Recording Updates
Sep. 21st, 2013 10:28 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
catsittingstillSo the 3 am recording on the 17th went better than I thought. Two of the songs seem quite useable, the third--I think I can make it work, though I have so far spent eight hours mixing it and I am not done yet, which is a bit worrying.
I did another 3 am stint today. It seemed to go quite well. I was particularly pleased with the instrumental for Dr. Faber's Medicine Show, which is quite fast (the song is in swing time and to be different I wrote a jig to go under it--lots and lots of fast little eighth notes) and which I basically nailed on the first try.
I do most of my songs by laying down a scratch track in which I sing and play at the same time, then singing "for real" to the scratch track and playing "for real" to the scratch track and matching them up. That wasn't working well for this song; I was playing right at the edge of my abilities when I made the scratch track and it just wasn't regular enough for the "for real" tracks. So I spent several days practicing to the metronome, laid down my mando track to the metronome, and then sang to mando-plus-metronome. That worked pretty well.
I also did Come Flying With Me and That Kind Of Mouse. They seemed to go okay also. We will find out the truth of the matter when I mix. I mean to spend today and tomorrow mixing (and practicing Oblivion Bridge, Neil Armstrong, and Song Of The Makers) and record again Monday am. I'm hoping to have all my basic tracks down before I go to the Atlanta filk circle in a week. But we'll see.
I did another 3 am stint today. It seemed to go quite well. I was particularly pleased with the instrumental for Dr. Faber's Medicine Show, which is quite fast (the song is in swing time and to be different I wrote a jig to go under it--lots and lots of fast little eighth notes) and which I basically nailed on the first try.
I do most of my songs by laying down a scratch track in which I sing and play at the same time, then singing "for real" to the scratch track and playing "for real" to the scratch track and matching them up. That wasn't working well for this song; I was playing right at the edge of my abilities when I made the scratch track and it just wasn't regular enough for the "for real" tracks. So I spent several days practicing to the metronome, laid down my mando track to the metronome, and then sang to mando-plus-metronome. That worked pretty well.
I also did Come Flying With Me and That Kind Of Mouse. They seemed to go okay also. We will find out the truth of the matter when I mix. I mean to spend today and tomorrow mixing (and practicing Oblivion Bridge, Neil Armstrong, and Song Of The Makers) and record again Monday am. I'm hoping to have all my basic tracks down before I go to the Atlanta filk circle in a week. But we'll see.
