I spent 2024 using an NT-1 outside of the vocal closet for 95% of my vocals and i think I preferred the SM7b with a Cloudlifter a lot more. The NT-1 had been doing double-duty as a 2nd room mic on the drums, and i have to make a choice about whether to put it into the vocal closet or rig up a stand for it to still be a room mic. This week i used one of those $35 dollar mics setup high and far.

The mics, however, are not the limiting factor with this week’s track, i still had time for a couple more drum takes but i’d been watching a tutorial on some rimshots and sorta… made my hands way too tired and couldn’t hold the sticks anymore. The theme was ‘Betrayal’ and I put it over in punk.

We got a theme of chopsticks and I swear I started by playing the first few bars of Chopsticks on the keyboard and within moments it had morphed into whatever the heck this is. It’s over in Vocaloid.

i have no idea what happened here. I don’t even want to talk about it. I hope everyone has a safe and happy new year! Oh, and they gave us a theme of “glitter”… and i somehow managed to muck that up so it’s in garbage where it belongs.

and we got another sweater theme

So i have two songs about ugly sweaters on my Christmas page.

And this year’s isn’t as good as the previous one.

I’ve been setting up synth beds and playing over them, I think it helps the overall mix. The theme was ‘Entropy’ so I wrote a song with a silly title and relatively normal lyrics. So it’s over in punk.

I just used amp synths because my cat was sleeping next to the Vox.