Into the second week of recording our new song 'Daylight Robbery'. We've just escaped a loop of despair trying to fix a broken intro. We had decided we wanted some ambience of people in a bar mixed into the intro, so last week we went to a local pub with this laptop, a usb audio interface, an SM58, and set up a conspicuous recording booth in the corner. We looked like a squad of budget private investigators, or even a group of amateur ghost-hunters, holding a microphone at slightly different angles, with the pale glow of the laptop providing eerie uplighting to Marc, our singer's, face. We had some problems with hum but managed to make a decent recording.
After having spent about 3 full 12-hour days on working this ambience into the intro, a moment of utter horror and humour dawned on us with the realisation that it sounded crap. Why had we yet again poured hours into such a fruitless idea? I guess it's all part of the creative process; sometimes you won't know if an idea will work until you try.
