For the last nine months, we've been in some state of Covid-lockdown worldwide. During which time, we've managed to give airtime to every paranoid person with a keyboard and drive ourselves into a state of global low-spirits the likes of which have not been seen since World War II.
During this time, I've been able, for the first time since high school, really, to devote some time to music.
The questionable, though therapeutic, results can be found on my Soundcloud page.
This poor old Evolving Web blog, littered with posts from more optimistic times, once a top-20 read blog, was just sitting here (mostly due to the fact that Typepad is so hard to get your data out of) and I thought I'd dust it off and just use this space to talk about music. About what I'm recording, what the songs might "mean", what the gear I'm using is, and hopefully spark some good old social media conversation that isn't about being upset with something.
That run-on sentence is saying, "I'm going to talk about making music here."
Part of this is just seeing what I'm capable of doing in Typepad. It's a pretty antiquated system and, right now, that's a good thing. (My posts here, if you look, have del.icio.us links. If you don't know what that was ... google it, it was from when the Internet worked right).
Below is the song I uploaded this morning.
Two tracks of ESP 5 string fretless bass, four tracks of highly mangled drums (primarily using Cableguy's ShaperBox2 for the delicious mangling), wait, I have an idea ... I'll do the inputs below in some sort of repeatable format.
Bass: ESP-LTD B205 Fretless 5 string
Drums: NI Battery (various settings)
Weird Noises: NI Evolve Mutations
DAW: Presonus Studio One
Plug Ins: Shaperbox 2, Fab Filter Pro, Neutron, Ozone, and Guitar Rig 5
Keyboard: NI Komplete Kontrol 61
Human: Ourfounder
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