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Studio Night

Nice rack

We had a solid studio night last night.  Mike and I convened to do some recording and to install the new Pro Tools 003 rig.

Before we did anything hardware-related, we recorded one last track on the old Digi 001: the bass track for “Lose U Baby”.  It’s a fun tune that I posted a demo of some time ago. We had a great drum session with Nashville drummer Jim Evans just before Christmas, so we are finally building the song with real parts.

Mike ran through a few takes, which we saved on separate playlists for the track.  We took the best one and created a master playlist, and then we fixed any timing issues by comping from the various playlists or punching in to clean things up.  And BAM, there’s the bass track.

mike-recording-loseubaby

Then we got down to the real nitty-gritty.  We unplugged most of the connections to the big rolling rack that houses preamps, patch bays, synth modules and more.  It’s generally a big mess of cable spaghetti back there, and I lucked out in that Mike was the one disconnecting and reconnecting stuff.  I was in front of the rack moving gear into position.

After a couple hours we had everything successfully re-racked and patched, and we fired up Pro Tools 8 on the Mac (which I had installed earlier).  I copied over a session from the old Pro Tools computer and fired it up.  Worked like a charm!

nice-rack

So we’ve moved into the new millennium, gear-wise.  We’re planning to put the old computer into a rack-mount case and house it and the Digi 001 in a portable rack that we can bring to remote locations as necessary.  And we’re excited that we can finally use some new virtual instruments and updated capabilities to take things to a whole new level of drunkdudery.

More to come…