anybody write/record your own music?

[Jack D Ripper]

got any to share? heres some originals Ive recorded recently, what do you guys think?

"Pancho's Last Ride"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43DhRvLwPdQ

"Crossing the Tracks"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eK7uXAO0UQM

"Free Derry"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RPFXCpqDGI

I record everything on my PC through the 1/8 inch (headphone sized) input on my sound card and a $25 mic, and I use cakewalk 2002. Cheapest studio ever!

 

[Jack D Ripper]

Thanks Excel! Im really happy you like it. I wish I could play classical, but Im way to random with my playing (and really slow reading music). I come from the david gilmour school of writing music: Record hours of playing, pick your favorite licks, and put them together into an uber-solo... Im not really fast, but I really like melodic stuff.

 

[Berry_Coughin']

sounds kinda muffled digital..... you would sound extremely better mic'd through a nice preamp....

rock on :

 

[TheAfficianado]

I enjoyed your stuff. I thought I heard references to Willie Nelson's "Pancho and Lefty", Robin Trower's "Bridge of Sighs", Jimi Hendrix "Little Wing", and some of the production techniques of the Beatles/George Harrison. I could be wrong.

I was wondering what you are recording on? Is it an analogue/digital four track or are you recording to a computer like into Propellerhead Reason or Cakewalk?

I have the feeling your either Irish or have some kin in Ireland from the films. I've got western Scottish ancestry myself, so I hear all about the Scoti from my older relatives.

Nice work and effort, if I had one suggestion, it would be to re-record the "Pancho" tune with a click track to be deleted later if you want to keep the current feel. Playing at slow tempos against a single track of rhythm-- whole notes or longer on chords with no click track or metronome creates an expanding and contracting feel (which might be exactly what you wanted for the song). But it seemed like you had decided on a tempo before hand. What I do is record the metronome onto a track intending to never bounce it, simply so it is in my ear as I record. Just my two cents.

The Afficianado

 

[Jack D Ripper]

Im using a cheap zoom pedal for the digi effects, and the distortion channel on my Fender Princeton Chorus (I know, I wish I had some tubes) for some of it. Then through my imitation SM 58 an dinto cakewalk for multitracking.

and I did use a click track for the beginning of pancho (how did you know?!?) its another trick I picked up from Gilmour... he has to use one for the beginning of Shine on you crazy diamond right?

I was listening to Pancho and Lefty a lot when I wrote that song, anly the townes van zant version. But thats where I got the name.

 

[Berry_Coughin']

oh no not an sm 58 but an imitation shure mic....

shure is bad enough but an imitation shure

look into an EV

 

[USMC-Toker]

wow great stuff man, I write my own music trying to get into the studip to record some songs, 2 things im most passionate about music and buds. keep up the tunes man.

 

[TheAfficianado]

Now I feel like a dumbass, I even have that Townes album! Townes definitely penned the tune and Nelson's is a cover. But they are both great versions. My bad.

The Afficianado