Making Albums in the days of Email...a nostalgic look back on...err...today
One day, in the future, when emails have been replaced by The Force, or some other Jedi/Facebook combination, we'll look back on a time where you sent individual emails as some kind of anachronism.
Today I had to convert the guide-track .WAV files to MP3, then argue with my email client about how to attach them, then send them, etc etc. So if you randomly find I've sent you a file and asked you to add a chorus harmony, don't worry, I may have done that to a few other random people as well.
Who knows, maybe great things will come of it. And while I am at it, I should also praise this moment in technology, when we can collaborate with people across vast distance (at least 10 kms!) and say 'hey, have a listen to this mix and add something', they can download it, open up their choice of recording program, add another track and send it back.
It's all pretty nifty huh?
Yep, Jo, Fettler and some Secret Keyboardists are now listening to guide mixes and going "huh?'
:-)
We're back in the studio on Monday for a Rosie session, which is closed to the band (awww..) so I have had to beg for access for some blogging purposes, but otherwise, this place is more classified than Skunkworks, as Rosie and Pete work on a Stealth Solo (invisible to the naked eye) for Feel So Blue.
Thereafter, over the next two or so weeks, it's backing Vocals, Fiddle (?), Percussion and Keys, plus some possible repairs on some Harp and singing that might be suspect. I say might because I could be wrong, it might all be fine, it may (aha!) just be my ears messing with my head. Oh boy that was an awful metaphor.
Relentlessly, we're grinding towards the completion of this album with the finesse (and power usage) of a Large Hadron Collider. Just add notes, accelerate them towards light speed, bash'em together and measure the results. Hey presto, it's music!
ra
