Thread for posting your musics

[teh b0lly!!1]

i think he means like one of those Zoom recorders

he's right, they actually sound great. there's a lot you could do with those

[slunken]

Originally Posted by Elphenor

You mean a mic wired to my laptop or?

It just doesn't feel right

No something like a zoom where you can either record directly from the speaker of your amp (built in microphones) or directly from the amps headphone jack or a mixer (direct input)

[slunken]

Yea I mean you're basically not going to find/want to pay for a standalone tape recorder. I have a stereo tape deck unit hooked up to my mixer and if I didn't have a digital recorder I would still record everything to tape but I would just go through way too much tape (which is getting scarce/pricey).

Buy a digital recorder. Record all you want for free and then bounce down to tape. If you plan on sharing music it's going to be bounced to digital at some point or another.

[slunken]

Zoom H4N is discontinued I believe but it was the best investment of audio equipment I ever bought. I use it for everything all the time.

[slunken]

Originally Posted by slunken

Yea I mean you're basically not going to find/want to pay for a standalone tape recorder. I have a stereo tape deck unit hooked up to my mixer and if I didn't have a digital recorder I would still record everything to tape but I would just go through way too much tape (which is getting scarce/pricey).

Buy a digital recorder. Record all you want for free and then bounce down to tape. If you plan on sharing music it's going to be bounced to digital at some point or another.

also couldn't fathom recording directly to tape without a mixer

[slunken]

Zoom H2N is still available. Just buy this and be done with it. https://www.zoom-na.com/products/fie...handy-recorder

or look for a used/refurbished H4N

[teh b0lly!!1]

i'm oddly aggravated that they'd stopped making the H4N, i was planning on getting one some day. that never seems to happen, but now i'm still annoyed they stopped making it. the new one looks bollocks.

[slunken]

Lord only knows why they would discontinue their most popular model. Probably to sell other models.

[slunken]

"everyone keeps buying the h4n and ignoring all the other models. i know! we'll pull it off the shelves!"

[Elphenor]

Alright that looks legit

I want the recording to sound exactly the same as I hear it blaring from the amp in my bedroom you know what I mean

Because I create music through exp with the instrument I don't go in with this picture of what I want already, that would be more conducive to mixing and shaping post recording

Idk if I'm making sense

[slunken]

Originally Posted by Elphenor

I want the recording to sound exactly the same as I hear it blaring from the amp in my bedroom you know what I mean

That's digital recording. Just play around with mic placement. I put mine up right next to the cone a little to the side but still touching the grill of the amp.

[slunken]

If you find an H4n you can do cool things like if you eventually end up buying real microphones you can hook them up directly to the unit instead of using the built in mics (which are great - don't get me wrong). I don't think the H2n has the option (if I recall all the inputs are 1/8" - whereas h4n and other models are 1/4" and XLR)

I'm just saying if I had bought a model that didn't allow me to hook up my own microphones I would have bought another one by now. I bought the H4n shortly after it came out on a lark and I can't stress enough how amazing it is.

[slunken]

Douglas Rushkoff would disagree with me though. Digital recordings are only a simulation, he would say, and not a physical chain reaction in time and space.

[redbreegull]

Originally Posted by teh b0lly!!1

hey you guys love a guy with an acoustic guitar right?
this song is like an hour old. shitty sound cause i recorded it on my cell phone just now.
i have no idea if it's worthless or not. i'll need to revisit it in a few days or something to know. proceed with caution, i'm not a good singer. lyrics in description if anyone doesn't get enough sad vibez from my posts.

i'm on weed right now and this sounded great. I think I listened to Headspin before but that one is cool too. it has a great slowcore mark kozelek vibe

[redbreegull]

just kidding acoustic guitars fucking suck balls

booooooo

[teh b0lly!!1]

thanks rbg.

tbh i just realized both Headspin and Shadows are just really rough demos that probably don't really represent fully what i'm about. they're both much simpler than what i usually do, and are so raw and bare bones, with no additional parts or production flourishes or whatever. in their current form, i only really stand behind Overrun.

but i'm glad you liked it. it was probably because you were high.

