⫸STICKY⫷ Post your Recordings - Lets hear em, Kid.mp3

[foodcrisis]

These two recordings are from a solo album (CD Collection) that I performed and recorded as a project between 2002 and 2004.

It's basically a a musical journal of what I was going through during the period more than a musical statement. It's full of mistakes, bumps and warts complete to you, so there's that..

It involves a lot of LSD and steel guitars, with some synth work. Don't ding me on the drums, I did the best I can as a guitarist/keyboard playing engineer.

Anyways, they are two productions of the same composition.

This one:



As well as this dry version:

sounds like the cops are going by in the back ground at the end of the first track. lol. that's always funny to hear in people's recordings... anyways, appreciate your work. i think you are the poster that might've mentioned nashville tuning which i saw a bunch of people doing on you tube cause your mention if that was you. was wondering how you played guitar. love the style of the drums too.

 

[Cheshire_Kat]

sounds like the cops are going by in the back ground at the end of the first track. lol. that's always funny to hear in people's recordings... anyways, appreciate your work. i think you are the poster that might've mentioned nashville tuning which i saw a bunch of people doing on you tube cause your mention if that was you. was wondering how you played guitar. love the style of the drums too.

Thanks for the comment.

Yes, the background was a sound collage about 8 layers deep that were captured live; The train sound is the Chicago EL, the storm is multiple mic sources, the bell is a local church bell. Even the snoring was live mic'd (my wife sleeping through it all).

As far as "the guitar", it was not Nashville tuning:

Bass guitar was Fender Jazz Bass directly into the mixer
Rhythm guitar was a Fender tele (bridge pickup) through a Fender Princeton Reverb and mic'd with a SM-57
There were two lead guitars that play a "call and response" conversation, both of them steel guitars

The instrument playing the call was a Fender Champion 6 string lap steel tuned to an open E tuning ( E B E G# B E ) into a Fender Deluxe Amp (5E3) mic's with a SM57
The instrument playing the response was a Sho~Bud double neck pedal steel. I was using the treble neck ( 10 strings) tuned to an E9 (B D# E F# G# F# E D# B)

This Fender lap steel looks just like mine



This is a Sho~Bud very similar to mine. I used this video becuase I'm lazy, and it gives an example of how this instrument is played and also how it sounds
This individual is using a flat pick instead of the traditional finger/thumb picks. I'm just old fashioned some times.



Both steel guitars sound a lot like slide guitar because they are unfretted, with pitch being determined by the position of a "Steel" which is held in the left hand. The right (picking) hand uses a thumb pick and four metal finger picks usually associated with the banjo.

 

[foodcrisis]

Thanks for the comment.

Yes, the background was a sound collage about 8 layers deep that were captured live; The train sound is the Chicago EL, the storm is multiple mic sources, the bell is a local church bell. Even the snoring was live mic'd (my wife sleeping through it all).

As far as "the guitar", it was not Nashville tuning:

Bass guitar was Fender Jazz Bass directly into the mixer
Rhythm guitar was a Fender tele (bridge pickup) through a Fender Princeton Reverb and mic'd with a SM-57
There were two lead guitars that play a "call and response" conversation, both of them steel guitars

The instrument playing the call was a Fender Champion 6 string lap steel tuned to an open E tuning ( E B E G# B E ) into a Fender Deluxe Amp (5E3) mic's with a SM57
The instrument playing the response was a Sho~Bud double neck pedal steel. I was using the treble neck ( 10 strings) tuned to an E9 (B D# E F# G# F# E D# B)

This Fender lap steel looks just like mine



This is a Sho~Bud very similar to mine. I used this video becuase I'm lazy, and it gives an example of how this instrument is played and also how it sounds
This individual is using a flat pick instead of the traditional finger/thumb picks. I'm just old fashioned some times.



Both steel guitars sound a lot like slide guitar because they are unfretted, with pitch being determined by the position of a "Steel" which is held in the left hand. The right (picking) hand uses a thumb pick and four metal finger picks usually associa

yeah, a few pages back you commented about learning nashville tuning or being introduced to it or something when i was talking about how i was playing in different tunings in this thread... cool to know this isn't nashville tuning.

i've never tried those types of guitars. i've seen people do cool stuff with them. i've been thinking about getting a banjo and seeing if i can do anything with it. i had an injured back and was just using guitars flat on my lap playing with my thumb for a while cause playing regular would mess with my back. i went to a spine doctor that said my back probably got better and i can hold the guitar normal now and do some more standard folk stuff. i'm pretty excited to get to experiment again. i'm wondering if there are any bizarre tunings that no one played on banjo. i find a lot of stuff that i can't find anyone else has done on guitar that seems to make sense to me. i listen to a lot of weird indie rock though. total different feel from your music, but i love the style of the song you did. definitely awesome style all around.

