I finally got around to digging into some mixing this weekend which was a welcomed thing. It's funny...the more I go along, the more I actually like mixing, and I guess it's just a matter of getting more comfortable with the process, understanding the wide scope of what you're trying to achieve, realizing your options, etc. After dabbling with having Peele work on "Effects...", I'm not sure that I'm even going to consider outsourcing any mixing in the near future since I feel like my mix for the song is better than what he had.
I've made a decent amount of progress on drums lately and I purchased two pieces of software that have so far really helped. Fiddling with them this weekend proved both interesting and kind of fun, and the whole process now shows a lot more promise than before. I'm also poking around for different mic techniques for recording my guitars. It's amazing how, if you read 3-5 articles, everyone will tell you something completely different, and sometimes even completely contradict one another. No wonder this stuff is hard to get your head around.
I also think I made a decision about "Yet I Tried for You", the song that I worked on with Seth Tiven. This is the one that MWP wanted to basically throw out and then rerecord in a pro studio, and to be honest that just didn't sit well with me since it's actually one of the best sounding recordings I've gotten so far. And so, I think I'm going to NOT put that on list to work on with Marty, and instead I'm thinking I'm going to release it as yet another 2 song EP, possibly backed with a newer song called "Gettin' By" which is kind of an off shoot of the Wrecking Ball album. I'm going to instead think about writing 1-2 new tracks for the Marty project so that I can preserve what I've got so far. The beauty is that "Yet I Tried for You" is fairly far along in mix quality so I just need to work through Seth's parts in order to make the track sound rather full and then possibly add a couple simple elements to fill it out.
In other news, I guess it finally all caught up with me...I have multiple spots on my head and face of skin cancer. Ah, yes, I always knew this would come back to bite me. I've probably had about 1-2 dozen really bad sunburns in my life where most of my head was burnt, normally due to something not of my own fault, like going to lunch with coworkers and having them decide to sit outside...and not having a hat available. Yeah. I'm apparently going to spend every Wednesday this summer at the dermatologist's office getting these removed and it sounds like it's going to be a real blast, meaning scarring, etc. If nothing else, I'll probably look more tough once it's over.
Also, I just got word that my white with black trim Rickenbacker is finally done and I need to pick it up this week. I'm curious to see what it looks like for the guy working on it made it sound like the color match and finish repairs would be completely unnoticeable. I'll post a pic if I remember. As for my amp head, it's still sitting in the shop in MN and I've had a heck of a time getting Jeff at Savage to get this both fixed and back to me. Luckily, I wasn't planning on using it for my upcoming recording week.
The TV in the family room also finally took a dive back in early March. After waiting 5-6 weeks for it to be repaired, and watching an old 40" in the meantime, the TV was deemed not fixable and so I had to spring for a new one. The only good news is that the resolution on the new TV is considerably better than the previous, as is the sound through the speaker, but I now have an old non-working TV sitting on my patio since it's not exactly easy to get rid of a 65" TV. Luckily, it's a flat panel and you barely notice it. You'd think as a society that we'd have a better method of getting rid of and/or recycling these things but... It has been nice getting back to regular "movie nights", though, and they just weren't that great when having to watch the 40".
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