Saturday, June 3, 2023

Oh, that Bond theme...

I finished up the main guitar part today on "This Town...".  It ends up that I actually had everything I needed and didn't have to record any more for the part, even though I was convinced yesterday that I'd need to.  It's funny how that happens.  Sometimes, especially when you're in the thick of it and listening to a track over and over and quite frankly too close to it, you can't really judge what you're hearing.  It's sometimes best to walk away and return with fresh ears, and much to my surprise I liked everything that I had down already for a take.

I did redo one very small literally 5 second bit, where I hit a string in a strange way, and knowing how I am, I figured I might as well do the correction now rather than later.  Trying to correct something later can be a real nightmare since it's very hard to get all the same settings, sounds, mic placement, etc., so that it sounds seamless.  It's not impossible, mind you, and I've done it multiple times, but it can be a bit of a headache and so I do what I can to avoid that sort of thing whenever possible.

After editing the main part, I worked on all the little tidbit guitar parts.  Unfortunately, I burned over an hour just trying to get the right sound/tone and effects settings for one of the little parts.  It's amazing how you can burn time in this manner.  I'm sure I was also driving my next door neighbor nuts by playing the same little riff over and over, probably around 50-70 times.  I'm sure he was thinking, "...what the hell is he doing over there?!"  This is the same guy that in the past yelled out his window very loudly, "Shut up!!!", when a car alarm kept going off down the street.  I feel bad about making the neighbors have to listen to this sort of thing (the guitar riff, not the alarm...because that wasn't me) but then again it's their choice to not have a/c and keep all of their windows open all the time.  Living next to me, I'm not sure I would recommend it.

I think most of what I did today worked and will stick but I still have some questions about some of the guitar tone.  I did end up keeping my rough version of the Morricone guitar bit but I recorded a new version for the James Bond styled guitar.  As I always say, I don't consider anything closed until I've had a chance to listen to it the next day on the stereo.

I was hoping to also do the solos today but I ran out of time.  Sigh.  I'm going to try and do them tomorrow but I'm not sure if that'll happen since I have other chores that I also need to attend to.

By the way, I'm trying to get used to looking at my nose.  It's far from healed but all the Steri strips finally fell off.  The stitches made quite a few imprints in my nose and I do look slightly Frankenstein like from the front.  I think it'll probably heal fine but I get the feeling that it takes a very long time to heal.  Speaking of, another joy of getting older...your body just doesn't heal like it once did.  I swear...I have cuts on my legs and knees that happened six months ago and just never seem to heal.  Ah, the joy.

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