Jonathan Curtis
Silver Member
Today was my first day of our second (third?) attempt at recording our album. New hardware, new software, new methods, everything is perfectly set up to record my drums.
I've been putting in hours and hours of practice these past few weeks getting ready for it, easily averaging 3-4 hours a day. The songs were sounding good and I was ready.Then, the record button was pressed and everything fell apart. My fills went to pieces, my double bass turned into flams, at one point, I even whacked myself in the eyeball and forced my contact lens behind my eye! Why do things go to pot as soon as you're being recorded?
In our rehearsals, I must just not notice the little things that would be unacceptable on an album. Perhaps because I can't hear my double bass work very well at rehearsals, I'd not noticed the sloppiness creeping in.
Does anyone sympathise? I'm not new to recording, but perhaps today was just an unusually bad day. I'm going to spend this week trying to iron out the wrinkles and try again next week. Now, there's all this pressure because the rest of the band can't record until I've finished the drum tracks, and none of us are willing to settle for sloppy drums.
So yes, bad day for me today. Still, 4 hours a day practice can only do me good, right? It just seems like it does me good, right up until the record button is pressed, then I regress 10 years!
I've been putting in hours and hours of practice these past few weeks getting ready for it, easily averaging 3-4 hours a day. The songs were sounding good and I was ready.Then, the record button was pressed and everything fell apart. My fills went to pieces, my double bass turned into flams, at one point, I even whacked myself in the eyeball and forced my contact lens behind my eye! Why do things go to pot as soon as you're being recorded?
In our rehearsals, I must just not notice the little things that would be unacceptable on an album. Perhaps because I can't hear my double bass work very well at rehearsals, I'd not noticed the sloppiness creeping in.
Does anyone sympathise? I'm not new to recording, but perhaps today was just an unusually bad day. I'm going to spend this week trying to iron out the wrinkles and try again next week. Now, there's all this pressure because the rest of the band can't record until I've finished the drum tracks, and none of us are willing to settle for sloppy drums.
So yes, bad day for me today. Still, 4 hours a day practice can only do me good, right? It just seems like it does me good, right up until the record button is pressed, then I regress 10 years!