From the Blanket Fort
Sep. 16th, 2013 08:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
catsittingstillI put together a verse of the vocals and a verse of the mando from Today Is The Day, recorded in the blanket fort, and compared them to some tracks recorded at Carson Newman back when I had access to the padded room there.
I really think the blanket fort recordings are better. I hear a distinct chest hump (reinforcement of lower frequencies) in the CN recordings that I don't hear in the blanket fort recordings. That is a load off my mind, because I made the CN recordings sound okay, so the blanket fort recordings will probably be fine. I'm not in the best voice at 3 am, but I will make it work somehow.
I recorded 2 and possibly 3 more songs early this morning. That made for a rather challenging day, as this was also my morning to volunteer at the Rural Clinic from 9 am to noon. I'm still not doing very well at getting back to sleep after recording. I came home and got most of my practicing done and also ordered new octave mando strings.
Along those lines, I listened to recordings of the mandolin and octave mandolin from Saturday morning versus this morning, to see if the timbre of the strings was changing. They say you should put fresh strings on when you record--but I think they were invisioning recording once a week or once a month rather than every day. (It takes me forty minutes to change the strings on one instrument--and it costs 6-8$)
I think I hear a subtle change in the mandolin sound. I don't hear any change in the octave mandolin sound. It may be that my ear is just not all that good. On the other hand it may be that the mandolin strings are lights and I think I heard that lights "go stale" faster than medium or heavy strings.
I'm out of the light strings (I had about six packages but used them all up for concerts and the like, I guess.) I have ordered more and they should be here Wednesday; I have enough octave mando songs that I don't need to record mando between now and Thursday morning. I have also ordered octave mando strings because I only have one more set. They won't be here until Friday at the earliest, but it's not as urgent. Now that I am recording CDs these are business expenses (I sure wouldn't be changing strings so often if I weren't recording.) Must remember to put these into the spreadsheet.
If all goes well, Saturday should see me with the basics (instrumental track and melody vocals) of all 21 songs recorded. Then I need to leap into writing out harmonies for some of the songs and getting those recorded. Also mixing. The detail work alone (picking which version of a track is best, patching any mistakes, reducing the volume of the breaths, checking the pitch of everything) for a single track can take a full day so I don't have many days to waste.
Must go to bed soon. Getting up at 3 am...
I really think the blanket fort recordings are better. I hear a distinct chest hump (reinforcement of lower frequencies) in the CN recordings that I don't hear in the blanket fort recordings. That is a load off my mind, because I made the CN recordings sound okay, so the blanket fort recordings will probably be fine. I'm not in the best voice at 3 am, but I will make it work somehow.
I recorded 2 and possibly 3 more songs early this morning. That made for a rather challenging day, as this was also my morning to volunteer at the Rural Clinic from 9 am to noon. I'm still not doing very well at getting back to sleep after recording. I came home and got most of my practicing done and also ordered new octave mando strings.
Along those lines, I listened to recordings of the mandolin and octave mandolin from Saturday morning versus this morning, to see if the timbre of the strings was changing. They say you should put fresh strings on when you record--but I think they were invisioning recording once a week or once a month rather than every day. (It takes me forty minutes to change the strings on one instrument--and it costs 6-8$)
I think I hear a subtle change in the mandolin sound. I don't hear any change in the octave mandolin sound. It may be that my ear is just not all that good. On the other hand it may be that the mandolin strings are lights and I think I heard that lights "go stale" faster than medium or heavy strings.
I'm out of the light strings (I had about six packages but used them all up for concerts and the like, I guess.) I have ordered more and they should be here Wednesday; I have enough octave mando songs that I don't need to record mando between now and Thursday morning. I have also ordered octave mando strings because I only have one more set. They won't be here until Friday at the earliest, but it's not as urgent. Now that I am recording CDs these are business expenses (I sure wouldn't be changing strings so often if I weren't recording.) Must remember to put these into the spreadsheet.
If all goes well, Saturday should see me with the basics (instrumental track and melody vocals) of all 21 songs recorded. Then I need to leap into writing out harmonies for some of the songs and getting those recorded. Also mixing. The detail work alone (picking which version of a track is best, patching any mistakes, reducing the volume of the breaths, checking the pitch of everything) for a single track can take a full day so I don't have many days to waste.
Must go to bed soon. Getting up at 3 am...
