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Day 2 of 21 days

Three reflections from today's reading in Mark 2

v.5 Seeing their faith, Jesus said to the paralyzed man, “My child, your sins are forgiven.”
Lord , give me the kind of faith that takes bold action.

v.14 “Follow me and be my disciple,” Jesus said to him. So Levi got up and followed him.
I was reminded when I made the decision to pursue ministry instead of business I felt the Lord say "Follow me and I  will make you a fisher of men"

v.22 "New wine calls for new wineskins.”
This is so true for today. Every generation and culture of believers must evolve progressively to share the gospel. We have to make way for the new.

Good Progress

OK, by the end of yesterday all the song files had been exported off Radar, most of the old OS9 Pro tools sessions had been copied and saved to the new PT 7.4 format. Hooked up the Mac 2100 power amp and Auratone T6 monitors while the Mackies are down. Dug up the mics and line checked the pre's on the Digi 003.

That was about 4 days of work. Consolidating the old PT sessions with the new is a real challenge to get the files synced.

Next goal is to record percussion and string OD's with Chris Lowery at the end of the week.

21 Days of Prayer

At Belmont Church we've begun a 21 day season of prayer which will culminate on Pentecost Sunday. We'll have an evening prayer & worship service on May 31 as part of the Global Day of Prayer.

In this weeks Belmont Bible reading plan is Mark 1. "Prepare the way of the Lord; make His paths straight". v. 4 "John came baptizing in the wilderness and preaching a baptism of repentance for the remission of sins" Later in verse 15 Jesus declares "The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand. Repent, and believe in the gospel."

So my prayer today is - Lord, purify my heart.

Good news

Got the Radar drive to work, now I can keep transferring the basic track audio files. Then I'm putting them into Pro Tools (7.4) sessions. There's about 110 song files on Radar and I'm about 85% finished with this step.

Songs for this  project:
1) Say Goodbye To Yesterday
2) A New Day
3) What Words Can't Say
4) Near To The Heart of God
5) Honor and Majesty
6) Heavens Song Suite
7) Yeshua
8) Jesus
9) Never Alone
10) Breakthrough

All the basic tracks are in the can, we need to finish vocals, overdubs and mix.

Joy Joy Joy

Today's happy saga continues ...

So I'm happily transfering files all week from Radar to my Mac's external hard drive when - it all freezes. The Radar freezes, the Pro Tools freezes. Now, 3 hours and multiple re-boots, and a call to the nice folks at Radar - nothing wants to work anymore. Radar can't mount the recording drive, "it's toast". Pro tools locks up every time I open it.

Joy, pure joy. I will so celebrate when this project is a finished masterpiece.

Better late than never

Ok, this is a very random post. The blog has been dormant for what ... 3 years ? My real life has been so busy I've had no time to  engage in it on-line. But as I've been working on getting the studio put back together, I thought , what the heck, blog about it. So we're just hitting the reset button and rockin on. Eventually I'll update the blog links and web site. But right now I'm gonna riff  about progress on the new CD and whatever comes to mind.

Here's today's studio pic:

Aye yi yi, what a complicated mess. This is truly putting humpty dumpty back together again. To make a long sad story short, I tracked a bunch of songs on Radar, DA-88 and old ProTools (OS9)  back in the day and have yet to finish the production on them. My goal is to finish 10 songs for the "new" album - "What Words Can't Say" by the end of October, just in time for Christmas.

The problem is when we moved it's almost impossible to get all this stuff functional again. MTC. MMC. digital patch bays, punch blocks, patch bays - all a mess. The challenges are many fold, highly technical, and on-going. The amp on one of my Mackie HR24 died, so I've got to get that repaired. Now the console randomly does & doesn't stay powered. It's a Mackie D8b, nobody works on them anymore and seems like it's next life will be as a boat anchor.

The good news is I'm making progress transfering everything to my new Pro Tools Rig. Here's a screen shot from one of the songs, "Breakthrough":

Sounds great, doesn't it? I'll keep this blog updated on the rest of the production. Till next time, via con Dios.