Did a few prelim bass tracks down in the basement tonight. Getting a feel for the bass line on the new song. I always start bass lines way too complicated, then go, ah crap, and go back to the basics. Usually takes 2 test tracks for me to realize it. Also tonight I added (copy/paste) 16 bars of the rhythm guitar tracks mid-song for a break in the vocals just before final verse. Then of course I had to shuffle the vocal track section along to sync up. It extended the song length from 3:08 to about 3:22. Now at least I know the song length to register it with SOCAN. Gotta come up with a title now. That’s always an interesting thing. Web search a title and it’s quite daunting to come up with a song title that’s not already used. I’ve found a couple possibilities from my lyrics that’ll work. Apparently, 5 words or less is good for titles. H’mmm. #music #recording #songwriting #audio

Finished comping vocals on the new song last night. Tracking bass tonight. I realized the song needs a vocal break before the final verse, so I’ll copy/paste 8 bars of my rhythm guitar tracks in there. Thank you audio editing software. #music #recording #songwriting

#214 藤井風の海外フェス進出を紐解く
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In the basement comping vocals tonight on the new song. Having never comped (or recorded) vocals on a radical tempo change song before, I found the comping process quite lengthy in the first slow part of the song, and once I got into the upbeat fast tempo part, things were really speedy. Likely due in part to the subtleties of a very slow vocal over a single instrument; mellow keyboards. And in the fast raunchier section of the song, there’s guitars, drums and bass. About halfway done now on the vocal comping. #music #recording #songwriting

Well this explains why these pop up so little used.. probably ewaste as a result
#musictech #recording #tech #synth #synthesizer

Good basement session. Did the slow bpm vocals last night, and finished up the faster ones tonight. Did 21 complete takes, so should be able to comp something decent from that. Screenshot of DAW shows the tempo bar up top with the bpm change point. Tempo change also shows in the big vertical vocal track break. Having fun! #music #recording #songwriting

Feels strange to be recording a song with no choruses. Although the song tells a story and there is resolution in the chord progressions and vocals, so that’s something. Fun song to do with a radical tempo change too. Learning. #music #recording #songwriting

Basement recording session tonight on election night. Appropriately, it’s a political song I’m working on, so I was stoked. Put down a bunch of vocal tracks. The first third of the song is slow - 66bpm. The rest of the song is fast, at 140bpm. So I tracked all the slow vocals first. Then moved to the faster section. So far, going well. I’ll see what I’ve got tomorrow. #music #recording #songwriting

Just checked my earshot distro DDS stats page tonight and the completely bizarre retro tune I released last week (March Like Hell) got some FM radio airplay in Ontario today. #music #radio #recording #songwriting #retro

Finally finished the rhythm guitar parts tonight for my new song. Another angst driven political tune, although a bit deeper and reflective than the last one. This is a totally raw short guitar clip from the faster second part of the song. Danelectro 59M for the chord rhythm (L) and Cabronita Telecaster with picking (R). Once finished, looks like this tune will be about 3:10. Capo’d on the 4th and basic A, E, and D chord fingering progressions. Vocals next, then bass. #music #gearsquad #recording #guitar #songwriting

I occasionally post what I call a #5SecondMovieReview - essentially a quick yes/no recommendation with no spoilers. I try to highlight stuff that you may not have run into or seen ads for, at least some of the time.

This doesn't fit that mould, because I actually want to describe the content of this one.

"The Wrecking Crew" (2008) is a documentary about a loose-knit group of session musicians in LA that came to prominence in the 1960s. They recorded a huge slice of the hit early rock 'n' roll records that were nominally by the acts shown on the album covers. Literally everyone who has ever listened to music from this era has heard them play, almost certainly without knowing it.

The music side of this documentary is great, even if (like me) you're not a fan of this era of rock music. I can't stand the Beach Boys and all kinds of pre-British-invasion USA pop music.

But where this really shines is in showing the human side of the events and the business. It's touching and funny and warm.

Highly recommended.

Dies ist eine Vorschau der nächsten vier Folgen:

109: Inflation

110: Tscherenkow-Strahlung: Überlichtschnelle Teilchen?

111: Einsteins Eselei

112: Zu einem Zweck erschaffen#podcasthosting #freepodcasthosting #makeapodcast #makingapodcast #createapodcast #creatingapodcast #podcastsponsorships #sponsorapodcast #free #audio #recording #audioclip #anchor #podcasts #voice #microphone #podcast #podcastcreation #record #conversation #discussion #talk #talking #radio #publicradio #npr #startup #talkradio
PREVIEW 109-112: Unendliche Weiten by Sci-Faith

【話題作試し聴き】『花まんま』（著・朱川 湊人／朗読・吉野貴大／河井春香）
https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hon-web/episodes/ep-e311lni

【著者が語る】芦沢央の描く地獄と驚愕『嘘と隣人』
https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hon-web/episodes/ep-e31v032

Fretboard radius. There’s a topic. Put down some rhythm tracks on the new song last night and used the Tele with 9.5” radius. I found chords a bit unpredictable. Basically open chords with really aggressive fast playing. Then put down some picking triplets over the chords with the Tele and it was a breeze. Tonight I tried the Danelectro 59M with 14” radius for the speedy chords, and no problem. Interesting phenomenon. Curvature. So looks like Dano for the chords and Tele for the triplets in this song. #guitar #recording #music #gearsquad

I've often wondered if i would enjoy the result from singing into a ribbon microphone. Unfortunately I know so little about the ones currently available (or vintage models that actually have an XLR out).

What are your thoughts? Better off using a plug-in to emulate? What models have you tried?

With 26 Spoken Word albums you need a sampler. A couple years ago I released "Joined The Sounds Of Waves" as an opinionated introduction to my recordings. But I've done a lot of writing since then. It's time for an update! My new Rural Gloom Sampler is now free to stream/download via bandcamp. https://damonthomas.bandcamp.com/album/joined-the-sounds-of-waves-a-rural-gloom-sampler #writing #poetry #SpokenWord #recording #florida #bandcamp

Good basement session tonight. The slow keyboard intro verse section is done and I’m onto the upbeat part of the new song. Put down some rough test guitar tracks to see how it’s gonna work. Got it sorted. Two guitar tracks; chord riffs one side and triplets on the other. May have a third guitar up the middle in the back. Put down a full run through rough vocal tonight too to check timing. Once the guitars are tracked, I’ll do the vocals. Then bass. Song should clock in somewhere around 3:30, which is cool. #music #recording #songwriting

Another basement session tonight. Got the intro keyboards figured out in this new song I’m working on. Part of last night’s issue was first, I didn’t have an entire vocal tracked yet to sync the keyboards; I was using the click/drum track as my guide. The second issue was due to my lack of keyboard proficiency to nail it with a bunch of unknown to me weird chords. So I put a vocal down with the beat track (in this case both drums and click), then I was able to sync the keys more accurately to the vocal. I’ll remove the drums later, as the first part of this song will be just keys and vocal. Then all hell will break loose mid-song when the tempo changes from 66bpm to 140bpm. It also probably helped that I played the chords a fair bit to actually learn the fingering. I dug up my old SM58 and used that for the test vocal track. Wow, I usually track vocals with a large diaphragm condenser mic. What I discovered was that the SM58 has a nice warm frequency response, way different than a condenser. May just use it for this song. Never done that before. You sure have to get up close to the mic with a dynamic. Major learning tonight. #music #recording #songwriting