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I'm actually bored enough to post on here for the first time in over a year. Hmmm, lets see: I've recently seen Alice Cooper in concert for the second time (the first time being 9 years and 9 days before that), and the show was even better this time. I had a dream in which King Diamond was going to take me out for dinner; he had to take a piss, and I never saw him again. I got married in August of last year, and wrote/arranged/recorded a rocking hit song for my bride. Between that and working fulltime, I barely had time to breathe.
The recording process was a lot of fun, since I was doing it out of love. It was also very stressful, as I had a deadline. I had to have the recording finished, mixed, and burned to CD, with a label and cover art; and it all had to be done before my wedding day, which is when the gift was to be presented. Anyway, it got done, she loved it, and I was exhausted and proud.
This project, entitled "Eternal", led to new developments in digilog recording, which I am currently employing. I record my tracks on tape, transfer each one to the hard disk, and then use Audacity to mix them. It's a happy medium between both worlds; 4-track being too limiting, and all-digital being unfeasible due to inadequate equipment.
It's actually a technique I hadn't tried until more recently than "Eternal". On that one, I would fill up four tracks of tape, bounce them down to a stereo digital track, then copy it back onto two tracks of tape, add two more tracks, and repeat this process until finished. The result: A great song which sounds, well... not very good. With the newer process (actually a higher-tech, higher-fidelity version of the same process), I can record the signal from the guitar or mic onto two or three (or four) simultaneous tracks of tape, to combine them into one digital track. This way, it sounds twice as good as using just one tape track. I still bounce back to the tape deck, but only so I can add more tracks. All of the mixing is now done with Audacity.
The recording process was a lot of fun, since I was doing it out of love. It was also very stressful, as I had a deadline. I had to have the recording finished, mixed, and burned to CD, with a label and cover art; and it all had to be done before my wedding day, which is when the gift was to be presented. Anyway, it got done, she loved it, and I was exhausted and proud.
This project, entitled "Eternal", led to new developments in digilog recording, which I am currently employing. I record my tracks on tape, transfer each one to the hard disk, and then use Audacity to mix them. It's a happy medium between both worlds; 4-track being too limiting, and all-digital being unfeasible due to inadequate equipment.
It's actually a technique I hadn't tried until more recently than "Eternal". On that one, I would fill up four tracks of tape, bounce them down to a stereo digital track, then copy it back onto two tracks of tape, add two more tracks, and repeat this process until finished. The result: A great song which sounds, well... not very good. With the newer process (actually a higher-tech, higher-fidelity version of the same process), I can record the signal from the guitar or mic onto two or three (or four) simultaneous tracks of tape, to combine them into one digital track. This way, it sounds twice as good as using just one tape track. I still bounce back to the tape deck, but only so I can add more tracks. All of the mixing is now done with Audacity.
Audacity is free. Audacity is good. Download Audacity.
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