Studio Updates

It's weird, I haven't got a song fully completed for this new album, yet I would say the album is 60 percent done. :) I like knowing that I could knock out a couple songs in a day when the inspiration/blessing hits.

Ok tech updates here:

Ran a RCA to 1/4 trs from my soundcard alternate outs to my receiver that is hooked into my TV/Xbox/Radio. I have a pair of KLH 10's just used for gaming. Now I have another set of speakers to mix/moniter/reference on. It is great, because if a mix sounds good on those, then it will sound good most places. Also, it is good for jamming, since my monitoring system is two 5's with a sub. The 10's fill up the room, and are not tiring to listen to :)

Fixed up a mic and mic stand behind my MS2000 so I can sing through that keyboard. I have a preamp(a lil blue tube) set up for phantom/boosting power so I can get good signal. Hopefully, if it is still available, I will be picking up a Warp Factory next week, and then be doing some wicked vocoding.

What else? Hmm, nothing at the moment for this self note archiving blog entry at the moment.

11/28/2007

Yesterday went great in the studio. I am really developing, finding and being blessed with my own sound. I am getting results I really want and strive for. Whats good is the mixes are getting tighter and therefore gives me more volume to work with without destroying dynamics. It's wonderful and am very thankful. Practicing the bass guitar a lot and finding I am getting good with the style I have developed. I play the bass like a keyboard. *insert smily face here*

So, as of today I have about ten songs almost done and complete. The ideas are there and skeletons basically mapped out. I am thinking if I can stay productive I might get a nice long album done by the first of the year. A month late, but experience gained. I am shooting for that. And, I am still going to do the charity idea for the album. So YAY GOD!

11/27/2007

I always get this: "But don't you want to make money?". I get that a lot! Do I want that to be my driving force? Should that be a driving force period? I admit sometimes I feel inadequate as a person that I do not make much money. That is sad, truly it is. Driving home from work yesterday, I saw a bumpersticker that summed up the truth: "Relax, God is in charge." Following up by reading Proverbs last night, and came across, to paraphrase 'How are you going to worry about tomorrow when you have no idea what today holds.' Thats so beautiful and true. You never know what today holds and a lot of people, including myself get caught up in tomorrow. Not to say it isn't ok to work hard for a possibly better future, because God does want us to work hard. But to bank on the future is the error, to depend on it. We lose our todays waiting for the tomorrows.

Worked hard yesterday in shorter time, and I felt good. One song at a time. One tone at a time, one note at a time. I am glad when I will get a song done, I am hoping it will cause an avalanche effect. Hey, relax, God is in charge.

Video Games

I love em!! I have since I was younger. I am a gamer. Right now I am immersed in Mass Effect. This game is so open ended and rich with story, that it is scary! I just recently got done beating Assassins Creed. I admit that gaming kills my 'time' for producing, but sometimes I think it is a good balance for me. I wonder sometimes if gaming is a precursor to the slavery of mankind, or it is already in slavery to sin, which it is. Gaming seems so dangerous as an easy lazy inhibitor.

But they are so fun, lol. Oh well, just want to also shout out to all the Phantom Crash people. What a game.

11/25/2007

Well, its Sunday and my 4 Day vacation from the Work week is winding to a close. Its sad in a sense, cause I did nothing musically. Almost like subconsciously I gave up. Maybe, or maybe not. I tell you what though, I sure do feel recharged. Its weird. I am mad that I got nothing done. But that is just the stupid vicious cycle. I wonder if all artists go through this? It rings me to another observation. I notice the successful people in their fields bore ahead, smartly, but none the less there is no idleness. No laziness, nothing served up to them on a silver platter. Even the wealthy and their family still have to work to maintain success. If they lay idle, just like in Proverbs, they will fall. I notice I am lazy.

Its about having a vision for your art and boring forward. To have that blessing by God and not lay idle with it. Now that I realize to the extent I do of my laziness. Its the application. The step forward. The prayer of strength and guidance. So, it feels good also to know your own faults, because if you ignore them, then you will never grow. The positive twists.

Now that the website is done, I got content, an album and charity to raise. Beautiful.

11/23/2007

Got a call last night from my sister at 1am. My dad hadn't been home yet. She seemed worried, real worried. I told, as I was half asleep to calm down, and be assured he is fine and will be home later most likely. well, he did come home, at 4 am. My sister and brother waited up for him and were pissed. It turns out my dad met a young lady. Fair enough. But there is mad drama at the family units. The wonderful dynamics of divorce. New loves flair, and family distress ensues. It is life that God has granted us, and I think we get too caught up in it. Its like we forget to love and just dwell on how we can not. It is what it is right now. Kinda hurts to the heart, to see distress and the 'moving on'.

Today was another relaxing day. Minimal music, but a lot of work on the website here. I am feeling good for the first time about my website. It is fully my art direction. Another great victory is I finally feel confident in my mixing and songwriting skills. In this next album I believe that God will bless me with some success. When I feel confident I get truly experimental, I get really creative. I feel like I can bend the elements, and put things to my will. God grants me with wonderful dips and peaks.

Thanksgiving

First off, this is my first post here at my new site. Congrats!

This Thanksgiving was rather odd. It was filled with a void, an empty seat at our table. My father decided not to come to our dinner. Recently my father and mother divorced, well I say recently but it was like 5 years ago. It still seems like yesterday they were together. My mother has moved on and found a new boyfriend. He seems like an ok fellow, but time will tell. My mom is going to Mexico tomorrow, and my father felt ill about coming to dinner knowing that my mother would be leaving on a long trip with his 'replacement' in the next morning. So, for the first time, a Thanksgiving incomplete. Understandably as well.

The dinner absent of my dad was awkward, and empty. My brother, being severe ADHD or just an ass, who knows. He was causing some havoc with his profusive eff-bombs and negativity that was a beacon of hate. A bashing of the tv show 'Heroes' ensued, with no apparent relevance to life itself. My sister seemed bummed our dad was not there, and my mom just tried to hold things together. Our family seems to fall and fall. Yet we still smile. God is rejected by my sister and brother, and it shows, without Jesus guiding them they seem lost and malcontent. I pray for them everyday.

Well, today was mostly a relaxing day, I beat Assassins Creed, worked on the new site, and just vegged out. Tomorrow I look to try and finish off a song. I am looking to get this new album/charity raiser by next year, first of next year done.

Beautiful.