Just Stuff

 I have been laying down scratch tracks for the new album at the rate of two a day for nearly a week.  I only did one yesterday, but I wrote a new song also, so I'm good with that, I think.

I need to sort out recording very very soon.  Right now my major two options are pay for time at a studio (40$ an hour) or buy about $600 worth of materials to pad out the inside of the rumpus room and record in there as many hours as I want (less quiet surroundings, and not sure if the padding will work right but if it works properly I can get as much time in as I want as long as I don't mind getting up at 3 am to do it.)

And if the padding didn't work there is the option of upping the project cost to build a permanent recording booth in the garage (my first plan before I realized how expensive it was likely to be) and take the padding off the rumpus room walls to fully pad out the inside.

But purchasing the padding and having it delivered and installing it would take time; if I'm going to do that I better hurry.  And I think I want to buy an hour of recording time first--$40 isn't an unreasonable test cost--to see how much material I can record in that time and thus get a feel for recording costs for this project, and to listen for myself to the sound quality from that studio.

So I guess signing up for that hour is the way to go today.  Also laying down two more scratch tracks, or three if I can manage it, but I've done most of the easy stuff already.