Drum Room Project :: Cleaning the floor a bit

A quick post this time. Just a small post on the floor, so you can see how it started.  There are some new rugs now, by the time this post comes out, so I will add those as I get them up.  I have been busy working on other parts of the family basement.  Non-music Read More …

Drum Room Project :: Make a new ceiling

I know the curtains post, came before this one.  Things are all jumbled up right now.  I need a better media organization system, than the current one. Anyway this post highlights the building the ceiling portion of this task.  This was all basically from found lumber.  The sheets of plywood came from a friend who no Read More …

Some Kick Drum EQ Tips

More notes to myself… (and the other bedroom producers out there.) These are some of the Kick Drum EQ Tips from some recent videos.  I have yet to test these out, so YMMV. With the bass drum there could almost be a problem around 300 Hz to 600 Hz. Check the EQ. How do the Read More …

Message Management Tip – Batch Posts

This has helped me keep this site up, with minimal impact to my regular schedule so far.  Websites, and many, many other types of sites allow you to schedule posts.  This allows you to have batch creation sessions.  You can create many posts in a window of time and then schedule them to happen throughout the Read More …

More Quick & Dirty Synth Stuff

A few notes for me. How about a simple sine wave in Ableton or a similar DAW. Add in some distortion or Over drive. Draw in some automation. ofc, you can double the track. Add space with an octave. Add chorus, by bumping one of them. Normally I grab sounds and use default settings, but Read More …

Drum Room Project :: Hang Some Curtains

Drums can be quite loud, especially when you have a spouse, children, and various animals in your house as well.  The dog is not fond of the drum set at all.  My thinking, as flawed as it may be, is that it will take many layers of objects and surfaces, along with types and angles in Read More …

First Release Suggestions

I have been reading up on how the steps to do this for some a little while, and I am confident in these bare minimum requirements before anyone start releasing albums. This does not stop you from posting songs, on Soundcloud, YouTube, Jamendo, Reverb Nation, Drooble, or similar.  These are the steps meant to be Read More …

More Bass Guitar Recording Tricks

Tune the bass.  Tune the bass.  Tune the bass.  Everything harmonically else in the song is going on top of the bass.  If it is a little bit our of tune, then the rest of your tracks are not going to sound right. I like to tune the bass just a little bit flat, so Read More …