October 13, 2020
Too Many Voices
- Revisited this song that has vexed me for years now. Literally.
- Found a totally different approach to arrangement – sparser.
- Chris’ backing vocal from almost a year ago still sounds good.
Adam Rabin
October 3, 2020
Drive The Cold Winter Away
- Recorded guitar, vocals (rough), drums, keys
- Sent basic mix to M.D. who will be joining me on vocals.
September 30, 2020
HH Musical
- Another hilarious weiting session with the Skillmanator.
- He suggested rhyming “here” with “rear.” I suggested to instead rhyme “what” with “butt.”
Studio
- I got a new laptop. I’ve spent the last few days loading it up with all software. Its zippy!
- I’m going to try recording a whole tune at 96/24. Let’s see if it keeps up.
Drive the Cold Winter Away
- I’ve prepared the guitar and drum mics and pre-mixes
- Aiming to lay it all down Saturday.
September 13, 2020
Drive the Cold Winter Away
- I volunteered to record a track for a benefit holiday album for ALS.
- I’m going to do “Drive the Cold Winter Away” which is public domain, secular, and fits squarely into my Ren Faire/Jethro Tull-esque wheelhouse.
- I wrote up two versions of the chart, in two different keys. I’m going to spend the next few days figuring out which key I want to go with.
HH Musical
- Got some great feedback from Kate which lead to deleting 3 separate conversations in the script. I knew they were kinda weak but Kate pointing out that they were, in fact, very very bad. She is correct. This pushed me and Greg to come up with a replacement and we came up with something even better. So, win win.
July 5, 2020
Adam Rabin solo
- While I had the 12-string tuned to open C, I improvised this little thing.
Writing
- One of the outlines I wrote yesterday could also have a murder mystery storyline added to it. So I researched the common formats of the genre and built onto that.
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June 3, 2020
Another round-up of the last few days.
Whale Helmet
- Recorded episode 9 “Heliopause” but haven’t edited it yet.
- This will be last recorded episode for this season. (Things Fall chat from March will be episode 10)
- Greg and I started talking about what’s next for this podcast. Format may change, just brainstorming right now.
Mailbox
- Chameleon remix project is complete. All mastered with two bonus tracks.
- New version of cover is done which brings the artwork back to its original aspect ratio.
- I want to listen to it a few more times before committing but I think it’s all set.
- I don’t want to release it right now, though. It would be inappropriate due to world events. This can wait.
Adam Rabin solo
- Finished new recording of “Heliopause”
- Greg and I agree it is inferior to the original demo from January.
- I added piano to original demo and called it done.
- I may do something with the new recording – some kind of instrumental re-arrangement.