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Actually, I dated a Japanese girl who plays bass for a while, and we recorded some stuff. Maybe some day I'll dig some of it up.

I remember trying my hand at a version of Marian years ago but I could never come up with anything I was happy with.

Thanks, Craig. I tend to do that a lot, yes. lol

I needed something to test the new Apollo so I dug this old demo and re-did the vocals real quick... It's a tiny bit of a fun cover of The Beatles’ Baby’s In Black. Despite their version being on the country side, I've always felt that the lyrics made it kind of goth - a lament for a grieving girl who can’t get over her lost love and dresses in black… So I gothified it, in kind of a theatrical way. It's not mixed and not really properly recorded but I wanted to play around with the Apollo and to test the workflow. (Also, the piano is awful and rigid and over-quantized so my apologies for that.) I never thought something as basic as an audio interface could make such an extraordinary difference but I am absolutely blown away (regardless of the quality of the recording above, which is just a quick test). I regret no getting one of these before.

And I know that this is true. And yet, for me, the brown and gold team takes the cake in terms of unreliability. The orange and purple guys practically never failed me. Standard is usually here between 6 and 7 pm. Priority or whatever they call it before 2 pm. Once the package is out for delivery, I am 99% sure it will be here before the end of the day. The brown and gold trucks are the exact opposite. Even after I get confirmation the the package has landed in Vegas and that it is allegedly out for delivery... Two days later, I finally get an update - they don't really know where my package is. Last known location is LA. And that is the norm more than the exception. Here in Vegas, anyway.

Still had, yes. Wanted to make sure everything was working before removing it.

Sorry to hear that. I would understand maybe one specific thing but 3? That's strange. Ordered this Wednesday night at 11 pm. On my doorstep in Vegas Friday morning a little after 10. Of course I paid for ultra speedy service (wow, I am surprised by the words that get censored here, although I appreciate the automated heads up and kind of understand I guess). Because, I'm like a kid. And I wanted to make sure it was here on time for my 3-day weekend. In the last couple of months I got a few items from Sweetwater - all of them regular deliveries. The only thing that took slightly longer than expected was one of those Glyph drives - it took like 4 or 5 business days, which seemed unusual. The replacement arrived in two days I think.

Who needs a Christmas tree? I'd suggest investing a few bucks in a tuner next, though - at about 11 minutes in... 😬

Update - the Glyph was replaced. And ruined yet another session. It's going in a drawer and will be used only to archive stuff. What I'd really want to do, though...

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I could not possibly pick one, but Bridge Over Troubled Water would certainly be one of the top contenders.

I still have these though..

It all seems to be back to normal now. And I guess I can't really complain - that was the first real downtime I've experienced in 14 years. It's also the first time I was this careless, so I take part of the blame. Other than that, the only thing I recall having issues with is Line 6 Pod Farm systematically crashing my DAW way back then - and that's easily solved of course. That new Glyph seems to be a bit temperamental compared to my old WD. Its power supply was accidentally disconnected earlier and even rebooting the computer didn't fix things. It wouldn't even allow me to run disk utility on it. I had to eject it via software and then reconnect it. I can't count the number of times I accidentally disconnected that USB powered WD without ejecting it first. It's probably a weekly occurrence. I'd not really heard a hard drive in years, so I probably worry for no reason. Usually I walk in the studio and it's dead quiet, the only occasional noise comes from the street, but this guy I always hear, even when it's not working.

Last week, a new version of Logic was released, which required upgrading my computer to the latest OS or the previous one. I'm always weary of upgrades because, in my experience, performance always takes a hit on older machines. Not to mention I'd already been through one upgrade in June. But I I was really curious about the new Quantec reverb... I figured I'd do a back up and proceed, but then I started experiencing troubles with that. The back up process would stall at 53%. And that's when my old trusty external HD just vanished from the list of devices. I eventually got it back online, but it made me realize that, after 11 years, it might need to be replaced. So I ordered a new one from Sweetwater. Then I decided to just be stupid and go ahead and upgrade to the second most recent OS in order to be able to test that reverb... Things seemed alright for a couple of hours. But when I came back after a night of sleep, Logic took forever to launch and then wouldn't load my projects. I spent my entire night off troubleshooting instead of making music. First time in 14 years that I experience issues with my DAW. The irony is that the project I was working on used only Logic synths and plugins, as a challenge to myself. It is also the first time that I don't systematically bounce tracks. I know it's ridiculous but that's the way I learned to work back in the days to conserve CPU, so I usually commit to stuff as soon as I'm happy with the performance. And I usually print effects as well. In this case, everything in the project was still MIDI and real-time. Fortunately, I had exported stems a little earlier in the process because I wanted to be able to mess with them in Luna. So I had some of my stuff there. I spent much of my second night off trying to rebuild the mix in Pro Tools around the stems, but it just wasn't happening. So halfway through the night I took a leap of faith and proceeded to upgrade to the latest OS. A few Logic users I spoke with had ran into similar issues and that solved their problems. I was worried that this could not only not fix Logic, but hose my back up, Pro Tools. So I reluctantly proceeded. And indeed, that solved everything, even issues with other apps. The alternative and the back up plan was to restore my latest back up - dating from July, before I installed Pro Tools, the UAD plugins and all the goodies. So that would have meant a lot of time before I was back up and running. Of course, while all of this was happening, FedEx decided to take their sweet time and to take my new HD on a journey across the US so it only showed up once everything was back up and running... My first Glyph. Made me realize how tiny my old WD was despite being the same capacity. The Glyph's also noisier. Which isn't to say much, it's just that the WD was completely silent. As for the Quantec reverb... It's really cool. But I ended up demoing and buying Abbey Road chambers because it worked better on what I was working on. But I'm just so glad to be back up and running.

Was going through the old Logic certification books last weekend and I found this between the pages. Brought back memories... First sales rep who helped me - sold me my Alesis controller and portable USB monitors. Also, Sam Ash announced that they were reborn as an online merchant earlier this month.