July, July and much to do

 Yeah this month continues the renovations to the hallway - please god let it end soon. Also have Real World coming up in a week. Still had almost no studio time and unlikely to get much (if any) so I'll be winging it. 

Thursday was a walk in Swaledale, plus an offer on mum's house that we accepted. Gonna need to clear it out soon, which will be a pain and I wish we'd done it sooner. Seems some confusion on the location of the deeds which were, we'd assumed, in the safe that Jan & Lisa emptied but maybe not.

Encountered two lovely naked girls while on our walk, which is all too rare in my opinion. Had a nice pint in Muker and drove home to find my Friday had been given away for the convenience of our workshy workman. I practised my resigned grin but couldn't get it good enough to deploy. 

Friday and our "workman" can't make the promised 8 am but aims to be here at 9. We'll see. My day looking grim. Will try and make a Friday out of tomorrow but I bet something gets in the way. 

Disappointed to learn the Zoom L6Max is locked into 48kHz and the MPCs are locked to 44.1. Means I can't do the thing Matt is doing with his SSL and route specific outputs to it for hands-on control. Will have to investigate which mixers may be suitable - but I want one with recording too. The Tascam one looks good but it's large and much more expensive than the Zoom. Maybe I wait for someone to spot the obvious gap in the market...

Contacted KMR about the Easel Command they offered but noticed I'd missed my month quote deadline - waiting for David and distracted by house/Margaret so it'll probably cost me more. Oh well. Moved studio about in preparation for air cond, which I may have mentioned already.

Saturday's jam/record sesh produced nothing great (again) but it was still nice to be able to do something. I'll go to Real World and fit in as best I can, Maybe the "what nonsense" track could be developed somewhat or some of my old loops based on the Wavestate. The Grind is proving less than 100% reliable - keeps needing to be powered off and on as it goes silent for no apparent reason. Wondering if I should substitute it for something else, although not sure what. 

Painter starting tomorrow and hopefully not doing full days. Pat taking Marg to Blackpool for cancer chat. 

Well, the painter was sound (he's not coming tomorrow so studio time possible) but the cancer diagnosis was as feared. I got a short studio sesh but no ideas so just listened through a few projects and will continue tomorrow just looking for anything that might be worked on. 

Tuesday and after a morning doing some gardening, I'm sneaking in a pseudo-Friday afternoon. Let's see how that goes and if I come up with owt - decided not to worry either way. Finally remembered to listen to the new ANT album and have to admit it's good, really good. It's been through so many iterations now, each with a bit less of me present, and it's very close to becoming an I Monster album instead. Anyway, I like it and am glad to be in it at all. I wonder what we'll do with it?

Good afternoon messing with new MPC projects, just short simple demos. At least I'll go with a few projects to use as starting points. Did deal for Easel Command - KMR were lovely in cancelling my order.so I could move on it. Also got some garden done but noticed neighbours from one of the houses behind have cleared the brambles etc. behind our garages which is, AFAIK, our land so guess we'll need to talk to them. Painter guy returns tomorrow. 

 

Hot Wednesday waiting around. Such is life at the moment. Social worker come to see Margaret. Well was meant to, didn't show or get in touch to say why. Great. 

Hot Thursday waiting around. Reckon the next entry here will be post Real World.