I figure if I blog about it it will make it happen, or at the very least, I'll look back at this post in the years to come and be embarrassed that I didn't make it happen.

I'm going to record some music again.

Well... I have recorded something. Half of a song. I fully intend, when I feel it is close to finished, to put it up on Bandcamp.

The path to this was partially accidental. It involved the purchasing of a laptop, then being offered a discount on music hardware, resulting in me buying a Pod Studio UX1, and then Reaper recording software.

With everything I needed, and the offer of a friend to help write drums, I had no more excuses, so I spent a few hours, a month or so ago, recording a demo of the one little ear-worm I created years ago and desperately need to record to get it out of my head.

The ear-worm is still there. It needs work. Hopefully, soon, I will have a finished version.

I'm actually thinking something like Soundcloud might be better than Bandcamp, if only because I expect to be giving these tracks away for nothing... and that they'll evolve over time. I feel Bandcamp is for the finished product.

This may never be finished.

I would also like to note that today in 2012, is light years ahead of 2003 as far as cheap, reliable recording hardware and software is concerned. Reaper is as solid and fully featured as any recording software I used back then, but infinitely cheaper. The UX1 is a USB interface for my guitar providing not only easy latency-less recording, but also hundreds of software based effects, for less than the price of a single guitar effects pedal. Such a thing in 2003 was a distant dream. Most of my 2003 demos were recorded under the sufferance of a 10ms delay. This doesn't sound like much, but it was horrific. As was dealing with a $400 PCI soundcard that was periodically removed/leant to others, and the resulting IRQ sharing problems. Distant last-millennium problems.