Welcome to the neighborhood!

You know how you used to have your 'Tuesday challenge'?

Jonathan Coulton did that. He called it the 'thing-a-week'. He's kinda famous now, y'know. :P

So when is the next tuesday challenge dammit?

:P

Also *points to signature*

-X

Genisis X wrote:

You know how you used to have your 'Tuesday challenge'?

Jonathan Coulton did that. He called it the 'thing-a-week'. He's kinda famous now, y'know. :P

So when is the next tuesday challenge dammit?

:P

Also *points to signature*

-X

As soon as I get a functional recording setup again :)
Which could in the next week or so if I can beat my laptop into submission, or a little later if I have to throw money at it...heh

Hiragana wrote:

I am contemplating, in the future - a drum machine.

I am contemplating, far far in the future an electric drum kit. That would be ace!

And an electric piano. And a violin. And a 5000W swr head with not one but two gigantic Hartke stacks. That would be the shiz nizzle.

*dreams*

-X

I want a set of Roland V-Drums or similar - that way I can practice without disturbing the neighbours (or more importantly, embarrassing myself infront of the whole street), but also, I'll be able to record my playing as MIDI - the money I'd save on microphones would more than make up for the price ;)

Saving all the songs on the directory, I'm thinking of taking them all down and slowly rerecording now that I have something resembling a semi-decent audio setup. My newer "Squiggle" files are of far superior sound quality. (the artisan-made classical guitar helps too ;) )

So, after an evening of fighting with my laptop - I finally managed to get to the point where I could record stuff again.
So here's the result.
It's just a short improvisation, with clarinet and guitar solos.  Very rough, and not particularly interesting or unique, but it served its purpose.

Also, the trouble with saxophonists attempting to play the clarinet - even ones that haven't played in years - is that it ends up sounding more like a soprano sax than a clarinet...heh

Last edited by mabinogi (2008-03-04 07:20:18)

I like it. The clarinet sounds really good, nice and crisp.

I think I'm going to come to canberra and steal your recording studio.

...

Uh, I mean, no. No I'm not... >->

:P

-X

And sooo prog-rock, hehe.

heh, yeah it's shamelessly Pink Floyd influenced.
The original piano sounded like the beginning of Us and Them, and I had to forcibly stop myself from using the chord sequence from Echoes.
It's well and truly in my comfort zone - and the sort of thing I used to do when at high school.

Next time I'll have time to be more creative...

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*grumbles about reverb*

Also there's a lot of night sounds the laptop's mic is picking up.

I deleted my "buskers" folder, I really couldn't bear to listen to how bad the old files are. And I'm really (finally!) reworking some of those songs but I worry I am not being fair to songs like "And You're There", because it's the kind of song a young girl (which I was) would write and I can't sing it these days without a cynical slant. I even changed the I to "she" and the "you" to "He", but it was like writing a completely different song, heh. Also, now the chords annoy me. Heh. Maybe it is time to install that drum machine program. Maybe drums'll help.

Or you could get an acoustic pickup instead of a microphone which won't pick up as much background noise but the tone of the recording will be slightly different.

-X

For an acoustic guitar you'll want a condenser mic.

I use a Behringer B2, which was relatively cheap, and seems to do a pretty good job.
I've heard good things about Behringer's C- series condensers too.
The B-2 is about $300 Australian (it was 350 when I bought it), and the C-1 is around $89.
Of course with condensers you need to make sure you've got a preamp or mixer that will provide phantom power - so that pushes the cost up, but then you'll probably want a mixer at some point anyway.

Last edited by mabinogi (2008-03-05 19:30:10)