Bringer

So, I haven't posted since I began working because I've been working so much on this. I'm fairly confident that I will get everything done and mixed by tomorrow. I spent a lot of my time this past week creating synth patches, Max/MSP patches, programming the midi stuff, writing notation, etc, etc...

Today was the first time I've actually gotten to record (trust me it isn't as bad as it sounds). Since most of the music is highly electronic based, today focused on recording my wife's vocals and my violin stuff. I don't have access to any xlr mics sadly, so I had to improvise my recording setup. I have an m-box and I do all of my mixing and editing in pro tools, however the only mic I DO have is a Samson C01u usb microphone. I've had it for a couple years and have only really used it a couple of times since I have always had access to a large supply of mics, however this is not the case anymore. It doesn't sound horrible, a little mid-range-ish, but nothing some eq couldn't fix. I used to use Sonar 8 until recently, so I could use the usb mic to record into that (phew) I bounced the midi vocal filler I had been using in pro tools to a wav file, opened it in Sonar and recorded Kylene there. I then bounced the vocals and brought them back to pro tools. Yay!

Also, like eric p, I don't have a mic stand (I've been making a list of things I NEED this week too...) so I had to improvise by using one of my folding music stands, a book, and the desktop stand that came with the mic... Very janky and we could hardly move for fear that it would fall over, but it all went well. The room I do all of my mixing has horrid acoustics too, so I created a little vocal iso booth using a tall dresser, some heavy blankets, and some pillows. Worked pretty well.

Right now, I'm finishing up the violin recording, and running the violin sounds through some max/msp patches I made. Pretty much, they sound 10% like a violin, 85% like "oh my god run for your life Grendel is coming after us," and 5% bad acid trip.

It's looking like I'm going to have almost exactly 30 minutes of music in 5 tracks. I'm hoping to get the rest of Kylene's vocals done tomorrow...

Ok, back to cranking stuff out!


Edit: I've been trying to make one of my tracks seem very uneasy, and I just had a stroke of brilliance, I think. I added a couple layers of binaural beats and it definitely does the trick. I'm already feeling queasy! ha