I’m having an enforced break from guitar as I couldn’t find my Guitalele after the kids had borrowed and hid it before a 4am depart for a week in Brittany. Bollocks.
Did a bit of quick and dirty remote collaboration with a mate on some library music last week. This is his full-time gig and he asked me to pitch in for a bit of variety and for a laff. The plan was to meet up in person to do one track with a brief that broadly translated to “heavy blues”.
Annoyingly on the day we had set aside he got sick and I got super busy so I ended up throwing together a Bo Diddley groove and *ahem, tossed off, some slide guff and pinging him the files. Almost everything I played on it was a one-take improv squeezed into 15 min gaps between work and childcare. It was all very rushed. My mate recovered enough to cobble together a rough arrangement and mix on submission day… didn’t turn out too bad all things considered.
Sounds like a fun job and the recording sounds great, especially given the remote side of it all. Reminds me (in a good way) of menu music for truck driver sim video games.
Ta! That was pretty much the brief. Background music for heavy machinery. It’s hack as fuck, but was fun.
Home recording set up looks great. I do love a home recording project. Something to be said for giving yourself a finite time and aiming for getting something of the occasion down on “tape”.
I’m having an enforced break from guitar as I couldn’t find my Guitalele after the kids had borrowed and hid it before a 4am depart for a week in Brittany. Bollocks.
Did a bit of quick and dirty remote collaboration with a mate on some library music last week. This is his full-time gig and he asked me to pitch in for a bit of variety and for a laff. The plan was to meet up in person to do one track with a brief that broadly translated to “heavy blues”.
Annoyingly on the day we had set aside he got sick and I got super busy so I ended up throwing together a Bo Diddley groove and *ahem, tossed off, some slide guff and pinging him the files. Almost everything I played on it was a one-take improv squeezed into 15 min gaps between work and childcare. It was all very rushed. My mate recovered enough to cobble together a rough arrangement and mix on submission day… didn’t turn out too bad all things considered.