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.

It irritates me that Room B runs on a cheap 12-input mixing board going into a Scarlett 2i4i and yet somehow it sounds better than Room A with the prosumer gear.

It also irritates me when Apple auto-updates Logic and decides to make it incompatible with their own Logic Remote Controller. So if you’re wondering why the drums come in a bit later it’s because i had to record and walk to the other side of the room, get behind the kit and try to come in at the right time. In Room A I can reach the R key on the keyboard with one of the drumsticks.

Anyway, this week we got a theme of “Blasphemy” so I made a little ditty you can find over in Punk. And yeah the chords i used in the chorus is that same stupid descending C-B-Bb-A i keep falling back on. Weird.

We’re snowed in! And it just keeps coming down. We had a theme of ‘Megastructure’ and I wrote a song that is technically just about a giant ziggurat in the sky. So i put it in punk. That might be false advertising if you start looking at subtext and metaphors, but that would be the product of your own filthy mind.