I’ve been busier than usual lately, and using any down time to recover, so there hasn’t been much musical progress. I have, however, increased my instrument arsenal. One weapon is the Microkorg XL synthesizer. It’s small – 37 mini-keys – but that’s perfect for me. I don’t have a ton of space to accomodate a [...]

Following up on the previous post, I did go back and work on that last song in an attempt to lower some of the volume peaks in order to boost the overall volume. Between that and the reading I’ve done on the issue, I’m back to feeling it’s not a good idea. At least for [...]

Up until now I’ve just focused on accomplishing a live recording where all the instruments and vocals are mixed at what I think are good levels and the overall mix is normalized – that is, as loud as it can get without any part being distorted. All of this has been done using the controls [...]

Yesterday I was able to rework the music at the original, faster tempo easily enough. I was still having heavy head cold symptoms, so I took some Sudafed, drank lots of hot tea, and did the best I could. It took a number of tries before the vocals were passable. Thankfully the initial recording passed [...]

The good news is that the music for the latest song is all composed and arranged. The bad news is that I realized after recording it that I was playing it at a slower tempo than I’d been practicing, which made the song last much longer than intended. Plus, when I tried to record the [...]