I wrote a song
June 4th 2003 -
I wrote a song
I’ve added some more lyrics to the big pile of “songs to be recorded when Ev and Dave and Chris come over for a week in July”. It’s based on a very bad joke that suddenly leaped into my head, so it’s no “Down in the Meadow” – but I still like it and am really looking foward to hearing what Ev does with it. Anyway, it’s called “Improv exercise”.
Preparations for a gallon of Spit
I’ve got a lot of “Spit” preparation to do before the guys get here. I made a start by buying a Soundblaster Audigy 2 last night, which should hopefully take care of the poor microphone-to-PC transfer. Next up is to upgrade the PC to something a little more in-spec for today’s modern society – a computer capable of hundreds of operations per second. I have a budget of about $400, which should get me an AMD2600+, motherboard, memory, and case. I can keep the existing HD, CD-RW, video card, keyboard, mouse, monitor etc. thus saving big bucks. The new PC won’t be totally top-of-the-range, but as my PII-400MHz is very slightly below bottom-of-the-range for most software requirements nowadays, it’ll be very welcome.
Having said that, I don’t notice any practical difference at all between my work machine and the home one.
Let’s see, other Spit preparations… I visited a cheap-but-professional studio once to record a soundtrack for “Bullet Hole” with my guitar tutor, and was impressed with the simplicity of their setup. They had a bog-standard PC, and just ran some very long cables from the PC to the studio room so that the PC couldn’t be heard. The technician couldn’t see us, but we could communicate because we both had microphones and earphones. I’m going to try something like that. Have the technician in the computer room, and everyone else in the living room (which should hopefully do the trick, provided air traffic isn’t too bad). If necessary, we can just shout through the door, or even leave it open.