Two New Entires

Posted on Jun 04, 2007 06:24 pm
McMerkin
Hobbyist musician,pro recorder
Member Since: May 15, 2007

I won't win any points for recording, these are old cleaned cassettes (and one had about a hundred generations).

1.) 2 Da Loop - my only MIDI, I took a class in the early 90's, one exercise was to use software and a Korg 1 to build 8 tracks. So I did a few bars of drums, bass, piano, strings, koto, trumpet and triangle. When transferring to tape I decided to loop it indefinitely, and add each instrument one at a time, have them all play a few reps and then subtract them one at a time, creating a sort of song. Unfortunately I had too many reps in the middle part (5) and so it just tends to go on too long, and the cassette had such a low volume input it was mostly noise with a bit of music. Digitally cleaned and boosted it came out very well considering, but still...no great shakes an an engineer here.

2.) The Knack Medley - My friend, guitar teacher and bandmate (I played drums and taught him much needed rhythym) had three scraps floating around and asked me how he should finish them. I suggested he combine them and so he did. I loved it and recorded it myself on two TEAC 4 channels linked through a mixer, but as it was me alone it has a couple thousand generations.
He has since rewritten the songs entirely differently but I don't care. :)
Performance is shaky as well, and digitally speaking the ability to micro edit was such a blessing as I restored a verse from later in the song to the middle bit, and fixed an error I made 20 years ago when I recorded it. LOVE software!

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