I recorded guitars for a bunch of songs today. The performances suck to the high heavens, but they exist so… yeah.
I did not record direct today. I had a mic on a speaker like the old timers used to do. Direct signals are fine and all, but making actual noise is so much better. Every time.
Oil changed, inspection sticker acquired, groceries purchased, and a bunch of Power Ball quick picks snagged. Now what? Music? Probably lunch first. Maybe a Doctor Who or two.
We used to live in this house.
Also, meow.
Wascally Wabbit.
Finally! While I was cooking my lunch on the grill today I got a picture of one of the birds living rent-free in one of the bird houses!
Now I need to see if there are baby birds in there too.
I filled the bird feeders and did a photography exercise.
The same view, with different depth of field.
Example #1, aperture set to f2, shutter speed set to 1/5000 seconds, ISO set to 800 (because that is the speed of the film in Dad’s camera right now).
Example #2, aperture set to f8, shutter speed set to 1/500 seconds, ISO still at 800.
Final example, aperture set to f16, shutter speed set to 1/100 seconds, ISO again at 800.
So the lower the aperture number (lower numbers mean wider aperture, so f2 is as wide as my lens gets and f16 is as narrow as it gets) the shallower the depth of field and the less of the image that is in focus. Get it?
The whole photo a day challenge thing gets pretty lame on the one day per week I work in the office. It’s usually just a picture from the highway, or from the parking lot at work, or of my desk, or something lame like that.
Just sharing a couple of scenes from the back yard today, while I was cooking a hamburger on the grill.
First, there is a bird living in this bird house! Jen and I have both seen it!
Second, Robin still does not know how to deal with me being outside. She freaks out when I talk to her through the window.
Also, that window is super dirty. I should hose it down.
Raise your hand if you put vocals onto five songs this morning before work.
*Robert raises his hand*
I didn’t need to hide in the car. I did it at my desk in the cellar. Five songs with vocals. That’s 10% of the 50/90 goal. Not bad, red head.
The mouser takes a much needed afternoon nap.
I spent about two hours recording guitars today. I finished five of the 10 songs that are currently in the fifty-songs-in-90-days-challenge pipeline. Including the song that is in 13/8 time, and the song that is in 15/8 time. First time I have ever knowingly played guitar in either of those time signatures. Milestones, babie!
I used direct input into the USB audio interface for all of the tracks, including using two amps at a time. I took the obligatory pictures, but Flickr is being a dick today and won’t let me upload PNG files, or any files for that matter, on the web. I had to dumb these down to JPGs and share them onto my iPhone and upload them from the Flickr app. I am thusly annoyed.
Inside the Red Head's Head 