The Purpose Of This Blog

Earlier this year I stumbled across a few boxes of old demo tapes and DATs I had recorded in the late 80ies and throughout the nineties. I borrowed myself a DAT player, dug out my old tape deck and transferred all that stuff to my computer.

Among these old recordings were a few songs that I always found had never been developed to their full potential, so I decided to give it try and turn these songs into a decent album.

Most of the stuff I recorded in the past decade was electronic music, so I guessed that I had to learn quite a few things about arranging, performing and recording songs, things I might have forgotten and other things I had never known.

I also found that my studio lacked a few essentials devices for this endeavor, so I also had discover and get the proper equipment.

This blog will become a (more or less complete) description of my journey, and hopefully provide valuable information to some people out there as well as give me some feedback about the music.
Some posts will be about the re-recorded songs, as soon as they are developed to a state that is presentable, with short descriptions about how I recorded them and what equipment I used.
Other posts will be about more general topics, some things that come to my mind are:

• my choice of DAW
• recording guitars and bass without using amps
• recording vocals
• cheap acoustic treatment 
• monitoring
• selecting a microphone (and a preamp) for recording vocals
• plugins or the real thing?
• programmed drums or a real drummer?
• how to develop an arrangement

All the songs and sound examples will be available either on SoundCloud or through my website as downloads.

Your comments are welcome.

B.