Some play music to make money(good Luck).Some can't stop writing lyrics.
Some play for fame.Some for sex.(Sex,Drugs and ROCK AND ROLL!) Some because it's fun.
Me I play because I love to play.I can play in front of people or all alone I play for me.
It's not about money or lyrics with my I'm not a song writer but I am a composer.
I hear music in me head all the time so I try to play what's in there.
Music is my life but not my livelyhood my music is free to download
because it a gift.
And I hope some of you like some of it.
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Old School
I seem to be a bit “old school” about recording music. When I started the first studio I was in was a 3 track open reel tape machine and a 12/3/2 mixer fx were done with tape as for echo,plate(4’by 8’ 1 inch thick steel plate) or room build for reverb and a flanger well that was the engineers thumb on the flang of the tape reel and phaser that was wiring the preamps out of phase.A lot of knowledge about sound and feel was around back then.
Today with computers and Protools and other programs a lot of what makes great music is lost in the ability to edit out bad notes or add notes not recorded.
Take someone off key a little and do pitch correction. I mean there comes a point when it’s no longer music but production.
I have made some concessions I use a hard disk recorder mainly because tape was getting hard to find.I use a Mac G4 with A Lot of NI Sound module software for Keyboards and I mixdown to it so I can Put my music on the web. But if I make a bad mistake I redo the track some little mistakes I may leave in I don’t use pitch correction on vocals I don’t use computer fx I still use rackmount units .I use an analog mixer. I hope my music is something some people like. I just never want to be on stage and not be able to reproduce what I have recorded.
There has been some things on SNL lately that drive that point home.
And there’s always the Milli Vinilli thing.
Making music is not about being in perfect pitch with no mistakes.
It’s about love,hate,happiness,loneliness,pain,joy,God,the Devil, and all the things that make us human. Let’s not forget that when we are recording the next big hit.
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Why I play music
Some play music to make money(good Luck).Some can't stop writing lyrics. Some play for fame.Some for sex.(Sex,Drugs and ROCK AND ROLL!) Some because it's fun.
Me I play because I love to play.I can play in front of people or all alone I play for me. It's not about money or lyrics with my I'm not a song writer but I am a composer.
I hear music in me head all the time so I try to play what's in there. Music is my life but not my livelyhood my music is free to download because it a gift. And I hope some of you like some of it.
Reply
OLD SCHOOL
Old School
I seem to be a bit “old school” about recording music. When I started the first studio I was in was a 3 track open reel tape machine and a 12/3/2 mixer fx were done with tape as for echo,plate(4’by 8’ 1 inch thick steel plate) or room build for reverb and a flanger well that was the engineers thumb on the flang of the tape reel and phaser that was wiring the preamps out of phase.A lot of knowledge about sound and feel was around back then.
Today with computers and Protools and other programs a lot of what makes great music is lost in the ability to edit out bad notes or add notes not recorded. Take someone off key a little and do pitch correction. I mean there comes a point when it’s no longer music but production.
I have made some concessions I use a hard disk recorder mainly because tape was getting hard to find.I use a Mac G4 with A Lot of NI Sound module software for Keyboards and I mixdown to it so I can Put my music on the web. But if I make a bad mistake I redo the track some little mistakes I may leave in I don’t use pitch correction on vocals I don’t use computer fx I still use rackmount units .I use an analog mixer. I hope my music is something some people like. I just never want to be on stage and not be able to reproduce what I have recorded.
There has been some things on SNL lately that drive that point home.
And there’s always the Milli Vinilli thing.
Making music is not about being in perfect pitch with no mistakes.
It’s about love,hate,happiness,loneliness,pain,joy,God,the Devil, and all the things that make us human. Let’s not forget that when we are recording the next big hit.
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