The project is filming "The Sanctuary Song" with all the guns firing at once with lasers, smoke, and a whole lot of jams. Tonight was Take 2 and just like Take 1 last night, I'll skip straight to the punchline. This is another near-miss and it won't be uploaded.
Rockhouse relies heavily on Edison logic: it's only a fail if you give up.
There's no reason to think of giving up, it's just the principle of it and maybe explains why I'm really pleased with the experiment.
Some things got better and some things ... well ... didn't.
The biggest boost from the session tonight was in the vocals which come through clearly and I may boost the mike yet more. A bit more reverb might be ok but just a touch. The vocal is clear because it's mostly dry but a bit of color is goodness.
The biggest bumout was in the smoke. I did figure out how to get the smoke firing on automatic. Boy, did I figure it out. Yevette thought something had gone wrong and I had started a fire. The house was gassed from one end to the other and she could see her computer screen but everything else was off in a haze. I'm so dayum grateful she puts up with my crap! Thank you, Yevette!
The Duo Trumpet is a schizy bitch because she is hugely sensitive to touch pressure and giving a wide range of volume in response to that. She's still cool but one thing which was not cool was using an echo on her. Next time, that goes. Playing an echo piano can be extremely cool but not so good with a Trumpet, at least not for this.
The trumpet intro goes into F minor and that chord holds and then F1 gives up a huge bass. The first phrase grows out of that and the transitions were pleasing.
Going into the guitar sequence without echo was good and that creates a great dynamic when kicking into the echo later. There was some mistakefulness and that's death for releasing it but mostly the killer was the smoke.
One big change was the camera angle for the primary and that didn't come close to working so that came to the epiphany: bag that approach altogether and flip it around one eighty degrees so the lasers are behind it. I specifically want the drama of shooting at the lasers but it overwhelms the camera and bollocks to that.
The lasers have programmed patterns they follow and I guess people get off on the pictures they draw on a wall but that aspect doesn't interest me even in a tiny way. I just want the beams going through the smoke. Flipping the camera around will point at them but my mysterious corpus will be in the middle so it may not be a huge deal
The second static camera had focus troubles and apparently it reverted to auto-focus which has no chance of working in a laser field.
The action cam on my head was pointed much better but mostly what it showed was I don't look at the guitar that much and my head moves around in all kinds of ways and I have no idea what it does. It's kind of cool and kind of dizzy-making so we'll see for next time because it's dayum uncomfortable to wear it so that one gets applied another way if it won't play out like this.
This was the Twitter launch sequence:
Rockhouse relies heavily on Edison logic: it's only a fail if you give up.
There's no reason to think of giving up, it's just the principle of it and maybe explains why I'm really pleased with the experiment.
Some things got better and some things ... well ... didn't.
The biggest boost from the session tonight was in the vocals which come through clearly and I may boost the mike yet more. A bit more reverb might be ok but just a touch. The vocal is clear because it's mostly dry but a bit of color is goodness.
The biggest bumout was in the smoke. I did figure out how to get the smoke firing on automatic. Boy, did I figure it out. Yevette thought something had gone wrong and I had started a fire. The house was gassed from one end to the other and she could see her computer screen but everything else was off in a haze. I'm so dayum grateful she puts up with my crap! Thank you, Yevette!
The Duo Trumpet is a schizy bitch because she is hugely sensitive to touch pressure and giving a wide range of volume in response to that. She's still cool but one thing which was not cool was using an echo on her. Next time, that goes. Playing an echo piano can be extremely cool but not so good with a Trumpet, at least not for this.
The trumpet intro goes into F minor and that chord holds and then F1 gives up a huge bass. The first phrase grows out of that and the transitions were pleasing.
Going into the guitar sequence without echo was good and that creates a great dynamic when kicking into the echo later. There was some mistakefulness and that's death for releasing it but mostly the killer was the smoke.
One big change was the camera angle for the primary and that didn't come close to working so that came to the epiphany: bag that approach altogether and flip it around one eighty degrees so the lasers are behind it. I specifically want the drama of shooting at the lasers but it overwhelms the camera and bollocks to that.
The lasers have programmed patterns they follow and I guess people get off on the pictures they draw on a wall but that aspect doesn't interest me even in a tiny way. I just want the beams going through the smoke. Flipping the camera around will point at them but my mysterious corpus will be in the middle so it may not be a huge deal
The second static camera had focus troubles and apparently it reverted to auto-focus which has no chance of working in a laser field.
The action cam on my head was pointed much better but mostly what it showed was I don't look at the guitar that much and my head moves around in all kinds of ways and I have no idea what it does. It's kind of cool and kind of dizzy-making so we'll see for next time because it's dayum uncomfortable to wear it so that one gets applied another way if it won't play out like this.
This was the Twitter launch sequence:
12-28-2015 22:30:57 - "The Sanctuary Song" Take 2 now recorded. There is so dayum much smoke in here. It felt good and vocal was much stronger and more clear.
12-28-2015 21:52:07 - Countdown is resumed. T-2 minutes to launch. Starting cameras, lighting lasers, fogging out the room then go in two.
12-28-2015 21:44:19 - Final commit - action cam strapped on my head and aimed. I hate it so coming up soon on restarting the countdown.
12-28-2015 21:40:36 - The Sanctuary is not religion but you can bring it if you like. Here you are safe to believe anything and no-one will tell you it is wrong.
12-28-2015 21:34:46 - Yevette said 'play like nobody's listening' and we laughed. It's so loud she couldn't possibly not hear it. Great vibe, Yevette. Soon.
12-28-2015 21:24:31 - Holding at T-2. Gettin' the groove blizz winding, no sign of demons, no negative waves. Truth is the angel and music is her voice.
12-28-2015 21:16:27 - Sanctuary calls to me as it calls to you and it doesn't matter who you are, only that you come. Music is the only way to get there.
12-28-2015 21:14:40 - They call us illusion but fear is the illusion. Peace and love are the reality. You have known that all along. This is Sanctuary. Come.
12-28-2015 21:12:42 - Fear is everywhere. It eats people. Horrors come but you hear the music. It's the Sanctuary. You are safe here. All is love. Come.
12-28-2015 21:10:04 - All systems nominal. Holding at T-2 minutes. Will resume with cameras, fire lasers and pre-launch smoke. Then Gabriel's Horn and launch.
12-28-2015 21:00:47 - Sound check gives good balance on instruments/looper/vocal. Guitar starts now with no echo. Countdown hold to catch my breath and then go.
12-28-2015 19:55:28 - Pushing up the start point and fogger is heating now. Got some Dragon Blood incense going and vibe is building.
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