Put another nickle in in that nickolodian

It's been another music weekend.

I hit the house fast on Friday, got what I thought I needed, that wasn't already in the magic truck, fed and watered the animals and then went up north. I followed Mobluz down to get his car to the mechanic. It was going to be gone at least one day or more. That left two families without wheels, one with the active Bitsy girl. It was no pain to "have to" spend the weekend there, just a bit of a hassle and a bit of a guilt trip. My dogs are sad when I am not there as I usually am. The lawn still isn't mowed this week. The hassle is my house getting behind and the guilt is the animals. I think I will get it and the dishes tonight, at least a little of it, caught up before bible study.

I picked up some free downloads for mixing music Friday. I took the machine and every adapter I could think of with me to Mobluz's place. After some install freak outs and experimenting I found I can record directly off his equipment through the main board.

Oh, boy! Did that set me up with projects! I'm in for it now. But so is he. The "unplugged" version of his tunes can be available anytime now.

"All" we have to do is make sure no one comes in the door while the mic's on, jury rig the jack into the computer so it CAN NOT jiggle in the slightest, set the tones and volumns on the equipment for recording, not blasting into an arena, and have him play through each song PERFECTLY to suit him, save it as a .wav file, mix it for stereo, add a little echo, add any fade in and outs, convert it to an .mp3 file and burn them, in the correct order, to my "only works sometimes" cd drive, make about ten copies for friends and family, then burn them, one at a time, print the labels, case covers and backs with the song list info all correct and set up a paypal button to sell them.

Nothing to it! uhhhh.......Wrong!! It's a huge undertaking. I'm in it for the long haul. I can't wait to put his music where you can hear it! (Note: can do my tunes up now, also. Not a bad secondary affect to all this learning!)

I recorded on the tiny mic of my computer sitting behind them as Mobluz and his friend,who needs a nic yet, played lead with him. I didn't want to have the set up in the way for their jamming. It made a surprisingly good copy. That little mic, the regular amp, speakers carrying the voice - with no "studio" at all - and some software made it at least shareable.

So stop over to MoBluz Band and check out the music page!

We crammed a lot in this weekend. Mobluz took us out to try our luck at cold weather mushrooms. We drew a blank but it was lovely in the woods and I found some leeks and showed Bitsy how to dig, clean and eat them. We hit a yard sale then got over to the Sis's place.

I had been wanting to get Bitsy girl over to see the mini horses. There was a pile of kids there, a trampoline, a brand new the night before yorkie pup, chickens with eggs to gather and such along with my family, the Mom and good food for everyone.

I got home last night after getting Mobluz back to his car and going back to visit awhile somewhere about - ohhhh...hmmm, I think it was eleven. I went home to get some sleep. I didn't. I got one of those wild hairs going and did the mixes on the recordings, burned the one CD we had to have and one we wanted to have. Designed CD covers and Case lids, printed and cut them out, got the flyers printed for us to hang about the next gig....yup, over did. It was after three when I crashed and I'm juuuuust a little silly today from lack of sleep.