DJP on x factor, it's America has been waiting forxp
― we're beautiful like robots in dis guys (m bison), Tuesday, 5 March 2013 19:29 (eleven years ago) link
l0ud high school s3x
― queeple qua queeple (Jordan), Tuesday, 5 March 2013 19:32 (eleven years ago) link
the biggest audition opportunity of my lap
lol dan
― queeple qua queeple (Jordan), Tuesday, 5 March 2013 19:33 (eleven years ago) link
oh no, I've said too much
― "Bellini." (DJP), Tuesday, 5 March 2013 19:34 (eleven years ago) link
I am in month 15 of releasing a home-made recording every month. A lot of times I put it off until the month is almost over and then go into crunch mode. But at this point, even though I approach each song as its own thing and wasn't trying to make an album or anything, I can listen to all the tracks straight through and it sounds really cohesive to me, which I think is really cool. I also feel like I get a little better/more efficient at production each time.
I haven't performed onstage in like a year though, which was a conscious decision and I don't miss all of the bullshit that made me sick of doing it, but I do miss being onstage. But I maybe just joined a band that I actually think is really good and is kind of successful locally, which is cool because I don't feel that way about hardly any local bands and also I've never really been in someone else's band. They have kind of a Modern Lovers/Beat Happening/Magnetic Fields/Morrissey vibe. It'll also be neat because I'll be playing synth and I'm not actually a keyboard player at all, I'm a guitarist and songwriter, but that's also why I'll be a good fit for this.
― St3ve Go1db3rg, Tuesday, 5 March 2013 21:33 (eleven years ago) link
kicking off recording of a new album. finally a chance to properly use all this new synth gear
― the history of mom's apple pie (electricsound), Wednesday, 6 March 2013 00:49 (eleven years ago) link
Hey all - could I get a little bit of constructive feedback on this please? We've had an initial "how's this?" from the studio engineer on one of our tracks. Overall, I think it's okay but it's very difficult to distance myself and listen to it with uninvolved ears.
I'd really like to hear your thoughts, particularly on the mixing/production (we can't really go back into the studio to do any overdubs or retakes so we're working with the raw material we have, for better or worse). Are there any glaring errors on this track or things I should mention before I get back to him? One thing I noticed is that he's been a bit heavy handed witht he gating and compression, particularly some of the vocal parts where the sibilants and plosives are almost non-existent.
I'm only gonna keep this track online for a short while, but if someone could give it a listen and let me know their thoughts, i'd be very much obliged: https://soundcloud.com/doglatin/honolulu-demo-050313
― dog latin, Wednesday, 6 March 2013 11:36 (eleven years ago) link
god this sounds like a super harsh thing but i dont mean it that way - do you want/intend the beginning to sound like a 80's nylons style acapella group thing? like exactly like one? because thats what i hear. also some pitchy weirdness in the "so afraid" "yesterday" multivoice responses. again, if these are intentional things, no prob.
― O_o-O_O-o_O (jjjusten), Wednesday, 6 March 2013 16:49 (eleven years ago) link
Lol, I haven't hear the nylons but it is supposed to be a bit of a tongue in cheek doowop thing and if it comes across that way I guess that's intentional. The song is very much a comment on retro culture and so it's littered with 60s and 80s references. Cheers for checking it out jjjusten, I'll look into the autotune thing. Think the sound guy's gone a bit overboard with vocal manipulation, but then we're not at all trained singers so there's undoubtably gonna be a push/pull thing going on.
― dog latin, Wednesday, 6 March 2013 17:29 (eleven years ago) link
song sounds good to me, esp. for a demo. i like it.
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 6 March 2013 17:30 (eleven years ago) link
Xpost If you're talkin about Housemartins/Flying Pickets, I def see what you mean and kind of don't mind. I (was made to) grow up with that shit, haha.
― dog latin, Wednesday, 6 March 2013 17:31 (eleven years ago) link
Cheers n/a
― dog latin, Wednesday, 6 March 2013 17:32 (eleven years ago) link
I am making a lil album of songs that are about a min long each, I have about 10 so far where the music is done but I have finished singing over one of them, I've come up w/ vocal melodies for about 3
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, 6 March 2013 17:47 (eleven years ago) link
I am seriously using the dumbest most unwieldy out of date programs to put the songs together because for whatever reason I like how it all sounds more than if I do it in ableton?
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, 6 March 2013 17:54 (eleven years ago) link
what are you using?
