Downtown! Pony! Work your pitch!

I think the building of a studio is a manifestation of my quarter-life crisis. Focus has shifted slightly to the Tascam DA-88 (or DA-38, or DA-78, same diff) - an 8 track digital tape recorder.



We used them at uni a lot and they have an elegant simplicity to them. They're even slightly cheaper than their tape-based equivalents and I am staunchly against any FX-laden multitracker, so this may be the best option.

Provided I can finish baking a cake in time, I should be off to watch Simon at open mic later, and then we're going to play through some new, darker songs tomorrow evening. May have a drummer at our disposal too; a face from our distant murky past, no less. Early days yet though.

accept all happiness from me

I've been continuously tweaking this since I signed up and, worse still, i expect a full overhaul when Simon sees it. I've become slightly obsessive over fonts.

I'm back on the old Cubase at home and starting to rattle off rough demos - even though this whole band idea is still vague in some senses, we do have lots of cohesive ideas.

Simon performed in his solo acoustic guise last night; clever turns of phrase, emotive lyrics and well-crafted melodies are wasted on an open-mic audience. Later on, watching a bedwetting singer-songwriter type who seemed incapable of forming consonents, i felt very sad.