Recording Week Wrap Up

Recording Day 5 went pretty smoothly with laying down the last of the tracks that I had on my agenda.  All in all, the "Beautiful Silence" tracks are sounding really good so far but of course this is only the very beginning.

I took both Thanksgiving and Friday off, more or less to just laze about the house and catch up on a few other odds and ends.   After riding my bike post the recent tune-up, I also caught up with a couple of old friends via Zoom that I hadn't talked to in awhile which was very pleasant.  I also did the usual late night video game playing with my sister which usually ends up with a slew of swear words here and there due to whomever we end up playing with at random.  Modern games are interesting and quite amazing at times but I still sort of long for the olden days of PS1 or before, if I'm completely honest. 

The weekend was mainly about ticking a few boxes on my long outstanding task list of songs.  The biggest agenda item was doing some additional recording on "The Effects of Connection", a one-off track that was originally a Defrost Nixon song that'll hopefully be mixed and released fairly soon.  It's a true B side but it's actually perfect for sending to Peele to work on, to see what he can do with it, and so on.  I also finally got the radio edit blip done for "As Evening Brings Tears", basically the cut down version for the video which is just about done and edited.  The blip was literally a blip...I think it was 3 whole seconds of audio.  I actually called the recording tracks "Guitar Glue" since it's just there to glue two other pieces of audio together where it was spliced in order to shorten the length of the song.

After that, it was time to put the microphones away, take everything down, and then move all the other junk back upstairs to the studio.  It's always a sad thing to do but I will have 2 weeks off in December so hopefully the mics will be coming out again soon, although I really plan to be doing more mixing at that time.  I'm also hoping to start blueprinting the new Jazz Machine album over Christmas break as well.  Lots of fun stuff afoot but nothing yet finished and ready to print, I'm afraid.  Hopefully soon.