Work Sucks & Music Rocks: Thurs 8/28
Work Sucks - A M-F Daily Diary
Today, work sucked. Why?
- It existed.
- I found myself drawn to it through fear of no paycheck.
- Despite several hours of work, I got absolutely nothing accomplished.
- My new office chair seems really bad for my back.
- I would have rather been doing 1.6 million other things.
Music Rocks - A “When I Get Time” Daily Diary
Editing 101
We have just started editing our new recordings. This is an entirely new process to me. Previously, I just wondered what was taking my partner so long to get our tracks done. This time, he invited me to join in the process and now I see that it is:
- Making sure we have the right soft and hardware to get the job done without losing any of the sound quality from the recordings.
- Listening to take after take of the same songs over and over again.
- Taking exhaustive notes on which takes are best during which parts of the song, from a whole chorus down to the drum fill going into measure 108.
- Recognizing what can be fixed and what cannot through the use of computers.
- Cutting each part out and fitting them together perfectly with the other pieces.
- Listening to each song again over and over to make sure that you got all the right parts and that they sound good once put together.
- Fixing the little things that you’ve determined need to be perfected through a little slicing and dicing.
Now, imagine that we are only doing this for drums, bass and piano right now. Still to come - guitar, keyboards, vibraphone, trumpet, trombone, sax, a 4-piece string section on one of the songs, and two vocalists with doubling and effects.
This is an ubelievable amount of work and, yet, the most fun thing I have ever experienced.
–Joey Flores
The Capitalist Hippie Complex
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