Scratching an Itch

Yesterday, blueeyedtigress and I spent the afternoon and part of the evening getting a reasonable set of guitar chords for all of the songs that will eventually land on her album. (Save for the one song that's to The Ride of the Valkyries, which I'm trying to cadge from Mark O.)

Now that that's done, we'll head down to the basement after dinner along with daisy_knotwise and Katie and see how many scratch tracks we can complete. I'll be playing boy metronome with the guitar; Blade "just" has to sing everything. :)

Scratching an Itch

Yesterday, blueeyedtigress and I spent the afternoon and part of the evening getting a reasonable set of guitar chords for all of the songs that will eventually land on her album. (Save for the one song that's to The Ride of the Valkyries, which I'm trying to cadge from Mark O.)

Now that that's done, we'll head down to the basement after dinner along with daisy_knotwise and Katie and see how many scratch tracks we can complete. I'll be playing boy metronome with the guitar; Blade "just" has to sing everything. :)

Boot to the Head

So I came down and turned on the digital mixer and it refused to boot up. Ack! I switched on the monitor and discovered that the computer that controls the mixer had lost its BIOS settings, probably due to a dead battery.

Fortunately, I had the correct settings for the BIOS printed out and sitting on the console, so I was able to get things back up and running in just a few minutes. Unfortunately, this means I'm going to have to wrestle the computer out of its rackmount, remove a trillion tiny little screws, change the battery, and reverse the whole process. This will kill a bit more than an hour sometime and will -- with any luck! -- not accidentally knock any other cables loose.

Once the mixer booted, we (me, daisy_knotwise and Katie) recorded scratch tracks for four of the songs on blueeyedtigress's album, coincidentally (not!) for the four songs that will have an instrumental break in the final version.

So far, so good.

Boot to the Head

So I came down and turned on the digital mixer and it refused to boot up. Ack! I switched on the monitor and discovered that the computer that controls the mixer had lost its BIOS settings, probably due to a dead battery.

Fortunately, I had the correct settings for the BIOS printed out and sitting on the console, so I was able to get things back up and running in just a few minutes. Unfortunately, this means I'm going to have to wrestle the computer out of its rackmount, remove a trillion tiny little screws, change the battery, and reverse the whole process. This will kill a bit more than an hour sometime and will -- with any luck! -- not accidentally knock any other cables loose.

Once the mixer booted, we (me, daisy_knotwise and Katie) recorded scratch tracks for four of the songs on blueeyedtigress's album, coincidentally (not!) for the four songs that will have an instrumental break in the final version.

So far, so good.