jennyarntzen.music

  Last night I was able to sit down at my downstairs recording desk and record 5 tracks - click track, Bass, Ukulele - melody, Guitar - chords, Guitar - melody. I can see my progress from the previous attempt. What I want to do next is to record each instrument 2 x - first to chime on the first beat, then to play the melody on all three instruments. I'm curious to see how the sound combines. Once I have all three instruments chords and then melody, I can experiment with volume from one verse to the next, and also with the instrumental verses and then the vocals. I am pleased and I can see how this process is going to improve my playing. In the past I was intimidated to try recording because my recordings sounded so inferior to highly produced professional recordings or highly unusual young artists captured early in their careers. Of course I don't sound like either of those examples. My example is an amateur musician, 68 years old, recording for the first time. So that is my ge...

  Last Sunday I attempted solo multi-track recording with my Presonus Audiobox and Studio One. I got so frustrated I was in tears. At the end of that session I had decided to turn my recording desk into an art desk and started moving my artmaking supplies into the room. After some time reflecting and discussing my effort with Matt, I realized my expectations of the process were entirely unrealistic and I was not going to pick up the 'how to' intuitively. I had to watch the instruction videos. I had to break down each step of the set up so I could do that. I had to identify each obstacle I encountered and be ready to stop everything and source an instruction video to get me to the next step. Yesterday afternoon and evening I had time and energy to focus on the process and my own learning curve. I pitched my expectations to be so low as to achieve success no matter what happened. I was able to get a file set up and record a click track and 6 instrumental tracks by the end of my r...