~The Chelsie Way~

I did have a successful playtime with compression and reverb the other day. Playing with effects and settings is the only way to learn what you like and what’s best, when.

There’s a lot to know about sound, and thus a lot to learn about manipulating it, even in simple recording. Good sound being the objective, I find myself racking up information very similar to the outline of my college Recording Technology course, knowledge which time has steadily removed from my brain.

I’m nearly-not, but still without a vocal booth or any external sound-deadeners, so recording during say, thunderstorms, is a bit of a stretch. Since I very much love t’storms, I recorded a “thunder track” for the beginning of Randomly Beautiful.  It sounds awesome, like…you’ll never guess…distant thunder!! All jokes aside, it’s a fun effect for me at this point.

This week I’m posting a LOT of lyrics, hopefully to be accompanied by their respective Rough cuts. I’ll be absent from the world next week, on a long-awaited Honeymoon, so I’m trying to leave some sweet nectar & lunar light for Cg.com to enjoy.

Blogs are about community, so the authors and readers must learn how to take care of each other. It’s a dynamic relationship from all sides. How you feel about a song, how you like it, and if you’d enjoy more of a particular lyric or melody are essential to this blog and the recording process it documents.

Feedback is fodder for a writer-or should be-because every opinion is a possibility to explore. And writers need possibilities. When you visit a blog, make use of the comment boxes. If you’ve taken the time to read anything at all, that blog has made an impression. Share it! The author will thank you!

More to come from the studio when I return…Updating Cg.com on my learning/recording process is a way of keeping me on my toes, so stayed tuned for the next phases of my very first, and very firsthand LP.