Okay, my pal isn't exactly smiling but I know that he's happier being bald and tick free. I love cuddling with him and have even on occasion let him up on my bed to watch the boob tube with me.
As for the boy next door, if I was ever anyone's "boy next door" I'd advise them to move away from this weirdo! Ha! Anyway, the big smile is for the fact that I managed to save two songs that were going to be chopped! I finally remembered how to work the old Kawaii Drum Machine and it's working out just great although it is a bit more time consuming when recording since I have to bounce tracks down in order to have room to record vocals and other key instruments. This bouncing biz was the one thing I absolutely hated about my old process when all I had was an analog 4-track machine. The rhythm track always ended up being MONO and if you screwed any level up whilst bouncing down you were stuck with it if you didn't notice it at the time. For the uninitiated, "bouncing" is actually short for "bouncing down" and it is basically taking any number of tracks and "bouncing" them down to either one or two to either free up tracks or make things easier to manage. Back in 1983 when I was in an actual studio in San Diego and had the luxury of 24 tracks at my disposal and I quickly ended using all of them up on some songs.
Without my trusty Yamaha SY-99 I have to record everything manually one by one and it just takes a lot longer than I am accustomed to. SPOILT CHILD! Anyway, now that the rain and thunder have stopped I can resume recording vocals today. Didn't want any power outages in the middle of recording yesterday. I did have to stop a few times but luckily didn't lose any data.
TTFN,
Har
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