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[The track times are links to mp3s from my recording projects. If your browser doesn't play them automatically, try saving them first and then using winamp.]
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1. Rocksong
I'm pretty pleased with the drums on this one. I think I've got the room mic thing figured out. This one's bone dry, no reverb plugins. I moved the kik mic (SM57) to the beater side.
2. For No Other Reason
3. For No Other Reason (with real drums)
5. New Hands (aka chadheadsilo)
Bear in mind that I had been playing drums for about 3 weeks. Drums recorded with a single AKG D3700 placed on a 3' stand in front of the kick drum and aimed in the general direction of the throne.
4. For No Other Reason (real drums, more mics, different mix)
A month or so after number 3 was recorded I made another attempt. This version uses two overheads (AKG D770 and a SM57), a kik (D3700) and a room mic (Oktava MK-319) 6. under the summer (aka Flying Saucer o' Chad)
Sub_P went out to a party and left Sub_C at home for the evening. This is the result. I threw a handful of plugins at this one to exaggerate the clipping. Most of my fancy tom work got lost in the EQing, but it's a sacrifice I was wiling to make for my art. All guitars recorded DI. Recording whisper vocals is a bitch, especially with a computer that's loud as a hairdryer in the room. I used the Oktava, put a software Gate on it to kill the CPU fan noise, then added a De-esser, Compressor, Stereo Delay, and Reverb. The vocals are out of tune and off time, but so are the vocals on the first FSA record. ;)
7. brown stripes
Yeah, so I decided that since the White Stripes music is just so freaking simple, that I'd just sit myself down and write a White Stripes style song, just to prove a point. So I got the bassline down, so far so good. Then added some drums. Not too bad there...kinda sloppy, but have you heard Meg White's drumming? Then a couple tracks of guitar, still sounding good. Kinda surprised at how well the guitar sounded going DI into my A/D converters rather than having a decent amp to mic. But it came out nice, lots of fuzz. And then...it happened. The stark realization came that I can't write a song to save my life, and that I don't have any words in my head at all. I write riffs, patterns, loops...but as for a compelling composition, don't look at me. A clever stop/start, or tempo shift, or a key change for the bridge...or even any fucking bridge at all. The subtleties of songcraft are lost to me. I pretty much suck. I don't think in lyrics, or poetry or anything of the sort. Not only that, but I'm extremely lazy when it comes to even attempting to write lyrics. I could probably write an obscene haiku, but something as stupidly brilliant as "Acetamenophen! You see the medicine!" is NEVER going to come out of this head. So anyway, I have been humbled (again) and have come to accept that I cannot write a White Stripes tune.
8. untitled
this one basically came from a couple loops and a bunch of delay pedal goodness.
9. last chance
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