Recording Week Day 3 & 4

Recording Day 3 is really easy to talk about since nothing really got accomplished whatsoever.  I had a bunch of random errands to do and so I embarked on driving around town which mainly took up the majority of the day.  I had to drop off my bike at the Trek store and then I ventured over yet again to Guitar Center for a new power cable since Focal sent me a defective cable (yeah, go figure).  While I was in the area, I decided to stop at Crumbl and check out the newest high end cookie maker.  For the record, the cookies aren't as outrageously priced as you'd think since they're the size of small cakes but I will say that they're nowhere near as good as Batch & Box.

Once I got home, it was late enough that it wasn't really worth trying to do any new song recording.  I instead opted to start tinkering with the redo of the main vocal on "Only With You", the track that's more or less holding up the "Mirror Land" EP since there's a bit of distortion on the vocal that simply bugs me every time I hear it.  In attempting to redo it, I ran into the exact same issue...unwanted distortion.  And so, this completely blew the rest of the day as I frantically did research, trying to figure out where the issue was coming from since none of my meters are showing in the red.  Grrr.

Day 4 went much better.  I actually laid down 3 more tracks from the "Beautiful Silence" album, songs that I'm calling "Silhouettes", the "Hey You" song, and then the title track of which I started late into the evening.  I finally finished around 9pm and then edited the track the next day.  I find that I play a bit better at night usually, and considering that the title track is both delicate in nature and a bit on the tricky side, I opted to just try to knock it out.  It's also considerably quieter in general at night so it seemed like a good choice in order to minimize the noise level on the recording.

I ended the evening by starting to watch an indie film called "Alex/October".  It was a painful way to end the day since the film's script and dialogue simply do not work on a believable level.  Oh well.  I guess that's how screeners go sometimes.