My first holiday week was rather full of everything I could imagine. I had work, recording sessions, walks outside, lots of great new music, artistic ideas and plans and not much seemed to go wrong. In contrast to that, week 2 was a bit bland and disappointing at first but as the weekend is arriving things are moving again. If the rest of the vacation follows the same formula, I'm going to be done with almost all of my plans and much more on top of them.
On Tuesday I got my Pro Tools M-Powered software. So far I'm not even close to getting into all of its attributes since I barely have any stuff to test it with, but my first impression is that whereas it's definitely credited as the best (in some cases second best) software out there for basically anything audio-related, 300 Euros was a bit too much any way considering Audacity is free and can do the same basic functions as PT, with the exception of the virtual instruments which I unfortunately don't have any use for at the moment at least. One big plus is that the functions Audacity and PT share are all without exception much easier to use in the latter. The interface is as user-friendly as one can imagine really and while I mixed together the bass and guitars for Finland yesterday, I quite easily got the hang of things and felt like everything turned out smooth. Hopefully as I start mixing full tracks together I'll find some ways to enhance the sound even more et cetera so not only will it all sound better, but satisfy the niggardly banker I have in me. :P
The amount of new music, as well as old (some of which I want to re-check after not exactly giving it a chance in the first place) has been huge, resulting me to have Undertow and 10,000 Days by Tool, What We All Come to Need and City of Echoes by Pelican, Apology Accepted and Orphan by Darwin's Waiting Room, Healing and Becoming I by Ünloco, The Height of Callousness and Self-Destructive Pattern by Spineshank, Blackwater Park by Opeth, Outcast by Ektomorf and Wounds Wide Open by To/Die/For on rotation lately. While both albums by Pelican have turned out to be more or less disappointments in comparison to their earlier records, Ünloco is a band I can't believe I had forgotten about. Darwin's Waiting Room's Orphan still doesn't awoke much emotion in me though it's growing, whereas Apology Accepted, the album that was never officially released, sounds awesome. On the other hand, the album I got first from Spineshank (THOC), is addictive and strong while the second one (SDP), despite the praise it's gotten, fails to impress me that much. Could be another grower. Outcast by Ektomorf sounds quite the same as before, containing a few fantastic rockers, but as a whole the album is too monotone and unoriginal in my opinion. Undertow and 10,000 Days are clearly Tool's weakest pair of albums but still way, way above average and very enjoyable. To/Die/For, being I don't listen to Gothic rock, seems like a good band, but I can't say that their album had a single song I would've fell in love with. Still, the album is better now than a year ago when I first bought it. I'm already planning to get some more Opeth now which should tell you all you need to know about my revisit to Blackwater Park. ;)
Artistically I've been active by recording things for the teaser EP Perfidy of Judgement to be released sometime in the fall, hopefully in September. Songs to be included are Johannesburg, Finland, Letters from Rats and Cyan Lie. So far I'm done recording guitars and bass for Finland, bass for Johannesburg and bass for Cyan Lie. In addition, I've been working on CITS and another new demo called Grain, and just yesterday I experimented with Drop A tuning (!!!) and ended up developing Polarity for a bit. The new riffs are so dark that after working with them for a while they started to make me feel distressed... Go figure what that means, ha. The icing on the cake is a new short story I'm writing (Finnish-only), revolving around a male psychologist and his love life which gets mixed up with his profession leading him to something unethical and... Well, I'll save you from the spoilers in case I ever decide to translate/put it out. I'm excited over it, that's for sure.
I finally have also finished reading the Kierkegaard book I lent two months ago. Reading it in a bit of a hurry and not having enough experience with philosophy beforehand made it very hard to grasp, but I did certainly learn from it nevertheless and am still interested in checking more similar kind of books though not necessarily right here and right now. Actually I'm thinking of not reading anything at all this month, though I have a tendency to read quite a bit of literature on my holidays in comparison to the school year when school books naturally sort of suck all my time. :P Next month I'm planning to relax a bit more though and perhaps then I'll go lend several books to keep me in that state.
