Let the solos begin! I recorded the song I wrote for my first CD, Cedars of Ketchikan, at Carol's studio the StARTled Salmon. It turned out pretty good. Carol really liked the take we kept. It is very important not to be too close to the mike or your sound gets muddied and the notes aren't crisp. Kind of a mumbling thing happens with the guitar. Well, after a couple of false starts I got a take I could live with. It would be nice if we could use the multi-tracking feature to run a second track alongside and fix the errors where they occur. I'm probably the only one that listens that closely and who else cares anyway? It sounds great, plenty of bass and thumping, etc.
I need to get back into the studio to do a couple more songs, not guitar solos. Things are starting to get backed up! I want to re-record the song I wrote and recorded with John Long, Broad Street. It is one of the few from that album that I still play and I think it has life and possibility. Also, the fishing songs Visit Angoon and Malaspina and the Polar Lady need to be re-recorded. The versions I have of them are just thin and without body, they need to be done with a good mike and mastered. So that's three more.
One other thing we did this time was re-mix the Swan piece, I've listened to it a few times and the flute is just too loud, the voice and guitar both too soft. So we fixed the levels for that and it turns out to be a 25 MB file now, where the other two songs are each about 2 meg. It's just as long as it ever was, go figure. Well, it sounds better anyway. It just doesn't email as well!
I've actually got time to write some new material and have a half-finished piece that might need words, might not. It sounds to me like the eternal noodle but if I broke it up into sections and did some regular chord progression I could write words to it... hmmm...
I sure wish there were more places to play and more nights a week to do it. These songs need to be brought out and exposed to the light of day!
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