?Well, I'm going to be firing up my recording computer for the first time since Wednesday. “Why?”, you ask. Simple. I was recording vocals with my friend Daniel from Fists of Phoenix. We were comping takes fairly late at night. When I'm recording vocals, I always jack myself up with as much caffeine as possible. The idea is to always have more energy than the performer. I feel that I can get away with being a little lax with a guitar player doing a 4^th layer of his rhythm tracks (but not lead playing). Anyway, so I've drank about 4 cups of coffee throughout the night! I'm feeling pretty wound up, but my hands are a little shaky. No big deal. This is necessary for me to get a vocal take I can live with.

Now before we get too far, let me explain the miniature ripple effect that started a week beforehand. We were in the middle of recording drums for Fists of Phoenix and NOTHING was working. I was having big time trouble with everything. After I swapped out a few dead mics, rerouted a few preamps, and changed a few cables, I was getting very strange noise into every channel of my Delta 1010 soundcard. This was very strange. So, I got into the computer and swapped PCI slots. This is not too rare of an occurrence. It turned out that I needed to take my Matrox 450 video card out and put it right back in to fix the problem. (This seams to fix quite a few problems with my recording computer for whatever reason). Well, I had the computer laying on it's side when I fixed it. There was no way I was going to risk moving it after I had finally gotten it working. I didn't even put the cover back on. I hopped straight into drum engineering mode and I was off.

Now when we combine these stories together you can start to see the tragedy (or excitement) in all of this. I have shaky hands from drinking way too much coffee. It's late at night. I'm tired. My recording computer is just to the right of me on it's side with no cover on it.

Yes, I dumped hot coffee all over my recording computers hard drives and motherboard while it was on!!

So, did I fry everything?

Find out next week....

Actually, I'm just kidding. This isn't a two part episode of the original Batman. There are no “bat channels”.

Like Steven Segal or some guy who fights quickly with his instincts, I lunged at my computers power chord. I was like a mountain lion in the heat of battle. I yanked the little black plug out with furious might and the swiftest of haste. Of course, this killed my computer.

Immediately, I turned my computer upside down. It's sat there since Wednesday night. Here it is, midnight on Saturday. We'll find out if I'm making a rush order to Newegg tomorrow.