― queeple qua queeple (Jordan), Wednesday, 6 March 2013 18:13 (eleven years ago) link
I (lol) am using cues in virtual dj to play my laptop like an mpc or w/e (I could slice to a drumkit in ableton and do the same thing I guess, but idk, when I use ableton I spend 3 extra hours on shit) and then editing shit further and recording vocals in audacity, its a forehead in my hands deal, but still
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, 6 March 2013 18:22 (eleven years ago) link
i love stuff like that.
― queeple qua queeple (Jordan), Wednesday, 6 March 2013 18:28 (eleven years ago) link
well I hope it lives up to its rudimentary description, I'm starting to embrace it, at least this way I don't end up fucking around with corpus for a week with no results
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, 6 March 2013 18:35 (eleven years ago) link
Good sounding demo, dog latin. I'd get some friends in a room for the backing vocals. And as for your solo performance it's a little too measured, just make sure you're saying "gate" instead of "gay" and make it fast and effortless
― a) tepid b) vapid c) simpering d) milquetoast (flamboyant goon tie included), Wednesday, 6 March 2013 19:18 (eleven years ago) link
I was just in Prague recording with a budget-priced orchestra, stuff for five different clients and some stuff for my own use. There were 30 "pieces" ranging from 45-second long bits of orchestral incidental music to 20-minute marathon workouts. A total of 2.5 hours of music and 24 hours to record the whole thing. I def. got paranoid and overworked but I didn't break. I drove that bus.
It went very well but I instinctively prioritized the work of my clients, taking the time to really get something beautiful out of that shaky orchestra. I left not enough time for my own material. Now I'm futzing.
― a) tepid b) vapid c) simpering d) milquetoast (flamboyant goon tie included), Wednesday, 6 March 2013 19:22 (eleven years ago) link
cheers FGTI - I did the lead vox, the others did backing. I think the engineer's but too strong a release on my vox because yeah, "gaze" sounds like "gay" etc...
― dog latin, Wednesday, 6 March 2013 23:42 (eleven years ago) link
i'm listening to spotify
― markers, Wednesday, 6 March 2013 23:42 (eleven years ago) link
gotta get these tapes out soon (for this band i recorded) but have no idea what im doing! i need to buy a tape duplicator! i need to buy...tapes! i need to figure out how to get this shit onto a master tape! what am i doing with my life! HELP!
― purp (roxymuzak), Thursday, 7 March 2013 00:58 (eleven years ago) link
i told my mom i was in a new band called high school and she recommended that we call it COOL GIRLS instead. additionally, "i like just a girl's name, like maureen, or mabel, for a girl band"
― purp (roxymuzak), Thursday, 7 March 2013 01:01 (eleven years ago) link
lmao at cool girls altho tbh i would like it as a name for a coed or all dude band
I was briefly in a(n all-male) duo called "Sarah"!
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Thursday, 7 March 2013 01:52 (eleven years ago) link
haw
possibly touring in the summer with the black/doom band, havent been out in a long time bc our guitarist lives a couple hours away, so we havent been as "active" in general. mostly an east coast thing, possibly all the way to canada, where i have never been
― purp (roxymuzak), Thursday, 7 March 2013 22:48 (eleven years ago) link
come to Atlanta!
I have been recording bits and pieces for an eventual cassette release. I've also been asked to do a split release with a local drone act. AND my band is recording stuff. So hopefully soon I'll have lots of physical stuff to give out at shows!
I've heard good things about getting cassettes made through National Audio?
― C: (crüt), Thursday, 7 March 2013 23:00 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah National Audio is great, I've done a couple things through them.
― cwkiii, Friday, 8 March 2013 03:48 (eleven years ago) link
guitarist in one band left us cuz he moved out of london :( which is a shame. was looking forward to recording those songs. we'd played 5 shows or so. it was going well. oh well. i have a decent recording of the last practice, guess i'll stick that on soundcloud if i can be bothered to mix it.
started a new thing with the same guys, got a new guitarist, and he rules! he's a bit older than us, used to run a drone and kosmiche club. had a practice on sunday and ended up with 16 little things to work on, 3 or 4 fully formed songs just happened, so looking forward to this band. krauty space rock with big OTT vocals and thinking i'm gonna bring an edp wasp and delay pedal into the equation. will prob play a show in the next month or two. my drumming is really rusty tho, need to get back on the practice pad before they kick me out!
tracks sitting in the computer way into the 100s by now, mostly experiments with the ridiculous synth collection that lives in the studio where i live. none of the synths are mine, but i'm free to use what i want and i've set up a synthesizer room and got everything patched up. pretty sweet. currently obsessed with the doepfer modular and making new presets for the matrix 1000- that's a seriously powerful bit of kit but the presets that come with it are crap.
playing classical guitar again, got my nails all purty, think i'm going to try and start performing too. maybe get some restaurants gigs.
have also been digging my uni pieces, trying to put together some sort of composer portfolio. surprised myself by how good some of those pieces are. the goldberg ensemble performed some of my string pices, which was very cool, had to ressurect an old hard drive, thought i'd lost those recordings for good!
