2:20am
So, I'm tired enough now that I can barely keep unwarranted k's, and j's out of these words I'm typing. I'll keep this short.
Maybe I'm so tired because of the way the day started: Out of toilet paper? Wet Wipes. Executive!
Or maybe, its because of the brutality of carrying stuff, followed by carrying stuff, followed by recording, followed by carrying stuff, and wrapped up with carrying some stuff. Either way, the day started out well. We got together somewhat late, Chris getting here around 12:30, while I was in the shower and putting up PS for mixing. It sounded a million times better than it had in my memory. Amazing how recordings can do that. Anyway, Chris did his magic on the track and its sounding better than any basic tracks of our have ever done, closer to completion.
Now I'm feeling like maybe the reservations of mine that Cary was talking about yesterday are specifically related to Arab Fiesta rather than all the new songs as a whole. I just feel like I know how that song is supposed to go less than the others. That means I don't really have any good overdub ideas and no way of evaluating the sound of it to figure out what we need to do. Whatever, at least I'm feeling really optimistic about the results of these new sessions and I have some renewed faith in my original theory of these new songs needing fewer overdubs; sounding better raw.
Recording at Gregory Heights was filled with more obstacles than yesterday. Matt, a member of the Portland band Cart! who we played with in January in Corvalis was around (he works for Portland Parks and Rec with the after school program we're kind of operating through). It seemed like he was supposed to be in charge of throwing us out, but instead was a super hero, let us stay and gave us the devil sign in appreciation, even of bad takes. Even with his support, we had to wait until 6 when the principal left to start actually making noise.
Even with the late recording start, we had tons of time, which we managed to fill with incomplete and imperfect takes. As Chris reminded, the work expands to fill the time. And, at the end of the night -- on the other end of pasta, Ethan and Meri's strawberry-rubarb pie, an episode of the West Wing, and a perfect-as-usual editing job by Chris -- we have really strong basics for Unwater.
Tomorrow is Deerhead and the end of basics (a landmark!). . .somehow at that point it will seem like the battle will be mostly won. All we have left to do is an infinite number of tasks in an all too finite amount of time. What could be so hard about that?
Maybe I'm so tired because of the way the day started: Out of toilet paper? Wet Wipes. Executive!
Or maybe, its because of the brutality of carrying stuff, followed by carrying stuff, followed by recording, followed by carrying stuff, and wrapped up with carrying some stuff. Either way, the day started out well. We got together somewhat late, Chris getting here around 12:30, while I was in the shower and putting up PS for mixing. It sounded a million times better than it had in my memory. Amazing how recordings can do that. Anyway, Chris did his magic on the track and its sounding better than any basic tracks of our have ever done, closer to completion.
Now I'm feeling like maybe the reservations of mine that Cary was talking about yesterday are specifically related to Arab Fiesta rather than all the new songs as a whole. I just feel like I know how that song is supposed to go less than the others. That means I don't really have any good overdub ideas and no way of evaluating the sound of it to figure out what we need to do. Whatever, at least I'm feeling really optimistic about the results of these new sessions and I have some renewed faith in my original theory of these new songs needing fewer overdubs; sounding better raw.
Recording at Gregory Heights was filled with more obstacles than yesterday. Matt, a member of the Portland band Cart! who we played with in January in Corvalis was around (he works for Portland Parks and Rec with the after school program we're kind of operating through). It seemed like he was supposed to be in charge of throwing us out, but instead was a super hero, let us stay and gave us the devil sign in appreciation, even of bad takes. Even with his support, we had to wait until 6 when the principal left to start actually making noise.
Even with the late recording start, we had tons of time, which we managed to fill with incomplete and imperfect takes. As Chris reminded, the work expands to fill the time. And, at the end of the night -- on the other end of pasta, Ethan and Meri's strawberry-rubarb pie, an episode of the West Wing, and a perfect-as-usual editing job by Chris -- we have really strong basics for Unwater.
Tomorrow is Deerhead and the end of basics (a landmark!). . .somehow at that point it will seem like the battle will be mostly won. All we have left to do is an infinite number of tasks in an all too finite amount of time. What could be so hard about that?
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