Wednesday 6 February 2013

HELEN McCOOKERYBOOK ON RECORDING

Computers can be boring, it's the things you can do with them that are interesting. I have been listening, listening to the sounds of recorded guitars, trying to get them just right... trying out a different guitar, a different feel, a different way of playing. It's all so detailed but it all makes such a difference. I am going to have to crack open the posh microphone for some of the vocals, which means that the grunting, wheezing, cracking, roaring central heating will have to go off for a couple of hours (I'm sure you can understand why). The SM58 doesn't notice it at all, nor the loudly clanking tick of the wall-clock.

I dropped the external hard drive on the floor this afternoon but it still works, just. There is something melancholy now in its high-pitched whine, but it's only a machine and my heartstrings are un-pulled.

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