― Crackle Box, Friday, 8 March 2013 14:13 (eleven years ago) link
Why is having good nails important for playing guitar? I don't play with my nails. I guess if I had long nails it would be difficult but...
― dog latin, Friday, 8 March 2013 15:55 (eleven years ago) link
if you play fingerstyle you get more control over your sound, you can also play louder and as everybody knows louder = better
― Crackle Box, Friday, 8 March 2013 16:56 (eleven years ago) link
It's a really fundamental part of classical guitar technique. Your nails are the tools you use to create and shape your sound.
Do restaurants in the UK hire classical guitarists??
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Friday, 8 March 2013 17:14 (eleven years ago) link
What are you putting a composition portfolio together for, CB? Graduate schools? Grants/gigs?
― EveningStar (Sund4r), Friday, 8 March 2013 17:16 (eleven years ago) link
*Show us your scoressss*
― * (flamboyant goon tie included), Friday, 8 March 2013 17:28 (eleven years ago) link
making new presets for the matrix 1000- that's a seriously powerful bit of kit but the presets that come with it are crap.
surprised to read this, mine is coming back from service today but from the little i got to play with it before it went in i thought some (though yes far from all, or even most) of the presets were absolutely lovely. insta-BoC!
― elephant's piss with milk and sugar (electricsound), Monday, 11 March 2013 00:48 (eleven years ago) link
i believe they ran a competition so the 1000 presets are all from users of the matrix 6 (which has identical innards) those patches are just a bit uninspired imo! but yeah totally get the BoC thing- if that's what you're after, they're perfect!
x-post, i'll up some stuff on my soundcloud and mayyybe post some stuff up here when i've got it all sorted, but i'm a bit shy about my own music, esp the stuff i've spent a lot of time on.
― Crackle Box, Monday, 11 March 2013 14:01 (eleven years ago) link
and just doing a portfolio for.. err.. i don't know really. i've seen a few bits of paid work recently, such as composing some piano pieces for an audio walk in london. i'd have probably had a chance of getting that if i had some music organised and online. unfortunately the only stuff i've written that's even half listenable i did at uni ages ago, since then i've just been obsessed with synths, microtonality, learning to play drum kit and never finishing things.
yeah, you can make pretty good money (read: actually make *some* money) doing functions/events/restaurants/weddings etc. i'm thinking some satie, beatles arr. for classical guitar, cheesy spanish stuff, play through a little amp. will be good practice anyway.
― Crackle Box, Monday, 11 March 2013 14:24 (eleven years ago) link
I played two harsh noise sets this week and someone who saw both of them posted that this city is "a patriarchal cesspool" on FB immediately after leaving the show tonight & now I'm irrationally worried that she's talking about me
― C: (crüt), Thursday, 14 March 2013 06:29 (eleven years ago) link
don't worry about it
― time turns all men into pies (flamboyant goon tie included), Thursday, 14 March 2013 13:44 (eleven years ago) link
- offered up my sound work exp to a newly forming fairly hip arts council for my neighborhood in an advisory capacity. wondering how quickly that will turn into "hey i know it's 4 pm on sunday but the slam poetry competition needs you to come down and turn on their wireless mic."- related to my endless pedal thread, but the fact that i am getting deluged with new pedal line offers is some strange mixture of feeling like the prettiest girl at the prom and huge stress wrt money allocation and decision making.
