Spent Monday morning calling some Gulf-side family members to see how Tropical Storm Edouard was affecting them.
Tricia’s dad was supposed to fly in from Houston Tuesday for a week visit but she moved his flight to Monday evening to avoid storm delays.
I spent the rest of the day on a recording project in the Sunken Monastery.
Around 3 AM Tuesday morning I finally got to sleep after spending the night baling water out of the Sunken Monastery and securing wind damaged tomato cages. Picked up Poppa Bob at 2:30 AM from Midway – he’d spent the night flying around the Midwest avoiding thunderstorms.
Spent Tuesday morning drying out gear.
Here’s my version of the Name That Gear game. It’s called Name That Flood Damaged Gear. Thanks Cherry Blossom for the inspiration.
Send your guesses to info at disclexington dot com.
I’m gonna put up a scratch track from the session I was doing before the flood. In the meantime, check out this track I did with an audio file Carlos sent me from this past NAP game.
Hooray Green Ibanez Sonic Distortion!!!!
Man, that sucks about the flooding. i hope the stuff can be salvaged…
That really really sucks. I am sorry.
awwwww soooo sad. how much of this stuff is gone forever from the world of sonification?
do they even still make those korg electribe units? i’d heard those are really well regarded.
I don’t know if Korg still makes the electribes but I know there were a few editions made after the ones I have. Great analog synth simulators and you can get a nice kick sound out of the rhythm box.
It’s too early to tell how much is gone forever. I threw out a Farfiza but I never got it to work anyway – it was found goods. Threw out a Tascam Four Track that I only kept around as an extra mixer. The other stuff I’m hoping to salvage, at least some of it.
We had a nice dry day today and tomorrow looks good. Everything is out on the back porch drying. I opened all the shells to let the electronics dry as much as possible. Won’t turn anything on for at least another week.
Big bummer – thought the G3 with ProTools was still running because the screen came up, but it looks like the hard drive is fried. And I had just dropped an awesome track with the tubescreamer.
hey it’s been almost a week what’s the latest word on the equipment?
The tubescreamer made it through, mon frere, as did all of the pedals (except one cheap tuner).
The Harmony acoustic split at the seam but the ’59 Guild made it through in remarkably good shape.
The G3 hard drive looks to be a goner as does the Korg Electribe ER-1 (though really I think an electrician could save it – just the power related stuff rusted out).
I might have lost a couple of half inch tape reels, not sure yet.
Everything else made it through and is now cleaner than ever.