We had a theme about tinfoil and I decided to go back to basics. I did switch my drum mics around, replaced the $30 condenser I had on the snare top with a 57 and took the bottom snare mic, which is just a $15 pyle 57 knock-off, and put it on the side snare. Obviously, now I want two more inputs to put bottom snare mics on both. Oh and the fun part is nothing sounds any better. Anyway, the track is over in punk.

We had a theme of forgery. Kept falling into ‘oops out of time to get a good guitar take, oops out of time to get a good bass take, guess those drums will have to do, oops out of time to try and save this mix’ trap. Anyway, it’s over in Vocaloid.

I felt like doing an easy 120 bpm Em jam with our theme of Elevator. Since I was just noodling around and half the tracks were first takes, I had almost enough time to add vocaloid. Unfortunately, it wasn’t quite enough time and I still don’t have a decent workflow for that tool. It’s over in Vocaloid.

The flu or whatever is going around finally caught up with me, hence no updates for awhile. I’m mostly back but I made a long crappy instrumental because there’s still a lingering cough. It’s over in Shoegaze.

I spent 2024 using an NT-1 outside of the vocal closet for 95% of my vocals and i think I preferred the SM7b with a Cloudlifter a lot more. The NT-1 had been doing double-duty as a 2nd room mic on the drums, and i have to make a choice about whether to put it into the vocal closet or rig up a stand for it to still be a room mic. This week i used one of those $35 dollar mics setup high and far.

The mics, however, are not the limiting factor with this week’s track, i still had time for a couple more drum takes but i’d been watching a tutorial on some rimshots and sorta… made my hands way too tired and couldn’t hold the sticks anymore. The theme was ‘Betrayal’ and I put it over in punk.