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ateolfokay...ummm...yesterday: class -> The Apartment -> my house to borrow money from my mom to pay my mixing board off early -> Jacques' work to pick up his check -> his bank to cash it -> Cash America to pay off and run away w/ said mixing console -> The Apartment...i was supposed to eat dinner w/ my parents and grandmother, but she didn't want to since my mom's sick so it got rescheduled for monday...David got back from his daring attempt at going to see Matmos in Kentucky...it failed...details are listed in his and his entries...the three of us picked up the other Justin and met Robin, Evan, and Madie at Los Reyes in Raleigh...oh yea! before this, Jacques and David and Robert were making noise w/ the mixing board, the delay pedal, and the amps...it was certainly bearing a resemblance to pizza...at Los Reyes everyone (else, except Robin) drank bunches of margaritas...back to The Apartment...(well, before this, Justin went w/ me to pick some stuff from my house out in Germantown, no one else would come though...) Brad met us there, as did Paul return -> bowling -> Pancake Shop -> The Apartment...(i dropped Justin off on the way there...) this horror movie was attempted to have been watched but everyone went to sleep/home...i slept over there...
today: stumbled awake...went to Radio Shack where i purchased a can of electrical tuner cleaner stuff, a 1/4" to rca splitter thingie, and 3 more cables...i fixed my bass amp by cleaning out the knob thingies...so it don't pop no more...we (Jacques, David, and i) met Justin at the Sub Shop...then to River City Comics and Records, or whatever it's called, briefly...it sucked... back to The Apartment where we attempted our cover of "I Don't Want to Push It" again...using the mixing board, of course...we almost got it this time! Justin was playing the bass propperly too...unfortunately my bass amp doesn't have an output (it's a Fender Sidekick Bass...a good amp...but i don't think those old Fenders tend to have the outputs for some reason...) we had to mic it...but it was hard getting it positioned where it wouldn't also pick up Jacques' guitar's amp...especially not having another mic stand for it...tomorrow we should have it finished...the recording process was a bit chaotic, as we didn't have headphones coming out of the mixing board...to test the levels we had to tape a short bit of stuff...then take it over into Jacques' room and listen on his stereo...(no monitor or speakers for the tape deck in the recording/living room either...) we should be getting started on it earlier tomorrow...i'm gonna bring some headphones over and hopefully i can find something here (there) that can work as a small mic stand for the amp...i'll also need a mic (i have another one somewhere...another karaoke mic...) for the rototoms...as moving the vocal mic over to the rototoms when the part comes up in the song didn't work out too well...we COULD make it work, but that would be a lot more trouble than necessary...as i do have another mic somewhere...i'll also have to work out a mic-stand contraption for that...i guess stuff and tape can always work...(Bomb 21 and the Nipples always used tall lamps w/ the mics duct taped to 'em...so...) as much fun as it is for me to blather on about my recording process(es), i'm sure it bores you to tears...oh wait! i don't care what you think! hahaha! so: oh wait...i think i already said everything about that that i can think of for now...oh well...no! i forgot to mention the biggest part...i have a 16 track mixing console, but i don't have a multitrack recorder for it...so we have to record into a regular tape deck...this means that everything has to be mixed live...(no readjusting of the levels...and no overdubs...well, they ARE possible if you take the previously recorded tape and run it back into one of the tracks and mix whatever else you're going to add in the other tracks and mix that onto a different tape...live, still...but enough of that...) what i'm getting at here is that the current state of recording we have is a tedious trial and error process more or less...so yes, we'll see how that goes tomorrow (well hopefully) it was going well when we stopped...the last take was good except what was coming from the bass amp got drowned out...i liked the way my vocals sounded...[shrug] and the guitar sounds that we got were very good as well, i thought...it's hopeful...the others were going to see The Exorcist, but i felt i'd better get home so i can sleep some for work tomorrow and maybe even do some homework tonight if my sloth is kind to me...
today: stumbled awake...went to Radio Shack where i purchased a can of electrical tuner cleaner stuff, a 1/4" to rca splitter thingie, and 3 more cables...i fixed my bass amp by cleaning out the knob thingies...so it don't pop no more...we (Jacques, David, and i) met Justin at the Sub Shop...then to River City Comics and Records, or whatever it's called, briefly...it sucked... back to The Apartment where we attempted our cover of "I Don't Want to Push It" again...using the mixing board, of course...we almost got it this time! Justin was playing the bass propperly too...unfortunately my bass amp doesn't have an output (it's a Fender Sidekick Bass...a good amp...but i don't think those old Fenders tend to have the outputs for some reason...) we had to mic it...but it was hard getting it positioned where it wouldn't also pick up Jacques' guitar's amp...especially not having another mic stand for it...tomorrow we should have it finished...the recording process was a bit chaotic, as we didn't have headphones coming out of the mixing board...to test the levels we had to tape a short bit of stuff...then take it over into Jacques' room and listen on his stereo...(no monitor or speakers for the tape deck in the recording/living room either...) we should be getting started on it earlier tomorrow...i'm gonna bring some headphones over and hopefully i can find something here (there) that can work as a small mic stand for the amp...i'll also need a mic (i have another one somewhere...another karaoke mic...) for the rototoms...as moving the vocal mic over to the rototoms when the part comes up in the song didn't work out too well...we COULD make it work, but that would be a lot more trouble than necessary...as i do have another mic somewhere...i'll also have to work out a mic-stand contraption for that...i guess stuff and tape can always work...(Bomb 21 and the Nipples always used tall lamps w/ the mics duct taped to 'em...so...) as much fun as it is for me to blather on about my recording process(es), i'm sure it bores you to tears...oh wait! i don't care what you think! hahaha! so: oh wait...i think i already said everything about that that i can think of for now...oh well...no! i forgot to mention the biggest part...i have a 16 track mixing console, but i don't have a multitrack recorder for it...so we have to record into a regular tape deck...this means that everything has to be mixed live...(no readjusting of the levels...and no overdubs...well, they ARE possible if you take the previously recorded tape and run it back into one of the tracks and mix whatever else you're going to add in the other tracks and mix that onto a different tape...live, still...but enough of that...) what i'm getting at here is that the current state of recording we have is a tedious trial and error process more or less...so yes, we'll see how that goes tomorrow (well hopefully) it was going well when we stopped...the last take was good except what was coming from the bass amp got drowned out...i liked the way my vocals sounded...[shrug] and the guitar sounds that we got were very good as well, i thought...it's hopeful...the others were going to see The Exorcist, but i felt i'd better get home so i can sleep some for work tomorrow and maybe even do some homework tonight if my sloth is kind to me...
