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- eyesite2theblind
- I have seen THE WHO 7 times Greenday,Van Halen and Govt Mule. I have also seen Robert Plant and counting crows. They warmed up for THE WHO. Pete Townshend is the greatest guitar player and writer in the world. I hope to someday do great things as he has done.
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Niiice!!...gift from Santa. Have fun with it. :)
Hope your Thanksgiving was good too. The picture in my profile is from where I live, it was sunset over the ocean.
Alright! A new Les Paul...Awesome AJ:) Now we be talking...Now you be Rockin'!
Congratulations!!!!!
Rob
Hey now AJ!!!
I'm just making the rounds wishing all my cool Who buddies a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year and all that sort of stuff. How you and your family have a great day tomorrow!!!
Make sure you let us know what cool stuff you get for Christmas...maybe a Marshall stack huh? LOL!
Happy Wholidays AJ!
Hey congratulations on the new guitar Aaron.
I just saw you on TV on VH1 Who special, windmilling like a true Who fan ought to be. You looked like you had a blast being front row at the show calling out for Pete. It was awesome!
Happy new year little buddy.
Hey there Aaron.
I record all the parts except for Drums. Those I put together using a program called Ableton Live which runs while Pro Tools is running. It essentially allows me to drop drum clips and make up my own beats. As soon as I have that, if it is a song that needs drums, I go onto Pro Tools and record guitar and bass, I have a Roland electric piano too and this I use for strings, horns or organ, I can sometimes find other useful sounds on there like oohs and aaahs, but not always. I'd say a good drum machine or Ableton Live and some Sony Drum Loop CD's would be the ticket. If you get a Digidesign mBox, it includes protools and ableton lite, and you can actually put great drum loops together. I bought a DVD by Brainwerks called LIVE explained and it really helped me understand how to quickly cut drum tracks. It's a process really, I learn bits n bobs here and there. This is why my songs take so long to come out because sometimes I have a particular sound or feel. I think it's excellent that you have an interest in learning how to do your own songs so young, this investment in knowledge is well worth it. I'd say the essential item would be at least 1 decent microphone, a good set of Sony studio headphones, a external hard drive with backup software so you can always backup your work, some good powered speakers, I use Roland MA-12's, which are old, but sound ok, I try not to throw all my money at this hobby of mine. Recently I invested in a inexpensive 2 channel mixer by Mackie because I wanted to preamp my mic to get clearer tone going into my mBox, and I can actually hear myself singing much better with this setup. There is a great book on pro tools, I checked it out of the library but found it so valuable I bought a used copy on Amazon for $22, it is called Pro Tools 7 Overdrive by Matt Donner. It explains things so us average guys can understand without too too much techno babble.
Thank you for taking a listen to Fly. If you go to http://www.garystockton.net/Content/fly.mp3 you can hear the more polished demo without the live vocal.
Hi Aaron,
excellent question young man. There are quite a few people who would say running a mic through a pre-amp/mixer before it goes into an mBox is a bad idea, mainly because if you have too much gain on the signal, it could add unnecessary hiss or rumble, but I don't really add much gain. I use a Mackie, and these mixers have a great reputation for being extremely quiet, no buzzes or humm to worry about. I pre amp the mic mainly to hear the higher end tones (ss's and T's) or if I am singing in a low tone, to have some additional clarity mostly so I can hear in my one working ear the notes I sing clearly against the background music so I stay in tune. Also, I find that many times, I end up adding a bit of EQ to my recorded sound any way, so in this case, I am doing it as the signal goes into the mBox, recording it that way, and thus, not requiring any software EQ when I go to mix, well, less than I usually use.
Ideally, I think I should look at some better recording consoles that allow for live reverb and live EQ in the headphones without necessarily recording all of that to the track. To my ears, the sound of the vocal and acoustic guitar has got much better with this approach. The other thing I'm using is an old Bose mic that was sitting in a box in my garage for years not working. Then I figured out all it needed were batteries, and it turns out it is a very very good sounding mic and I record all acoustic guitar to that mic now. It cost me only a few minutes of time to investigate why the mic didn't work, and put 2 AA batteries in it. Now, with this mic, I need to remember each time I finish using it to switch it off so as to not drain the batteries, but that is a small trade off for getting a great sounding mic.
Maybe you could do something in your class at school about recording techniques.
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