New Album Update. (Patreon)

I fully expected to have a new music track out by now but I have been running into some really frustrating problems with it. I had a mix of the new song that was 95% there but when I went to tackle the last bit I noticed that something weird was going on with the vocals and it sounded like I had a really bad lisp. I tried to fix it but no amount of de-essing seemed to work.

So, I recorded all the vocals again on Monday.

Today, when I went to return to the mix I noticed that the new vocal takes also sound like I have a lisp - not as bad as previous bit still there. I don't know what is going on as my setup hasn't changed. I did update to Cubase 13 so maybe that is a factor, I dunno. All I know is that it's really doing my head in.

Rather than battling the mix I decided that I would clean up the studio/office and rearrange it a bit as it was starting to feel quite cluttered and a bit claustrophobic. I got about 25% of it done and I am now typing this from within a complete mess of a room. It gets worse before it gets better.

My vacuum broke and my main computer decided it was going to have some sort of electrical fit (the motherboard had a weird warning light on it) and when I rebooted it took AGES just to make it as tense as possible. I dunno, hopefully, this isn't the start of a repeat performance of last year's constant problems and breakages.

Anyway, I was hoping to have the album finished by the end of November but that's just not going to happen - far too much other stuff keeps popping up that needs to be dealt with, but such is life. At this stage, if I even get one song finished I'll consider it a victory. I dunno, the older I get the longer everything seems to take to get done, or maybe I am just far more aware of wasted time given that I have a lot less of it now than my youth.

Anyway, I hope all is well in your world.