DW Recording: Day 36

I do believe that the lead guitar (and lead guitar FX,) parts for songs 11 and 12 (Lonely Girl and Mother of Waters,) are now recorded. Still want to make sure they all fit together… but, I’m glad they are recorded. It’s still amazing to me how playing just one note can actually sound alright… at least, when it’s being used for rhythm.

DW Recording: Day 35

I think the recording is already partly done for the 17th song… but I still have to check. In the meantime, I just decided to get the rhythm guitar (and some, or all, of the lead guitar parts,) tonight for the 18th song (What is Left).

Still trying to aim for a more-human feel, or emotional quality, to the recording. I’m finding that it’s tougher than I thought to make something sound more relaxed (sloppy,) on purpose… while still making it fit with the tempo of the song.

CSS Clean

Finally got around to making a script to clean up my poor CSS files; enter CSS Clean.

So why would I need this? Because a lot of my CSS files are built over a long period of time… with thoughts and experiments randomly cut and pasted. After a while, the CSS gets hard to read because of the lack of organization.

So, instead of having something like this:

/* Before CSS Clean */
#selector {
    width: 150px;
        border: 1px solid #000;
   color: #070;
}

I can finally have something like this:

/* After CSS Clean */
#selector {
  border: 1px solid #000;
  color: #070;
  width: 150px;
}

All nice and alphabetized-like… and indented.

DW Recording: Day 34

I think the rhythm guitar part for song number 16 (Drive Home) is recorded, now. It kind of sounds sloppy… but, the sloppiness ends up putting a more-human touch on it, I think. Too many of my “songs” have been far too robot-like for far too long.

Workin’ on the Christmas Gift

I kind of just realized that it’s Christmas time.  Last week.  Not sure if I’m going to be happy with how the Christmas album turns out this year… (if it even gets finished,) but it’s getting there.  Still have to record vocals for half the songs… in the next two days… and then get the arrangements and mixes all finished.

With these type of albums, I like to try to experiment a little… though they probably sound all the same to listeners.  Just trying out different songwriting and arrangement techniques.  Almost there…