Totally amateur recordings thread

[2many]

While I'm here...
I pop my whip and I bring the blood. I make those leaders take the mud. I grab the wheels and turn them round. One long hard pull and we're on hard ground...
The oxen driver's song...

 

[mjcarp79]

Yeah, good sound I like the weave of the 3 basses.

Thank you! it was fun to put together.

 

[The Owl]

Did this a few years ago, it's about to get reworked a bit, it'll have lyrics written from the viewpoint of an owl.

 

[MonetBass]

Did this a few years ago, it's about to get reworked a bit, it'll have lyrics written from the viewpoint of an owl.

Pretty cool! One thing I would suggest is pulling the reverb down on the drums. It's a bit much to my ears.

 

[2many]

Above, I'm throwing out some fun. Or throwing up some fun? Which is it?
Anyway, here's a few examples of tossing things together in an unconventional way with non- musicians messing around. You'll be advised these recordings are from 1989 when it was scary to touch something like an instrument that produces a sound... For fear of improperly voicing it. Yet, doing it anyway because of creative spirit.
Perfect thread to share this. Same drum track for both, yet different treatments.

 

[MonetBass]

Above, I'm throwing out some fun. Or throwing up some fun? Which is it?
Anyway, here's a few examples of tossing things together in an unconventional way with non- musicians messing around. You'll be advised these recordings are from 1989 when it was scary to touch something like an instrument that produces a sound... For fear of improperly voicing it. Yet, doing it anyway because of creative spirit.
Perfect thread to share this. Same drum track for both, yet different treatments.

Fun!

 

[FilterFunk]

Above, I'm throwing out some fun. Or throwing up some fun? Which is it?
Anyway, here's a few examples of tossing things together in an unconventional way with non- musicians messing around. You'll be advised these recordings are from 1989 when it was scary to touch something like an instrument that produces a sound... For fear of improperly voicing it. Yet, doing it anyway because of creative spirit.
Perfect thread to share this. Same drum track for both, yet different treatments.

Very cool bass line!

 

[2many]

Very cool bass line!

Hi thanks! I can't take all the credit, though I was told what I created was different, I was inspired by fruit and icebergs off the 2nd blue cheer album. If you ask me, I robbed it. A piece of it anyway.

 

[The Owl]

Above, I'm throwing out some fun. Or throwing up some fun? Which is it?
Anyway, here's a few examples of tossing things together in an unconventional way with non- musicians messing around. You'll be advised these recordings are from 1989 when it was scary to touch something like an instrument that produces a sound... For fear of improperly voicing it. Yet, doing it anyway because of creative spirit.
Perfect thread to share this. Same drum track for both, yet different treatments.

Very interesting experiment!

 

[mexicanyella]

I “finished” this yesterday:

BandLab: Make Music Online

Done with BandLab running on an iPhone 6S, using my Squire Affinity P-bass with chrome flats, a Squier Bullet Special guitar and BandLab’s drum sequencer.

Bass ran DI through an iRig 2 into the phone (BandLab Jazz Chorus 120 amp model into 8 x 10 cab model). Clean guitar was one track DI into Bandlab JC120 model, one track miked with my phone into my ole Peavey TKO. The guitar solo track was DI through a bass synth sound in my Zoom B2, and there’s a bit of distorted rhythm guitar under the solo that is the Zoom B2’s Acoustic 360 amp model with the gain cranked and no cab sim.

If nothing else I think I managed to avoid using a single sound with any kind of vintage hipness association.

 

[The Owl]

Made some serious progress on "A Different Kind of Nightlife". Still have to write one more verse of lyrics.

And for the gearheads, here's what I used:

Yamaha APX 500 II acoustic electric
Squier Strat (HSS)
Stagg MusicMan 5 string clone bass with Seymour Duncan Alnico pickup
Radial Bassbone preamp
TC Electronic Flashback X4 delay (Crystal echo setting)
Positive Grid BIAS amp sims including Fender, Marshall Plexi and Roland JC120

 

[mexicanyella]

Made some serious progress on "A Different Kind of Nightlife". Still have to write one more verse of lyrics.

