Saturday, December 15, 2018

T2DM Recording Interferrence

T2DM is the acronym for Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus or what most people know as type 2 diabetes.

In SEP 2018 I was notified that I became type2 and on OCT5 I began a very agressive effort to combat this damaging disease.

Meanwhile as you might suspect I was not feeling well, sleeping throughout day, feeling tired and not getting anything done. This was a triple-whammy for me because the previous year was Ulnar Neuropathy in my elbows, arms, hands and fingers which got in the way of me playing any music at all; let alone recording. I felt my dreams crashing down all around me and depression began to set in agressively.

It took real gumption and fortitude, but I prayed and also did the work and got back onto my feet and now have reasonable healthy blood sugar (bg) levels. My newfound diet is near perfect and I am already habitualized, so I have crossed the Lifestyle Change finish line. More work ahead. I am aiming for 80-90bg and waking 118-135; still too high. I am on Metformin every 12 hours. It is my plan to run this program through 2019 and at this same time next year (Dec 15, 2019) get OFF medication and maintain my T2 health with Lifestyle.

I am still dealing with post-concussive headaches from the brain injury sustained in 1993. However, I have greatly reduced the recovery time, with new records as low as 1 HOUR. This is a true milestone. The same headaches I had back then consuming 30 to over 100 hours, now I am diminishing them in 1 to 3 hours!

Now music. I began in 2007 by purchasing Yamaha total recall hardware. I did this specifically because of headaches. I was down and in bed more than I was on my feet. So by the time I got back onto my feet and back into studio may be 2 weeks; sometimes more. Of course, before total recall hardware, when I tried to get back to work, I didn't have a clue where I had left off. Thus, total recall hardware so everything just snaps back into place exactly where I left off and I would also write some notes to help cue me in when I returned from a headstorm.

So now 26 years later (and since 2007 when I began the idea of recording using 01X) I have battled a continued onslaught of the aforementioned issues; with exception of type2 diabetes which I only became diagnosed SEP 2018.

It took me a while to get into my groove as to WHERE I like to create, write and possibly record songs. Typically, I get a prototype idea and do that in Garage Band on iPad and give it a nice long file name which is descriptive including date and various synth settings, etc., But I can return to these creative snippets 6 months or a year or two later and the filenames make sense and I don't lose ideas amongst the onslaught of headaches.

Back to my groove. I like to work in the kitchen the most. Right now I am tracking on MOTIF.XF and will then shoot those tracks to my MacBookPro into StudioOne4, then begin vocals and any other instrument arrangements. I usually begin with 4 tracks; drums, bass and keys, sometimes I may include an arpeggio guitar as a placeholder then record that part playing a real guitar. Other times not; will play the guitar on keyboard workstation. From here, the DAW tracks are processed through Console1 SSL4000E, mixed, mastered and sent to CDR replication. My hardest challenge is finishing something I know isn't up to my own standards and expectations. Nevertheless, I must press forward regardless of the results because this is the only way to produce something. So I am in a very tight window now. I have about 8 days to finish this song in order to be in time to replicate some CDR for NAMM2019.

Meanwhile, I am still [truly] in a war with type2, headaches and striving to accomplish this mission. Seems like I am praying much more too.

Stay tuned for upcoming news about this topic.


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