Tag: Recording

June Music Project: Complete

11 songs, a shade over 40 minutes. Consider it done.

Back in April I could post a playlist from hearthis.at and it worked. In May it posted all right but only played the first track. Does it work in June?

ADDENDUM: Nope, it only played the first song. If you’re desperate to punish yourself, go here.

Also Ran

I think this one might be good. I think. I’m not sure. I’m really close to it, but I am more excited about this than any song I’ve worked on since RPM in 2019.

Is it good? No… don’t tell me. Let me be excited for a while. Don’t burst my idiot bubble.

June Tracking: Complete

All of the tracking for the 11 June project songs is complete. Today I recorded the last two vocals, the last four lead guitars, and finished one mix.

The Klon KTR into the overdrive side of the Keeley D&M drive really clicked for me for the first time today. Also, the Bonamassa signature Crybaby is really great. The more I use it, the more I like it, and I’ve been using it a lot.

I’ve got five songs to mix and then we start looking forward to the kick off of 50/90 on July 4th. Yikes!

Relating to Sheldon Cooper

Ever watch The Big Bang Theory? You know the character Sheldon Cooper? I found myself relating to him this morning, intensely.

You see this truck?

See it? Parked there in the parking lot like it’s no big thing?

Its in my spot.

I repeat, its in my spot.

Its totally sitting there right on the spot that I go to when I do my morning parking lot vocal recording sessions. Just sitting there like some smug son of a bitch, taking up my god damned spot!

I had to move to the other side of the lot to get the required privacy.

It threw everything out of whack (no it didn’t). It caused me to screw up 10 times more often than usual (no it didn’t, I just sucked a tiny bit more than usual and I’m blaming it on the parking spot). It caused me to even have to change one of the melodies I’d written out ahead of time because the parking lot made my vocal range a couple of steps smaller (no it didn’t, again, I just suck).

I had an audience though, the poor suckers (there were two of them even though you can only see one).

The good news is, I am done with vocals for June music. I only had two more to do and I struggled with both of them, but they are done. I thought about maybe doing a song or two from the re-recording project while I was out on the town, but I decided not too. The mojo was not with me today.

I took a roundabout route home instead so that I could take a picture of the ugly clock.

299/365

For June Music I have five songs already mixed, two more are ready to mix, and four still need lead guitars. I might have this thing finished by the 29th again. That would be cool.

Don’t Daisy Chain Your Pedals

My new Crybaby wah pedal is on my pedal board. My RYRA Klon Klone and Keeley Blues Driver clone are not. The board is powered by two MXR bricks. The two non-board pedals each have their own plugs.

I was using the two clones, but I wanted to use the crybaby with them and I didn’t have a third plug. I took it off the board and did what you shouldn’t do. I put all three pedals onto a daisy chain. I did leads for one song and then tore it all down.

Don’t daisy chain pedals together. My already noisy rig reached new, previously unimagined levels of awful noise. Just don’t do it.

The crybaby sounded great though.

I Broke My Rule

I broke one of my primary album-in-a-month challenge rules today. Twice. I think I might do it again too.

I mentioned before that I was a little unhappy with the first few rhythm guitar parts I recorded this month. Well, I have a rule that states once a track is done, it’s done. Today I kicked that rule to the curb and re-recorded all of the guitars on songs #1 and 2. I’m just out of control.

I also put lead guitar on both of those songs. That means I have two June songs ready to mix. It’s just crazy!