Monolithic

30 03 2008
I'm taking baby steps in the world of digital recording. I bought a halfway-decent Firewire input for my MacBook that I can plug the old Les Paul into and have been playing around with GarageBand. It's a lot of fun, even if you suck, like me.

My first attempt at a composition (it can on loosely be called a composition) is a song I call "Monolithic". It's got a few samples of my favorite neurotic computer, the HAL 9000 from 2001. I made it in honor of Sir Arthur C. Clarke who passed away at 92 recently. It's very much a rough work in progress.





Comments : 4 Comments »
Categories : Music, Tech
Trackbacks : No Trackbacks »

Trackbacks

Trackback specific URI for this entry

No Trackbacks

Comments

Display comments as (Linear | Threaded)
31 03 2008
#1 Ralman (Reply)

Sweet! Two thumbs up. Riding a bullet to the top!
Comment (1)
01 04 2008
#1.1 Shawn Coomey (Reply)

Matt! Thanks bro. Whatcha been up to? It's been WAY too long.
Comments (2)
04 04 2008
#1.1.1 C. Leitheiser (Reply)

erika sent the link to me here. good guitar, maybe tooo good. is that sound direct from an amp or an internal plugin?

i'd still like to talk about a collaboration if you're interested.

chris
Comment (1)
08 04 2008
#1.1.1.1 Shawn Coomey (Reply)

Hey thanks Chris. Basically I'm going 1/4" direct into a FireWire capture device which connects to my macbook. All guitar effects (distortion, amp emulation) are done in software realtime. Sounds surprisingly good.

The big trick was to double most of the tracks, panned far left and right. Give a pretty fat sound.
Comments (2)

Add Comment


Enclosing asterisks marks text as bold (*word*), underscore are made via _word_.
Standard emoticons like :-) and ;-) are converted to images.

To prevent automated Bots from commentspamming, please enter the string you see in the image below in the appropriate input box. Your comment will only be submitted if the strings match. Please ensure that your browser supports and accepts cookies, or your comment cannot be verified correctly.
CAPTCHA

You can use [geshi lang=lang_name [,ln={y|n}]][/lang] tags to embed source code snippets