and then things fall together, all at once

[solarbird]

For about a year now, I've slowly, slowly, slowly been figuring out recording, and working on mic discipline, and learning how to put things together, and working on my vocals, particularly for recording purposes, and it's been excruciatingly slow and I've felt for a long time like I was never, ever going to get anywhere, ever, because every time I'd get something a bit better I'd discover something else was a mess, and so I've been having to build about a dozen skills all together in parallel, and all of them slowly as I've discovered more shit what's wrong.

Frankly, it has sucked. It's been depressing, and slow, and horrible.

But it turns out that if you do it this way then eventually you kind of hit critical mass at a bunch of different skills all at the same time, and then suddenly the sky is made of fire and awesome. And you throw out months of work because you can and you make better versions of everything in a day. And it actually is that much better, and you sit in front of the DAW and listen and realise that you don't hate any of this. It still needs work, sure, and you have some ideas for effects and processing that would be nice and you need to balance things about and you want to re-record the bodhran track and there's plenty of room still for improvement, gods know, but most of the seven tracks for this song, four of which you've recorded today, are just fine, thanks.

Today was that day.

I need to get a proper music website. Myspace Music? What do all the cool kids use now, anyway?

Comments

[corvi]

I think cool kids still use myspace, not that I've ever met any. Juli uses jango and last.fm to get her music into circulation and get feedback on which ones people liked, and what percentage of people hearing things became fans of it, and what other music they also like, and that sort of thing.