Sweet, Sweet Success - More Or Less
The Alesis PA works (mostly), and I found room for my monitors (sort of). The PA has separate right and left volume controls, of course, and the right knob appears to have some kind of short in it, but once you get it turned where you want it, it seems entirely stable. Since I have a separate volume control leading out of the mixer to the PA, that doesn't really bother me, especially considering I only paid $60.
I will have to be careful not to damage my hearing with this thing. It is pretty loud, although not ridiculously so...but the flat response generated by the studio monitors makes it difficult to realize how loud you're listening, until you try to talk over it*. Combine that with the (lack of) size of this room, and it's a recipe for goin' deef.
Damn, they sound good, though.
In any case, several weeks late, here is January's song, which I have made mention of a couple of times in the past. Feel free to express your pleasure, displeasure, apathy, and/or confusion. Bonus points if you manage all four at the same time! Mad props to my dad for graciously agreeing to throw down on some trumpet.
The next song will probably be an original industrial-style tune, a lá Ministry.
Currently listening to: "Jump Around", Burning Liquid Fish
* Oddly enough, there was no one else here when I discovered that.
I will have to be careful not to damage my hearing with this thing. It is pretty loud, although not ridiculously so...but the flat response generated by the studio monitors makes it difficult to realize how loud you're listening, until you try to talk over it*. Combine that with the (lack of) size of this room, and it's a recipe for goin' deef.
Damn, they sound good, though.
In any case, several weeks late, here is January's song, which I have made mention of a couple of times in the past. Feel free to express your pleasure, displeasure, apathy, and/or confusion. Bonus points if you manage all four at the same time! Mad props to my dad for graciously agreeing to throw down on some trumpet.
The next song will probably be an original industrial-style tune, a lá Ministry.
Currently listening to: "Jump Around", Burning Liquid Fish
* Oddly enough, there was no one else here when I discovered that.
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It's all from scratch, albeit with a drum machine, not a real drummer, 'cause I can't play a real set for shit.
I started out using the bagpipe intro from the original, because I had nothing else to use, but then had the idea of making my dad break out his trumpet.
I really only had him play the intro part (about thirty times), and then I layered three of those on top of each other at different pitches, to thicken it a bit. The part that you hear looping in the verses is actually just him fucking around at the end of a take, but I thought it sounded neat.
As mentioned, bass is the Almighty D. All the rest is me...guitar, (programming of) drums, stupid yelling.
Sounds quite good (pleasure) but I am confused (confusion). Is that the trumpet mouthpiece without the trumpet in parts of it? Not that I care (apathy). Go to bed. You don't sleep enough! (displeasure) What do I win (with bonus points)? And what are mad props? And what can you do with them in Denver if you are dead?
I'm impressed. Wish I could do this.
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