Totally amateur recordings thread

I like the idea. I have been enjoying the Ambient Post Rock Textural thread just cause I like hearing the tracks people are posting there. It's easy to put pics of gear up but I can see how some may be a little reluctant to share their own playing.

I love the bass clarinet. It sounds a bit distorted where I'm listening from. It might be nice to bring the levels down a bit when all the bass clarinet parts and the guitar are playing so there would still be a little headroom. Most importantly to me, I like the content! Then again I've always had a soft spot for clarinet.

I have been enjoying recording a lot more lately. Especially recording my bass practice and listening to it later in the car just because recently i have been very happy with the tone of my bass direct.
Here is my contribution. Computer synth ambience and upright bass drenched in a ton of reverb to cover up my mediocre arco sound. I hope this thread takes off.

 

I’ll bite! Here’s a couple of my home studio recordings.
In each, I play all instruments. Typically I start by playing the rhythm guitar part from memory to a metronome to keep me in time. Then I track each other instrument all the way through.
I’m the singer along with singing harmonies (can’t do that live LOL) on Ride My See Saw and a buddy who is a great vocalist is singing Who’ll Stop The Rain.
I used my P Bass with flat wound strings on both recordings, played with a pick on the Moody Blues cover and played finger style on the Credence Clearwater Revival cover.

 

Thanks beholder for your kind comment!

 

i recently got ahold of a 1990s Bass whammy pedal, and here is the outcome of me fiddling with it and delay for a while, its not the best and i suck at keeping time. but this was inspired by tool, specifically right in two and eulogy.

 

Cool effects use!

 

Here's one of mine. The percussion is sequenced, but I play the guitar and bass live.

 

Nice recording, is the acoustic guitar mic’d, DI, or both?

 

Thanks! It's just mic'd using a condenser.

 

Thanks man, it means alot to me.

 

Effects chain - original 1990s Digitech Bass Whammy, Boss DD-3 Delay, ProCo TurboRat,EHX Stereo Polychorus MK2. Ampeg SCR-DI into audacity. In case you are interested. bass is a sterling stingray. thank you for the compliment.

 

Here's a more "amateur" recording of mine. I was practicing for an open mic night, simple song with just my vocal and acoustic guitar. Rode NT-1a mic for vocal, Blue dynamic mic positioned at 12th fret and angled 45 degrees toward guitar sound hole. Effect is slap-back delay on vocal to right channel. Apollo Twin interface, Cubase 10 DAW. Just for fun

For some reason the recording link displays as a big gray box on my monitor. To listen, click the big gray box and the play arrow should show up