Show 'Em My Logo!
In case you didn't know, I have my own personal logo. It's on the "who?" page, it's the background on my phone, I use it on most of the forums I read, and one year, it even snuck onto my Simucon badge:
I mentioned towards the end of this post that I had plans for sprucing up my new Les Paul, and tada!
Click that pic (or here) for a close up, yo. The image was originally drawn by the lovely and talented Steph. My shirt, if you cannot read it in the closeup, says, "I'm a rocker. I rock out." A Diesel Sweeties reference and t-shirt.
V. pleased.
In other news, I've been been messing around with Sonar 5 Producer lately, trying to decide whether I've outgrown my current recording software, Acid. I've been using the various incarnations of Acid since 1998, and while it works quite well as a multitracker, it's really geared towards sample/loop-based recording. At the same time, I'm looking into changing how I record drums. When I started using Acid, I already had my Alesis SR-16, which has the capability to store and sequence entire songs' worth of drum patterns, so of course I just hit record on the computer and play on the Alesis and wandered off for a couple of minutes. Later, I started just recording the individual loops for each song, which gave me more flexibility if I needed to change the arrangements. The last couple of songs I've done, though, I've just recorded each individual drum hit as a separate sample, and painted out each hit one by one, like this:
More time-consuming at first, to be sure, but not bad once I got the hang of it, and again, much more flexible. Now, though, I'm checking out Native Instruments' Battery 2, which is basically a software sampler that specializes in drums.
Anyway, the point is that I decided to throw together a relatively easy cover as a learning experience, and chose the Dead Boys' "Sonic Reducer", a perennial favorite of mine. I have their version, and a few live versions from Pearl Jam, but was wanting to hear the studio version Pearl Jam did as their first Ten Club Christmas single. I probably haven't had a copy in quite some time, unless it's buried on a mix tape somewhere...the only people who I figured were really likely to have it were Jon, who you may recognize as the occasional semi-sentience of liquidfish.net, and Steph, who I haven't talked to in four or five years.
Anyway, the point is, and I mean it this time, that the day I was thinking about Steph and realizing I had no idea where she was these days, she found this site and emailed me out of the blue.
Weird. Eerie.
Currently listening to: "I Don't Care If You Know Karate", San Geronimo
I mentioned towards the end of this post that I had plans for sprucing up my new Les Paul, and tada!
Click that pic (or here) for a close up, yo. The image was originally drawn by the lovely and talented Steph. My shirt, if you cannot read it in the closeup, says, "I'm a rocker. I rock out." A Diesel Sweeties reference and t-shirt.
V. pleased.
In other news, I've been been messing around with Sonar 5 Producer lately, trying to decide whether I've outgrown my current recording software, Acid. I've been using the various incarnations of Acid since 1998, and while it works quite well as a multitracker, it's really geared towards sample/loop-based recording. At the same time, I'm looking into changing how I record drums. When I started using Acid, I already had my Alesis SR-16, which has the capability to store and sequence entire songs' worth of drum patterns, so of course I just hit record on the computer and play on the Alesis and wandered off for a couple of minutes. Later, I started just recording the individual loops for each song, which gave me more flexibility if I needed to change the arrangements. The last couple of songs I've done, though, I've just recorded each individual drum hit as a separate sample, and painted out each hit one by one, like this:
More time-consuming at first, to be sure, but not bad once I got the hang of it, and again, much more flexible. Now, though, I'm checking out Native Instruments' Battery 2, which is basically a software sampler that specializes in drums.Anyway, the point is that I decided to throw together a relatively easy cover as a learning experience, and chose the Dead Boys' "Sonic Reducer", a perennial favorite of mine. I have their version, and a few live versions from Pearl Jam, but was wanting to hear the studio version Pearl Jam did as their first Ten Club Christmas single. I probably haven't had a copy in quite some time, unless it's buried on a mix tape somewhere...the only people who I figured were really likely to have it were Jon, who you may recognize as the occasional semi-sentience of liquidfish.net, and Steph, who I haven't talked to in four or five years.
Anyway, the point is, and I mean it this time, that the day I was thinking about Steph and realizing I had no idea where she was these days, she found this site and emailed me out of the blue.
Weird. Eerie.
Currently listening to: "I Don't Care If You Know Karate", San Geronimo
5 Comments:
I honestly have no idea what happened to that 45. I think it was left in the car and it melted. Either that or Jon has it. Like you it may be on a mixed tape somewhere. It was my favorite song you played. That and Bring Da Noise.
Email me your address and I'll send it to you.
E-mail who? I can't email anonymous@don'tknow.com!! Give me your name and then mabye we'll tango....
I was asking Crash to email me his address. Say hi to lil eep for me.
who is lil eep?
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