Having a place at home to record is both good and bad… Sure, I don’t have to pay a ton of money for studio time – which is great when I’m having a day of bad takes, but I still won’t get that Studio Sound that many musicians think of…. But, there is one upside/downside than not many people think about…
When I sit at my little at-home studio, there are times when I come up with song ideas back to back (my all-time record is something like twelve ideas in one day). I don’t mean full songs or instrumentals, I mean little pieces – riffs, chord progressions, verses – that I think are too cool to lose! So, I record them. And, honestly, they usually sit there in the recording bank for a long, long, long, long, long time before I give them a listen. And, to make it worse, I usually have to be pretty desperate in my writer’s block to listen to them! Just think, hours – maybe even days – of puzzle pieces of songs! Sounds great, right?
Well, what about the time I spent recording those things that I could have been working on a song that is already written? A song that is almost there, it just needs a bass groove and some mixing done to it?
Six hours later…
What happened? I thought I had a full day to work on music… I have an entire list of things to do: recordings, overdubs, second takes, fiftieth takes, mixing, production work, vacuuming, dishes, dogs & cats to pet…
This is where my time goes…