Recording something well requires patience.

Unfortunately, this is something I tend to lack in and, as such, respond to problems quite spectacularly.

I mean, it's not like I can rapidly sort out the issues I'm having. In fact, it's nothing like that at all. I think maybe I have an underlying hatred for technology, that when something that's been invented to add ease to a process goes wrong, I can't help but feel massively short changed. I just want to be able to sit down, turn everything on, click that beautiful red button and record my little songs so that I can show 'em around.

Trust me, by tomorrow this will be a non-issue. I will have found an easy way around the problem at hand and will be thoroughly enjoying the entire recording process. Probably.

I just get concerned that it's stifling me, you know? I'm not saying I'm some fragile ball of creativity that needs careful nurturing or anything. I think it's just really easy for your attitude to take a hit when you're not actually concentrating on the song itself because the technology is messing you around. I can't sort it out, so I run out of recording time because it's too late or I'm going somewhere. Then I listen to music and all of the people who didn't have problems with their recording equipment and, consequentially, are now in the public eye with their music, expressing themselves and being paid for it.

I'd like to think it doesn't come down to that - I'm not just obsessed with playing to people or making a name for myself. If truth be told, the one I'm trying to record at the moment is a present for someone. No, I just want to be able to stop all this talk about producing music and actually get it done.

When I do, I'll tell you all about it, mark my words. I'll be so bloody relieved to have achieved something that I won't pause for a second.

For now though, let's call it "production time".


'tonm. xx

Book of the Moment: The instruction manual for a Behringer Xenyx 502.

Song of the Moment: "The Curious Tale of Jack Lemon" by The Abner