Thursday, February 11, 2010

Recording session 2/10/10

What started out as a night of disasters turned into a pretty productive night. With Coop behind the board, we started laying the vocal tracks for Twinkle in Your Eyes when the computer started gliching again. Coop just about had my hairstyle as he went through a progression of attempts at fixing the problem. We tried moving to another song Just Say It's Over to see if maybe the problem was in the song . Different song, same problem. I almost expected to see the computer go crashing through the engineer room into the studio.After about two hours, Coop tried a desperation fix...what it was I couldn't tell you. I'm a writer, not a computer wizard...and it worked. The glitches were gone. We layed all the vocals for Just Say it's Over, Twinkle in Your Eyes, and It's A Good Thing, plus the guitar solo in It's A Good Thing.
Three songs complete in about two hours. Like I said, not a bad nights work. I'm ready to keep pushing so we can go to the final editing and mixing. I want to get this puppy done and in the can so we can start working on the next one. I feel like we have gotten the problems solved and from here on in, it should be smooth sailing. Next will be Lou turn to lay down vocals on his songs.. Acouple more horns, and we will be finished recording. I know I keep saying it, but the will be done, and I feel like we can finish it soon...Maybe not by th Ides of March like we wanted, but soon. I'll keep you posted. T.T.F.N Lib

1 comment:

  1. It was a cascade failure...I'd fix one thing and somethign else would go...oh wait..that's from Star Trek.

    Digital recording has this anomaly called "latency"...there's slight delay between the computer and the real world. For some reason, it's become an issue all of a sudden, causing the computer to "stutter" while recording, as it fought valiantly to keep up. It took a while, but I stumbled on the right combination of settings to correct the problem.

    I expect smooth sailing ahead.

    For you geeks, here's what I'm recording on...
    HP Pavillion Laptop
    - Intel Core-2 Duo, 2.13 GHz
    - 6Gb RAM
    - Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
    M-Audio Fast Track Ultra USB Multi-Track Interface
    Mixcraft-4.5 Recording/Mastering Software
    (soon to upgrade to v5)

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