#music | Gray Summers

The recording of the intentional outdoor VeeDub Bus captures has been slightly delayed as my wife, Angie, has caught one of the dreaded bugs that seem to be hitting all and sundry over the last year. She has been off a week. Going back into work today.

Yesterday, I fired up the Mac computer system again and it was a really strange experience relearning all the technical techniques again. It has been months on months on, yes, more months of not using the Mac M2 set up. Weird is a word that suits the revisit. Took a while to sort out confidence again. No visual imagination with the Aphantasia condition I have means I do not recognise, visually, what I used to do. And a large screen monitor stuck in front of your moniker is pretty visual.

I tweaked the mix a tiny bit on this one below. What is really lovely, is that I can send high quality music files to YouTube for uploads. So the song’s sound you hear is rather like what I hear through my headphones and speakers here in The Den.

So if you have the opportunity to listen on headphones or through fairly robust speakers yourselves, you will hopefully get my drift.

As I always say in my YouTube description part, I play all the instruments apart from the drums. The drums are in the GarageBand library choices. I add them to a track and tweak the drum edit buttons to fit the song’s purpose.

I bought the Yamaha DD65 electronic drum kit. But new MIDI lead choices wouldn’t work on the Apple system. And the original Yamaha MIDI lead connector are like rocking horse number 2’s to find. However, I have managed to find and buy an original secondhand stock MIDI 5 pin adapter off eBay that can now be connected to both the M2 computer or the Tascam Model 12 mixing desk. So I can add some drums myself now.

Wish I could play like my brother Kev used to.

Below is my YouTube latest. Showing The Den to the new YT people out there.

Cheers.