Day 353
Minimalism
I take just a couple pedals to rehearsal because they are instrumental in certain songs. My Crybaby Wah is indispensable! The Whammy pedal is ready for "Lonely Boy" but we haven't rehearsed it in a while. I don't operate the Carvin V3 without it's footswitch.
I have to be honest; Felix The Strat through the Carvin V3 and Marshall 1960B Vintage cabinet sounds pretty good. I'm not so keen on the merits of a three-channel amp anymore. Especially when two of the channels could be configured to sound exactly the same; what's the point? As much as I thought I would sell the Carvin to get a Mesa/Boogie Single Rectifier Solo 50 head and 2x12 cabinet I might just hang on to it and get the Boogie.
Another good rehearsal with Flytown today.
I spent the largest part of the day working on theme music for the podcast. I reconfigured the desk in the music room to use my laptop, Akai mini-keyboard, and audio interface. The biggest reason was so I could use my studio monitors instead of headphones. It was a fairly quick job of reconfiguration. My other goal was to discover what kinds of orchestra sounds I had in Studio One. There are some fairly good ones but the biggest thing I realized is that I am so fluent on guitar and not fluent at all on keyboards! I don't want to blame the small size of the Akai for my lack of dexterity. It is simply that I don't play keyboards nearly enough to flow the way the song needs. In hindsight, I may lower the tempo and record the keyboard parts then bring it back up to actual tempo so it will be smooth.
It was clear that I need a drum machine or a better drum program. I have a very limited set of sounds and patterns in the free version of EZ Drummer but I'm not sure if I want to invest in registering that application and getting more sounds and patterns or get some other program or simply get a hardware drum machine.
The other obvious discovery is that I could spend hours making music and love it!
I dropped the latest podcast recording (episode 6) off to TC before heading to rehearsal.
Day 353
Minimalism
I take just a couple pedals to rehearsal because they are instrumental in certain songs. My Crybaby Wah is indispensable! The Whammy pedal is ready for "Lonely Boy" but we haven't rehearsed it in a while. I don't operate the Carvin V3 without it's footswitch.
I have to be honest; Felix The Strat through the Carvin V3 and Marshall 1960B Vintage cabinet sounds pretty good. I'm not so keen on the merits of a three-channel amp anymore. Especially when two of the channels could be configured to sound exactly the same; what's the point? As much as I thought I would sell the Carvin to get a Mesa/Boogie Single Rectifier Solo 50 head and 2x12 cabinet I might just hang on to it and get the Boogie.
Another good rehearsal with Flytown today.
I spent the largest part of the day working on theme music for the podcast. I reconfigured the desk in the music room to use my laptop, Akai mini-keyboard, and audio interface. The biggest reason was so I could use my studio monitors instead of headphones. It was a fairly quick job of reconfiguration. My other goal was to discover what kinds of orchestra sounds I had in Studio One. There are some fairly good ones but the biggest thing I realized is that I am so fluent on guitar and not fluent at all on keyboards! I don't want to blame the small size of the Akai for my lack of dexterity. It is simply that I don't play keyboards nearly enough to flow the way the song needs. In hindsight, I may lower the tempo and record the keyboard parts then bring it back up to actual tempo so it will be smooth.
It was clear that I need a drum machine or a better drum program. I have a very limited set of sounds and patterns in the free version of EZ Drummer but I'm not sure if I want to invest in registering that application and getting more sounds and patterns or get some other program or simply get a hardware drum machine.
The other obvious discovery is that I could spend hours making music and love it!
I dropped the latest podcast recording (episode 6) off to TC before heading to rehearsal.