Gate

I was trying to do some work yesterday on the Memphis Forward site, finally trying to rewrite it. Didn't make a lot of progress (got caught up trying to "fix" something that I thought had worked before but finally realized it was something extra I was in the middle of working on when I realized I wouldn't be able to do it in node.js so abandoned it...so that's why it didn't work anymore...). Well, so working on rewriting it in python, thought I could just rewrite the node part, but I may have to restructure the whole thing so the python is running the page on the server instead of having the page site out there separately. But now that I'm thinking about it...I wonder if it's possible to have the page run inside the NODE instead of separately. I haven't looked into that. Maybe that's my solution. Maybe not. Either way, I've still got work to do on that shit. Last night I wanted to do some work on those Family Ghost recordings, adding effects and stuff. I wanted to put some gated reverb on the drums. Turned out to be a bit of a chore given my equipment limitations. I don't actually have any real reverb (usually try to fake it with delays feeding into each other...which is never quite right). I decided to use the recorder's on-board reverb effect. But it turns out the effect gets applied AFTER the send, so I was sending it out to the gate stuff in my modular without any reverb. So I had to rig it up by just outputting the headphone jack with the snare drum channel on solo. This way I couldn't even hear the gate processing while it was recording and to try stuff out I had to record a little, listen back, make adjustments, rinse and repeat. And after all that it didn't really end up working. The sound was too uneven. It exaggerated differences in volume in the initial recording. Hitting it louder made it even louder and when I hit it more quietly it almost dropped out completely in places. I may have been able to fix that with some adjustments to my amplifier module, but not being able to hear while I'm making adjustments makes that pretty difficult to get those minute adjustments right. And it may not have even worked anyway. What I really need is a compressor, which I also don't have. One day maybe I can get some of these basic tools like reverb and compression. I eventually settled for the on-board reverb as-is. It worked out close enough. Not a lot other than that. I did put one of the guitars through the reverb but I'm not sure about it yet. I also added delay+pitch shift to my little guitar intro. And there you have it. Boring recording talk. Or post talk?