I just got the new Guitar World in the mail. It has Hendrix on the cover, so I doubt I'm going to even bother looking at it.

Seriously, they've done a "classic rock special" at least 3 times this year.

So I was in bed earlier today, ill, and my friend suddenly comes in with a large box saying happy birthday (it was my bday 3 months ago) and this was in the box. Sweet!

[url]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v332/elwright/DSCF1239.jpg[/url]

(its a fretless, elctro-acoustic bass for those who dont care enough to click on the link)

if you have looked at it then excuse me for the mess and broken bedroom furniture

[QUOTE=IhateUsernames]Girls and booze don't mix.

I truely hate alcohol.[/QUOTE]
Indeed.

Wrote a song yesterday. We're finishing it today and then I'll play it for you.

I bought a keyboard today for 20 bucks. I cant play it through the computer, though :-/

[QUOTE=Slug]I bought a keyboard today for 20 bucks. I cant play it through the computer, though :-/[/QUOTE]

I believe I still have that video of you playing the keyboard SOMEWHERE on my computer.

[QUOTE=EightMilesHigh]I believe I still have that video of you playing the keyboard SOMEWHERE on my computer.[/QUOTE]

You mean you didnt build a shrine in honor of it?

I also got a book by my favorite author, Chuck Klosterman

[QUOTE=JonM]Wrote a song yesterday. We're finishing it today and then I'll play it for you.[/QUOTE]

Was it about love?

I need something good to read.

recommend plz

[QUOTE=BillCosby]I need something good to read.

recommend plz[/QUOTE]

[I]We[/I] by Yevgeni Zamyatin is happy times.

Chuck Palaniuk's Fight Club. Excellent book.

[QUOTE=Slug]You mean you didnt build a shrine in honor of it?[/QUOTE]

Coulda, shoulda, woulda.

Read Fargo Rock City.

The Ninja by Eric Van Lustbader!

[url=http://www.icompositions.com/auditorium/showphoto.php?photo=19714]Here[/url]'s the track I did yesterday/today. Let me know what you think. I don't like the Audio Arena.

Da[font=]mn[/font] you and your m4a. I'll have a listen when I get home.

[QUOTE=JonM][url=http://www.icompositions.com/auditorium/showphoto.php?photo=19714]Here[/url]'s the track I did yesterday/today. Let me know what you think. I don't like the Audio Arena.[/QUOTE]

I liked it. Alot. Good nighttime music. It was real catchy without losing it's trippiness.

BTW, I'm uploading something in the YSI thread soon that you might want (or maybe not, idk)

I can sincerely praise you on a job well-done, JonM. The vocals are a little too Wayne Coyne, maybe, but it's all very well played, and interesting to listen to.

[QUOTE=Zappa]I can sincerely praise you on a job well-done, JonM. The vocals are a little too Wayne Coyne, maybe, but it's all very well played, and interesting to listen to.[/QUOTE]

The vocals were very Wayne Coyne. I liked it.

I concur.

[QUOTE=Zappa]I can sincerely praise you on a job well-done, JonM. The vocals are a little too Wayne Coyne, maybe, but it's all very well played, and interesting to listen to.[/QUOTE]

Well thank you! I wanted to redo the vocals, since I sort of came home hung over and shouted them into the microphone in one take, but the guy I was working with convinced me that that was exactly the point. We're working on an EP-length thing, and I'll post the progress.

And thanks to you all. Especially you, my snidget, for one of the best leaks of all the amazing leaks we've gotten our hands on around here.

[QUOTE=JonM]And thanks to you all. Especially you, my snidget, for one of the best leaks of all the amazing leaks we've gotten our hands on around here.[/QUOTE]

:) /happydance

It's the first of tha month (wake up wake up, get up get up)

No it's not, it's the second.

[QUOTE=JonM]And thanks to you all. Especially you, my snidget, for one of the best leaks of all the amazing leaks we've gotten our hands on around here.[/QUOTE]
Wheelz old avatar.

[QUOTE=Little Man being Erased]No it's not, it's the second.[/QUOTE]

I didn't get home in time to post it on the right day :(

(I was busy)

I'm dangerously close to 1K! It'll make me look like someone who's actually been around for a lil while. Around all these crazy 10-15Kers...

People who think that metaphors and similes are always a good way to strengthen the clarity and effect of their writing tend to piss me off. Comparing something's beauty to a flower, something's brightness to sunshine, etc., does not make anything more clear or more interesting; it makes it redundant and trite. Metaphors, by their very nature, are meant to be specific. When the most specific of adjectives do not properly or fully express your idea, more extreme measures of comparison may be needed. If you don't write to express yourself, you're wasting everyone's time.

