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Way back when in April, I wrote about a little song I composed and recorded on my laptop and an iffy vocal mic. It was a frenzied effort at making it work after an hour of mixed success. There were obvious technical flaws in my recording: the micing was mono and sounded terrible, there’s was buzz throughout the piece, and I played it like a new and unfamiliar piece.

Recently, my father acquired some really cool home recording equipment. This meant a chance to try things again and get it right technically; also a chance to test out the new stuff with a song I’d had months to play and practice.

This afternoon we sat down and tried things out. Micing up the piano was very exciting, as we finally had two mics and so were able to do it in stereo. Sitting down and playing was a bit stressful, though this time I was much more used to playing with the mics running. The version I settled upon was the 3rd or 4th rendition — many others were stumble-filled as I was often jarringly aware of being recorded.

I hereby christen this new recording as Sunbreaks-NG, for “New Gear”.

Sure there are still a few oopses and mistakes — but hey, I’m so infinitely more happy with this recording that I’ll forget about those for a while.

I also took some time to try recording a newer song tentatively named “Sunset.” It was an absolute trainwreck, but I tried so hard to get to the end I’m pretty proud of myself for doing it. I must have improvised though at least 3 mistakes and had to stop and restart at one. However, there is one of the improvisations that I actually really like, and am considering adding into the “real” piece! Hopefully with some more recording time I’ll be able to get this song down in a form that I will be proud to upload here.