The Duet – more musical microblogging
Posted: June 30, 2009 Filed under: Recording | Tags: Garage 5 Comments »The idea of preparing a complete piece of music to be written, performed, produced and mastered in about two hours is insane. If I ever put this stuff out on a CD (a what??) there would be something like 50 tracks, each a little over a minute long. This one is actually less than a minute. The Duet in the title does not refer to me, but rather to our fearless FBdN and a young talent with whom FBdN has been known to spend many hours. Em thought the source material for this sounded a bit like a barnyard. As always, my GarageBand creations come out a bit quiet, so turn it up!
As far as the technical info – all sounds are from GarageBand and the extensions packs I jacked off of bittorrent, except the guitar. That was piped through GarageBand via Native Instruments’ Guitar Rig software. That last app is pretty good, but it is no match for getting out all your analog and vintage and sticking a mic in front of your tube amp. I just didn’t have time for that exercise and it was too late to make big noise anyway. In a fix, GuitarRig will do. Percussion was sequenced by hand for the first part of the song and combined loops were used in the second part. My controller is an M-Audio Axiom 25 which is small, cheap and really fun to use.
Yes! I’m going to hold off on listening to this until I post my version. Don’t want to get influenced by your handiwork. Plus yours might be shitloads better than mine, and I don’t want to get discouraged.
I’m at lunch, sitting next to a bunch of attorneys who are chuckling about ridiculous tax denier cases.
Damn lawyers!
I don’t say this lightly, but that is fucking incredible, Hammer. I mean, that’s an incredible amount of composition packed into a tiny space. Bravo, man.
Now I got to post mine, which is going to suffer mightily by comparison. But oh well! That’s the fun of the microtune. You end up where you end up. Or, as someone once said, wherever you go, there you are.
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Hammer – What do you plug your instrument into? Is that the M-Audio thing you mentioned?
I just checked out the Native Instruments site – cool stuff. Their Guitar Rig mobile product looks interesting, although I’m not sure what it would offer me over the MBox. I guess the Guitar Rig software.