My First Home Studio Recording Since 1996

I used to do the home recording studio thing a bit. In the mid-1990s. And then I got busy. And all messed up.

I haven't been doing my music lately, and it's kinda been killing my soul. So for a personal moment in this blog, let me introduce my first home studio recording since 1996. I used some different equipment, so get ready to laugh at what I used.

* Dell Inspiron 8500 laptop I got in 2003.
* Cakewalk Pro Audio 9 I got in 2000 and never installed before this week.
* Shure SM58 mic I stole from college in 1993.
* To make things sound better, I ran the mic into my Tascam 688 MidiStudio, then out to the mic in jack on my laptop. :)

I sang 8 tracks. Some better than others. This is a bit rough and not my best performance. My singing it definitely better than this. But ya know what? It was fun, and I don't have enough fun. This took around 4 hours from writing out sheet music for my arrangement to singing all the tracks to mixing it down. No warmup and not much practice. Mostly sight reading my own arrangement as it recorded.

For those of you who like to compare to what this is supposed to be, this is "New Dress" from Jonatha Brooke's "Steady Pull" album. She does it much better, but hey, artistic license. :)

OK you can listen to it if you really want. :)

I have started recording a really hard song on the Tascam but I'll see if I can transfer it to Cakewalk, and clean it up. My lead vocal and other foreground bits came out awesomely... definitely some of my best performances possibly ever. My background came out like mud on a muddy day in a muddy world. :)

Thanks for giving me a personal indulgence moment.

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