*pulls out hair and screams* Ok, no, it wasn't that bad.
Yes, yes it was.
Wow. When the guys casually said, "Oh, we can get all 4 songs done in a day" I knew - KNEW - that things never go that well in the studio. But, wow. We had so much bad luck today it was rediculous. From player error to software issues, at 4:30 this afternoon we still had nothing keepable. We HAD had a good drum take but somehow had it deleted, prompting my immediate "Uh, did you not save any of this?" question, and the following "Quick, save it!" mentality after every possible good take. So, after much frustration, we got drums down, two guitar tracks, and at the very end I put the icing on the cake by doing vocals in one take. But, after all the practicing I did this afternoon on scratch tracks, there really was no reason for me not to get it right the first time.
But, aside from the - what I must assume normal - trials of the first day of recording, we at least got something good and tangible out of it. Having a permanent drum set is amazingly helpful, and the system John has set up is great. Even the unmastered tracks by the end of the day sounded better than the original demo we tried a few months ago. My singing has much improved...I took some of Fluffy's advice and went back to practicing dry instead of with effects, and that made things so much more precise! So, at the end of the day, I still feel pretty good, and "I Can't" is soon to be an 'I can'. Ok, that was cheesy. Moving on.
Tomorrow's song is "Heh". Me and John are going to do drums on that (since we'll have the programming) and possibly vocals for it too, as well as some retouched vocals on "I Can't". Then Tuesday Jeff will lay down bass for "I Can't" and "Heh", and Derek will do guitar for "Heh". Finally, Wednesday will be dedicated to "Purgatory." If we're still feeling ambitious at that point, we're going to attempt our newest song, "Give Me Back My Drugs". So, that's the plan, and now you know.
Oh, and for what is becoming the almost daily "no shit" moment: for the past, oh, 4 months or so that I've known John we've been talking about family...he mentions his ex-wife and daughter, I talk about my extended family, blah blah, but today at lunch, the more he starts to talk about his ex-wife the more familiar it seems...mentioned her first name, all the places she had been moving to and from, and so on, and then finally makes mention that her family is from Roanoke. So I ask the blunt question of, "What's Heather's maiden name?" And he tells me. And after a short pause, I casually lay down the truth:
"Yeah, that's my cousin."
Yeah. Crazy.
Yes, yes it was.
Wow. When the guys casually said, "Oh, we can get all 4 songs done in a day" I knew - KNEW - that things never go that well in the studio. But, wow. We had so much bad luck today it was rediculous. From player error to software issues, at 4:30 this afternoon we still had nothing keepable. We HAD had a good drum take but somehow had it deleted, prompting my immediate "Uh, did you not save any of this?" question, and the following "Quick, save it!" mentality after every possible good take. So, after much frustration, we got drums down, two guitar tracks, and at the very end I put the icing on the cake by doing vocals in one take. But, after all the practicing I did this afternoon on scratch tracks, there really was no reason for me not to get it right the first time.
But, aside from the - what I must assume normal - trials of the first day of recording, we at least got something good and tangible out of it. Having a permanent drum set is amazingly helpful, and the system John has set up is great. Even the unmastered tracks by the end of the day sounded better than the original demo we tried a few months ago. My singing has much improved...I took some of Fluffy's advice and went back to practicing dry instead of with effects, and that made things so much more precise! So, at the end of the day, I still feel pretty good, and "I Can't" is soon to be an 'I can'. Ok, that was cheesy. Moving on.
Tomorrow's song is "Heh". Me and John are going to do drums on that (since we'll have the programming) and possibly vocals for it too, as well as some retouched vocals on "I Can't". Then Tuesday Jeff will lay down bass for "I Can't" and "Heh", and Derek will do guitar for "Heh". Finally, Wednesday will be dedicated to "Purgatory." If we're still feeling ambitious at that point, we're going to attempt our newest song, "Give Me Back My Drugs". So, that's the plan, and now you know.
Oh, and for what is becoming the almost daily "no shit" moment: for the past, oh, 4 months or so that I've known John we've been talking about family...he mentions his ex-wife and daughter, I talk about my extended family, blah blah, but today at lunch, the more he starts to talk about his ex-wife the more familiar it seems...mentioned her first name, all the places she had been moving to and from, and so on, and then finally makes mention that her family is from Roanoke. So I ask the blunt question of, "What's Heather's maiden name?" And he tells me. And after a short pause, I casually lay down the truth:
"Yeah, that's my cousin."
Yeah. Crazy.
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