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Post your self made Multi-Track overdubed recordings

dgelting.bandcamp.com

This is mostly upright bass centered, with plenty of other instruments too.

Recorded and performed by myself over a number of years. I mostly used pretty modest computer based recording gear (Studio Projects B1 mic, Rode NT5 mics, preamps built into an M-Audio interface). As time went on I have slowly added better recording stuff but the vast majority of this audio is recorded on my early gear.

It's basically "composed improvisation". I'd record lots of improvisations on any instrument, then I'd edit those down to the interesting stuff. Then I'd start overdubbing improvisations upon the edited material and do another round of editing. As this process repeated the layers became more and more composed instead of improvised, and improvisation became composed via the editing process.
 
A funky version of "You Are My Sunshine":

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I record a lot of children's music, and this one is called "Preschool Blues":

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This is an instrumental that I originally recorded in the mid-'80s, when poppin' and lockin' were big - I call it "Genie Dance":

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And just as a change of pace, here's an original Christmas song I posted in another thread, called "New Treasures":

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All were done on synth keyboard and modules (using various effects pedals), with drum machine and my vocals, recorded on a digital 8-track.
 
You asked for it, you're gonna get it---

Track from one of my instrumental CD's,
"Guaranteed To Be 100% Free of Hit Singles"



Another track from same CD:



Cop-show kind of thing, but the cop is a grizzly bear, pursuing a suspect in an old warehouse, trying to not get shot




My impression of William Shatner doing Alice Cooper's "The Ballad of Dwight Fry"

 
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Well all my songs are done this way since I play/compose everything (jack of all trades, master of none). I always start by writing the song's full bassline though being foremost a bassist... then I come up with the rest usually through a lot of trial and error. They're always either one guitar track, bass, drums and keys or two guitars, bass and drums. I avoid using more than one guitar when there's keys because I don't want to have to have more than 4 musicians to play this live when (if) the time comes... voice will be added later but that's my girlfriend's job (she's ichigo, i'm milk, aww how sickeningly not cute). I'm a new wave post punk 80's pop guy. Influences are the cure, New Order, Altered Images, Psychedelic furs, etc. (btw of course none of the art used is mine, well except for the text I added to it, but until im making money off these (yeah right) who gives a S. No one I suspect)





(guitar tone is poopie a bit in this one, I have very limited equipment or "producing" skills but this one was done before I got a bit better and used guitar effects softwares, this was garageband's fx)


This one is just keys, that's just one repeating drum loop and two keyboards tracks. I wrote that when I got home from buying my first keyboard in February. I haven't been playing long. I was going for 80's movie soundtracks feel...well the ones that went synth crazy.

 
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i posted in here a while back, but since then i've started my own record label / production company (called Wolves) and we have records out of one of our bands. the band is called Jarvis Probes and i play all the instruments, and do all the recording/engineering/mixing. the label site is www.wolvesproductions.bandcamp.com . you can stream everything we have and download everything for free. anyone interested in the record can find it here
 
My Pink Floyd cover:


A couple originals:




All digitally hand programmed drum tracks using EZDrummer, guitars and bass run direct through a Behringer V-Amp Pro, vocals, acoustic guitars miked with a budget brand condenser mic. Recorded/mixed/"mastered" in Sonar 8 Producer. First one obviously written by Pink Floyd, the other two written by me, myself, and I. :)

Those links don't appear to be working properly, if you can't play them there, just go to my page: https://soundcloud.com/#jason-jacquin
 
My Pink Floyd cover:


A couple originals:




All digitally hand programmed drum tracks using EZDrummer, guitars and bass run direct through a Behringer V-Amp Pro, vocals, acoustic guitars miked with a budget brand condenser mic. Recorded/mixed/"mastered" in Sonar 8 Producer. First one obviously written by Pink Floyd, the other two written by me, myself, and I. :)

Those links don't appear to be working properly, if you can't play them there, just go to my page: https://soundcloud.com/#jason-jacquin

I can tell you put a lot of studio time and work into the Floyd cover. Well produced and nice mix. Good job man!