With the assistance of my husband (bless his patient heart) I’ve learned Protools LE to record and produce my music. This was huge for me and it took a couple years to get to where I could produce my new EP. It’s a real challenge playing both engineer and musician and there’s lots of stretching between operating the keyboard and playing the guitar which can be a little strenuous on the back.
I love the recording process. I’ve become a pretty good at editing and can even interpret audio signal shapes to determine if it’s a good take or not. Recording is a wonderful and timeless beast that sucks me in. It’s a struggle to stop and switch gears to my family life but so far I’ve managed to keep it together and have not left my child curbside. I am the only mom I know that sports the headphone hair look.
Producing “Go” was a great skill builder. After laying down the drums and bass tracks at Laughing Tiger Studios, (except for “Reach You”), I recorded and produced the rest of the tracks in my studio. It was challenging and overwhelming at times. I came close to an anxiety attack working with the 53 tracks on “Fear”. I had a hard time finding parts in that sea of tracks, it was blinding! I became afraid of working on “Fear” how funny is that! I’m relieved it’s finished (and backed up!). I won’t even tell you what almost happened to “Waste Of Time”. Let’s just say it almost became just that…a waste of time. I’m thankful all the songs survived and are here intact! Now that I can produce good recordings I feel like my whole artistic world is limitless. Oh joy!