The Weekend Edition

[mdlbear]

Took my usual three-mile weekend walk today. Today was almost perfect weather. It was raining as I was getting ready to go out (I had shopping to do anyway), then suddenly cleared. I decided to chance it and quickly changed back into my hiking boots. The air was cool and had that lovely, clean, just-after-a-rain smell; everything was moist and sparkly, and by the time I was done the sun was out.

Got a fair amount done toward Consonance and the albums: printed business cards (after buying more card stock at Fry's along with another power squid), wrote the intro page for the super-deluxe preorder package for the Interfilk auction, and recorded a new, clean vocal track for "Mushrooms".

Along the way I also diagnosed the problem I've been having with recording on the new system. (One of the reasons for recording a track was to verify that I'd diagnosed it correctly.) It turned out to be largely a permission problem -- I hadn't set up the "record" group, so writes to the track directory were failing miserably.

A secondary problem is that Audacity 1.3 gives you more control over correcting for latency when you record; with the default of no correction, that meant that the new track was delayed by 100ms, the length of the correction buffer. Let me tell you -- 100ms is a l...o...n...g... time. Scared the heck out of me, and I had to play around a little to convince myself that I wasn't getting dropped samples or something even stranger.

The amount of work still needed for both the CD and Consonance is pretty daunting, and unlike GAFilk I don't think I'll be able to take an extra day off to do it. We'll see. Recording session with Joyce tomorrow: chorus vocals for "Mushrooms", "High Barratry", and "Little Computing Machine".