Tuesday, December 9, 2014

On the Hunt for Recording Time - Updated

After waking up just a short time ago, thinking of recording may be silly but there are two hours of darkness left so there's still a chance.

(Ed:  so what takes so damn long?)

Choosing voices on a synthesizer and particularly choosing which ones work well together is a complex thing when there are five hundred or so.  The chords have been known for months but the orchestration is always in question.  There is no pattern to the arrangement of the voices in the synth. For example, Voice 1 may be a piano, Voice 2 a bass, Voice 3 might be monkey skulls.  (Yes, there really is a voice named Monkey Skulls and it's a very dry drum sound.)

Yes, I do work my way through them sequentially, playing one after the other, trying to find the best ones.  Maybe sometime I should record something with the really strange voices in there as some of those are just deranged.

Mustn't write a long article as that'll just burn up the darkness.  I'll try to get some focus and then see about recording.  One thing is definite:  there will be no Monkey Skulls on this job.


(Ed:  where's the Christmas in monkey skulls?)

Probably not much in the Monkey Skulls but the tune is the Big One as I'm not saving up a pony to give on Christmas Day.  If I had any money, I could get you something you would really enjoy for Christmas, like an electrically-heated toilet seat.  (Hey, Stirling Moss had heated seats and he was World Driving Champion in F1.  For me that eliminates any 'sissy factor' in having such a thing.)

It's the only luxury in the house as the dishwasher doesn't even work ... but ... on a cold winter night prevention of thermal shock to the backside, particularly for yer little woman, can be quite a good thing.

(Ed:  there's no little woman in the house.)

Yah ... but if there were she would like it.  Besides ... and I've wanted to deliver this line all my life:  so my backside is chopped liver?

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