Meh..

ouh so this is what $774 worth of pedals looks like..

the train can be an interesting place. so instead of plugging in your mp3 and slumbering away while you're on the train, try observing your fellow commuters instead. look at how their PSPs brought the two races closer together.. awww... i hate having old people on the train because i have to give up my seat to them. i hate old people who won't let me sit down because they can't put their fucking shopping bags on the floor instead of the adjacent seat. it seems that smrt has lifted the ban of food and drinks in trains!! i'm gonna have me a picnic soon!! 4/5 people admit to having slept on a stranger's shoulder while on the train. half admit to doing it purposely. smrt should start recruiting stewardesses to cater to the resting needs of it's commuters.

home recording is so frustrating.

so i deleted the guitar, bass and vocal tracks from 'the hollow's' guitar pro file as i only wanted the drum track. i mixed it down into midi format, in the hope that acoustica mixcraft could support midi files. i was so wrong. it only supports mp3, wma and wav. urgh.. then i remembered i had another software, 'audacity'. surprisingly, it supports midi files. so i added the file into the track. then i tried to play it. but urgh..it can't. something about the project sample rate and stuff. so i opened up guitar pro and tried to tweak the midi sample rate. the thing was sampling the midi in two channels, and i remember i read some time back that certain programs can only accept midi in mono. i changed the sampling to mono and mixed the drum track into midi again. dropped it into audacity. urgh! it still can't be played. so i decided to do without the drum backing int he whole mix. i opened up audacity in one window, guitar pro in another. all this while the crazy humming from my guitar is doing it's best to frustrate me further. so i figured i had to press record on audacity, switch windows to guitar pro, click play on the drum track, switch back to the audacity window, whack along to the drum track, and finally stop the recording. urgh so tedious, because the usual procedure would be: click record, whack on guitar, click stop.

everything went well when i laid down the first guitar part. the i went on to record the second guitar part. i used the drums in guitar pro as reference. the sound came a little off when i placed it over the first track. deleted it. recorded again. still couldnt get it the second part to sync with the first guitar part. i ditched the drums and used the first guitar part as reference instead. yay it's in sync. the i went to record the verse, no problem, till it came to aligning it after the first and second tracks. i had to add a silent portion to the verse track in the area where the first and second guitar parts were playing, there was no way of dragging the verse track to align it after the first and second guitar track. all this while the endless humming from my guitar is doing it's best to frustrate me further. urgh!! i was too frustrated and impatient. i closed audacity and opened up mixcraft. and here i am