I did some good work on May Music last night. Four songs got lyrics and melodies. When I finished I backed everything up. Today the computer crashed and I had to wipe it. I lost yesterday’s work, but I had the backup.
Nope.
The backup didn’t save correctly. Yesterday’s changes are all gone for good.
I recorded some guitars today, which is good, but while I was doing it I missed a Richard Thompson live stream, which is bad.
Go to royalalberthall.com to watch the recording… I’m watching it now.
My new Klone pedal has been added to the May music project. I put rhythm guitars on three songs and used my birthday-present-to-myself on all of them. It sounds so good it’s silly. I needed to goose the treble knob up a little higher than I do on the KTR to get a nice sweet spot, but I haven’t been able to use it on a high watt amp at volume. It will all change when I use it for real.
I did something else with one of the songs that’s also silly… and fun… and awesome.
The rhythm part is just hit a chord and let it ring for two bars, more or less over and over. After I finished the actual recording (double tracked, one panned left and one panned right) I added the first of two extra tracks. First I recorded an additional take of the last eight bars of the song. I then reversed the track. That was a guide. Next I muted the bass and actual guitar tracks so that all I could hear was drums and the backward guitar. After that I used the second extra track to record myself trying to play along with the backward track. It wasn’t easy and it came out pretty wrong, but at least I had the same chords playing on the two tracks. One was forward and the other was backward but they more or less rang out correctly.
The last step was to delete the first of the two tracks, reverse the second track, and pan it right in the middle and unmute all the muted tracks. Now when I play it back I have the normal parts and an additional backward part kinda playing along with each other.
It didn’t work out as I had planned it but…….
Coolest thing I’ve ever done.
The new pedal is sweeeeet.
The Klon Klone journey continues…
I had something that I wanted to write a post about but I can’t remember what it was. Don’t get old, kids. It sucks.
I already mentioned recording some guitars. Three songs underway. I posted a to do list earlier and all but one thing is done. I swept and mopped the dining room floor, I filled the bird feeders, I started watching two shows on Netflix, Money Heist and The End of the F***ing World. Two episodes into each and so far they are all right. I can’t tell if End of the World is a black comedy, or an ugly drama that is sometimes funny. Trying to answer that question is taking me out of it a little.
I got a delivery of replacement parts for my CPAP machine last week and I finally got around to putting the new parts onto the machine. Everything that could be changed has been. New hose, harness, mask, filter, and (for the first time) reservoir. Also, reservoir is a difficult word to spell.
But what the hell was it that I wanted to write about?
I don’t know. I give up.
It’s really hot out and it’s big time spring and my mild allergies are flaring up like mad. Probably because all of the windows are open and I just went outside a couple of times. My head feels a little stuffy and funky. I’m going to go flake. Talk to you later.
Three songs in the pipeline right now. I put guitars on all of them. Two of the songs seem okay so far. The third is a sloppy awful mess. It’s a 12-bar blues. Should I call it The Covid-19 Blues?
This does not count as a stack. No. It does not.
I just did an experiment with the two amps I have in my bedroom right now.
I plugged into the Bassbreaker 15 with the same setup I used for lead guitars on the April music projects. I had the free decibel meter app on my phone running. I hit the mid 90’s a couple of times. The average was in the high 80’s.
I then switched to the Bassbreaker 18/30 with no pedals. I started on the 18 watt channel, which I used for the February music. I lowered the volume all the way and then slowly raised it until I actually got a steady, consistent sound out of it. The decibel meter was showing high 90’s and low 100’s. It peaked at 103.
Well, there goes that idea. I did the same thing on the 30 watt channel and it was averaging higher but the peak was only 104. Regardless, With all the headroom that amp has, when I plugged in my pedal board the volume level was absolutely going to go up. I could try to set everything at unity gain, but why bother. I shut the 18/30 off and went back to the 15. This time with all the pedals. There is a distinct possibility that I might do this whole month with just the Klon KTR for gain. I’ll have the Fulltone OCD and the Wren and Cuff Tri Pi 70 there if I need it, but that KTR is just perfect all by it’s lonesome.
One thing I might do different though is I might put the small amp on top of the big amp. with it sitting on the floor I can’t quite get the mic stand low enough to get the mic in front of a good place on the speaker. If I put the 15 on top of the 18/30 I won’t have that problem.
We’ll see.
