I put out an EP of stuff I was proud of over the summer. A little bit of tweaking and re-recording of the original tracks. All done right at my desk with a little interface, a big ol' piano controller, and logic.
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Home Made Music
- Thread starter Felix Lopez
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Done with Garageband. Needs proper mixing and mastering, lol.
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My latest, samples of my new (to me) Tune 8 string bass:
Here's my album, recorded through Guitar Rig 4 and Reaper:
Winterfog | Atshen (bandcamp.com)
Winterfog | Atshen (bandcamp.com)
Just myself and the drummer working on an original....never got any further with it though..... recorded with just a Zoom
Latest album from "Vector Laboratories" (what a friend jokingly calls my home studio)...
I play with a couple other bands, but this is my main songwriting project. Sometimes I have collaborators, but I did this latest one solo at home over the past spring. Trying desperately to get something positive out of lockdown, I guess. I programmed the drums in Fruity Loops using my own samples, and played everything else.
Black Harvest - Sun Across The Fields
Black Harvest - Sun Across The Fields
Oh sure, that's what keeping me sane these days. I've found that writing and producing is incredibly helpful for my playing, it helps you take off your "bass player hat" and listen for what the song actually needs.
Here's a Gram Parsons-ish tune I helped a friend with over the summer (I produced, arranged, played bass, and sang the 3rd vocal)
This is a solo track I did at the beginning of quarantine:
And here's a record I did in GarageBand 1.1 a few years ago:
Seemed Like A Good Idea At The Time, by B Taylor & SomNoSom
Here's a Gram Parsons-ish tune I helped a friend with over the summer (I produced, arranged, played bass, and sang the 3rd vocal)
This is a solo track I did at the beginning of quarantine:
And here's a record I did in GarageBand 1.1 a few years ago:
Seemed Like A Good Idea At The Time, by B Taylor & SomNoSom
From last year's Christmas EP:
Recorded here:
Recorded here:
A quick collaboration between me and a couple fellow band members - drummer from one band and guitarist from another. Me on bass and KB.
My home "studio" consists of this because I'm totally intimidated by all the computer software.
From this little $99 (refurbished) 8-track, I upload a SoundCloud account. By the Mighty Hammer of Thor
Two of the "hits"
And a couple of the latest
From this little $99 (refurbished) 8-track, I upload a SoundCloud account. By the Mighty Hammer of Thor
Two of the "hits"
And a couple of the latest
Nice
Here is a song my brother wrote called Fences. He played the drums, guitar, and sang. I played the bass and mixed it. Its about the artificial Fences that are raised between people, distancing us from each other.
There's one in my signature link, if anyone wants to hear it. I'm currently producing about one new song a month. Working on a new one that's very different from that one and hope to have it finished in the next week or two, depending on what else I think it needs.
About a year ago, I was pretty burned out from trying to put & keep a cover band together. As a diversion, I decided to start recording ideas as they came to me. At this point, I have bits and pieces of 10-12 songs. It's all me on bass, MT Power Drum Kit2 to create & edit MIDI drum tracks, and me on scratch vocals. With enough takes, I can cobble together a passable vocal, but I am certainly not a singer/performer. Early on, I used a Native Instruments plugin for guitar, but since May I have been taking guitar lessons – enough to belt out some power chords and arpeggios. I'm capable of writing lyrics, but I'm not very disciplined. Eventually, I'd like to find somebody to collaborate with on guitar, lyrics and vocals – with the goal of performing the songs live someday.
The last time I tried to start and finish a track, this is what it sounded like. I'm making some space so I might get into it again. This was all done on a boss BR600 because I can't do anything easy.
Respect for using the handheld recorder. I use the boss BR 600 because I can't leave a computer anywhere permanently. It's a lot easier to lay down tracks, but a lot harder do anything else.