Weekend part 1 - Bass

[sharplittleteeth]

I've injured my knee. Nothing major, but it's meant I'm off karate for the week.

Not thrilled abut it. I've got a grading in a few weeks. And since we'll be in Sydney for the weekend, I'm already missing classes.

Oh well. Chin up.

Friday after work, I bought the bass guitar I meant to buy before being seduced by the peacock blue acoustic. Then I got lug said bass and its massive rectangular hard case up three flights of stairs to the Order of Melbourne bar for a workmate's farewell drinks.

Nice bar, that, if outrageously expensive. They hold Red Door Burlesque there, and we really should get along one day.

The glorious daylight hours of Saturday were spent huddled over my MacBook Pro, trying to convince GarageBand to record my guitar playing as something other than muddy noise.

Sunday was more hunching over the MacBook. Managed to record five songs, although they're all rougher than barbed-wire toilet paper.

And when GarageBand exports them to MP3s, they all come out really really quiet. So I've got to go learn some audio engineering skills to figure that one out.

(I've tried Google. All the pages say "It's really complicated and difficult and very much case-by-case. Go read some articles on audio engineering.")

You can hear one of my really really quiet songs up here: http://www.myspace.com/sharplittleteeth
(Listen at own risk).

Comments

[trayce.livejournal.com]

Hmm. I dunno how things work on a Mac, but Rob does all his recording with his PC. The key point might be that he has an external mixing board he pipes his amp/mic/guitars/pedals etc through and thats then fed singly into the PC (I think), and then he adds layers of drum programming and synths using Fruity Loops or Buzz. Always sounds quite well mixed, but I'm not sure how he does it.