Delta Ladies<\/a>. \u00a0Plus I am working on a \u00a0new tune or two and have now managed the basic track for a new song. The lyric is incomplete at present, but I have the main part and \u00a0the chorus. It’s a funny thing but although I am quite competent technically I occasionally get a bit of a block and for get whats possible. I try to keep the focus on the musical aspect and not the production part, but you can get blown off course. \u00a0The almost limitless options in terms of production on even the most humble demo home studio really does mean its just a matter of your own creativity. You can’t really blame the gear anymore. \u00a0I remember saving up my penny’s when the first Teac Portastudio 144 appeared and having great fun with it over the years. It was very simple but gave good results. In those days you had to actually worry about head room and signal to noise big time. \u00a0Now all that’s pretty much an irrelevance, just make sure you record to -4db as peak and you are sorted. \u00a0I think you had to have more of a sense of adventure then to actually make something special.<\/p>\nThe next big deal for me was when I got my Korg W1fd. I had had various keyboards before but this was my first workstation that I could build up complicated arrangements on. \u00a0It also had a real time sequencer, so that was a great leap for forward for me. \u00a0Before that I had a couple of Korg analogue synths (one was the Monopoly), but I never really got the full potential out of them. I then got a Yamaha Piano and started learning Piano as opposed to keyboard playing. \u00a0One thing I regret selling though was a not particularly good fretless bass, I could play it a bit and even used it on a few recordings, but lack of space and funds caused me to get rid of it in the end. It’s fun playing a bass. Maybe I will get another one some time \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n
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