Oh look, more songs.

Posting a couple things I recorded in the past few weeks:


https://soundcloud.com/ryanimation02/polysomnogram

This one turned out pretty cool.  Started with a simple chord progression (well, deceptively simple.  Lots of sus2 and 6 and 7 chords and whatnot) to which I added the atmospheric track.  I recorded some improv solos, and then another atmospheric effect track that comes in at 3:00ish.  The end of the solo track was sort of a half-mistake that went somewhere cool.  I bent a pitch to the wrong note, so I had sort of given up on that take and just messing around kept playing that wrong pitch bend, but then started to notice it could work.  In post, I faded it out, and faded in the same track with some spacey distortion, and faded that into the atmospheric track.  Kinda neat.

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https://soundcloud.com/ryanimation02/absurburb

This was interesting.  Using a drumbeat and synths pretty unorthodox for what I usually do, I created a quick loop and went ahead and recorded a solo track.  This is one of those loops where it's bouncing back and forth between 2 different scales as the chords change, giving a bit of a jazz element to it.  I followed that pretty strictly for most of it until the ~4:00 area where it devolved into controlled noise and nonsense.  Brought in a rhythm guitar section towards the end and the lead track began to match the clean guitars.  Between this, the track at the top, and some older stuff, I've been looking more at the electronic/heavily processed side of things.  I'm thinking about getting a small MIDI controller keyboard in the future to mess around with more synth stuff.

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https://soundcloud.com/ryanimation02/improvloop

Pretty simple, just a loop of fake drums, fake bass, clean guitar, and an improv track.

A Crapload of Doodles

A bunch of sketches I had strewn about on scratch paper.

CLICK HERE to zoom in.  It's a rather large image.

Airport sketches + some music

Didn't have a lot of time in the airports this time around, only a handful of sketches.

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Written and recorded in a couple hours.  The solo is probably the best I've recorded in my opinion.  I added a second playthrough without the solo to better hear the backing track which came out pretty cool.  6 guitar tracks: 2 low rhythm, 2 harmony rhythm, solo guitar, and faked bass guitar.




2 covers of the song Perpetuum Mobile by Penguin Cafe Orchestra, done with my loop pedal.  These are two separate takes of 8-ish second layered loops (without an undo button, so essentially all the takes had to be recorded in one go without mistakes).  For the first take i was learning the song as I went along, and the second one was a bit cleaner since I already kinda knew what I was doing.



A sort of experimental piece I was toying with a few months ago and forgot about.  Posted it online very recently.  Has some really cool ideas.

Trailer Park Boys caricatures + a random song

Quick song.  The backing track is looped to save time as this was just a little progression I wrote to solo on top of.  The solo is improvised up until ~2:00.  That section was sort of written and layered as I went along.

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Blew through watching Trailer Park Boys recently.  Did some sketches during an episode in season 7 (I think)

Also as requested by my brother, Bubbles as "The Green Bastard."

Both drawings done in pen, scanned, and levels adjusted in photoshop.

Making Up Blog Post Titles Is Tedious Work: A True Story

Made another song yesterday.  It's pretty drastically different from what I usually make.



It started with playing with my loop pedal, but I decided to try and make something listenable out of it instead of the monophonic unmixed mess that is the usual result (see previous post).

All of the sounds (aside from the drums) are made with the guitar through my Line6 Pod, and straight into the computer.  The only post effects are EQ balancing and panning of individual tracks.

I was relatively smart about the EQ this time around.  Each track has a different EQ balance (there are 9 guitar tracks/1 drum track playing by the end), and each track has a range of frequencies boosted and a range that has been nearly removed, and the other tracks fill in the gaps so each track has its own frequency range to really come through.  I would normally do this, but I'm usually lazy about it.

Drums were a bit of an afterthought but they work really well with the song.  Made in Reason.

All in all a pretty neat experiment.