[ilikeplanets]

I'm also on weed and tried to click the player in the quoted posts a few times first. But yeah i really like it, I felt fully immersed which is how I know it's good. Nice voice too.

[teh b0lly!!1]

acoustic guitars are for assholes

hear me play electric

this kind of came out of my fingers today. jazzy reverb-y ambient mood thing. slunken if you're reading this, i kinda got a Jon Porras vibe from it while i was playing in this style.

tbh i really like this.

[Disco King]

Sweet tracks, teh b0llz

I can't fingerpick that well, especially when coordinating it with vocal lines (Shadows)

[cork_soaker]

new skitch

[cork_soaker]

i love it

[Disco King]

Didn't wanna post this because I have this weird thing about not letting people see works in progress, where I only want them to see the final product and not know what goes on behind the curtain, but it's not like I'll ever finish anything anyway so might as well post it.

It's really rough with random volume fluctuations and choppy verse/chorus transitions and the bass and lead guitar are probably both way too loud but this was just supposed to be a rough demo to block in the basic structure of the song so yeah that's my excuse.

[Disco King]

Originally Posted by cork_soaker

new skitch

Ever scored a film before? Your stuff is really atmospheric and feels almost like soundtracks.

If not, maybe there are filmmakers in your area looking for music like this to create the desired mood in their films?

[soniclovenoize]

Originally Posted by Elphenor

You think I could just record straight to cassette I think I might go that route

Like just a big tape recorder

Looking online right now

What I know for sure is that I never want anything to do with production software it's not for me

You will eventually have to transfer the tapes digitally anyways. Why bother?

Originally Posted by Elphenor

Alright that looks legit

I want the recording to sound exactly the same as I hear it blaring from the amp in my bedroom you know what I mean

Because I create music through exp with the instrument I don't go in with this picture of what I want already, that would be more conducive to mixing and shaping post recording

Idk if I'm making sense

Then you are better off investing the $$ to get a good mic and a mixer/digital interface.

[Elphenor]

nah I don't want to do any mixing other than what I do on my amp

[cork_soaker]

Originally Posted by Disco King

Ever scored a film before? Your stuff is really atmospheric and feels almost like soundtracks.

If not, maybe there are filmmakers in your area looking for music like this to create the desired mood in their films?

I've played around with this a bit on my own, using stock video clips and assembling them against the music — as opposed to setting music to a preexisting narrative and visual sequence.

I would love to collaborate with someone—a filmmaker or visual artist of some sort—but admittedly haven't looked into seeing who's out there or interested. Not sure where to start. Any suggestions?

[Disco King]

There was a guy on the Oboard who went by blanket_skies who was enrolled in film school in New Zealand and would make short films. I remember him looking around for someone to score them sometimes. I think he collaborated with another poster there, kreatorkind (or something like that), to do the soundtrack to at least one of them.

I mean, I guess that doesn't help, seeing as blanket doesn't post here. Other than that, I dunno, though. Maybe there are Facebook groups for indie filmmakers in your area?

[Cool As Ice Cream]

kreatorkind? is he the guy who brings his guitar to billy's tea shop?

"i've opened for billy corgan."

[teh b0lly!!1]

i think scoring for other people's work would do corky no justice.

he needs to do his own films for it to be right. or hook up with somebody very like-minded.

[Disco King]

Originally Posted by Cool As Ice Cream

kreatorkind? is he the guy who brings his guitar to billy's tea shop?

"i've opened for billy corgan."

That was probably him, because that sounds familiar. I remember him being good at music, although it was music I didn't have a heck of a lot of interest in. But he was real chill and one of the posters who helped me a lot with gear suggestions back in the day.

Originally Posted by teh b0lly!!1

i think scoring for other people's work would do corky no justice.

he needs to do his own films for it to be right. or hook up with somebody very like-minded.

Yeah, scoring other people's movies would certainly bring challenges, like having to work within the confines of what the film director's vision is and having to respond to their work. But it could also bring new inspirations.