Average Jane Needs to Watch Those High Notes

It looks like we won’t be recording vocals or miked guitar today after all. Sometime last night, this happened in the vocal booth:

The inside window pane just fell right out of its frame and smashed.

My husband discovered the damage when he got home from his gig last night. I hadn’t been in the studio all evening, so I didn’t see it until this morning. (Jokey post title aside, I do not believe that the disaster had anything to do with me.)

Fortunately, there doesn’t seem to be any damage to the gear in there. My husband retrieved the condenser mic that was knocked over by the glass and he’s hoping it’s okay. A few scratches on the stands won’t hurt anything. I guess I won’t be singing in there barefoot again any time soon.

I’m just glad I wasn’t in the booth recording when it happened, although maybe if I had been, I could have steadied the pane as it tipped and kept it from falling out and shattering. Or maybe I’d have been cut to ribbons. Who knows?

I don’t know when we’ll be able to get the glass replaced (firmly replaced), but I’m soldiering on with lyric writing. Maybe I can work in a nice broken glass metaphor…