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Album Musings
Nov. 12th, 2011 08:48 amBecause of the intersection of a variety of things, I won't have access to the padded room again until the first Friday in December. And not again after that until sometime probably in late January.
This is not altogether a bad thing. I tried to lay down some tracks yesterday but... well, let's say with three weeks of practice I'm pretty sure I can do better, and while I will at least try mixing what I've got, I'd rather lay down a good track in the first place if that can be done; that feels more honest than using Reaper to compose a performance where, yeah, "technically I played all those notes. Not in that timing, or pitch, or order, necessarily, but I produced the starting points for those sounds."
I'm also having a problem recording my vocals. I am getting what I call "crackles" (Bill Sutton calls it "click-wah" but says that term is his own construction; if anyone knows what a sound engineer would call this, so I can more effectively look for solutions on the internet, I would be grateful for the information) on the high notes.
( More about the crackles. Also links to sound files. )
Also having the time to catch up on my mixing will let me get a better idea of where I am in terms of percent finished. It will let me figure out what I have to re-record, and what I need to hurry up and arrange and practice. I can do some proof-of-concept recordings at home to figure out what order to record stuff in, and lay down scratch tracks to record to when I go into the studio. So it's not time wasted.
This is not altogether a bad thing. I tried to lay down some tracks yesterday but... well, let's say with three weeks of practice I'm pretty sure I can do better, and while I will at least try mixing what I've got, I'd rather lay down a good track in the first place if that can be done; that feels more honest than using Reaper to compose a performance where, yeah, "technically I played all those notes. Not in that timing, or pitch, or order, necessarily, but I produced the starting points for those sounds."
I'm also having a problem recording my vocals. I am getting what I call "crackles" (Bill Sutton calls it "click-wah" but says that term is his own construction; if anyone knows what a sound engineer would call this, so I can more effectively look for solutions on the internet, I would be grateful for the information) on the high notes.
( More about the crackles. Also links to sound files. )
Also having the time to catch up on my mixing will let me get a better idea of where I am in terms of percent finished. It will let me figure out what I have to re-record, and what I need to hurry up and arrange and practice. I can do some proof-of-concept recordings at home to figure out what order to record stuff in, and lay down scratch tracks to record to when I go into the studio. So it's not time wasted.
