Playing With the New Gear

One of the things I got for Christmas was the Universal Audio Volt 2 audio interface. I have the previous generation of Focusrite Solo sitting on my desk, but I really wanted an interface with the option for recording *two* tracks simultaneously with microphones instead of just one and the Volt gives me a flavor of interface that I didn't already have.

When you get a new toy, you want to play with it, so while Gretchen and the kids were out running around this afternoon, I brought the recording laptop upstairs, plugged it in, mounted a mic back on the stand on the desk, and went at it. It was still only one mic, because mounting a second mic would be inconvenient at the moment and the mission for today was to record a scratch track for Amy McNally in advance of GAFilk, so one track would do the job.

Happily, I managed to get through everything in one take. Then, I decided to play around with it and see what I could do with a quick setup using the Cubase plugins and the UA Spark plugins that are available to me on the recording laptop. And for a whole one track that couldn't really be mixed, it sounds pretty good I think.

Here's the link: Wind and Water.