Sorry 'bout that.

Okay, I'm sorry. I really am. I wanted to make a post yesterday. I did. Honest.


Buuuut.... it just got on top of me a bit.

Anyway, I'm doing it now.


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Day 1

I arrived there at 11:30 and met Stewart, who runs Megafan Records and the business side of Airtight. We had a chat about life, the universe and everything (that's a lie, We talked about prog rock, his unfortunate name [Stewart Muff] and the iPhone).

Then Richard arrived, and we got set. He gave me the obligatory tour and health/safety brief, then led me to the main mixing room. He proceeded to show me how to operate their Roland Super JV 64 voice synthesizer module JV-1080 [I swear to god the guy who made the soundtrack to Tiberium Sun has one, cause one of the voices sounds JUST LIKE the alarm sound] - a rack-mounted device which Rich described to me as "the brain of one of those massive synthesizers without the massive part" - and gave me a quick tutorial of Cubase and of the various MIDI ins and outs.

Then he left me, with these "instructions": "'Ave a mess about".

So, I did. For hours. Although I was kind of uncomfortable acclimatising to such a new environment, which meant I only managed to do one song which (at the time) I thought was crap. I went home and began dreading the next day.

But then I woke up this morning.

And everything was fine again. I felt good (despite a dentist's appointment) and immediately threw myself into it.

He listened to the song I did (he didn't have the time yesterday) and suddenly gave me an idea. At first, all I thought was that the idea was a shitty first attempt. But then I listened to it unburdened by my various neuroses and found that it was good. Quite good in fact. Very 8-bit. Very gamey.

So that's what I'm gonna do. Over the course of the next two weeks, since there's nothing else to do (bands only come in after I leave) I'm going to spend my time using the various synths, the MIDI keyboard and Cubase to record a whole lot of sci-fi game muzak.

I've got two finished songs and one which is almost done. On day two.

I think that's pretty good. That's gonna be what, 21 songs.

Wow. That's kinda daunting.

I'll try and keep you posted.



Sraen out.



P.S.

WOO 50th POST YAY!