:: anne in the attic ::

Create Your Own Countdown

:: Wednesday, October 18, 2006 ::

Where Sam likes to sit when I'm recording...

So, I finally set up to record in the living room again. Last Saturday night I meant to begin work on a song I've been wanting to record for a few months now, but lo and behold! Once I set up and began the sound check, I kinda sorta wrote a DIFFERENT song and recorded THAT instead. Well, that's how it happens, I guess. (The song I did then is called "Underneath" and is posted as "Underneath My Breath" on the MySpace music page. It's a reprise in a different form with different lyrics and a slightly different structure.)

Today I had an unexpected day off, so I began working on the one I've been wanting to record, called "Lighter Than Air." And it's a pain in the ass. There are things I want to do that I don't know how to do, and I know what I want to hear, but don't quite know the path from A to B yet, so it's trial-by-fire. As always, I guess. But I know how to get good acoustic sound. I've worked that out. I can whip out a decent acoustic mix all right. But add that midi piano and I can dump it into an audio track and tweak 'til I'm blue, but I just can't seem to get that genuine-piano-in-the-room sound. I guess that's 'cause I really just need a genuine piano in the room. Midi piano, as perfect as it is, sounds so canned sometimes. Mine is a Yamaha DJ mixing keyboard, and it's great, but I think I need to do the Korg thing.

This EP is going to take a lot of reworking if I don't want it to sound like I just threw together some shitty demos. I do, actually, have a theme and a structure, and have even designed the jewel case covers. Haven't decided about liner notes yet-- on an EP? Hm. But anyway, I have these goals, paralleling other goals in my life, and well, we'll just see, won't we?

:: Anne 10:57 PM [smartass remarks] ::
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