Thursday
Oct132005
why not?
Thursday, October 13, 2005 at 04:33AM
It's 3am and I can't sleep, so I figured, why not head downstairs, convert ProTools files for a few hours and write a blog with pictures?!? So that's what I'm doing. Through the gracious help of Chip and Submerge Media I'm able to do the rest of my record in high-definition sample rate, boring I know, but it will sound a lot better. It's going to take six or seven hours total to convert what I have already up to the new depth, though, but it's kind of a set-it-and-forget-it thing, so I can write on here while I babysit it.
I finished Jake Randall's mixes today, and I'm pretty happy with them. I think it turned out to be a nice, little record. After that my friend Mark Nicholas, who's going to do the photos for the new record, and I headed out to Kenny Meeks' farm out South of Franklin. He's letting me shoot some of the artwork out there, so we went ahead to get an idea of the light and scout some of the angles. Here are a couple of the shots we took to get ideas. There will be some other elements introduced as well, to try to add an amount of surreality to the imagery, but these were pretty cool for tonight...
I wrote a bit about the Jill Phillips' record I played on last week. I promised a couple shots, so here they are:
This first one is of Ken Lewis and Aaron Sands, drummer and bass player, respectively...
and Ken, the star, by himself...
Here are Andy and Jill, playing us a new song...
Producer Matt Stanfield and engineer Ben Phillips...
Me, playing guitar, with Aaron, looking slightly concerned or confused...
And here are a few shots of my pedal board, featuring new photos of Ella...
another of my favorite sights...
Now, this one's just for fun. Alison loves to put little towels on Ella's head and call her "the scullery maid." Here is the maid playing her little piano.
Um, I love this child...
well, it's 3:30, I should probably try to sleep. Thanks for those of you who've decided to play McDonald's Monopoly with me. We'll get 'em this time... And many thanks to Apple for releasing the Video iPod and causing much coveteous temptation... Dang, that's cool... Good night.
I finished Jake Randall's mixes today, and I'm pretty happy with them. I think it turned out to be a nice, little record. After that my friend Mark Nicholas, who's going to do the photos for the new record, and I headed out to Kenny Meeks' farm out South of Franklin. He's letting me shoot some of the artwork out there, so we went ahead to get an idea of the light and scout some of the angles. Here are a couple of the shots we took to get ideas. There will be some other elements introduced as well, to try to add an amount of surreality to the imagery, but these were pretty cool for tonight...
I wrote a bit about the Jill Phillips' record I played on last week. I promised a couple shots, so here they are:
This first one is of Ken Lewis and Aaron Sands, drummer and bass player, respectively...
and Ken, the star, by himself...
Here are Andy and Jill, playing us a new song...
Producer Matt Stanfield and engineer Ben Phillips...
Me, playing guitar, with Aaron, looking slightly concerned or confused...
And here are a few shots of my pedal board, featuring new photos of Ella...
another of my favorite sights...
Now, this one's just for fun. Alison loves to put little towels on Ella's head and call her "the scullery maid." Here is the maid playing her little piano.
Um, I love this child...
well, it's 3:30, I should probably try to sleep. Thanks for those of you who've decided to play McDonald's Monopoly with me. We'll get 'em this time... And many thanks to Apple for releasing the Video iPod and causing much coveteous temptation... Dang, that's cool... Good night.
Reader Comments (9)
Sweet pictures, man. And your little girl sure is a cutie.
Get some sleep.
Love the pictures - thanks for sharing...
I'm sure most people find the recording stuff boring, but as someone who used to play around a lot with that kind of stuff (I had a huge case of gear lust that I had to get over - I'm in Gearaholics Anonymous right now!), I find it very interesting.
Looking forward to the results of the shoot. I'll be awaiting the pics with baited breath/ Then Chris can start drawing all over them. It's going to be an estatic experience.
ecstatic
Hey andrew, what kind of epiphone is that?
nice pics, andy. can't wait to hear the new stuff.
I have got to Admit, that is a cute baby. She really is. I hope all is well, love the music, and when is your CD coming out?
Mark Singleton
is Ben Philips peeing on your computer?
being the weirdo that i am, my first thought to the baby pics and the pedals was: omg - andy has to step on his little girl to get effects! NOOoooo!!
sorry.