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Jan. 9th, 2021 08:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
waitingmanDay off... which means the usual stuff - laundry, local brunch, more laundry, vacuuming, sweeping & then getting rid of a lot of excess DVD cases before more vacuuming. In between all that, for the last 3 days I've been downloading & installing Cubase LE, which came with my new soundcard. The additional plug-ins & effects & sundry studio trickery are taking forever to download & install, but hopefully will be worth it once everything is up & running
I have 2 projects for the new equipment. First & most obvious, I have 20+ years worth of unused music, which I refer to as my 'Homeless Songs' - ones which were either never used in the bands/projects I've worked in, or were never done the way I'd like them... or were never even presented to them, as they were stylistically too different to what the band/project was. I have basic recordings of a lot of these scattered across various discs, as well as lodged permanently in my head, as they are the pieces I play most often when I play at home. Hopefully, the time has come to do them Frank Sinatra's way... I mean my way
Secondly, I want to plug my turntable into the recorder & transfer a lot of old & fragile vinyl LPs to digital. I have records & recordings from the earliest days of the LP record, as well as a bunch of older 78s - not sure how I'll record them from my Victrola, but it's worth a try. Certainly my Charlie Patton blues albums & Django Reinhardt recordings will get priority, along with other 50s-70s rarities I've inherited in my Father's record collection...
Pretty sure I'll need another HUGE memory external hard drive... maybe 2
Dinner with a long-time friend of ours this evening, at a favourite Ramen place. It feels weird to have eaten, then wandered around the nearby shops, visited L-SP's Mother & to now be home & the sun hasn't even set properly yet... It's been a looong day
I have 2 projects for the new equipment. First & most obvious, I have 20+ years worth of unused music, which I refer to as my 'Homeless Songs' - ones which were either never used in the bands/projects I've worked in, or were never done the way I'd like them... or were never even presented to them, as they were stylistically too different to what the band/project was. I have basic recordings of a lot of these scattered across various discs, as well as lodged permanently in my head, as they are the pieces I play most often when I play at home. Hopefully, the time has come to do them Frank Sinatra's way... I mean my way
Secondly, I want to plug my turntable into the recorder & transfer a lot of old & fragile vinyl LPs to digital. I have records & recordings from the earliest days of the LP record, as well as a bunch of older 78s - not sure how I'll record them from my Victrola, but it's worth a try. Certainly my Charlie Patton blues albums & Django Reinhardt recordings will get priority, along with other 50s-70s rarities I've inherited in my Father's record collection...
Pretty sure I'll need another HUGE memory external hard drive... maybe 2
Dinner with a long-time friend of ours this evening, at a favourite Ramen place. It feels weird to have eaten, then wandered around the nearby shops, visited L-SP's Mother & to now be home & the sun hasn't even set properly yet... It's been a looong day
