Ze Frank, Recording, and Valentine’s Day
Last night, my dad sent me a link to a video blogger named Ze Frank. He’s soo good at it. I’m going to start trying to post daily and putting his video into each post. This first one is “how to procrastinate” and the second one is his actual post from today about Valentine’s day.
What a guy!
So, both today and yesterday were snow days. Yesterday I didn’t do much. I got some recording done. I redid the instruments in “Shelby-Doo”. If you want to see why I redo them then just listen to these… you should be able to hear the difference. I brought the key up in the new one because the old one was too low for my normal singing voice… it just kind of sounds like I’m talking.
Old…
New…
The main difference is just that I’m using a preamp now instead of miking an actual amp. It allows me to get a more full tone instead of just capturing one small part of the spectrum with a microphone. Also it has things like a compressor… which makes the clean guitar in the new one less clinky and more full and broad. Yes, the preamp has done wonders. Next, I’d like to get a small mixer and a couple of condensor microphones so that I can start recording live things and using acoustic more. I’m also considering sound proofing my room soon. It would make it look funny!
Today was Valentine’s Day and it was a great one. I made an excursion through the remnants of this week’s blizzard all the way 1.66 miles away to Olivia’s house. She met me half way though. =) We just chilled out all day. We watched X-men 3 and listened to tunes, danced, talked… you know… the whole shabang. It was a good snow day.
