One Step Forward, Two Steps Back
Hi,
I'm currently locked into a mess that has me tearing things down in order to rebuild them better. My little studio was anything but ideal so I put in room-correcting sound panels that are at the same time decorative. My DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) which I create the music on starting becoming unreliable so I changed to a different one (from Apple's Logic Pro to Steinberg's Cubase Pro 9) and have been entrenched in a steep learning curve. New equipment and new tools all around, really, like one of those home fixer-upper TV shows where they gut the house and make it something amazing — that's what I've been doing. Along with taking classes on how to do all things better the actual music production process has been at a standstill while I recreate the entire workflow from scratch. The fantastic news is that I've learned how to master, which is taking what seems like a finished song and then bringing it up to recording studio standards. To completely risk losing you, I learned how to make a 10-band limiter which takes a piece of music which seems fine and brings everything into sharp clarity, like an out of focus image being adjusted by turning the lens until everything has compelling clear definition.
So I'm basically done tearing down and rebuilding things, and learning is a never-ending process. I have a new song idea which I am setting up in my new DAW and it will take a little while to bring it to fruition. Roughly, think Jim Morrison of the Doors fronting Black Sabbath, but with my sensibility behind it. It's about accepting the inevitability of being born, living, and then ultimately dying. Heavy stuff. The metaphor is of leaves falling off the (family) tree. It's hard to stick with the metaphor! I'll try to attach one or more pics onto this message of my studio from four different perspectives, focusing mainly on the decorative absorbing panels and bass traps. Let's see if I can attach pictures to this.
