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I had a lovely weekend at Patternbuilder's house. The weekend included some filking, and Patternbuilder encouraging me to think about another CD. She pointed out that nowadays people sell mp3s through places like CDBaby and iTunes, so coming up with the dough for a CD run might not be an issue. She pointed out that this might even be feasible as a way to make some extra money--if there are 500 people out there who would buy a clutch of mp3s because they're by me that would be a noticeable difference in the discretionary cash. And I have a lovely Zoom H4n, which can record wav files and playthrough and multitrack, and I could put the results in Garageband which does all kinds of clever things it didn't used to, so this could be a more polished thing than _I Promised Eli_ which was made with a lot less in the way of capability, still without requiring a whole lot of investment (except for the time issue, of course, which is considerable, but I have time.)
And it occurred to me while we were talking, that on the fourth floor of the Library building at Carson Newman I had seen a door marked "Sound Studio" or some such.
So this morning I went over to Carson Newman and verified 1) that they have a recording room of sorts--not perfect by any means but much better than anything I could manage at home) and 2) that I am permitted to use it, as long as I arrange it ahead of time. So I have gone through my songs and picked out four or five to practice up and arrange and figure out how I'm going to record. The studio is available 6:30 to 10 pm Tuesday and Thursday nights at the moment (other times too, but the sound isolation from the rest of the building is not ideal and the nights are likely to be the quietest times.)
So I guess I need to practice. And probably writing some more songs wouldn't go amiss but that is more likely to happen if I practice more.
And today, since by the time I was a Carson Newman I was halfway there anyway, I walked over to the hardware store and talked to one of the guys there about stopping up the hole under the furnace where I think the animals got into the crawlspace. He suggested I cut a length of 2 x 4 and wedge it in place with expanding insulating foam. I need to crawl back under there (sigh) with a tape measure. On the other hand, if 2 x 4 will really do it, that would be a lot less unpleasant to handle than hardware cloth (which I believe would do the job if I could fasten it in place but I don't like working with something with that many teeth. 2 x 4s don't have teeth.)
And then I came home, thought I really should get to work, laid down on the bed for just a minute and woke up two hours later. That weekend whirlwind of activity wore me out. So I didn't actually get much done today but I checked out some things.
And it occurred to me while we were talking, that on the fourth floor of the Library building at Carson Newman I had seen a door marked "Sound Studio" or some such.
So this morning I went over to Carson Newman and verified 1) that they have a recording room of sorts--not perfect by any means but much better than anything I could manage at home) and 2) that I am permitted to use it, as long as I arrange it ahead of time. So I have gone through my songs and picked out four or five to practice up and arrange and figure out how I'm going to record. The studio is available 6:30 to 10 pm Tuesday and Thursday nights at the moment (other times too, but the sound isolation from the rest of the building is not ideal and the nights are likely to be the quietest times.)
So I guess I need to practice. And probably writing some more songs wouldn't go amiss but that is more likely to happen if I practice more.
And today, since by the time I was a Carson Newman I was halfway there anyway, I walked over to the hardware store and talked to one of the guys there about stopping up the hole under the furnace where I think the animals got into the crawlspace. He suggested I cut a length of 2 x 4 and wedge it in place with expanding insulating foam. I need to crawl back under there (sigh) with a tape measure. On the other hand, if 2 x 4 will really do it, that would be a lot less unpleasant to handle than hardware cloth (which I believe would do the job if I could fasten it in place but I don't like working with something with that many teeth. 2 x 4s don't have teeth.)
And then I came home, thought I really should get to work, laid down on the bed for just a minute and woke up two hours later. That weekend whirlwind of activity wore me out. So I didn't actually get much done today but I checked out some things.
