So, listen, I'd like a little balance in here. Too often I find myself blabbing about doing this and that and I only hope that people are interested to hear about my Squids-adventures in music. But this forum isn't all about us, we want to know about you! So, if you would, tell us about yourself such as what type of music you do and the sequencing and sample software you use. Also if you have some cool stories of playing live or a recording session feel free to share that too! Or simply talk about the music projects you're working on or what you hope to accomplish in 2009... let's talk. If you want to talk about how you work, what sort of music-related jobs you do or have done or want to do... let's hear about it!
If you want to share we're listening.
Talk about yourself
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- Sonic Reality Head Chef
- 8566 posts since 11 Mar, 2002 from Florida
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- KVRian
- 1173 posts since 9 Jul, 2006 from Germany
Nice idea!
my person:
Jens, 37 years old!
Instruments: guitars - first of all acoustical, but lately some e-guitars as well.
Learned guitar by the age of 10 or 11. Strumming .... no notation stuff, only chords.
Then it came to classical stuff with notation and so on ... not my cup of tea.
So, in a normal way the guitar would have been deleted out of my life. But I had been lucky and our school band came up!
So i played several years in our school band (doing stuff like U2 and lots out of the 80s ).
Then I only played acoustical guitar for myself since i ran out of time on making music with other guys - I went the "sports way" ... playing handball - with ambitions and I could finance my time at the university....!
NOW I'd like like to play in an band again! I came back closer to music by doing a bit homerecording!
If you'd like to .... I could post a little song of mine! If not ... That'd be as well!
Cheers! Jens
PS: Sorry for ma bad english - I'm from germany!
my person:
Jens, 37 years old!
Instruments: guitars - first of all acoustical, but lately some e-guitars as well.
Learned guitar by the age of 10 or 11. Strumming .... no notation stuff, only chords.
Then it came to classical stuff with notation and so on ... not my cup of tea.
So, in a normal way the guitar would have been deleted out of my life. But I had been lucky and our school band came up!
So i played several years in our school band (doing stuff like U2 and lots out of the 80s ).
Then I only played acoustical guitar for myself since i ran out of time on making music with other guys - I went the "sports way" ... playing handball - with ambitions and I could finance my time at the university....!
NOW I'd like like to play in an band again! I came back closer to music by doing a bit homerecording!
If you'd like to .... I could post a little song of mine! If not ... That'd be as well!
Cheers! Jens
PS: Sorry for ma bad english - I'm from germany!
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"The 'less-is-more'-guy ... he's an asshole." (Billy Decker)
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- Sonic Reality Head Chef
- Topic Starter
- 8566 posts since 11 Mar, 2002 from Florida
Thanks Jen. Yeah post a song!
Everyone else... don't be shy.
Everyone else... don't be shy.
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- KVRist
- 86 posts since 13 Apr, 2002 from " ...... high in the Custerdome"
It's a bit weird talking about yourself but here go's.
I've been around for quite awhile, I'm 50+ so I've seen many changes in the industry. I started playing guitar at about age 10, taught by my mother. Both my parents were very musical and my father played Stand-up bass in Big Bands. I played my very first gig at 13 for our local junior high and remember just about wetting myself I was so nervous. I got into recording through my father who had a day gig with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), He gave me my first mini reel to reel and taught me how to splice tape and make edits. I had a lot of fun with that and would take it to rehearsals and record the band. We were awful but it sure helped us to learn our parts better and sing harmony.
Flash Forward:
While in university, I landed a gig at a "professional" studio doing a bit of session stuff. I was blown away by the sound of the MCI 24 track two inch tape machine. The engineer was kind enough to show me a bit about the studio and I'd work both sides of the glass. If I remember correctly, the outboard consisted of a plate reverb, don't recall the make or model as I only saw it once, tucked away in a room all by it's self, and it never occurred to me to ask but seriously doubt it was an EMI. There were some Klark-Technique EQ's and an LA-2A. It took me some time to truly understand compression/limiting, why is that?
A friend told me about a small studio that had just started and we went to check it out. They had a Teac 4 track machine and board in the basement of a record store. They did some decent work but were not business men. Being young and full of pride, I thought "i can do this, only better".
Well, I invested about 20k, which was enourmous money back then and bought an Otari 8-track machine (double the tracks, twice as good eh?) plus a mixer and the first digital reverb I'd ever seen, made by Yamaha. It had four presets, incredible. Well it was quite a learning curve running your own business, maintaining the equipment, making your own cables up because you could save a bundle that way.
