Happy New Year! Wow 5 months since my last post. To be fair, my guitar was in the shop for at least 2 of those months so that does not count. Now I am back. Last year my new year's resolution was to do a post at least once a month. I am glad that I was able to follow that trend until I broke my guitar.. So I have faith in myself to pursue this further this year as a hobby! And this means I can convince myself to invest a little more (time and money) as the year goes on to experiment more.
This post is all about resolutions! You can even say with some sort of a vindictive feeling to it; to get back at something that you failed to do last year but you promised yourself you would do. If your mind is in that mindset this track will be a good background music for it. I think part of the reason why I am in that mood is because I have been binge watching a lot of 'Sons of Anarchy' and 'The Walking Dead'. Both series has a lot of revenge drama (for some weird reason my sister and I really like this sort of drama) and I have been exposed to a lot of situational sound tracks and background music. So here you go 'don't turn back':
Now some slightly technical rambling:
I also realized that a lot of songs have some sort of looping to it. Either a background riff or percussion, something that keeps going on maintaining the tone of the song. It is impossible for an amateur like me to play the same riff the exact same way twice. So recording, lets say a 3 minute long background riff is 1) Boring 2) Painstaking.
In order to get around this, I used the following brute force way. Played 9 - 18 seconds long clips and then used software to stitch together the track I had in mind. It is literally cut/copy/paste with an extra function called 'mixing' where you can imagine it as if I am pasting a picture on top of a picture to get a 'combined' picture. So in audio, I can paste my guitar on top of percussion track and its called mixing instead of pasting. This was again painful for two reasons. 1) You can hear the minute tempo mistakes due to my laziness and crude audio processing 2) VERY time consuming. So much so that I spent more time working on software compared to playing an instrument. The hell! This is what I do at work. I don't want to be staring at a computer screen to be creating music. So what is the solution?
That is when I came across the looping pedal! Essentially it records stuff real time and I have the ability to record on top of it, overwrite it, start/stop it whenever I want, even connect an aux cable to play external soundtracks so that I can play over it. I borrowed one from a friend and it has a lot of potential to make my recording process easier, more fun and definitely less staring on computer screens. FYI my birthday is in April but I accept early gifts...
This post is all about resolutions! You can even say with some sort of a vindictive feeling to it; to get back at something that you failed to do last year but you promised yourself you would do. If your mind is in that mindset this track will be a good background music for it. I think part of the reason why I am in that mood is because I have been binge watching a lot of 'Sons of Anarchy' and 'The Walking Dead'. Both series has a lot of revenge drama (for some weird reason my sister and I really like this sort of drama) and I have been exposed to a lot of situational sound tracks and background music. So here you go 'don't turn back':
Now some slightly technical rambling:
I also realized that a lot of songs have some sort of looping to it. Either a background riff or percussion, something that keeps going on maintaining the tone of the song. It is impossible for an amateur like me to play the same riff the exact same way twice. So recording, lets say a 3 minute long background riff is 1) Boring 2) Painstaking.
In order to get around this, I used the following brute force way. Played 9 - 18 seconds long clips and then used software to stitch together the track I had in mind. It is literally cut/copy/paste with an extra function called 'mixing' where you can imagine it as if I am pasting a picture on top of a picture to get a 'combined' picture. So in audio, I can paste my guitar on top of percussion track and its called mixing instead of pasting. This was again painful for two reasons. 1) You can hear the minute tempo mistakes due to my laziness and crude audio processing 2) VERY time consuming. So much so that I spent more time working on software compared to playing an instrument. The hell! This is what I do at work. I don't want to be staring at a computer screen to be creating music. So what is the solution?
That is when I came across the looping pedal! Essentially it records stuff real time and I have the ability to record on top of it, overwrite it, start/stop it whenever I want, even connect an aux cable to play external soundtracks so that I can play over it. I borrowed one from a friend and it has a lot of potential to make my recording process easier, more fun and definitely less staring on computer screens. FYI my birthday is in April but I accept early gifts...
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