25th October 2025
Today was dedicated to recording, something I used to do a lot, but not for the last nine years.
To say I was a little rusty is an understatement.
My friend Chris, who I have recorded many times in the past, was coming over to record some of his latest music.
He was a little late so it gave me the chance to set things up. I had played around with it during the week, so I thought this was just a simple process, I was wrong.
Protools is an industry standard, but it got more complex over the years.
I had set up a microphone, and I had a good signal coming in, but I could not hear it through my headphones, panic was setting in.
I followed all the routings and everything seemed in order, I repeated all the input/ output settings.
By now Chris had arrived, and I acted like I knew what I was doing, but my stomach was in a knot.
I was even prepare to set up my old laptop that had an even older version of the software, but I had forgotten how to use that, things were getting desperate.
Fortunately Chris had guitars to tune, whilst I muttered to myself, then, the aha moment happened, I turned up the volume on the microphone, and suddenly I could hear it.
I kissed to table top, we were now in business.
However I was still desperately trying to remember how to use the software, it was a new version, different from what I was used to, but gradually some of it came back to me.
Chris was having his own issues trying to keep in time with the click track, so between us we were slowly relearning how things worked, me the technology, him, his timing.
We spent four hours working on two songs, maybe they won’t be keepers, but we can only improve.
Another Lifetime to go 