Well...New Plans

I should never comment about plans out loud because every time I do everything goes astray in a matter of days.  This time, they really went astray, and if you remember that eye issue that I had been complaining about for quite some time...well, it ended up being yet another detached retina, this one worse than the last, and therefore yet another more intense surgery.  I'm still recovering two plus weeks later and that eye is still pretty much useless, although I'm keeping my fingers crossed that it does improve.

Today was the first day that I've fired up Pro Tools probably since my last entry in this blog.  I have yet to really look at what I was working on over a month ago, and of course I certainly do need to do that, but instead I started digging around in my back log to see what was lingering.

It's weird because most of the time that I was unable to do anything post surgery I kept thinking about electronic music.  In fact, I had even sort of convinced myself that I should start working on something new in that genre.  Today, though, I might have come to my senses.  I decided to dig through the Caution Children files and try to figure out just how far along those tracks are.

As a refresher, the main core of the Caution Children songs were written in 1993-95.  Yes, you read that correctly (sigh).  I started actually working on these recordings sometime towards the late 2000's although one of the tracks was done in the late 90's on my old ADAT system.  The rest were done on the Mackie D8b and so you can probably imagine the difference in sound in some of these tracks.  In going over them today, I was kind of surprised to see that they're not that far from complete.  Hmm.  There's also a brand new demoed track that I really like the feel of which is very Thomas Dolby, in my opinion, and so that makes a total of 6 songs.  I'd imagine 10 would round out the album and I've already got 2 more that haven't been started.  The remaining 2 songs might just fill my itch for writing something new in an electronic vein.  Double hmm.

Yeah, I don't know, I guess we'll see what happens.  I obviously need to get back on the mix path with the songs I was working on but it would be nice to actually work on something new and different.  At times like this, you've got to keep your spirits up and keep moving forward, even if I am working with only one eye at the moment.

I also played a bit more with super short delays on vocals.  I had been thinking about this quite a bit, especially after hearing a couple of my favorite albums this past week and realizing that the same technique was probably used.  In playing around with it a bit more, I realized that I can probably be much more liberal with it than previously thought.  I'm always learning new stuff, that's for certain.