Talk to you later and take care, guys and girls. =)
(Feels good knowing there's actually several individuals from both genders reading this page now... ;))
On Tuesday I got my Pro Tools M-Powered software. So far I'm not even close to getting into all of its attributes since I barely have any stuff to test it with, but my first impression is that whereas it's definitely credited as the best (in some cases second best) software out there for basically anything audio-related, 300 Euros was a bit too much any way considering Audacity is free and can do the same basic functions as PT, with the exception of the virtual instruments which I unfortunately don't have any use for at the moment at least. One big plus is that the functions Audacity and PT share are all without exception much easier to use in the latter. The interface is as user-friendly as one can imagine really and while I mixed together the bass and guitars for Finland yesterday, I quite easily got the hang of things and felt like everything turned out smooth. Hopefully as I start mixing full tracks together I'll find some ways to enhance the sound even more et cetera so not only will it all sound better, but satisfy the niggardly banker I have in me. :P
The amount of new music, as well as old (some of which I want to re-check after not exactly giving it a chance in the first place) has been huge, resulting me to have Undertow and 10,000 Days by Tool, What We All Come to Need and City of Echoes by Pelican, Apology Accepted and Orphan by Darwin's Waiting Room, Healing and Becoming I by Ünloco, The Height of Callousness and Self-Destructive Pattern by Spineshank, Blackwater Park by Opeth, Outcast by Ektomorf and Wounds Wide Open by To/Die/For on rotation lately. While both albums by Pelican have turned out to be more or less disappointments in comparison to their earlier records, Ünloco is a band I can't believe I had forgotten about. Darwin's Waiting Room's Orphan still doesn't awoke much emotion in me though it's growing, whereas Apology Accepted, the album that was never officially released, sounds awesome. On the other hand, the album I got first from Spineshank (THOC), is addictive and strong while the second one (SDP), despite the praise it's gotten, fails to impress me that much. Could be another grower. Outcast by Ektomorf sounds quite the same as before, containing a few fantastic rockers, but as a whole the album is too monotone and unoriginal in my opinion. Undertow and 10,000 Days are clearly Tool's weakest pair of albums but still way, way above average and very enjoyable. To/Die/For, being I don't listen to Gothic rock, seems like a good band, but I can't say that their album had a single song I would've fell in love with. Still, the album is better now than a year ago when I first bought it. I'm already planning to get some more Opeth now which should tell you all you need to know about my revisit to Blackwater Park. ;)
Artistically I've been active by recording things for the teaser EP Perfidy of Judgement to be released sometime in the fall, hopefully in September. Songs to be included are Johannesburg, Finland, Letters from Rats and Cyan Lie. So far I'm done recording guitars and bass for Finland, bass for Johannesburg and bass for Cyan Lie. In addition, I've been working on CITS and another new demo called Grain, and just yesterday I experimented with Drop A tuning (!!!) and ended up developing Polarity for a bit. The new riffs are so dark that after working with them for a while they started to make me feel distressed... Go figure what that means, ha. The icing on the cake is a new short story I'm writing (Finnish-only), revolving around a male psychologist and his love life which gets mixed up with his profession leading him to something unethical and... Well, I'll save you from the spoilers in case I ever decide to translate/put it out. I'm excited over it, that's for sure.
I finally have also finished reading the Kierkegaard book I lent two months ago. Reading it in a bit of a hurry and not having enough experience with philosophy beforehand made it very hard to grasp, but I did certainly learn from it nevertheless and am still interested in checking more similar kind of books though not necessarily right here and right now. Actually I'm thinking of not reading anything at all this month, though I have a tendency to read quite a bit of literature on my holidays in comparison to the school year when school books naturally sort of suck all my time. :P Next month I'm planning to relax a bit more though and perhaps then I'll go lend several books to keep me in that state.
Talk to you later and take care, guys and girls. =)
(Feels good knowing there's actually several individuals from both genders reading this page now... ;))
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