We have spent the entire day setting up one of the largest recording setups that I’ve been involved in so far.
There are numerous people shuffling around taking care of last minute preparations for the next day’s adventures.
Some have said this is a journey of ten years in the making – for myself perhaps even longer, taking me back to a bunch of years ensconced in a choir environment, discovering the beauty and joy of this mysterious thing called worship.
It is also the end of lent and we have tried to observe that tradition in the best way we know how.
…to put it another way, there has been a lot of build up to this moment.
I wander into the ‘machine room’ of the studio (which is also handily located nearly an hour away from any real technical assistance) to discover the computer off.
I thought this strange and went to the power switch, as you do. Upon switching said computer on, there was a rather large bang, followed by a smell familiar to technicians – the smell of something being fried, along with the computer heading back into the land of dreams.
This of course is disastrous and the ramifications of the predicament are large.
There is basically no other options for us to be able to record successfully this weekend other than this beat up old Apple Mac G4
So I do what all technically challenged people do and turn it back on just in case…
The computer succeeded in firing up and until recently has sailed on as if none the wiser to any malfunctions it should have had.
I joked during the following few days that there must have been two little wires hanging loose with information jumping the proverbial gap to make it work.
Well, it turns out I may not have been that far off in my outlandish suggestions, with the drive having been recently serviced showing an incredible amount of burn marks. The serviceman said‘ I have no idea how this has been working’.
…So began our ‘miracle’ weekend!
