No photo tonight. No time to take any, too busy. We spent four hours this morning working very hard - well, Neal did, I mostly watched after I had done my playing and singing - on just one song. Again, not saying what, but it had a lot of midi stuff in it - would you believe a glass chorus? That's those wine glass things that you run a finger round the rim? Added just the right chilling factor, especially when combined with a bass rumble in the12Hz range - just north of vomit inducing! Now these are things you don't get to hear on the average Autoharp CD - maybe for very good reason. Very pleased with the result though, which was exactly how I had envisioned the song.
I had to crash out at 4pm though, absolutely tired out and just unable to play even simple stuff. After a sleep, I tried some practice on my new harps, and found a few things that work well in E. I have fourteen tracks laid down in rough. A lot of mixing and balancing to do, most of them still with other instruments to add. If I really push through tomorrow, I think I can get the last six down - there are some quick, Autoharp only ones I want to do. Then a few days to mix and get Coleen to put some lovely bass on, and Neal to add some mandolin and concertina and anything else I can persuade him to add. I think he is quite enjoying exploring his trance and rock side.
Quite pleased with how the voice is holding up. It is embarrassing to have to auto tune, but what an amazing piece of software! I get very close most of the time, but when I tire I do go flat, and it is such a time saver to just tweak the longer notes rather than do it all again and get even more tired. There was one time today when I quavered, and felt my vocal cords had had enough. But considering the pounding they have been taking - most of my songs are ridiculously high - they have held up much better than I had expected after eight months of no singing.
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