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Slide? Oh Please No

The last time I did car singing I finished what I had planned quick so I did a re-recording too. I didn’t have rhythm guitars down so I was working off an old scratch track. Tonight I put the guitars down… all of them… oh, so many tracks.

Four tracks of fat finger flubbing rhythm guitars (two takes, each with two mics for a total of four tracks)

Six tracks of lead guitar. Three takes, two mics each. One take was my usual guitar sound, one was a cleanish sound, and the third was tons of fuzz and feedback and… and… slide.

I am the worst slide player on Earth but don’t fret, I only used it for noise, and I’m probably going to play the two tracks backwards. You’re all safe. Trust me.

Grooviest iPhone Stand Ever

Santa brought me what is clearly the grooviest iPhone stand ever, which means all kinds of new candle time lapses.

Unfortunately the one I’m shooting in the pictures is using my iPod Touch whose battery will likely die within minutes. I should think about plugging it in.

CPAP Cleaner

I got a machine to sanitize the moving parts of my CPAP machine. It’s cool. It nukes the crap out of stuff with UV light for five minutes and then poof, disinfected. I’m still going to need to wash the dried up drool out of the mask though. Grody to the Max, man*.

*My spoiler free review of Wonder Woman 84 is as follows: I am so glad the 80’s are over and I have zero nostalgia for that time. None. Nil. Zip. Nada.

Post-Christmas Recovery

I saved all of the boxes that our billion lock down deliveries came in for the month leading up to Christmas. That way if one of us needed a box to wrap, there would be something perfect just lying around.

While the plan was perfectly successful, it did leave this….

Which means I spent my morning listening to a playlist of solo albums made by members of Pink Floyd on shuffle while doing this……

HoHoHo

Musical To Do List

I have three songs to mix and then December Music is done. I want to finish those before I move on to the next thing. The next thing being re-recordings volume four. I want some of that done before New Year. Part of me wants to skip the album in a month for January to recharge the creative battery for RPM in February, but another part of me wants to do another 10 songs in January in order to have the 10 songs/month streak last for a full 12 months. I’m also going to switch back to the ES-335 and keep messing with different overdrive pedal combinations. I put the Keeley D&M Drive back on the board. Let’s give that another spin.

In other words, after I mix the last three songs I don’t know what I want to do next.

Typical.

Apple Audio

Santa brought me two Apple products. A stereo pair of HomePod Minis and a set of AirPod Pros.

The HomePods are a replacement for our old Sonos speaker. The Sonos is too old to support Apple AirPlay so now I’ll be able to run audio directly off my phone or iPad while I work. This pleases me greatly.

I still need to play with some of the features on the AirPod Pros, but the early verdict is they are a serious upgrade over the first gen model.

It’s an Apple Christmas and that is goodness.