An Overdue Project

I've been working on this project for what seems like forever. In July of 2008 I decided I was going to build a real-life, working, recording studio in my house. This first order of business, once I got it built, was going to be to record a handful of original tracks to give to family at Christmas. Somehow that has not happened yet.

I actually started remodeling the room that became my studio within a few days of Gray moving out of it and moving in with his brother (it was their choice, they wanted to do that before I even thought of the studio). While I was remodeling I also bought everything I needed to build a custom PC to act as my recording/mixing desk. Everything was progressing well thus far.

I got the remodel completed, the computer built, and all moved in to the new studio in late July or early August, which, if you know me and my projects around the house, is probably a record of some sort. I mean, if all truth be told, the table I refinished (which I originally intended to sell) and placed the new PC on took me somewhere around 6 months to complete. From there I started buying my interfaces and converters to start making the studio happen. By the time it was all said and done I had a working studio by mid-October of 2008. I was pretty happy with my progress.

Next, of course, the recording started. Up to that point I had recorded in studios several times, I knew the game. Problem was, I had never produced or engineered anything. Little did I know how little I knew about the recording process. Mid-December was upon me, I had one song laid down, one in progress, and everything sounded remarkably amateur. This was exasperating.

So I pressed on, Christmas came and passed without anything being in a good enough state for me to move forward with. That was alright though, I had some new toys acquired at Christmas,which were going to help me do a wider range of things in the studio. I promised myself that I would have the project finished for the next Christmas.

In February of 2009 I had surgery and was not able to do any recording for about a month. In March of 2009 I was surprised by the invitation to start up a new group, which became Tennessee Real Time. After putting recording down on the priority list to get Tennessee Real Time up and running, July was here and my right hand literally quit working. I was unable to pick up an instrument with my right hand, much less play it, for nearly a month. From there a string of gigs, followed by Tennessee Real Time recording sessions, and it's approaching November. Ten months of the year gone and very little recording of my own complete.

Now it's December, one year later, and I have not made nearly enough progress to feel as though I'll be getting those Cd's out for Christmas. I guess I'll be trying to figure out some other Christmas gifts again. Just as well, I doubt anyone wants to feel obligated to listen to any garbage I'd record anyhow.