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Live Video from Belmont Songwriters Guild Writers Night Oct 29, 09

I'm learning how to use youtube, this is my first upload ... Sent Together To Heal (lyrics below)

Sent Together To Heal

A broken heart and a contrite spirit

Is all I have to give you Lord

I’m wounded and I need your healing

So I’m humbly asking Lord

Have mercy now Jesus

Oh Son of God Son of David

Have pity Lord and touch me now

Cause I know You were sent here to heal

 

I’m giving up, I’m not trying any harder

There’s nothing more that I can do

I leave it all in your hands Lord Jesus

I commit my spirit to you

So change me now Jesus

Oh Son of God, Son of David

Transform me Lord into your image

Cause I know – I’ve been sent here to be healed

And all of us groan

Crying for freedom

To be touched by the Healer

Redeemed by the Redeemer

Oh ………..

 

Heal us now Jesus

Oh Son of God Son of David

And send us out (as) wounded healers

By your grace – we are sent together to heal

  © Feb 13 2009 Rob Still, RobStillMusic (ASCAP)

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.

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.