Crispycat Recordings: Isolating the errors can be revealing...

Sunday, November 28, 2021

Isolating the errors can be revealing...

Playlist

The Tubes - The Tubes

The Tubes - Young and Rich

Slikback - SCXTRX

Emmanuel Jacob - Healing Wave

Chris Liebing - Another Day

Steven Wilson - The Future Bites

Public Service Broadcasting - Bright Magic

Various - 70s School Days

Capital Models - 2021-11-28

Cloudland Blue Quartet - Rock'n'Roll

...and, before you know it, once again, you are three days behind...

Anyway, up - Sunday - busy day ahead...

The machines await...

First thing, getting this back up to date again - to last night...

The other machines await...

Outside, Xmas is coming...

Inside, it is toasty...

Flying saucer attack?

Toasty!

Final prep of the room, with another smaller desk brought down from the attic to allow me to record bass, guitar and keys without my vocals, my guitar or the rhythm tracks, in the hope that something might be made of today's playing...

We will have a corner each...

Out...

Scenes...

...and over to Straiton to do my mum's shopping and then to her home for a visit, where, after having gotten his up to date this morning, I was able to show her all my riveting stuff from the last seven days!

Home and Fang visited...

Anne set off for Newcastle with Jane to pick up Kitty, whose boyfriend "Channing" lives there while at University...

No trains or some such nonsense necessitated parental driving...

With aunt in tow...

Good times...

Here, I waited for the boys to arrive...

And arrive they did - a corner of the room each...

We sent this to drummer Johnny, ill in bed...

A good run through although the recordings later on showed tons of errors...

Without a huge amount of work the "tapes" will be useless...

But I did put together a version of "Rock'n'Roll" by adding the rhythm track and some judicious reverb to proceeds - so just the trio and the rhythm track - it sounded ok...

Then, I did a cheeky wee CBQ remix version on it by slowing it down and using only the reverb elements plus a different rhythm track and adding first take vocals...

Reasonably successful...

Anne returned unscathed and teas was fetched from the chippie, before "Strictly", "Dr Who" and the finale of 2Show Trial" entertained...

All in all, a very good day...

Highlight of the Day : Playing...

2 comments:

Stu said...: Channing? WTF; 9:29 pm
Cloudland Blue Quartet said...: Apparently, although he gets called “Channing”, that’s actually his surname. His first name is the rather more conventional “Tom”…; 6:18 pm

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In a one-man crusade to encourage the world to broaden its musical horizons, David has been broadcasting a weekly Eclectic Selection of music from across his vast record collection since 2014. On the programme each week, you'll hear 25 Tracks, kicking off with David's LP of the Week, followed by his six other LPs of the day, three or so CBQ, or CBQ related, tracks, a single of the week (if there is one), a couple more singles (if there are any) and a further eclectic mix of other things new into the collection... It's eclectic!