 

[Cheshire_Kat]

yeah, a few pages back you commented about learning nashville tuning or being introduced to it or something when i was talking about how i was playing in different tunings in this thread... cool to know this isn't nashville tuning.

i've never tried those types of guitars. i've seen people do cool stuff with them. i've been thinking about getting a banjo and seeing if i can do anything with it. i had an injured back and was just using guitars flat on my lap playing with my thumb for a while cause playing regular would mess with my back. i went to a spine doctor that said my back probably got better and i can hold the guitar normal now and do some more standard folk stuff. i'm pretty excited to get to experiment again. i'm wondering if there are any bizarre tunings that no one played on banjo. i find a lot of stuff that i can't find anyone else has done on guitar that seems to make sense to me. i listen to a lot of weird indie rock though. total different feel from your music, but i love the style of the song you did. definitely awesome style all around.

There is no real secret to Nashville tuning. The lower four strings are tuned exactly one octave higher, the top two remain untouched. Usually one drops one or two string gauge down on the bottom four strings to make raising that octave possible. Since the bottom four are still tuned E A D F you don't even have to adjust any notes, it just has more jangle.

Steel guitars have plenty of jangle. The only other thing I do different in that recording was patch both steels through this pedal.



It's an analog flanger, (long long out of production) that allows full though zero flanging. Most flangers don't cross the zero "in time" but this one does; when you crossover and through zero there's a region where the "jet plane sound" becomes unstable and gurgles in a most unique way that is normally only done with "true flanging" using two tape recorders.

The way I use it is to tune the comb filter to around the zero point and use it in manual mode ( no sweep ) and use the steel (in my left hand) to gently rock and undulate it on the string. This allows me to control the flanging with the steel. Makes a real haunting sound.

You can approximate the sound with a normal flanger minus the gurgle
Hope this makes sense

 

[foodcrisis]

topping this to post my new track and tell a little story. i don't post all my tracks that i make, but this is a pretty cool one and i want to tell the story of how it was made... if anybody checks out my track, they should check out the above poster Chesire_Kat's too. it's pretty cool... anyways here's my track.




i wasn't planning on making this today. i try not to play guitar all that often because it bothers my back. i try to limit myself to a short session a week, every few days at most... anyways, i was drinking three cups of coffee over the course of like three hours and smoking a lot of pot, and i went for a walk to get a red bull and sushi to increase my buzz and get some nourishment while i walked. i was talking and doing poetry rapping along to a hand held radio which i record with a camera for ideas and because i like to listen to myself rap later on or if anything worth posting to the internet happens. anyways, my adrenaline was going pretty hard and i was walking down the main streets of the suburbs with a lot of loud cars, so i was kinda spun high as fuck which was really fun for me... anyways, i got my red bull and sushi in the store. this older lady with a few things ahead of me in line was like "is that all you have?" talking about my items and i was like "yeah. do you want to let me go in front of you" and she kept talking to me being like "you're yelling" and instead of being like "sorry. i'll try to keep it down". i played it as that's who i am and she should accept me. anyways, it was kind of weird, but i was pretty nice. i admit, my adrenaline was going when i first talked to her, but i did quiet down a bit when i tried to say that's who i am, and she kept being like "you're yelling". i was just trying to be friendly and i feel like i met a lot of cool people when i was growing up that raise their voice when they are friendly,, so that was kinda the vibe i had or i'd think so... idk. anyways, i have schizophrenia and got pretty paranoid i was being gang stalked because of this. like i kept cool and didn't have any bad physical reactions, it was a pretty chill high, but i kept having bad thoughts about people getting me in trouble cause i have to move to federal housing and even if i get caught walking home from the dispensary with weed if the cop checks my ID and realizes i'm at federal housing, they can kick me out of the housing, and even send me to prison for a year... kept thinking people are gonna what i'd call "gang stalk me" and have me searched. idk... anyways, i kept rapping and when i was walking down main street, there wasn't a lot of cars. the band bush's machine head was playing and i made this rap "i got a ma-ma-ma-chine head... ba-ba-better than the rest.. in case you're def.. i'll be yelling in you're ear".. i don't know. i thought it was awesome. i kept repeating it and flicking through the radio stations. i thought i was causing a huge spectacle which i didn't like, but when i went back home and reviewed the footage i wasn't being very loud at all and even a cop probably wouldn't've thought anything of it. i got by cops acting weird all the time.. ... hah. i couldn't get the lady out of my head though. i thought she might've been gas lighting me with the police so i'd think i was louder than i am. don't really know. i don't really feel like the police are out to get me if i don't do anything illegal, but i think they get people to like ask me to buy alcohol all the time and shit.. anyways i was gonna just chill and listen to ASMR and breath really well from all the caffeine when i got home, that was my plan but i spent hours making this track, photographing some drawings and paintings i did and editing the video.. so far i've listened the the track for like two hours. i really like it.... anyways. i thought i should post this in trip repots. lol... but this is probably the appropriate section to post my video. this is just a "my coffee weed and adrenaline sent into paranoia by an old lady gang stalker trip report".. sorry if this is TL,DR. i just really wanted to put this story into writing some where... i probably would've made this song anyways, but it went super smooth going insane trying to keep bad shit out of my head. everything just pieced together.

 

[NoiseNinja]