Went from the Otari to a Fostex B-16(not the best move) and my first computer (a Mac with 20 Mb's of hard drive). Started synching computer to tape, decided I needed to learn keyboards, still learning. Continued through ADATS and finally computer only, still have a couple of ADATS. I'm on my 7th Mac and for the last 7-8 years have been using Digital Performer. I use SampleTank alot and Kontakt 2. Too many plugs to list here, still loving it after all these years. I'm trying to think what I HAVEN'T recorded. Done lots of different sessions including your standard jingles and pop/rock stuff. I've recorded big band, classical voice and instrument including big orchestras, even Cowboy poetry and another female poet who had number of poems about her vagina, doesn't get much stranger than that.
I'm verbose, there's lots of interesting stuff, but let's hear from someone else.
Rainman
I've been around for quite awhile, I'm 50+ so I've seen many changes in the industry. I started playing guitar at about age 10, taught by my mother. Both my parents were very musical and my father played Stand-up bass in Big Bands. I played my very first gig at 13 for our local junior high and remember just about wetting myself I was so nervous. I got into recording through my father who had a day gig with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), He gave me my first mini reel to reel and taught me how to splice tape and make edits. I had a lot of fun with that and would take it to rehearsals and record the band. We were awful but it sure helped us to learn our parts better and sing harmony.
Flash Forward:
While in university, I landed a gig at a "professional" studio doing a bit of session stuff. I was blown away by the sound of the MCI 24 track two inch tape machine. The engineer was kind enough to show me a bit about the studio and I'd work both sides of the glass. If I remember correctly, the outboard consisted of a plate reverb, don't recall the make or model as I only saw it once, tucked away in a room all by it's self, and it never occurred to me to ask but seriously doubt it was an EMI. There were some Klark-Technique EQ's and an LA-2A. It took me some time to truly understand compression/limiting, why is that?
A friend told me about a small studio that had just started and we went to check it out. They had a Teac 4 track machine and board in the basement of a record store. They did some decent work but were not business men. Being young and full of pride, I thought "i can do this, only better".
Well, I invested about 20k, which was enourmous money back then and bought an Otari 8-track machine (double the tracks, twice as good eh?) plus a mixer and the first digital reverb I'd ever seen, made by Yamaha. It had four presets, incredible. Well it was quite a learning curve running your own business, maintaining the equipment, making your own cables up because you could save a bundle that way.
Went from the Otari to a Fostex B-16(not the best move) and my first computer (a Mac with 20 Mb's of hard drive). Started synching computer to tape, decided I needed to learn keyboards, still learning. Continued through ADATS and finally computer only, still have a couple of ADATS. I'm on my 7th Mac and for the last 7-8 years have been using Digital Performer. I use SampleTank alot and Kontakt 2. Too many plugs to list here, still loving it after all these years. I'm trying to think what I HAVEN'T recorded. Done lots of different sessions including your standard jingles and pop/rock stuff. I've recorded big band, classical voice and instrument including big orchestras, even Cowboy poetry and another female poet who had number of poems about her vagina, doesn't get much stranger than that.
I'm verbose, there's lots of interesting stuff, but let's hear from someone else.
Rainman
HD-FLH, spangled leather poncho, elevator shoes. Who is YOUR goucho amigo?
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- KVRist
- 166 posts since 23 Nov, 2005 from Germantown MD
Great idea!
I play lead guitar mainly, in a variety of styles (heavy metal, folk rock, etc). I recorded a CD a few years ago with a folk rock band called Revel Moon, and am getting a new band going right now.
I also compose symphonic music and have started doing film scoring for independent animated films, and am hoping to expand my repertoire next year. I am finishing up a course in orchestration through Berklee College, too.
I use a lot of IK Multimedia products -- Philharmonik, SampleTank, T-RackS, StompIO, Amplitube, etc etc etc. I also recently got a used copy of GigaStudio Orchestra. I used Philaharmonik for my projects in the Berklee course, along with SampleTank and some libraries I got from eSoundz (like the rare acoustic instruments set).
I will have mny final project done this weekend and will post it when it is completed. It even has hurdy-gurdy in it.
More music can be found here:
http://www.electricminstrel.com/disp.php?view=music
Some of the the pieces are older ones I plan to re-work now that I have gotten more experience and training under my belt
-- Brett
I play lead guitar mainly, in a variety of styles (heavy metal, folk rock, etc). I recorded a CD a few years ago with a folk rock band called Revel Moon, and am getting a new band going right now.
I also compose symphonic music and have started doing film scoring for independent animated films, and am hoping to expand my repertoire next year. I am finishing up a course in orchestration through Berklee College, too.
I use a lot of IK Multimedia products -- Philharmonik, SampleTank, T-RackS, StompIO, Amplitube, etc etc etc. I also recently got a used copy of GigaStudio Orchestra. I used Philaharmonik for my projects in the Berklee course, along with SampleTank and some libraries I got from eSoundz (like the rare acoustic instruments set).
I will have mny final project done this weekend and will post it when it is completed. It even has hurdy-gurdy in it.
