Back in room B! Last week was Holofes 7 so my sleep schedule was all turned around from the combination of waking up at 345am and 1030pm for concerts streamed from Japan. Then Daylight Savings hit so I was in no shape last Sunday to do much of anything other than lay on the couch.

This week we got a theme of “Crystal” and I couldn’t for the life of me think of what to do with that so I ended up making something obscene that could only get put in Spicy Punk.

I’m experimenting with some different settings. I’ve managed to make everything sound worse. I think the last few weeks I was only routing out the two Aux channels that are just going through a 266xs compressor so everything that routed to the 2i4 was only the compression. I turned that off and now everything sounds crappier. This will warrant further investigation.

We got a theme of ‘Disneyland’. I made something I stuck over in Punk.

I had two choices, I could figure out what was wrong with Room A, or I could just record in Room B. I chose the latter because I’m 99% certain that the problem upstairs is the computer is feeling its age. I use the laptop down here and I think I could use it upstairs but that’s going to involve laying on my back with a flashlight looking at wires. Those are problems for Future Necro.

Present Day Necro got a theme of “Urn” and I made a little punk song, which is where you can find it.

Some weeks i get a theme, I start working on an idea and far too late do I realize it’s a disaster. This was one of those weeks. I went back to Room A thinking I could kick-start the ole creativity but either i’m off my game or I need to adjust the latency settings on this instance of Logic. Or both. Both could be true.

We had a theme of ‘Straw’ and I made an instrumental mess that’s over in Garbage where it belongs. I couldn’t even slip it into Experimental in good faith.

This time the drums came later in the intro for artistic reasons and not because the remote app stopped working. We got a theme of “stitch” and i played on the old ‘snitches get stiches’ trope without ever having that as a lyric in the song. I decided it was a little too graphic, though, so you can find it over in Spicy Punk.

Still working in Room B, which you can probably hear by now. I haven’t quite figure out if anything can be done about how terrible the snare sounds, or the mud in the drums or any of the other issues i’ve had cleaning that up. Probably means i need more gear :) That being said, the guitar is a sub $300 Firefly with an arcade switch that i couldn’t say ‘no’ to.