― O_o-O_O-o_O (jjjusten), Thursday, 14 March 2013 15:57 (eleven years ago) link
thanks to Rocksmith I can fake my way through the following songs on the guitar:
"Boys Don't Cry" - The Cure"Islands" - The xx"Go With The Flow" - QOTSA"Black" - Pearl Jam"Where Is My Mind?" - Pixies"Angela" - Jarvis Cocker
I can't play triplets fast enough to really play the RHCP version of "Higher Ground" tho
also I have to learn some spirituals before a week from Tuesday, well really by Sunday because I think I'm supposed to rehearse them that afternoon oops
also singing Stainer's "Crucifixion" a week from Sunday; I don't have the big baritone solo but I do get one of the mini interjections in the bass section (it's not as big a deal as that may sound as the entire bass section is 4 ppl; one is doing the big solo and the three interjections are split up across the rest of us) this does mean though that this season I will have had a little solo interjection thing in every concert with our church choir, which yay
― Darth Icky (DJP), Thursday, 14 March 2013 16:05 (eleven years ago) link
― C: (crüt), Thursday, March 14, 2013 2:29 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i apologize crut but this is making me lol. you need to write a piece called partiarchal cesspool
― purp (roxymuzak), Thursday, 14 March 2013 16:11 (eleven years ago) link
that was a typo but tbh it works
― purp (roxymuzak), Thursday, 14 March 2013 16:12 (eleven years ago) link
cesspool party!
― time turns all men into pies (flamboyant goon tie included), Thursday, 14 March 2013 16:29 (eleven years ago) link
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, 6 March 2013 17:47 (1 week ago) Permalink
someone help me, every song I make is extremely disorienting for other people
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Tuesday, 19 March 2013 17:12 (eleven years ago) link
I had my first jam with some really nice neighbors I met -- they are both classical musicians (a Juliard-trained composer and a violinist) who have other careers now but the guy is learning banjo. I played through some basic folk tunes with them (with my sub-sub-sub-Doc Watson-style flatpicking) and it was really nice and unaffected and it felt good to just be playing some pretty songs without trying to have an edge or angle of any kind. First time in a couple years I've played with other people.
― space phwoar (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 19 March 2013 17:33 (eleven years ago) link
Also have been doing kids songs for my one-year-old, and played at her birthday party, which was the first time I've performed in at least a couple years.
― space phwoar (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 19 March 2013 17:34 (eleven years ago) link
hope you got free drinks at least
― shit tie (Jordan), Tuesday, 19 March 2013 17:36 (eleven years ago) link
three cake tickets
― space phwoar (Hurting 2), Tuesday, 19 March 2013 17:37 (eleven years ago) link
I have an album of electronic music coming out on the 29th, and the Cardiacs Discord server compilation album that I started making music to contribute to is coming out Real Soon Now. I have a Bandcamp now; http://chrisirregardless.bandcamp.com . If you would have told me a year ago that I would be doing this, I would have laughed at you.
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Tuesday, 27 February 2024 15:37 (one month ago) link
Thanks ivy! Jazz-gram has been a big inspiration over the last year, a handful of accounts that are really good for little vocabulary things to work on (Dan Weiss, Joe Farnsworth, an amazing European kid named Peter Primus Fr0sch, etc). Also just seeing lots of good drummers/different hands...I'm a real tortoise, but I think if today's internet had been around when I was in high school I would have figured some things out much, much sooner.
xp
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Tuesday, 27 February 2024 15:42 (one month ago) link
Whoa, congrats CGLDI.
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Tuesday, 27 February 2024 15:43 (one month ago) link
haha yeah is doing the "seven steps to heaven" intro kind of a drum meme at the moment? i've seen at least two videos of it on my youtube feed in the past month
i don't even know how i would've learned to drum without the internet. well, i guess i would've taken lessons. which i did! but watching videos of drummers clearly had as much of an effect on my playing
― ivy., Tuesday, 27 February 2024 15:45 (one month ago) link
if today's internet had been around when I was in high school I would have figured some things out much, much sooner.
well yeah if today's internet had been around when i was a teenager i would have started playing decades before i actually started. I'm 10.5 years old as a drummer now and I feel antsy, eager to play more and keep getting better.
go get it Christine -- major kudos to you for following through and doing it
― Piggy Lepton (La Lechera), Tuesday, 27 February 2024 15:47 (one month ago) link
Oh I don't know! I haven't seen SStH popping up, I've just always loved it, and Tony Williams style on that record. It's so slick but also light, lyrical & almost casual, and a little more approachable than the records that came after.
This woman plays it beautifully, so relaxed:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EumDHdPoVwk
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Tuesday, 27 February 2024 16:03 (one month ago) link
this is far more rudimentary and a way less flattering video overall but i filmed my drum practice today, which was eight foo fighters songs in a row. i like to call this "the marathon," because it's the set of songs that most feels like a really intense workout whenever i play it. i am usually too tired by the time i get to "everlong" to play it well or even make it through the whole thing... but i fuckin did it this time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_8KZM-z3i4
― ivy., Tuesday, 27 February 2024 20:35 (one month ago) link
It's the 29th, and my EP is out now. Six tracks of drones, squeaks, and melodies.https://chrisirregardless.bandcamp.com/album/wreath-mantle
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Thursday, 29 February 2024 05:12 (four weeks ago) link
I really like that! Love the textures and mallets/bell tones.
