"It seems to me you're just plain scared."

There was some more practice yesterday. Jacques and Paul came over, though Paul didn't stay very long. First we worked on finishing the rap track. I had pieced the drums together last week and that stood. I just wanted to add a little two-note piano idea. All of my cheap casio-level keyboards seemed to have dead batteries but this one weird super-cheap thrift store find was working (mostly). It doesn't have any jacks in it so I had to mic it (in the bathroom of course, nothing fancy, just the internal mics in the handheld recorder). Pretty good timing 'cuz just a little bit later its batteries died too (oh, and we seem to be out of aa's right now I guess I could have gone out and gotten more batteries but whatever). Okay, so everything was assembled all that was left was to arrange it. Figured out where to drop stuff in and out and rendered the file and all was good! Then Jacques and I worked on the dubstep thing. Perhaps I should put "dubstep" in quotes. I'd forgotten how much we had the drums down already. So it was time to add synths. I broke out the Prophet and recorded a few parts to go with the different drum patterns. First had these cheesy chord stabs (pretty house) and it went but I almost felt embarrassed playing it, it was reserved for a section that doesn't happen too often. Then I recorded a fast single-note arpeggio thing that was a good bulk of the music. Last I recorded this floaty pad that's pretty reminiscent of what I play on the ambient song (but it's a different setting on the prophet, just similar, also what I play is similar but different). That's also not for a whole lot of (just the beginning and end really). Jacques wants to loop it under the whole song, but I'm not sure about it now. The chord progression is more complex than the other parts and I think it would end up clashing a bit. We'll see. The last thing we did (after taking a Five Guys break) was record the bass, which I guess is key in it resembling anything like dubstep. We got the Taurus for this. Jacques played a two note pattern while I used the modular to modulate the filter with some triangle wave lfo. So it, you know, vaguely resembled something like dubstep. Sounds pretty good anyway. Came home from work to find some mail: John Carpenter: Halloween: 20th Anniversary Edition cd. Been tired today, but I went out and picked up some motherfucking Gus's and that's woken me up.