once again the work on ‘my little garden’ will be delayed as a friend/student of mine and i decided to record some acoustic-guitar-plus-vocals-duets. he wants to try making gigs on his own so he asked me if i would record him for kind of a demo cd. we’ve been playing together for quite a while now and so it seemed logical to not only record him but us as well…

yesterday i did some pilot tracks (no idea if that’s the right term in english…), meaning i tracked some rough playing of the songs which will be on the headphones during the real recording. actually we wanted to do a live recording, just playing along and recording but we don’t have the right room for it anymore. so we will record single tracks and mixing them together. hopefully not much feeling will be sacrificed due to this type of recording. the live session will happen as well, but we have no date yet, so it seemed a good idea to do this now…

as soon as i finish writing this entry i’ll record some more pilot tracks and tomorrow we’ll do at least one guitar, maybe more – we have only a few hours.

oh boy, i can’t wait to move back to my hometown on the 01.01.2009 and have a decent setting to record again. it’s kind of cool doing everything on the mac (i learned so much through this) but on the other hand, the real stuff is deeply missed. it’s possible to make it all electronically but when it comes to rock music for instance, i feel detached in a way. even if it sounds real, it feels a little weird…. but that won’t stop me from working on my little garden – it’s just a great experience, somewhat weird but still great. yay!

so it’s nice to be playing acoustic guitar again this few days, we’re doing that in my apartment. real strings…wow. then saturday morning off to gigland, returning on sunday and finishing the acoustic thing next week as early as possible so i can go back to picking sounds for the new album. guitar sounds are done, drums are next…