Prep

I don't have much to report except for the fact that I'm in "prep" mode.  I have next week off and so I'm gearing up, both mentally and physically, to do some pretty heavy recording after not doing any for quite some time.  I've spent most of this year mixing, polishing, studying up, learning new techniques, and so on.  I'll openly admit that I'm quite eager to get some actual recording accomplished.

Prepping is always a ton of work, not surprisingly.  There are many decisions to make, songs to write down, pieces to work out, microphones to connect and place, strings to change, and so on.  I also usually have to do a decent amount of moving items around since I seem to always have my studio floor covered in various "junk", things that I for some odd reason decided to acquire and/or simply have no other place to store.  I've found out the hard way that a clean floor is pretty essential when you're trying to move around with a guitar strapped to your chest while wearing headphones, dodging cords, etc.

I've been arguing with myself about what songs to focus on.  Since I want to do actual recording, I'm thinking I'm going to focus on the "Beautiful Silence" album.  I wrote most of these tracks about 3-4 years ago and so they really do need to come to life soon anyhow before they start to fizzle for me mentally.  I'm actually really excited about this album since I think it's really quite something, although it's fairly simple in nature.  It'll be a very interesting vocal follow-up to the "Opsimath" album, and it's hard to believe that I finished the writing of that one just about 20 years ago so I guess I'm fairly due.  I'll also be dabbling in other "ponds", as they say, including starting work on some of the compiling stages of the next Jazz Machine album as well some random ancient one-off songs that may or may not end up on an EP...who knows.  And, of course, there will be mixing going on.

I'll probably be blogging quite a bit next week so don't be alarmed.  I usually have a lot to say once I get into the trenches.  Hopefully, they're not too dirty this time around.