I just woke up from a recording session with Johnny Cash and Jackson Browne. In my dream, Johnny and I had recorded together before and we’d done this song that I’d completely forgotten. It was by someone else famous in my dream I can’t remember…Norman Blake maybe. Anyway, Jackson launches into the song and tape is rolling and I can’t hit a right chord to save my life. Jackson’s hand is obscured so I can’t pick up the chord changes and Johnny, who I can see, who is sitting right next to me, frustratingly isn’t even playing. He’s peeling a piece of fruit and judging me. I woke up mortified but with this melody stuck in my head and the last line which was something like “don’t you live like ours”.
I'm in the process of creating the demo for an upcoming video on a 1974 Fender Twin Reverb. This is the point where I'm editing the video and audio layers all together with green screening. The studio-captured audio is not added yet. This is just a rough video mix with the RAW camera guide audio for the drums and guitar ONLY! So this is what the drums and rhythm guitar are sounding like in the room by themselves with no close miking and no post processing (other than a bit of compression and EQ). I am actually kind of shocked how good this is sounding even though one of the camera mics (the one for the drums) is from a DJI Action Cam and the other (for the guitar) is a Panasonic camcorder mic. Usually when making this kind of demo, the raw camera mic audio acts as a guide when lining up video clips on the editing timeline and then gets deleted from the final timeline before publishing. In some cases, I will even mix in a hint of the raw camera microphones with the studio mix to give ...
