…the time when I’ve finished recording the material for another album and am going to start in with mastering next.
This one doesn’t even have a name yet, it’s just “next up” or “TEST_notforrelease.” I do have a couple of thoughts about the name, but I’m going to sleep on it and do some pre-mastering test listens.
I’ve been particularly inspired lately, not just from the excitement of discovering new music I like a lot, but just generally feeling more driven to create. I started this one probably on July 13 or 14, recorded 5 in the week from the end of July to beginning of August, and four more in the last 4 days.
While I make music I keep forgetting that the Nob Control is even there, and mostly not using it. It has come in handy a couple of times for fine-tuning some settings, but I think I’m just so use to mousing everything (unless I have a fader or pedal assigned to it) that it doesn’t occur to me to give it a literal whirl.
For our 20th anniversary we wanted to take a special vacation, just for us rather than making the long drive to visit our families. (With my parents in town we don’t need to go to the Atlanta area anymore, at least.) We had some general ideas for it for quite a while, started to plan out specifics, rethought some things, then when looking at specific dates adjusted the plan again. Now it’s going to be an October trip with a couple days in the Gatlinburg area, a couple in Myrtle Beach, and a day in Chattanooga plus the drive time between them… with an aquarium visit at every destination. While Appalachian tourism in autumn is definitely a thing, the beach hotel is decidedly off-season and cheap. And though it’s been a long time since I’ve gone swimming and even longer since it was in salt water on a beach, I’m looking forward to that hotel hot tub too.