The Good Bit

Thursday...
I had been dreading this for quite some time. Yesterday I went round with a little piece of paper with times on it, and got people to tell me when they could get in to do some singing, as I had 12 hours of studio time booked. It was foolish to believe I could do it all in one day, but I was a man with on a quest, and I vowed to do my best! And so, the day began quite badly, as someone else really needed the studio so I cancelled my first 3 hours of recording because I’m lovely. After that everything fell into place beautifully, short of a couple of people not turning up. I was pleasantly surprised at the tunefulness of some people, and pleasantly amused at the tunelessness of others. It was a good day.

So 3 hours of mixing later I have a reasonably nice low-fi recording on my hands, short of a few vocal tracks, which I plan to ship in next week of the people who couldn’t get in today for reasons either time or germ related, and then I’ll have everything done. Which of gonna be positively one of my best ticking-off moments off the project so far. Can’t wait for the blog of being done!

On a side note, which may in the future become a big-fat-in-the-middle note, I have embarked on researching for a new project! I am planning to completely refinish and remodel one of my old guitars. I tried spicing it up about this time last year but wasn’t very into it, and did most of the work with electrical tape... but this im going to sand it down, repaint and rewire it an hopefully discover things about guitars along the way. In short, I’m just going to ‘man’ around with it for a while. Here’s how it looked when I bought it...

And heres how it looks now... (I suddenly realised the other day that it looks rather like it’s sponsored by Newcastle, hmm?)
So, my first order of business, after removing the strings is to take away all the tape, and try and get off the sticky marks left on the fretboard, as in a vain attempt to learn the notes on the guitar, I used tape to colour all the sharps/flats black. It didn’t work, because after about a week of playing the black rubbed off and left them as what I imagine is the colour of disappointment.

So here goes!

Any cool Ideas or advice will be well recieved :D

Peace out my prog flavoured amigos!