More music can be found here:
http://www.electricminstrel.com/disp.php?view=music
Some of the the pieces are older ones I plan to re-work now that I have gotten more experience and training under my belt
-- Brett
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"In the rhythm of music a secret is hidden;
If I were to divulge it, it would overturn the world."
-- Jelaleddin Rumi
If I were to divulge it, it would overturn the world."
-- Jelaleddin Rumi
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- KVRist
- 86 posts since 13 Apr, 2002 from " ...... high in the Custerdome"
Hello Antii, welcome to the group, we're here to steer ya clear.
HD-FLH, spangled leather poncho, elevator shoes. Who is YOUR goucho amigo?
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- KVRian
- 540 posts since 31 Mar, 2005 from Tampere, Finland
What I stated above is true, but I guess this is about my musical things...
My parents bought me a keyboard when I was 7 or 8, I didn't like my "piano" teacher, so I quit after a year or two. When I was 14, I told my parents I wanted a guitar and they were a bit suspicious because I hadn't been so interested in the piano (in fact I was and I told them that I quit just because I thought the teacher sucked...). Well, I got my acoustic guitar for my 14th birthday. After that my friend started to teach me guitar playing and I didn't really learn too much, just the basics... I even auditioned for a local metal band for guitar, but they didn't get back to me, about guitar playing. They did get back to me a few years later and asked if I could play bass for them. I promised and bought a bass. After that I played 10 years with them till I got tired/got other activities in the city I moved to. Here's some of my playing on http://www.tritonusrock.com (it's in Finnish, but click the "Music" link to hear our songs...).
In 2004 we started a recording studio with the bands singer and I got more and more interested in computerized music making. There are only a few songs that I've done, but lots more that are just sketches for songs that I never finished. I love buying new products and love to play with them for a while, but get really frustrated because I can't finish songs, nothing is good enough for me/complex enough. I can't make simple songs, not even if I try.
Maybe some day I will get something I like, maybe I won't, but untill then, I keep trying
My parents bought me a keyboard when I was 7 or 8, I didn't like my "piano" teacher, so I quit after a year or two. When I was 14, I told my parents I wanted a guitar and they were a bit suspicious because I hadn't been so interested in the piano (in fact I was and I told them that I quit just because I thought the teacher sucked...). Well, I got my acoustic guitar for my 14th birthday. After that my friend started to teach me guitar playing and I didn't really learn too much, just the basics... I even auditioned for a local metal band for guitar, but they didn't get back to me, about guitar playing. They did get back to me a few years later and asked if I could play bass for them. I promised and bought a bass. After that I played 10 years with them till I got tired/got other activities in the city I moved to. Here's some of my playing on http://www.tritonusrock.com (it's in Finnish, but click the "Music" link to hear our songs...).
In 2004 we started a recording studio with the bands singer and I got more and more interested in computerized music making. There are only a few songs that I've done, but lots more that are just sketches for songs that I never finished. I love buying new products and love to play with them for a while, but get really frustrated because I can't finish songs, nothing is good enough for me/complex enough. I can't make simple songs, not even if I try.
Maybe some day I will get something I like, maybe I won't, but untill then, I keep trying
A guy with serious GAS and lots of unused VSTs. But if I someday need them...
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- Sonic Reality Head Chef
- Topic Starter
- 8566 posts since 11 Mar, 2002 from Florida
Very interesting guys... and Rainman!!!! From high up in the Custerdome! Missed ya man. Glad to see you're still around. Let's see if I can remember some of the original hangs of the SR forum... hmmmm... okay, not in this order but there was Rainman, Beardedone, Progfusion74, Rabid, Bluedad, DonkeyTugger (once in a while and Putte, WhyteRabbit, Amused here and there), iDavid, Caleb, Raven (R.I.P. -loved that guy, everyone did), Mr. Tunes!!!!, Jeez 
, there was a guy Tugger used to make fun of all the time and visa versa but I can't remember his name... actually I remember his real name oddly enough, his name was Dave and he lived in Bath (and had been to Real World Studios I remember)... who am I forgetting?! This is going back YEARS btw. We started the SR forum in 2001 and were the second one! The first was DashSynthesis. I remember because SampleFarm was coming out and someone (Mr. Tunes) had a thread called "Sonic Synth WTF?" and was wondering why that existed when there was already SampleTank that was also a workstation and I came in to tell the story and then they said "make a forum!" and that's how it all started. It's hard to believe how long I've been on here! Every week for 7 years... holy crap! No wonder those guys aren't around anymore!!!!! I bet they pop in once in a while. Funkybot was replaced by his evil twin. Some people probably have different nicks over the years. I've seen "Vurts" on other forums and wondered if it was the same Vurticious that was here. Meffy's been around a while. Everyone loves a Meffy. Also Mully. You say Meffy, I say Mully, let's call the whole thing off. 
