Getting Back To It

Before I get into this, I would like to welcome Algeria, Jordan, Kenya, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Libya to the list of countries we have been listened to in.  That brings our total number of countries listened to up to 64 (give or take as it is hard to track the Facebook listens).  Makes me happy that we continue to grow and spread our music.

Second, I had redone song 2 with some changes.  Note, song one (Waves of Lachlania) is available on YouTube, (see earlier blog for links).  I know this has taken awhile but am just finishing recovery from second surgery and this is a busy time of year for me. I redid the song setup as I wanted to get the synths setup just right.  This one is a bit complicated for getting the sound.  I now have the synths finalized and some of the loops done.  I might consider putting out a video for this song when it is done as well as the album is taking so long.

As to the question on the undo.  I have not had chance to use it yet (and that is the point).  It is not a huge portion of my workload.  Now, it would have been a few albums ago where I overdubbed live regularly.  However, as often 4 tapes is not enough instead of overdubbing I mix onto a tape (basically I use a different project and copy tapes over, and once I get them right, I would mix two (or 3) onto one tape.  This way I can really control the volume any stereo differences etc.  These are things you cannot do so easily with overdubbing (though yes you can adjust volumes and panning before starting)

The undo would be very helpful if I were building some ideas or trying to build more of a “live” track.  However, keeping things on a single tape and separate, it is easy to just delete and redo anyhow.  Hopefully for my next update I can say song 2 is done.