This song started on the Maschine. It was only bussed to Ableton for “better” mixing and mastering. It is inspired by an old friend of mine who I played many musical theater jobs with, and a few jazz trio gigs. The theater jobs were almost exclusively with Underscore Theater, though I do remember one with Read More …
Tag: The Bedroom Rocker
EQ Tips
– Less is more with all things equalization. If you are making big changes such as more than a 3dB raise then look to getting a better source sound. If it does not sound good going in to the processor, it will not sound good coming out. There are cases, where you do want a Read More …
Slipstream Chase
This song is inspired by some of the stop animation films my daughter started creating. This came up after seeing a few of these and being super proud of her. 1bluebass · Slipstream Chase
R2 Unit
This tune is old. I used to perform this one with Machine Tools as well. This might be one of the last tunes that I still have that was started back on Acid. I mean the old music software program by Sonic Foundry. I really used to love that program a lot back in the Read More …
Drum Room Project :: Cleaning my new Drums
So as I mentioned in a previous post, that I traded an old drum set for an old AC window unit that I no longer needed. The drums had been living in a closet for some time, and were very rusty. Very Rusty. Before they get played or even setup a thorough cleaning was in Read More …
Stretching Too Far
For the Song I am writing this entry from memory. There are no initial notes for this song. Finally had got this new VST working, and this popped out. That literally was how this song started. The initial working title was “Long Chords”. Couldn’t think of anything else. It seems that initial naming of something Read More …
Minor Illusions
The third song on my first album, Initial Experiments, was started as chords on the bass which is how the song starts. This is the first tune I recorded with live instruments along with VST instruments. Once I came up with the chord progression, I manually entered it into Ableton using the pencil tool. All Read More …
Drum Room Project
In the later summer of 2022 I traded an older window Air Conditioning unit for a Drum set. The kit is not 100% full. missing some cymbals, but I no longer needed the AC unit, so drums seemed a worthwhile trade. My wife was not the happiest of people, but was still incredibly supportive. The Read More …
Hello from the Bedroom Rocker!
I just went ahead and ran the auto installer cause I am tired of procrastinating. I know I could do it manually, I just haven’t done it, and I don’t have a good reason for that. The Scriptaculous installer had given me a tone of problems with file permissions. Didn’t matter what theme I chose Read More …
Getting Started :: The Basic Home Studio Setup
Here is my basic home studio listing to get setup and started making music in your home. This is bare bones as I could make it. I have some links to gear, sites, channels all sorts of things to help get you started. 5 Things Computer – In the past I might have said that Read More …