Ordered and got my Ensemble last week. Now I'll have to find time to give Serge back his 828. The one he sold to me several years ago but never cashed my check. I'm excited about the prospects. Not so much because of the new interface itself (even though it's a cool unit and really lights up the room in the middle of the night) but because the new interface is motivating me to go about a newer way of recording than I usually do. I've realized that I'm the Ed Wood of recording. I usually go with that awful first take and when it comes to post-processing, I mix at a frentic, fast pace because I guess... deep down... mixing makes me feel uneasy. But I've really got to sit down and really take these things to care. I've been reading and re-reading those books, sites on recording. On recording techniques, on mixing techniques, EQ'ing, properties of instruments. Stuff like in what frequency range does the snare drum sound muddy. And this time I'm really going to try to create something carefully, meticulously. I know it will drive me crazy initially and maybe throughout the entire process but I've got to at least try.
On a different subject my wife is looking at me a lot differently these days. It's a good thing. She can finally get up in the middle of the night and walk into the other room without first searching for her glasses, putting them on, and then walking into the other room. Last Thursday was one of the scariest moments of my life. I saw the whole thing - especially on that big TV screen. The steady hand of the surgeon. The top layer of eye. The other stuff... All went well and I'm happy and I can tell she's going to be really euphoric - once it really hits her.
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