Counting Down
Mar. 31st, 2024 04:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
billroperIt is now 15 minutes until it is time to start drinking the colonoscopy prep solution. The good news is that it is a much better prep than the one that I had to take when I started getting regular colonoscopies.
That's pretty much the limit of the good news.
So far today, I have eaten one serving of lemon ice and drunk a Diet Pepsi. I am now working on a second serving of lemon ice and a glass of real Coke with actual sugar (ok, HFCS, but at this point, I am starving and *really don't care*). And I know it will take me a long time to actually starve, but it has been a good day to spend time down in the basement studio transferring old ADAT tapes.
The transfer game has caused me to really appreciate modern DAWs. There is one ADAT with two songs on it. The first one was fine in one take. The second took multiple takes. *Many* multiple takes. If I were doing this in Cubase today, I would stack up two or maybe even *three* takes of the track and then assemble a final copy. This was not an option back then. Punch-ins *were* an option, but the song is complex and just irregular enough that punch-ins were going to be difficult, so we just did multiple takes.
Listening to that particular marathon, I could only think, "Oh, I'm sorry."
In and around all of the transfers, I also managed to get a load of my shirts done. This resets the laundry clock so that a load of my shirts is no longer due to be washed on eclipse weekend, which will be a good thing.
And now it is time to finish my second meal of the day, because lots of fun will be coming soon!
That's pretty much the limit of the good news.
So far today, I have eaten one serving of lemon ice and drunk a Diet Pepsi. I am now working on a second serving of lemon ice and a glass of real Coke with actual sugar (ok, HFCS, but at this point, I am starving and *really don't care*). And I know it will take me a long time to actually starve, but it has been a good day to spend time down in the basement studio transferring old ADAT tapes.
The transfer game has caused me to really appreciate modern DAWs. There is one ADAT with two songs on it. The first one was fine in one take. The second took multiple takes. *Many* multiple takes. If I were doing this in Cubase today, I would stack up two or maybe even *three* takes of the track and then assemble a final copy. This was not an option back then. Punch-ins *were* an option, but the song is complex and just irregular enough that punch-ins were going to be difficult, so we just did multiple takes.
Listening to that particular marathon, I could only think, "Oh, I'm sorry."
In and around all of the transfers, I also managed to get a load of my shirts done. This resets the laundry clock so that a load of my shirts is no longer due to be washed on eclipse weekend, which will be a good thing.
And now it is time to finish my second meal of the day, because lots of fun will be coming soon!