So here it is! I started writing the song at 2:00AM and I recorded as I went along. It was 5:00AM when I was finished.
The writing is not very good as you can hear. I just scrapped this two chord sequences (F#m, E, A and C, Am, F, C) and they sounded good together, specially the transition between them. The same with the lyrics, I just wrote them as I went along. I'm not much of a singer but this time I really have to apologize. My throat hadn't recovered from my last cold so it failed me when I try to hit some high notes.
The recording was the real focus here. My main goal with this song was testing the quality of my macbook mic (!) when capturing distorted guitar sounds. Though this little fella is great for voice, it sucks ass for guitars. This time it kinda worked cause I really wanted that filthy garage sound, but I really have to get a decent mic for more ambitious sounding guitars (and I'm yet to try the bass).
Though everything other that the guitar sound was done in Garageband (the recording, arranging, sound bank drum track, voice equalization), I used Audio Hijack for the mp3, cause I don't like the mp3 compression I get with the former.
My favorite thing about this song is that little solo near the end. Using the same distortion as before (just a little tweak to bring up the bass) I added a duo phaser modulation. Hear that strange feedback? I had my effects pedal output connected to the pc speakers instead of an amp, so I used one of the speakers to control that feedback by bringing it close to the pickups with my left hand as I tapped the melody with my right hand. I took a picture so you could understand what I mean:
Notice my left hand holding the speaker near the PUsThat's it for my first post! Comments are very much appreciated!
6 comments:
nice one. the idea of using the pc speaker as a portable feedback unit is interesting. physically (i mean the use not he physics), it's like using the ebow, but the ebow is to emulate the strings sound when bowed. i wonder if there is something like that in the market.
I think I'll try to build a feedback unit just like that: take a speaker, connect it to the effects pedal and maybe get a wristband to hold it.
I wonder if you could bring out specific harmonics doing that. For instance, if you managed to multiply the fundamental frequency by 8 maybe (and I'm not sure about that) you could have sort of a feedback only specifically 3 octaves higher than the note you were playing.
Let the bitch scream!
Maybe, with an effect made specially for that. The feedback is "playing" the duo phaser, the only thing i can control with my pedal is the speed...
You really, really, really, really got to get MAX/MSP :P
agradou-me o noise da distorção e a estrutura da linha de voz faz lembrar o senhor Sebastian do DFA 1979 no seu projecto a solo. muito bom!!
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