Celestium Blog : 002
Welcome to my second ever blog, in which I will summarize the making of my 9th studio album "Absolutely Unacceptable How Dare You". In autumn of 2023 my studio was a dusty mess of old technology and unloved synths. A good friend of mine was visiting and he said "can we get all this stuff working? I love shit like this" ... and so we began to evaluate what was working and what wasn't. Out went the 25 year old 486 computer that had Windows 98, Logic Audio Silver and SoundForge on it. I bought Ableton and installed in on my laptop. An even older Alesis mixing desk also failed to come alive, and so I bought the very brilliant Mackie Onyx 16, which can also record to an SD card. The once brilliant Spirit Absolute 2 monitors sounded muddy and unusable, and so I replaced them with the stunning Adams Audio T8V's. The display on one of my synthesizers (Roland 505) was no longer working, so I bought a generic replacement and replaced it with the help of a 30-minute Yo...