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We had a good time. Some old man saw the guitars when Chris got dropped off and asked if he could come listen and we said hell yeah, then as we were playing, there was knocking in his door, and Verle hollers out who is it, and the guy says, its your neighbor. I thought he was going to say we were being too loud, but he wanted to come in and listen too!

Thanks. That one did not have any lyrics until one day me and Chris were playing it out in the back yard and I told him just sing what you or we are doing, like that Otis guy in that dock of the bay song, so thats what he did. He sang what we were doing. LoL

It's a fun one. It took some work and it's a bag of tricks combined into the results. It was fun. It was definitely fun.

It requires really precise and consistent pressure, but once you nail that it's good to go. It's a very light touch which means you can speed up your fretting.

I highly recommend playing with one before buying it.

I'm way out in the middle of Nowhere, Maine. But, I actually met a few people from the old Voat. One of them still emails but they're busy with the real world shit they have to cope with.

Glad ya liked it. I figured it was a good time to finish up an original and share it.

I can do all sorts of genres as originals, but they just take so much time.

I've outgrown their bad poetry, but I still dug the sound.

https://youtu.be/wwvFXUG78IA

I usually use a looper. It's 5 tracks. 4 guitar takes, though it sounds like 1 in the background. And one on the lead. And the bass. I started with a drum track, but wasn't crazy about it, so just deleted it.

Well, it's a long road to get the buzzes, pops, clicks and hisses out as an amateur. There are a few ways.

The easiest is to play really loud while the mic sensitivity is turned down.

Then, in post production, "Normalize", each track separately. After you normalize, turn the gain down on each track to get the mix right, but 0.0db gain is too much. Start at -12.

My current recording set up is based on speed with the bare minimum sound quality requirements. I like to sit down and have a track done in less than an hour. "deploy and forget".

This allows me to create way more content and I find that producing 48 tracks quickly gets me 12 tracks I love faster than spending 8 hours per track.

Right now, I've got a bass, electric drum kit and a few guitars that all go into a custom combiner I had Saturnworks pedals make.

Then, the combiner goes into a Boss RC 30 looper. I use this looper merely for clean segments and getting the timing perfect.

Next is the Digitech Trio+. It will do a good job... not great... of generating bass and drums. This has two outs, the instrument out and is generative output. For this reason, I usually use what it generates as a guide for my own bass and drums. I'm not currently doing anything with the generative output other than having it go into a small bass Amp.

The instrument out goes into a Fender Mustang whose amp modeling is controlled via a tablet, to switch back and forth quickly.

From the Fender Mustang, the line then goes into a Hologram Microcosm with looper. This is the primary looper I use, because each track now has its own nuances from the different amp sounds.

This line then goes into the computer where I generally record with Audacity and mix down with Audacity. Or, if I want to play on a nicer amplifier, I'll mic it and plug the mic into the computer.

Right now, the way I have it, is what I prefer to more elaborate setups mainly because I can sit down and have something usable in an hour... something roughly production quality.

Direct input into the computer with so many pedals has generally been problematic and you need to find the right set that won't allow interference. They need to be high quality and your house electricity needs to be grounded right, etc.