Who here is a musician?

[KitsuneAndy]

If you have pro tools you automatically qualify as official mixer producer...can you drive it?

I have only got a Roland VS1880 hard disc recorder which is pretty good...but not in the pro tools league.

I'll have a good idea of how much time I can lend out by the end of the week, but more than likely I can.

All I'd need is for each instrument to be in a separate audio file, doesn't matter what format and don't worry about trying to match volumes or anything, I'll normalise all the tracks when mixing it together.

 

[Bigtallfatbloke]

Ok...thats superb..many thanks mate!

Ok...so we have our mixer/engineer/producer

Drums are down

so off you all go and do your stuff.....

anybody care to start the ball rolling with some lyric ideas?

 

[KitsuneAndy]

I have only got a Roland VS1880 hard disc recorder which is pretty good...but not in the pro tools league.

On the subject of recorders, the Pro Tools system is actually fairly cheap. I think a lot of people don't bother looking into it because they assume it's very expensive.

I picked up the Pro Tools MBOX for £300 brand new before they merged with M-Audio, if anything it'll be cheaper now knowing M-Audio.

It comes with the full Pro Tools LE software, the MBOX which has built in mic pre-amps, line out's SPDIF in and out and XLR balanced inputs. I also got sample versions of a couple of IK Media plug-ins such as Amplitube, which is a very good amp simulator if you ever need to use midi-guitars. (Or want to make pounding industrial drums even more evil )

 

[mikeitup]

Sounds good!!

BTW, two of my so called "tracks" (ha ha) for your amusement:

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=166177367


Couldn't quite get the mix right on the 1st one.
And I know there are duff notes on the 2nd but I finished recorded at 3 am and could not be arsed to do it again.

 

[Rhythm Thief]

Wow, you lot have gone way out of my depth with all this talk of pro tools and cubase. I have no idea how to record stuff on my computer, sorry! I suppose I could use my band's studio to put things on a CD, then upload it, but it won't be anytime soon ... maybe someone more technologically advanced should play rhythm guitar.

 

[Bigtallfatbloke]

Maybe this will help....

Do you have a microphone and a sound card on your pc (mic in)? or some kind of DI (direct in) box? I use a Line six pod.

Do you have any pc recording software at all? You could even use the basic on board windows recorder on your pc.

Start>all programmes>accesories>entertianment>sound recorder.

Plug in a mic...place mic in front of guitar/amp hit record and play.

Save the resultant file and upload it to

www.yousendit.com posting the link it generates for you on this board

...

 

[Rhythm Thief]

Ok, I'll try, although the sound isn't working at all on my computer at the moment and I'll have to get a mic from the band. Cheers for the advice!

 

[Bigtallfatbloke]

good idea...make sure you tell them we only want green m &m's in the dressing rooms!


...now whose doing this guide guitar/piano/keys part? Just need some chords laying down....the rest will follow

As and when completed tracks get posted I will post them up in th eorigional post on this thread for ease of finding them by all.

 

[Amanda P]

OK, OK, I'll do it. But it might have to wait till Saturday - I have rehearsals and gigs every evening this week, and a day job to do....

Bloody work. Gets in the way of music....

Drummer's tempo is a little variable, and there are 80 bars (an odd number to pick). So if/when I get around to recording something, I may sample and loop some 4 or 8-bar stretches of drums, then re-post a new drum track made from the loops. The rhythm guitar guide will line up with that.

 

[Amanda P]

Oh, and I don't use Cubase or anything technical like that. I use Audacity and the sound card on my laptop, plus a Sony mic for groups of instruments, an elderly but very clean-sounding AKG mic for vocals and single instruments, or the DI out socket on my amp for anything electronic.

 

[Bigtallfatbloke]

..ok go for it!

 

[oxbob]

i can play the windpipe http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=5238492

 

[Bigtallfatbloke]

windpipes are good

...ok we need to get organised...so...

Everybody who wants in should first download the drum part and take a listen to the 'vibe'. The link is in the first post in this thread.

Uncle Phil is going to do the basic chords/guide part and mess with the drums a little...at that point we will have our songs 'backbone'...over which we can all lay down our individual parts.

 

[Amanda P]

But don't wait for me - if you want to add something, please go ahead.

I'll post the chords I use here so you don't have to work out what they are by listening...

 

[Amanda P]

Ok, I'm a little behind schedule, but I have an hour or so free this evening to do some guitar or bass stuff.

In the meantime, I've tinkered with BTFB's drum track. The results are:

The isolated intro beat
A 12-bar segment, which I've looped five times, plus the intro beat to make a
60-bars-and-a-beat drum track
And here's the original complete drum track (BTFB's link has expired, this one won't).

More tracks will be posted when I've recorded them.