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Thursday, 29 February 2024 16:31 (four weeks ago) link
congrats CGLDI! cool stuff, i like it too
i'm working on recording more songs with my recording project band. this batch is the first time we don't have any analog in the chain (we used to record rhythm tracks to 4-track but it finally died) and i'm having trouble getting things to sound like i'm used to them sounding. otoh we can now actually mic the drums properly bc we have more input options.
i'm also taking a break from the songwriting class/workshop i had been doing. it was fun and it was good to force me to write something every week, but it was also expensive and the teacher was starting to get on my nerves, lecturing about kinks songs for half the class instead of letting people play their songs and get notes. i might go back to it later.
― na (NA), Thursday, 29 February 2024 16:51 (four weeks ago) link
Now I want to be in a periodic producer's workshop where we all present demos and get feedback. Might have to pursue this!
NA have you tried using analog preamp and tape emulation plugins to get that sound? There are so many great cheap/free ones these days, I spend much of my time doing that (I would grab all the Analog Obsession ones to start with).
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Thursday, 29 February 2024 18:26 (four weeks ago) link
stuff like that makes me feel dumb but i'll take a look at it, thanks
― na (NA), Thursday, 29 February 2024 18:33 (four weeks ago) link
not a tape emulator but i've found this helpful to warm and fatten up tracks or even on the master bus
https://www.soundtoys.com/product/little-radiator/
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 29 February 2024 19:16 (four weeks ago) link
soundtoys stuff is really great, simple, focused for a purpose
I love that one on tambourines. :)
This is my current go-to "duh, make it sound better" plugin for drumshttps://bedroomproducersblog.com/2023/12/21/baby-audio-beat-slammer/
And I always put a touch of the BPB Saturator on basically everything.
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Thursday, 29 February 2024 19:20 (four weeks ago) link
CGLDI this EP is amazing, wow
― a hyperlink to the past (flamboyant goon tie included), Thursday, 29 February 2024 19:56 (four weeks ago) link
yes chris this is great!!! also i love "gnarled doll" as a song title
― ivy., Friday, 1 March 2024 15:53 (three weeks ago) link
I'm really touched by the positive reception that my music has gotten here and in other places. Thank you all very much. There will be more of it coming soon. Oh, and that comp I was talking about is now out.https://scarlethall.bandcamp.com/album/pond-frozen-over
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Friday, 1 March 2024 19:18 (three weeks ago) link
listened to the final mix of the album this afternoon. really happy with it. if we can get things (mastering, artwork, new band photo) rolling in the next week or so... might have a single out in april
― ivy., Tuesday, 19 March 2024 20:57 (one week ago) link
all the insecurities i had about my performance during recording are gone, i drum the hell out of this record
― ivy., Tuesday, 19 March 2024 20:58 (one week ago) link
That's great, congrats!
I spent a couple hours practicing the other day and trying to record a decent video of some bop soloing (mostly because that really shows me if I can play something or not, if the red light's on and I can get through without an embarassing hiccup), and it was humbling. But I identified a few things that were causing issues (like a tendency to pause before starting the next phrase, which can be cool but meant I was consistently starting phrases on beat 2, and it was repetitive and making it unnecessarily difficult to fit in some of the phrases). And the next day I listened to Philly Joe Jones and Max Roach all day and told myself to focus on simple & clear ideas, and everything was better. The hot licks can come out naturally as connective tissue, which works better for me than saying "ok I'm going to play the hot lick now." Anyway that's all to say I'm trying to work seriously on this stuff rather than hoping for the best.
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Tuesday, 19 March 2024 21:29 (one week ago) link
I don't do these much these days due to a lack of time, privacy, and equipment, but I recorded this for my brother's wedding, which is next week.
I cut it in about two hours and there's little mistakes I wanna fix later but overall mostly pleased
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GA-sHFemgJM
― CEO Greedwagon (Neanderthal), Friday, 22 March 2024 02:24 (six days ago) link
Yes, I have made more noise for your pleasure: https://chrisirregardless.bandcamp.com/album/the-final-third-of-my-life
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Monday, 25 March 2024 14:16 (three days ago) link
yesss thank you for this chris
― ivy., Monday, 25 March 2024 14:28 (three days ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/Lsedhcv.png
also... our album is done
― ivy., Monday, 25 March 2024 14:30 (three days ago) link