My band

[westin]

gore - you can get the stuff to hook a guitar into a computer for a few dollars. You just need a male to male audio cable. If you get a 1/4 inch, then you need a 1/4 to 1/8 converter, and vice versa if you get a 1/8 inch male to male. Then just plug it into your line in. You can also put pedals in between, or an amp, and use the line out on the amp, so you can have the effects.

[gore]

I've always wondered how that worked. Back in...Wow a long time ago now, I used to just take a PC mic, hook it up, and use the record sound feature you can get on whatever OS. The Linux ones were WAY better because they would record for however long, but Windows record sucked because you only got 60 seconds.

I've still got recordings I did with that stuff, it sounds like crap, the mic makes vocals crack if they go to loud, and on top of it whenever I did something more than a minute long, I'd have to stop at 59 seconds, hit stop, then, hit record again, and start playing again, and continue from there every 60 seconds.

Once they were saved it would let you keep going for another minute, but it was really annoying because I'd have to write music in a way that there were pauses at 59.9 seconds so it didn't sound like total crap. Easiest thing to do was Death Metal vocals because you could just do a solo growl, hit save, start recording again while growling, and then continue playing.

Anyone know any good apps that allow you to do this recording style? I'm pretty sure LMMS allows it, and I think Krec for Linux and BSD can take "Input" as a spot to record from, but any ones in particular?

The only thing I don't need to use are drums because, well, I do those electronically either way. I can come up with cleaner drums using a keyboard or LMMS easily. I can play drums for real for some styles of music, but they are louder than guitars and basses so they pop a lot unless I want to spend a bunch of money I don't have on better equipment.

I've done drums before for a friend who wanted in on the music I was making with my best friend, and he started taking lessons because he liked the lyrics I wrote and the stuff we came up with, and when he got his drum set home, I went over and played on it and he was like "WTF dude you sound like you've been playing for at least 6 months" and I hadn't really ever played much before except on small kits just screwing around. I kept messing with drums and got OK at it, but I prefer using a keyboard or app for drums.

One of the things that was really hard for me to play along too, was Psychobilly and Rockabilly because they use stand up bass for the sound. I can't afford a stand up bass and so one day I was screwing around with my Ibanez Bass, and I downtuned the **** out of my strings and found out almost by accident that if my finger slide underneath the string on the fret board and I did a bass pluck, it sounded almost exactly like a stand up bass.

I messed with that for a little while and got it to sound almost exact by doing a weird trick on bass with my fingers where I'd put them in an exact spot on the fretboard with the string sort of to the side, pluck it, and force it to slam down on the pick ups when it started to resonate, and it sounded almost exact.

Basically the thing you see Rockabilly bands doing with a Bass when they pluck, except every time I pluck, I slap a finger down on the string to make it hit the Pick Ups just right, and, boom, you've turned a 300 dollar crappy bass into something that can sound like a 5,000 dollar stand up bass.

It's not easy to get the hang up since no one teaches you to do that, but it works.

If my amp wasn't blown right now I could record it and upload it as a sample.

[westin]

I have used Cool Edit Pro with windows. It has some nice features, and I am pretty sure it allows for somewhere in the neighborhood of 256 tracks. [could be mistaken on that] I prefer the old version before Adobe bought and bloated the crap out of it. You can't buy it any more... [The old version that is] ... yo-ho, as it were... If I remember correctly, the 2000 version kind of sucked. V 2.* is pretty cool though. Though, that all comes down to personal preference I suppose.

[The-Spec]

you've turned a 300 dollar crappy bass into something that can sound like a 5,000 dollar stand up bass.

I have a normal guitar. I play it as far away from the bridge as I can then change the pitch in Audacity.

[gore]

I have a normal guitar. I play it as far away from the bridge as I can then change the pitch in Audacity.

I've done that too to make some effects. On Bass it's a little different, but also where the strings are tuned at the top of the neck, you can make a neat effect by strumming those with a pick, like right above the neck towards the head. I used those once to play the theme from Halloween. Can't really control the pitch and you really just have those 4 sounds but it works.

I've also used things for different muting, like the remote to my TV or VCR to not only give it a less heavy mute, but also to made weird slide sounds, and also to smack strings differently.

Drum sticks work pretty well too if you want a more stand up bass percussion sound but on a guitar I'm not sure if the strings can handle actual sticks.

[westin]

I've also used things for different muting, like the remote to my TV or VCR to not only give it a less heavy mute, but also to made weird slide sounds

Beer Bottle.

[The-Spec]

then change the pitch in Audacity.

Come to think of it, that alone sounds more realistic than Jack White's fake bass tone. This guy... has a pedal board thats so huge and clumbersome that it doubles as a stage in itself.

[gore]

Beer Bottle.

That might be a bad idea Glass on something that can act like a chainsaw (The E string on a Bass) I've had one snap on me ONCE and it ended up wrapping around my wrist right inside my flesh. Hurt pretty bad. I snapped it while doing some "slap" practicing.

As for Jack, he's an upholstery guy from here. lol.

[gore]

New song up Didn't know what to call it so, well, you know. It's a little different because I didn't add in any samples, so even though I might later, right now there are no samples in it.

[gore]

I uploaded some lyrics I wrote the other day to my blog on there now, so if you're interested in what lurks behind channel gore, there you go lol. It's called Enchantment.