Musical Bob

The new album is sounding good. I’m encouraged.

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I’m not the brightest, either. I’m trying to learn, too. I think that makes it okay. You have my support!

I can still hear music, and I’ve maintained that one can only hear music fully if one has a soul. So I’m fairly sure I still have mine. So what was that internal separation I was feeling a few days ago?

Even if a “bad” part of myself left me, that’s still not okay. I have to stand with myself, love myself, *all* of myself. So I hope that I’m still whole.

I still feel like myself, but when I was empty I didn’t know it until something came back to live in my heart. So I might be empty again, I just don’t know it yet. I hope that’s not the case.

I think I’m still able to put feelings into my vocals, so I’m not so worried that I lost a “good” part of myself… but time will tell.

For some reason I feel like part of my person is fading away/dying. I’ve always thought one needs a soul to make what I consider to be good music, so it’ll be interesting to see how this shakes out.

I worry that I have CBS - Creativity Blindness Syndrome. I’m so enamored with the act of creating that I’m unable to tell if what I create is any good.

My husband commented positively on my vocals. There’s so much electronics on my vocals they could qualify as a special effect. Still, it’s nice to be recognized.

So I recorded the modern day version of the punch in: set a range of measures to loop again and again, punched record, and recorded 3 takes just like that. What people are calling fly ins - cut or copy the track I want to repeat and paste it - I’m calling pasta. Copy-paste, copypasta, pasta.

My understanding, based on one summer of interning at a Boston music studio years ago, is a fly-in was when the engineer plays back the tape, punching record when the offending take comes up and punching play when the musician is finished correcting the take. A punch-in used a tape remote device.

I’ve had to use an old recording trick to make my falsetto sound decent and fit in with the rest of the tune: the punch-in or fly-in.

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So sometimes one has to refresh a piece of music using old production tricks that haven’t really been used in a while. Hello, flanger.

Music question: how many music creation people on here remember or maybe have used Mark of the Unicorn Performer for Macintosh?

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So, I’m trying to put together the vocals for a new song which are just out of my range, and I realized I should sing in falsetto. So I realized there’s such a thing as 70s soul falsetto. I don’t expect to sound as good as that, but it’s given me a target.