Saturday I went over to my friend Hunter's garage studio. I am collaborating with him a lot on my next release, since he is far better at writing guitar than I will probably ever be. He and I have both actually been in quite a rut lately, struck with a case of severe writers block. It's looking like I might actually be breaking free from that a bit. While I was waiting for him to come down, I had opened up one of my songs and just hit play. Minutes later I was beginning to structure the song, which I had been sitting on for months now. Maybe the change of scenery was all I needed to jumpstart my creative drive. There is a part in the song where I had wanted guitar added, and Hunter wrote the perfect part for it. Since his studio is undergoing some changes and is not quite set up to record, I simply translated it to MIDI and saved it to bring home with me.

Guitar for the song (the file is titled "Enemy", but the final song title will probably be no where near that) will likely be recorded tonight or later this week. I have been looking through my lyrics for something for this song as well. The structure of the song isn't the usual verse-chorus-verse and so on, but I should be able to find something in my mess of lyrics.

This song is probably going to be the last track for the CD. It just has that feel.

My new computer is a beast. I won't be able to fully make use of it until after the move, but I was able to test one of my Reason files. A song that makes the CPU meter jump to around 50% on my AMD machine didn't even budge the CPU meter on my new Core 2 Duo machine. I'm in heaven.

Unfortunately, not even a half hour after I had installed Windows, the IDE connection died. At least my hard drives are SATA. Rather than dismantle the machine to send the motherboard back, I just put the DVD burner into my AMD machine (it works there btw) and ordered a SATA burner instead. I should be fully in business once that arrives.

I suppose my days as an AMD man are over.

take off the fucking gas masks.

fuck your fashion.
fuck your accessories.
fuck your fake hair extensions.

I finally ordered the parts for my new studio machine. The new beautiful widescreen monitor will arrive today, as well as the case. Another box should be arriving Friday with all of the other parts. This thing is just going to blow my current setup out of the water, CPU load-wise:

Intel Core 2 Duo 2.66 Ghz (Currently AMD Athlon X2 2.4 Ghz)
2GB RAM (Currently 1GB)
80GB Drive for the OS and Programs
250GB Drive for audio/reason refills/samples

I'm also not intending to let this machine touch the internet. Not going to let any nasties from the web slow this baby down.


Also waiting on the porch when I get off work is an Ebow. I've just been in love with the audio samples I've heard of what this thing can do, and I'm itching to run it through some wild effects. I plan on jamming with it later tonight, if anything interesting gets recorded maybe I'll put up a sound sample.

toodles.