1st November 2025
A miserable day, grey and rainy, summer is long gone, and the change is very noticeable.
I wasn’t planning any furniture work, as Saturday is my “any other things that I want to do” day. Today was recording day, and Chris was coming down to work on the stuff we started last week. I have transferred all the data to the Mac Pro from the laptop, so now things are more stable. I was hoping to start at 12.30pm but as alway he is alway late, it wasn’t until 2.30pm that he actually arrived. I had told him that I want to finish at 5.00pm so time was limited.
We got into things straight away.
Now Chris is a professional musician and performs in care homes, so he is constantly playing guitar, but for some reason once recording starts he falls apart. This is known in the trade as the “Red light syndrome”.
This is where the concentration is so great it causes brain fade and you overthink the playing.
We scrapped all the tracks from last week confident that today would be perfection.
By the time we got to take six, it was not improving, so we had a cup of tea and a biscuit.
Starting again, he managed to get through it okay, but when we listened to it through the speakers the start of the song didn’t sound right.
I suggested that he worked out a different start, something that would lead in to the main body of the song.
After a bit of plonking and plinking he can up with something that sounded fine, and made the introduction more logical.
Kelli had gone thrifting with Elaine, so it was just the dogs in the house, but they didn’t care, all they do is sleep.
The timing was just right, the girls turned up just as we were finishing. I have to be pretty firm about finishing otherwise Chris would keep talking, but it was a good time, and I’m finding my way around the software now.
Another Lifetime to go 