My last 3 major purchases

Alan · Post by **Alan** » Sun Jan 22, 2006 8:04 pm

Used for $900
$200
$100

I have decided to quit med school to become a recording artist.

No not really.

But I did buy all that stuff. Somebody stop me.

Post by **Jonathan** » Mon Jan 23, 2006 5:03 pm

The only thing that matters is: Are you rocking?

Alan · Post by **Alan** » Tue Jan 24, 2006 4:01 am

"Rocking" is such a relative term.

Dave · Post by **Dave** » Tue Jan 24, 2006 6:51 pm

Will you write a ballad about our love?

Alan · Post by **Alan** » Mon Jan 30, 2006 11:56 pm

I recorded a song.

http://www.buffalo.edu/~alanhsu/Angeles.mp3

Post by **Jonathan** » Tue Jan 31, 2006 6:05 am

I object! Your blog doesn't appear to allow comments. I need to argue at length about the title of your first post.

Also, that's pretty definitely not rocking. But still pretty good.

Alan · Post by **Alan** » Tue Jan 31, 2006 8:22 pm

Yeah, I noticed that you can't post comments.

But it's not like I'm ever going to post anything to my blog anyway. We all see how my Livejournal went.

bob · Post by **bob** » Sat Feb 04, 2006 7:06 pm

Wait, so you're, like, actually good at guitar and stuff? Neat! I bought a drum set on Thursday, because I needed to play it in the pep band at a Friday basketball game. 24 hours to learn to play set. It actually turned out just fine, with great improvement over the course of the game.

Alan · Post by **Alan** » Sat Feb 04, 2006 11:28 pm

I've always wanted to play drums. I don't think I have very good rhythm though, even when playing with a metronome. You can probably tell in that recording. I could re-record the guitar track (or even just the intro) but I'm too lazy to. And now I'm too busy "studying".

Learning guitar isn't too hard after 10+ years of violin.

Jason · Post by **Jason** » Wed Feb 08, 2006 6:10 am

How did you record it? Did you lay down both tracks simultaneously or separately?

Also, someone once told me that you almost never want to mix you're own music. Supposedly because you're never a good self critic. I have no idea if that has any merit, but I'm putting it out there anyway.

Alan · Post by **Alan** » Wed Feb 08, 2006 9:21 pm

I recorded 3 tracks. One for guitar, and two voice tracks. I did bass boost for one voice track and treble boost for the other. Doing that helps mask the fact that I can't really sing.

Yeah I think that person's right. I pretty much said screw it, good enough and voila, finished product. But who else is going to mix my stuff for me? I just record in my spare time for fun anyway.

Plus I still don't really know how to use half of the features yet.

Jason · Post by **Jason** » Thu Feb 09, 2006 2:07 am

Are you using software to mix it? If the software is free or cheap, I wouldn't mind taking a crack at mixing it. I used to know what I was doing in high school, but that was so so so very very very long ago.

Alan · Post by **Alan** » Thu Feb 09, 2006 3:27 am

I use Garageband. It came with my computer but is part of the iLife software suite.

bob · Post by **bob** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 1:17 pm

I'm getting the Nova mic slightly used for $13 this weekend. But then I need a mixer. I've been looking at the Alesis MultiMix 8 Firewire, which gives me 8 recording channels (4 mic + 2 stereo line), all sent to the computer individually (the USB version only sends the master stereo mix out). It seems to be the best deal with lots of inputs. It also provides phantom power.

How's GarageBand working for you with multitrack? Is there anything I should be aware of before I spend several hundred dollars on the mixer?

Alan · Post by **Alan** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 1:47 pm

Works fine for me. I don't record more than one track at once, so I don't know how it'll handle actual multitrack recording. And I don't have any stereo inputs either. For what I do have Garageband suits my needs.

Dave · Post by **Dave** » Fri Feb 24, 2006 2:28 pm

You need more chorus. repetitive chorus. repetitive chorus. repetitive chorus.