And for the gearheads, here's what I used:

Yamaha APX 500 II acoustic electric
Squier Strat (HSS)
Stagg MusicMan 5 string clone bass with Seymour Duncan Alnico pickup
Radial Bassbone preamp
TC Electronic Flashback X4 delay (Crystal echo setting)
Positive Grid BIAS amp sims including Fender, Marshall Plexi and Roland JC120

I’m not sure if I was hearing still-in-progress DAW edit points or if I was experiencing a playback issue, but it seemed to jump-cut back to an earlier spot a few times. But in between those instances I really liked the chords, textures and ambient treatment of the sounds. I was kind of surprised how much I liked the piezo-pickup sounding acoustic parts; that kind of high-end piezo intensity sounded cool to me, the way it was interacting with the other sounds with those overlapping delay repeats going on. Cool piece!

 

[mexicanyella]

This

BandLab: Make Music Online

is a collaboration with an e-mail buddy who lives in England. We bounced it back and forth for awhile last year using the BandLab mobile app; me recording on an iPhone 6S and Jim recording on an old Android tablet.

I’m “singing,” playing bass, lap steel (tuned to B11), banjo and I did the drum loop using a free Android app called Groove Mixer, then imported the loop into BandLab.

He played mandolin and MIDI organ, using a little black Akai keyboard to trigger some MIDI BandLab key sounds.

Bass was a Squier Affinity P strung with chrome flats and tuned to drop D, through my amp and miked with my phone. Banjo was also miked with the phone. (While BL was running on it.)

 

[mexicanyella]

Here’s another, with me still “singing” and doing bass/guitar/sequenced drums. My collab buddy did a burst of lead guitar in the intro.

BandLab: Make Music Online

Bass was a Squier Affinity P string with chrome flats, DI into BandLab through a Joyo JF-16 British Sound pedal. My guitar tracks were a single-humbucker Squier Bullet Special, DI through some guitar patches I tweaked up in my Zoom B2. My collab buddy was playing a SG with P-90s through some kind of effected-out Orange amp sound in Amplitube.

 

[mjcarp79]

Here is another goofy little track I came up with. I started about three weeks ago, and then came down with a nasty illness. It features two of my basses.

 

[FilterFunk]

Here is another goofy little track I came up with. I started about three weeks ago, and then came down with a nasty illness. It features two of my basses.

Cool bass line and great tone!

 

[mjcarp79]

Cool bass line and great tone!

Thanks!

That was actually my central idea here: showcasing the tone of my bass. It is a Kiesel PB5, with the radiused bridge humbucker (not standard, special order) and the optional active electronics. For this track, I had it on active mode, and soloed the bridge pickup. Quite a growl, especially with flatwounds! Thanks for checking it out!

 

[tothemax]

Cool bass line and great tone!

Very cool... love it. I'm going to do my best to steal some of it. As they "Good artists create, great artists steal!"

I've been working on my recording skills, basically back to basics with good baseline track recordings. Last week I was feeling my inner "ZZ- Billy G" with a bit of the late "Dusty"... (wish I had those chops). These three tracks were one takes with a drum machine, no DAW effects, about a five minute quick mix. I'm not sure if I'm wearing "Rose" colored headphones, but I was really surprised when I listened to it at volume in my car... A buddy has a song based the ZZ riff about Galesville, a little beach bar town on the bay...

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[FilterFunk]

Very cool... love it. I'm going to do my best to steal some of it. As they "Good artists create, great artists steal!"

I've been working on my recording skills, basically back to basics with good baseline track recordings. Last week I was feeling my inner "ZZ- Billy G" with a bit of the late "Dusty"... (wish I had those chops). These three tracks were one takes with a drum machine, no DAW effects, about a five minute quick mix. I'm not sure if I'm wearing "Rose" colored headphones, but I was really surprised when I listened to it at volume in my car... A buddy has a song based the ZZ riff about Galesville, a little beach bar town on the bay...

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I like that gritty, direct tone, and I mean the whole mix.

 

[mexicanyella]

Very cool... love it. I'm going to do my best to steal some of it. As they "Good artists create, great artists steal!"

I've been working on my recording skills, basically back to basics with good baseline track recordings. Last week I was feeling my inner "ZZ- Billy G" with a bit of the late "Dusty"... (wish I had those chops). These three tracks were one takes with a drum machine, no DAW effects, about a five minute quick mix. I'm not sure if I'm wearing "Rose" colored headphones, but I was really surprised when I listened to it at volume in my car... A buddy has a song based the ZZ riff about Galesville, a little beach bar town on the bay...

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+1 on the bare-bones tone grit...I like it too. Keep it up! Record and submit more stuff!