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technical mayhem

from 7:15pm until after midnite last night, we tried in vain to get our 20+gigs of audio sessions to transfer from the recording system at instant karma studios, to our firewire drives. the idea was to transfer out all of the drum tracks so that we could do some interesting stuff at our home studio... then transfer everything back into the nuendo system later in the summer when we are ready to do final vocals and mix...

so far we are 0-1. it took a while to get the network up and running, and this was after spending a lot of time trying to get the mac formatted firewire drive to get noticed by the hotst/studio computer. after finally getting the network up and running, we realized the router is whacked... so we then set up a direct connection only to find out that we need a crossover cable.

houston came out to the studio (hoping) to get rough mixes of the backing tracks so that he can work out some final guitar parts. josh cooper also stopped by for a while... it was good to hang out with them again. i have a feeling we'll be seeing more of josh than we have been over the past year.

i thought that was what we had... but we didn't. so we will try again today.

later on this evening ashby and i and some friends will be heading over to sloss furnaces to see my morning jacket headline the city stages benefit concert. i've never been to sloss (as i mentioned)... so it should be fun.

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