[QUOTE=Zappa]People who think that metaphors and similes are always a good way to strengthen the clarity and effect of their writing tend to piss me off. Comparing something's beauty to a flower, etc., does not make anything more clear or more interesting; it makes it redundant and trite. Metaphors, by their very nature, are meant to be specific. When the most specific of adjectives do not properly or fully express your idea, more extreme measures of comparison may be needed. If you don't write to express yourself, you're wasting everyone's time.[/QUOTE]

Where did this literary rant stem from?

It was a comment I saw on live journal that just sort of pissed me off. I put that in my own live journal, but for some reason I felt like posting it here, too.

1000.

I think that warrants a :chug:

[QUOTE=asymm]1000.[/QUOTE]

(h5)

My dad bought a 21 horse power lawn mower today, its huge.

[QUOTE=something vague]It was mainly br3ad/Liberi.

Good times.

:cool::cool::cool::cool::cool::cool::cool::cool:
Is it just me, or is this face extremely adorable?[/QUOTE]

You'll live.

My new tattoo:

[url]http://i20.photobucket.com/albums/b238/vallely/IMG_0113.jpg[/url]

Go on...flame me for it....you know you want to!

[QUOTE=IhateUsernames]Wheelz old avatar.[/QUOTE]

Bringin it back. I think I discovered Doom because of that avatar. And it's too irresistable; someone's got to have it.

I just posted my track in the Audio Arena. Bad call?

[QUOTE=Zappa]It was a comment I saw on live journal that just sort of pissed me off. I put that in my own live journal, but for some reason I felt like posting it here, too.[/QUOTE]
So wait....do you agree or disagree with it?

[b]ATTN: Leiferikson[/b]

[u]How I recorded "For Another One"[/u]

It was recorded on an Apple G4 PowerBook with a lot of RAM, which I bought for exactly this purpose. If you don't have a beefy computer, and a LARGE hard drive, straight-to-computer recording probably isn't for you. I use GarageBand for recording and tracking, and it easily syncs with Reason, which I use for building loops, as well as some mastering. I do the percussion and ambient noises on Reason, export the loops as WAV to the desktop, and just click and drag them into GB. Couldn't be easier.

As far as recording, I've got two peripheral devices that are key: The first is a TASCAM US-122 USB interface, which has two inputs balanced L and R, each of which can either be an XLR or 1/4" input, and it provides 40v of phantom power for a condenser mic (I have an M-Audio Nova). You set GarageBand to use that device for input AND output, plug monitors into the headphones jack of the TASCAM, [u]not[/u] the computer, and then you use the TASCAM's direct monitoring volume knob to adjust your monitor level relative to the playback volume. Like I said, the inputs are balanced L and R, so we used L for instruments and R for the mic. That way, we could set a constant output volume on the TASCAM, and just adjust recording volume on GB. So, in GarageBand, you make a new track and set it to be MONO on the channel you're using, depending on if it's a vocal or instrument track, so instruments would be L and vocals would be R, get it? That way, you get a stereo signal. Otherwise, the instruments would only play in the left speaker, and the vocals would only play in the right speaker.

We did vocal effects in GarageBand, which is really versatile for that, but the guitars and bass were done through the next peripheral device, which is a Behringer V-AMP2, which is, in my opinion, all the bang of the top-of-the-line POD for half the price. It's one of the best amp modelers I've ever heard. You just plug it straight into the TASCAM and set the V-AMP volume at the level just below where playing as loud as you can possibly play would clip (there's an overload light on each of the TASCAM's inputs for watching that). I made all the guitar tones there, listening through the TASCAM's direct monitoring, and then just recorded it in GB as a blank track with no effects, though I did do the balance on the GB track. We did one of the bass tones with the V-AMP, too, though it's a guitar device, and they make a separate one for bass. We did the other bass tone with GarageBand effects and set the V-AMP to plain, clean tone. GB effects are fine, just not nearly as good as the V-AMP.

As far as the technical side, that's the whole story. If I need to clarify anything, just let me know.

Thanks Jon that was absolutely legendary of you to do that. That is pretty much EXACTLY the info I needed. We already have a a similar setup- G4 Powerbook with GB, mic+monitors (of dubious quality i have to admit) and (I think) the Korg equivalent of the V-AMP2. Im just going to have to put my Ebow purchase on hold and get the TASCAM.

Have you ever used this setup to record live? As in plugging mics into both L+R and recording all the instruments and vocals at once onto one track in GB? What does that sound like? I can just see myself getting frustrated with mastering all this but you do make it sound relatively easy.

Thanks again. I am well and truly in your debt kind sir