Post Production

Despite claiming to Ian Sclater during our recording sessions yesterday that there would be no post production on his recordings (I was trying to explain to him the Crispycat recording method which is essentially a collection of live recordings one on top of the other - hopefully complementing each other - to which very little can be done once the recording is done - other than recording any substandard take again), I did indeed spend quite a bit of time today listening back to the three hours or so of recordings which were "laid down". My goal was to delete the myriad false starts and breakdowns and identify the material which could be saved.

I now have to identify savable guitar solos and splice them into the acceptable backing tracks.

...and if anyone knows what happened at the end of the episode of Law & Order : Criminal Intent broadcast recently, which involved the son of a gangster murdering his father and step brother in order to donate $2M to the cult which had brainwashed him, please feel free to let me know....we taped it while in Spain and, as is often the case when using the timer function on our video (unless you add 10 minutes at both the beginning and the end of every programme you tape) the recording ran out just as the very clever cops were about to go "A ha" to the bad guys....