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Ze Veekend
Feb. 3rd, 2003 11:44 amGood lord, that was knackering!
Cut CDs and collated files all friday while working... finished work for the evening, got straight on the tube, then coach to pop down to Lee's place for musical nonesense.
Arrived relatively in tact, spent a good four hours or so setting things up on Lee's machine only to realise that Cubase was going to be a fucking mare and 'forget' the settings for all me synth bits because Lee's got a slightly different setup... instead of "You have this synth installed, but it's not loaded, would you like me to pull it in?" you get "Hahahahaa! I've changed all your VSTi tracks to MIDI tracks! You didn't *want* those settings, did you?"
... decided that the weekend would be better spent recording vocals and that we'd multi-track everything at *my* place, then mix it at Lee's that way, rather than wasting hour recreating tracks that work perfectly well on the machine they were built on.
Get up and make pancakes for all. Uncle DeathBoy explains pancake physics 101 in the Chaos Kitchen.
Proceed with vocalling. Get 2/3 of the tracks out of the way before I sober up and realise that I'm fucking *WASTED*.
Hadn't realised quite how tired I would be from standing up and whining for about 8 hours. Me back legs go and Lee has me put down.
Get up at a disgusting hour, scoop up my stuff and shoot back home slightly earlier to go out for a meal with Liz and Kerry, who's mom and dad have come to visit her in the big smoke.
Eat the single worst plate of food I have ever been served.
( The meal deserves a little section on it's own... )
Get home about six. Sit down. Code until 11pm.
Sleep... sweet sweet sleep.
On the positive side, while not everything got done, most of the vocals sound pretty damned stellar, some even give the impression I can sing. DEFINITE improvements over the usual quality (of recording *and* singing).
So... first step on the way to finishing the little blighter is out of the way!
Manic grins and big hugs to lee and mel for having me... hopefully I can be just as sober (if not more so) next time, too :)
Now... back to that filthy code!
Cut CDs and collated files all friday while working... finished work for the evening, got straight on the tube, then coach to pop down to Lee's place for musical nonesense.
Arrived relatively in tact, spent a good four hours or so setting things up on Lee's machine only to realise that Cubase was going to be a fucking mare and 'forget' the settings for all me synth bits because Lee's got a slightly different setup... instead of "You have this synth installed, but it's not loaded, would you like me to pull it in?" you get "Hahahahaa! I've changed all your VSTi tracks to MIDI tracks! You didn't *want* those settings, did you?"
... decided that the weekend would be better spent recording vocals and that we'd multi-track everything at *my* place, then mix it at Lee's that way, rather than wasting hour recreating tracks that work perfectly well on the machine they were built on.
Get up and make pancakes for all. Uncle DeathBoy explains pancake physics 101 in the Chaos Kitchen.
Proceed with vocalling. Get 2/3 of the tracks out of the way before I sober up and realise that I'm fucking *WASTED*.
Hadn't realised quite how tired I would be from standing up and whining for about 8 hours. Me back legs go and Lee has me put down.
Get up at a disgusting hour, scoop up my stuff and shoot back home slightly earlier to go out for a meal with Liz and Kerry, who's mom and dad have come to visit her in the big smoke.
Eat the single worst plate of food I have ever been served.
( The meal deserves a little section on it's own... )
Get home about six. Sit down. Code until 11pm.
Sleep... sweet sweet sleep.
On the positive side, while not everything got done, most of the vocals sound pretty damned stellar, some even give the impression I can sing. DEFINITE improvements over the usual quality (of recording *and* singing).
So... first step on the way to finishing the little blighter is out of the way!
Manic grins and big hugs to lee and mel for having me... hopefully I can be just as sober (if not more so) next time, too :)
Now... back to that filthy code!
