Planning to Record

I'm sick of being sick. Had to take off work today because my throat hurt so bad. Took a long nap, and that seemed to do the trick. Just getting some rest made me feel better. My kids have been sick all week, and I have been teetering on sickness myself, and it finally got me. Not sure if I'll take work off tomorrow, depends on how I feel.

Been impacting my practicing as it hurts to sing. I started working on fingerstyling. I want to try to practice that in earnest the next few weeks, mixing it in with my current regimen of practicing pieces of my setlist. My short-term goals right now are a) practice and b) record.

I received a recording of my last gig at the Metaphor and I posted them on my site at ezfolk.com. Click here to listen to my tunes from that night.

I plan on purchasing a 8-track Tascam really soon. I have about 16 songs to record and I plan on tracking them all. I'm going to start with recording each tune as a scratch (vocal and guitar). Then I plan to re-do the rhythm guitar track on all tunes. Once that's down, I will decide if there needs to be a second guitar added. Hopefully, that's where the fingerstyle will help out. I don't think I'll be using fingerstyle on all tunes as an embelleshment, but we'll see. It will be a time to experiment. I'll add the vocals last. My vocals are my weak spot, hopefully I can take a measured approach on that and be successful.

Really happy with the guitar. I'm on the fence as to whether I should put some amplification inside the Hummingbird. If I do, it's down to either the K&K Pure Western or the Baggs I-Beam. I'm leaning toward the I-Beam, if I decide to amplify at all. I thought it might be a good tool to have for recording, but I really love the genuine sound of the Hummingbird mic'd, so I'm starting to have my reservations about modifying the 'Bird. If I decide to play out it might be good to have the onboard electronics, but I'm not sure if I can't just go with the mic since I play solo and I don't need to be very loud. For now, I think I'll hold off, but we'll see.