Kevvvv is still around. He doesn't hang in our forum (not since I argued with him about using the word "brittle" when talking about string rosin ) but he's KVR member #14 or something like that! Good old KVR. Knoxville Records. Whatever the hell THAT is. You gotta love this place.
Keep tellin' your stories sound-o-holics!
, there was a guy Tugger used to make fun of all the time and visa versa but I can't remember his name... actually I remember his real name oddly enough, his name was Dave and he lived in Bath (and had been to Real World Studios I remember)... who am I forgetting?! This is going back YEARS btw. We started the SR forum in 2001 and were the second one! The first was DashSynthesis. I remember because SampleFarm was coming out and someone (Mr. Tunes) had a thread called "Sonic Synth WTF?" and was wondering why that existed when there was already SampleTank that was also a workstation and I came in to tell the story and then they said "make a forum!" and that's how it all started. It's hard to believe how long I've been on here! Every week for 7 years... holy crap! No wonder those guys aren't around anymore!!!!! I bet they pop in once in a while. Funkybot was replaced by his evil twin. Some people probably have different nicks over the years. I've seen "Vurts" on other forums and wondered if it was the same Vurticious that was here. Meffy's been around a while. Everyone loves a Meffy. Also Mully. You say Meffy, I say Mully, let's call the whole thing off. Kevvvv is still around. He doesn't hang in our forum (not since I argued with him about using the word "brittle" when talking about string rosin ) but he's KVR member #14 or something like that! Good old KVR. Knoxville Records. Whatever the hell THAT is. You gotta love this place. Keep tellin' your stories sound-o-holics!
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- KVRist
- 206 posts since 16 Jul, 2004 from Seattle
Well..
I'm 55 and still learning the guitar (I stop and start)and haven't produced a song in my life, but I keep playing around with Sonar and Project 5 and may compose something original (more than 2 beats) one day.
Funny thing is that I get those original riffs in my head when I'm out driving and promptly can't reproduce them when I'm home. Mostly I think I have something good, then realize that it's actually Tull, Genesis, Zep, Van Der Graaf Generator or some such.
So you see who I listen to and the new Genesis box set is on my list.
Can't remember if I have mentioned it here before, but here's my Phil Collins story.
Back in the 80's I was a "Bobby" in East London (Leyton) and while on early turn noticed a bunch of caravans/trailers down on a sports field.
Thinking perhaps that we'd been invaded by travellers, I drove down to have a look and spoke to someone, who told me they were filming a new production called Buster.
So I walked over to the far end in time to see Phil Collins do a scene and promptly walk by me and get in the back of a limo for a nap.
If you recall the film there's a section filmed in a playground with a 60's style ice cream van in the background.
Would have liked to ask for his autograph but didn't want to disturb him.
Now work for a Police Dept in the States.
The end.
I'm 55 and still learning the guitar (I stop and start)and haven't produced a song in my life, but I keep playing around with Sonar and Project 5 and may compose something original (more than 2 beats) one day.
Funny thing is that I get those original riffs in my head when I'm out driving and promptly can't reproduce them when I'm home. Mostly I think I have something good, then realize that it's actually Tull, Genesis, Zep, Van Der Graaf Generator or some such.
So you see who I listen to and the new Genesis box set is on my list.
Can't remember if I have mentioned it here before, but here's my Phil Collins story.
Back in the 80's I was a "Bobby" in East London (Leyton) and while on early turn noticed a bunch of caravans/trailers down on a sports field.
Thinking perhaps that we'd been invaded by travellers, I drove down to have a look and spoke to someone, who told me they were filming a new production called Buster.
So I walked over to the far end in time to see Phil Collins do a scene and promptly walk by me and get in the back of a limo for a nap.
If you recall the film there's a section filmed in a playground with a 60's style ice cream van in the background.
Would have liked to ask for his autograph but didn't want to disturb him.
Now work for a Police Dept in the States.
The end.
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- Banned
- 18651 posts since 2 Oct, 2001 from England
DeWaverleySquids wrote:there was a guy Tugger used to make fun of all the time and visa versa but I can't remember his name... actually I remember his real name oddly enough, his name was Dave and he lived in Bath
very funny man, very good giffer too
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- Sonic Reality Head Chef
- Topic Starter
- 8566 posts since 11 Mar, 2002 from Florida
Kriminal wrote:DeWaverleySquids wrote:there was a guy Tugger used to make fun of all the time and visa versa but I can't remember his name... actually I remember his real name oddly enough, his name was Dave and he lived in Bath
very funny man, very good giffer too
DeWaverly!!!! Thanks Krim. Yeah, he was good. KVR was so cool back then. I remember laughing my ass off reading some of those threads. Tuggsy boy would be ridiculous and right when you'd think he was completely nuts he'd share one of his songs and even DeWaverly (his arch nemesis) would have to admit... the man has talent.