month since my last post, but i'm back to it. daily life is getting more balanced. i have had a lot on my plate teaching, and editing the cd. today we went back to record mvts 1 and 2 of retrace. mvt 1 just needed a few touch-ups and we redid mvt 2 to reflect the faster tempo that we were playing at cerritos. all in all, low key day but very strong recording session. it will be nice one day when we can actually spend more than a few hours in the studio.right now i feel like it is a luxury to ask for a second and a third take, especially when the first two were pretty close. but that's life self producing your own music.
on the other hand its great that the cost of a decent recording rig has fallen so much. i bought mine (g4 866, 1gig ram, motu828) in 2001 for around $3800. it suits us fine for recording. it's also cool that we can rent $20,00-$30,000 of great mics and a preamp for $100-$200 a day. i never could have dreamed of getting that in kansas.
tuesday
just got done listening to the tracks from the first mvt of sunday's session. the playing is tighter, but some of the sound isn't as good. this time we picked up a little more ambient noise on the vibes and missed a buzzing keyboard chord for the first thirty minutes of recording. will get home and work with the second mvt. today.
as for concerts, things are messed up. kyoko had a band concert moved onto the march date, so it is all but dead. we are looking adding anther show in may. our first choice got bagged because of more scheduling problems, but right now i'm just trying to confirm where and when we are going to play in may. the vocal recording should be coming up soon and mixing will take place in late march and early april.
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