So today was a day of failure so mediocre that I spent half the time wondering if I was mad. Woke up at 5 and got it in my head that I was gonna record some drums today, so I bust out the old P.A. head and hook it up to the computer. I needed to hook this old jalopy up in order to record with more than one mic, after getting all the shit set up (across the room) I sat down in front of my computer to discover tons and tons of crazy interference with my monitors. I went over to the P.A. to adjust the volume and found it to be really hot. Here is how the first couple of takes went. Take 1 – sounds pretty good, with the microphones adjusted in the right positions I got some pretty good coverage. Take 2 – more distortion on the left channel but still okay. Take 3 – okay….there’s a weird rumbling/ growling noise under the drum track on the left channel…..hmmmmm Take 4 – nothing but a very loud WWHHHHEEEEEEEEEEEEOOOOOOEEEEEHHHHEEEEEEEOOOO!!!! noise. Then suddenly, boom….poof…..black smoke the smell of ozone and electricity. It’s dead, there is no saving it………
So I rigged up a secondary mic and recorded some drums. Unfortunately without someone playing the bass I have a really hard time keeping a beat and ended up with some sub par drum tracks. I did a much better job with the drums when I recorded them one at a time with a metronome keeping the beat, probably gonna try doing that way again. Why am I doing this? I have no Idea. I haven’t been able to sit down and write a song for a year or more, the stuff I have written was on the fly and I’m not always happy with how those kind of songs turn out. I think if I just had some more human interaction with people that aren’t dumb I’d have more stuff to write about, but these days there aren’t many people I really wanna be around. But to hell with all this cry baby shit! Listen to me, wah wah wah!!
On a lighter note, my parents will be coming up the day after Thanksgiving and we are frying up a motherfucking turkey!!! If you’ve never had a deep fried turkey then you might as well stuff a rattlesnake up your ass and some scorpions down your throat, cause you don’t deserve to live!! This will be the first time my parents will be coming to the house so this should be interesting.
For now,
Zack
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