Linda has a natural disposition to the orderliness of music and technology. Her intuitiveness and instinct has found a balance. Music technology has expanded to a nice equality; people are still singing and playing acoustic instruments. However, there are some people using the technology to make better music. And Linda is one of these people with this given uniqueness who fits the definition of a singer/songwriter that has been applied since the begininings of rock & roll in the late '60s.
This definition describes a singer/songwriter as someone who puts the emphasis on their material, instead of their vocal delivery, fancy signatures, or musical backing. Both the compositions and the arrangements are written primarily as solo pieces, rather than with full rock & roll bands in mind. Singer/songwriters almost exclusively play guitar and piano; quite a few play both. (A lot of rock & roll singers, regardless of the era, don't play instruments). However, Linda is an established singer/songwriter who does play guitar and piano; and other accoustic instruments.
She not only intellectually creates and writes her own lyrics and music, she methodically makes the sounds operating the electronic equipment associated with a professional audio recording studio. The studio is soundproofed and is where her backup, pre-production and master tapes are produced. What she feels and hears in her head translates to solo singing and accompaniment.
Her favorite way of using her studio equipment is the use of audio recorders and a sound-effects processor. She can record onto many different tracks and then mix the sounds together, creating multi-layered music in which she can be the entire band complete with vocals, rhythm and lead instruments, bass and percussion. To create those sounds, for the most part, she uses the recording console. With this console she creates many different sound qualities to simulate many types of real and synthetic instruments. For example, she combines two or more audio tracks or channels to produce a composite audio recording. In this manner she is able to produce a soundtrack or recording. After the filming of her movie production, she was responsible for the management of mixing the audio components of recordings. Sometimes she stood at the recording console and operated it. The recording console is a device used to combine and adjust sounds from a variety of sources in order to create a final recorded audio product, such a s the soundtrack of a movie.
Before she plans a schedule of recording sessions, she has already used her home piano and guitar to develop the seed of an idea or concept. Her instinctive judgment tells her "get this on tape" (a portable tape cassette), and goes to the studio. She sometimes has more than one idea however; even a part of an idea will cause her to use the studio so she can create multiple tracks of the music. Using various instrument sounds that she might mix together before recording the sounds onto the pre-production tape. The sound quality from this setup isn't perfect, but its not meant to be of a final production quality (the tape that is delivered to the music recording company for mass production and distribution). However, when Linda senses the product is ready for final effort, she calls in her friends.
Linda surrounds herself with friends who are skilled musicians and technicians. These friends are both professional and extremely adaptable to many kinds of material, and their flair for rock & roll has done much to establish Los Angeles in particular as a recording center for rock music. There will be many hours spent with these musicians and technicians listening and critiquing the playback of backup tracks. These people are also creative and intuitive. They sit and listen to her trial tape tracks. They help improvise. There is a dovetailing of ideas. At this point, musicians do the actual instrument playing while technicians man and operate the maze of recording and mixing equipment. This is the second level of Linda's work. The results become the near-final pre-production tapes. The recordings are played back and everyone listens, thinks, and critiques what has happened. What they are looking for is the quality elements relative to sound track output performance such as, voice-over, quality of sound, tone , pitch, level, cadence, melody, music, high fidelity, frequency distortion compensation, et cetera.
Unlike some other artists, Linda encourages collective thinking and creativity to realize the best of individual achievement. But, she will still be the soloist. The musical orchestration will still be her intuitiveness. The final product will still be her signature.
