{"id":276,"date":"2004-01-15T10:57:16","date_gmt":"2004-01-15T18:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/?p=276"},"modified":"2020-08-16T11:03:24","modified_gmt":"2020-08-16T19:03:24","slug":"stuck-soundtrack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/2004\/01\/15\/stuck-soundtrack\/","title":{"rendered":"Stuck Soundtrack"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Sometimes, when the urge to create gets too strong, I will work on a piece of music in my spare time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I want to say &#8220;work in my studio&#8221; but the truth is that my &#8220;studio&#8221; is really just one wall of my office, totally occupied by 19 inches of rack equipment, two synthesizer keyboards, a mixer, and my Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) with two 15&#8243; LCD monitors. In other words, when I&#8217;m in my office trying to work on some technical or business related thing that, theoretically, earns us some money, my &#8220;studio&#8221; is two feet away covered by an old sheet that reduces the rate of dust accumulation, but that does nothing to muffle the tiny electronic cries of neglect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have learned that their cries are impotent ones, because by themselves, the items of studio equipment do nothing to kick-start the flow of creative juices necessary for making progress on numerous musical projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/2004\/01\/05\/relishing-the-vintage\/\">About\u00a0a week ago<\/a>\u00a0I pushed myself into re-working an older piece of mine that I was in danger of losing the &#8220;source code&#8221; for. I&#8217;ve had some success &#8211; the MIDI instruments have had their patches restored and the sounds safely rendered to hard disk in the form of 24-bit digital audio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the not-so-good side of things, I have been unable to remember how to play the bass line on my Chapman Stick, which, through lack of use, is kind of in a state of disrepair. Also, all the guitar sounds I&#8217;ve tried so far, sound horrible. It&#8217;s that old problem, the my-god-the-demo-sounds-almost-perfect-and-you&#8217;ll-never-get-it-sounding-that-good-again situation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The other drawback is that I&#8217;ve played through the peice so many times that it is forming the continuous looping soundtrack to my brain. It&#8217;s particularly noticeable right now. Every time I pause in writing a sentance, thinking about what to write next, or try to put my brain in neutral to catch a mental breath, it&#8217;s there like demonic muzak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even in my imagination the guitar sounds like crap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Editors note, August 2020<\/em>: I have no idea what song I was referring to, here. I&#8217;m guessing, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prodigalsounds.com\/steeltree\/painting_abstracts.html\">Painting Abstracts<\/a>. I could be way off base.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes, when the urge to create gets too strong, I will work on a piece of music in my spare time. I want to say &#8220;work in my studio&#8221; but the truth is that my &#8220;studio&#8221; is really just one wall of my office, totally occupied by 19 inches of rack equipment, two synthesizer keyboards, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-studio-diary","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prodigalsounds.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}