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Alchemy

Granted I was already mostly done when I took that last photo and it mostly just required tweaking and mixing, but I present to you the finished product! Very happy with how this came out, and I'm even happier with the fact that Logic Pro's quantise functionality also works on audio files to get them into time as well. 😅

I called this "Alchemy" mostly because the genesis of it was me playing around on my MIDI keyboard with the "Alchemy" plugin when I discovered that female choir preset. I also played around more with getting the reverb right, added compression for the first time (I'd never really played around with that before), and made very good use of the new "Mastering Assistant" feature that came with latest Logic Pro update, it really made a hell of a difference in how good the final mix sounded.

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Posted on 22 November 2023, 22:29

A wide-angle photo of my standing desk in its standing position, my laptop and main displays both have various parts of Logic Pro showing, there's a MIDI keyboard on the desk in front of my regular keyboard, and sitting alongside the wall to the left is a bright orange guitar amplifier and an Ibanez JIVA guitar sitting on a guitar stand.

Aww yisssss. 😎

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Posted on 22 November 2023, 21:51

A photo of two round golden brown loaves of bread covered in flour, sitting on a cooling rack.

First day of my week off has started with bread. 😎

It's been a while since I've made any, five months according to my log. The yeast "expired" in May 2022 but I've just slowly been adding a bit more each time to counteract that and it seems to be going fine.

our house darkroom food portrait mode bread

Posted on 20 November 2023, 11:55

A photo taken above our dining table of the Pictionary board and @yayKM in the middle of drawing something. The board itself is long and thin with an almost snake-like pattern on it, divided into squares.

The sixteen year-old is over for a weekend visit and we played a couple of excellent (and slightly modified to account for the fact that there were only three of us) games of Pictionary tonight. 👍🏻

our house lily darkroom board games

Posted on 18 November 2023, 22:23

A photo of a white conference room table with a four-player game of Magic in-progress on it, with lots of cards spread out everywhere.

Aww yeah, in the office today to play Magic after work! We only got one game in, mostly because it was very much more of a relaxed affair than usual. My decks consisted of three of the four of them, all of them did well and I ended up winning. 😁

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Posted on 16 November 2023, 19:30

A photo of a big bowl of ramen, with a bunch of garlic on top.

A photo of four people looking at the camera and smiling. They're sitting around a table with empty ramen bowls in it.

Caught up with @[email protected], @[email protected], and @wobin for delicious delicious ramen tonight. 👌🏻

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Posted on 15 November 2023, 19:51

A photo taken from the perspective of me looking down at my desk and chair with my arm outstretched where it's holding the mouse, with a small scruffy blonde dog lying on my lap with his chin resting in the crook of my elbow.

There's a nasty-looking storm coming and it's started rumbling, and Beanie has decided he needs to be on my lap.

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Posted on 9 November 2023, 14:09

Old Dead Modem Blues '23

And the finished product! Very impressed with how this turned out, and particularly stoked with my drumming efforts. 😁

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Posted on 8 November 2023, 20:43

A photo of my Roland V-Drums electronic drum kit with my laptop open on a stand behind and to the left of the kit and my iPad being used as a second display for the laptop on the stand in the middle of the drum kit between the cymbals so I can see where in the song I am without needing to look awkwardly over to the left.

Recording part two: let there be drums!

I listened to the in-progress mixdown from @[email protected] and used Logic's "Split" function to be able to name the sections of track (Intro, Verse 1, Chorus 1, etc.) and MAN that made it so much easier to follow along and know when to hit the fills!

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Posted on 5 November 2023, 19:00

A photo of my standing desk in its upright position, with an Orange guitar amp and a pedal board with a number of guitar pedals on it sitting at the left and a guitar sitting in a guitar stand on the right. My computer has Logic Pro up on the main display.

Current status.

(Recording some tracks for @[email protected] to splice together into something excellent.)

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Posted on 4 November 2023, 21:02