Just a nice, relaxing Saturday...

Today was a pretty non-eventful day. I woke up at about 8:45 and decided to get up. Kristi was still asleep though, and since she has to get up for teaching on Monday again I didn't want to wake her before she was ready, so instead I worked on the laptop and watched SportsCenter in bed. At about 10 she was ready to start the day so I went ahead and got ready.

I spent much of the day today playing around with my new musical equipment. I have spent so much time listening to samples of snares and other equipment on YouTube and audio forums, that I really wanted to do a comparison of my 3 snares that I have now. Kind of giving back in a way. So, that's what I did. I recorded some narration so that it would be helpful and put it on some of the audio forums for people to listen to. You can here the recording here. I guess it kind of makes me a nerd spending all that time on that, but hey, I enjoy it. I would like to put it on YouTube too eventually. Even though it doesn't have any video, I figure I can just put it with a picture of the snare drums or something and people would probably find it useful.

I also recorded a quick song with my guitar amp to test it out. This wasn't really for anything other than my own enjoyment, but it was very enjoyable. I used the Ludwig snare on the drums, and then recorded two guitar parts followed by a bass part. The guitar in the right channel (assuming your stereo image is set up correctly) is my Nashville Telecaster, while the thicker one in the left channel is my Thinline Telecaster. I didn't use any effects or anything, just straight through the amp with different settings for the two. For micing, I just put my SM57 6 inches or so in front of the speaker. I didn't use any EQ or anything on the guitars, but there is some on the drums and bass. The test song is just some random quick chord progressions, and you can listen to it here. Also, for those interested, here is a picture of my amp in my amp closet...which is a closet where I keep my amps:

I also wanted to mention another one of my Christmas presents which I have been enjoying. I am notorious for discussing everything going on with my body with my family, so in honor of that my dad gave me a daily calendar entitled "What's Your Poo Telling You?:"Not only did I think this was hilarious, I think it's going to be very interesting as well. Perhaps I will feature some of my favorite days on this blog...if only you could be so lucky.

Other than recording today, I took Lucy for her walk and spent some time watching Lifetime with Kristi. Later on we left for dinner at her family's house because her sister was bringing home her friend Zach for us all to meet. I'm not sure if they are officially dating, but you get the idea. Dinner was fun, and the conversation was interesting. Zach enjoys hunting and gave everyone some venison he had in his car because he was bringing it back to Clemson with him. Kristi and I passed since we haven't been cooking much, but I am secretly hoping to taste some of someone else's.

And I guess that was pretty much it for the day. By the time we got home I was ready to get into bed because Sunday is an early day for me. Come to think of it, I am not sure what I am doing tomorrow morning, because I'm not running sound. Maybe I'll get to be shader or something...should be relaxing!