I play guitar and bass and have a small home studio (8-track hard disc recorder). I "compose" (I neither read or write music) songs. I'd be pleased as punch to contribute to an album of original, or tastefully re-done, music. Let's get something going!

That's great; wish I had an HD. I did mine pre-HD-recorders. I got a TASCAM portable DAT recorder with XLR inputs and digital & analog out. I always have to record acoustic. The DAT has a switch to provide phatom power to the mics.

Rock Steady,

Just out of curiosity, why do you have to record acoustic? Is it lack of electrics, or lack of modelers? Or just your choice?

By the way, Rock,

My unit (recorder, just to clarify) is a Zoom 802bCD. It has 2 stereo drum tracks, 8 mono tracks, stereo master track. The modelers are practically limitless, effects up the old wazoo, mastering suite AND a built in cd burner.
20+ drum kits, 400+ rythyms, plus the ability to create your own beats. It has phase looping as well as optional usb card/port. It is capable of producing a pro-level cd. It's a FABULOUS little machine. There are similar things out there, but for the price, it can't be beat. And no, I'm NOT affiliated with Zoom. I just LOVE this machine!!!

Didn't mean to hi-jack the thread, let's make a record!

Mrs RS is a classical pianist accompanying violinists, singers, cellists, chamber groups and more. All the instruments are acoustic. It's a completely different world. Mrs RS wants it straight up, no balancing, no mixing.

Ohhhhhhhhh.

So I guess we're talkin' basic two track live recording. That can be a gas as well.

UT.

You, me, and any other bassists who think they are up to it...

Must do a cover of Fish (Schindlaeria Praematurus) by Yes if we do a Cellar album.

There are, if I recall correctly, nine bass tracks on that song. It would be plenty rad if we could find nine bassists.

Oh man, I would love to do that! Excellent call.

Philly has this thing called the fringe festival, where shorter acts and weirder things can get some stage time. My idea is, I would like to get area bassists together and do a Spinal Tap-esque act, of maybe just 5-6 bassists and maybe one percussionist. Totally rock the low end of the house, with a stage full of rigs, and blow people away.

The funny thing is, it would get a full house for a 15 minutes set, because all the area bands looking for bassists would show up.

hahahahaha, that would rock so hard!

Heehee, I was reading my friend's Spinal Tap book thing, and it said that Harry Shearer (/Derek Smalls) was preparing for the movie, he went into this little hole-in-the-wall music shop, pointed to the doubleneck bass on the wall, and asked the owner:

"What, exactly, is the point of a doubleneck bass?"

"Uh... nothing, there's no point really..."

"PERFECT!"



EDIT: you should do just a buncha covers with the bass band, but bass them out! And then you could name the band "Bassicaly, A Cover Band..."

Yeah, it would be kind of cool to start with something obvious and ironically funny, like the opening bit of Smoke on the Water, and then do something "pretty", and then do something "difficult" where everyone could show off chops, and then do something funky like say RHCP, and then end it with Big Bottom. So, something for everybody.

You would pretty much have to do Big Bottom. I don't see how you couldn't.

Of course Big Bottom, that's a given. Damn, that song's fun to play, too...

Don't forget some kind of like, mellow groovy Wootenesque thing, too

Let's see...

I sing. My voice is best suited to country and folk, although neither is my favorite genre. I can't help it if its gravely and twangy ;)

I play the piano/electronic keyboard. I took many years of lessons as a youngster, but went overseas and had no access to either teachers or instruments. Only recently did I get a keyboard as a present and am picking it back up again.

I play the flute and violin as well. Lost access to both instruments while overseas, but acquired a flute a few years back and have been messing around with it again as well.

My partner plays guitar. Oh man does he play! He was in several local (for him, in Maryland) bands before I met him and is talking about doing that again. He plays both electric and acoustic and has a mixer, amp and other goodies.

If we ever get enough room to set up all of our instruments, we'll start practicing on some music together. Maybe lay some tracks down and see what we can do. My current keyboard interest is in electronica...trance style sounds, although I can play rock, pop or classical as well.

Stormie

ForksBob works for the Fringe Fest, if you need a contact.

Danke! Entries are closed for 2006, so there is much time to consider this concept.

I have a Yamaha CS1x synth and also a PSR-510. I never forgave Sam Ash for selling the Korg Karma I was lusting after while unemployed...but Korg has moved on beyond the Karma to various flavors of Triton....so Karmas are getting cheap on eBay.

I used to be rather good at guitar, but don't play much anoymore...and I was classically trained in voice, but that was a previous lifetime and is now a very emotional subject.

Back in the late '90s I turned out a couple of little MIDI tracks on the PSR-510:
Friends in Houston and Julie

Hmm... Let's see. I play the flute (5 years of lessons when I was a kid, a lot of it stuck) and since December I'm learning to play the bagpipe which is loads of fun! Occasionally I play tinwhistle as well but not as good as I do the regular flute.

Ever heard the band Brother? Aussies who do the Celtic Fair circuit, they play bagpipes and didgeridoo (along with drums, bass guitar)

No, never heard of them, they sound like fun, pipes combined with didges, wow. I'm gonna look them up.

Posting after myself but am very happy right now. My pipeband came in fourth in their grade in the Continentals this Saturday. Woohoo! They expected 7th or 8th. And our drummajor came in first in the drum competition.

Beautiful and riveting. I like it.

Here's another electromusik technique I "play", Electroplankton. I enjoy it immensely.

Short audio only clip
Longer (30mb) video with sound (much more representative)
Press Release

I have both DVDs. Fascinating and the story of how they did it, even more so.

I contacted them to see if there was some way to use the "angle" button, when playing on the PC. Their response was, Gosh, we don't know but if you find out be sure and tell us. :lol:

BigV - um...wow? That is amazing. More than a looper, yet intuitive and deep. Was that actually you in the video? I remember reading about the release of Electroplankton, but had never seen it in action. How's the sound quality? Can you get it to a serious amplification device with the stereo out on the DS?

Els:

It is waay more than a looper. It has two modes, one where it plays by itself, "Perfomance" I think, that cycles through the different creatures, while they play a set on their own, a few minutes long each. The other mode is interactive and I forget the name (it's visible in the video), where each of the modes is selectable and you have to drive it. It is very intuitive. I have gotten literally hours of enjoyment from this little gizmo. I put the headphones on and scribble away. Sometimes I shift over to autopilot and let them sing me to sleep. I got a startling wakeup once when the smooth synth sounds changed to clanging and crashing percussion just as I was crossing the border into dreamland. :yikes:

No, that is not me in the video; my appearance on the intarweb is restricted to the cellar only.

If you have a DS, I'm sure you could get a copy of the program from your local game retailer. Moreso, you could download a copy for free from anyone who had it. The copy would be fully functional, but live only in RAM. Now, I've done this with many other games, but haven't actually tried this with Electroplankton.

As to the level of amplification, it's a line out signal, suitable for headphones. I reckon that signal could easily be amplified when fed to the Line In on your own stereo. Haven't yet tried that. What I am wondering how to accomplish is how to get the video out along with the audio, so I can conduct on the big screen!

What's a DS? :confused:

A DS is a handheld gaming system from Nintendo. It has two screens, Dual Screens, hence the name. The bottom one is touch sensitive. Like a GameBoy or PSP. But lots betterer.

Whooo, just got a Zoom 505II multi-effect pedal yesterday... LOVE IT. Any guitarist (there's also a bass version) with sixty bucks in their pocket oughtta get one. One of the best digital effects processors i've used.

Wootage! The pipemajor of my pipeband told me I will soon learn my first tune! *dances around*

That's great TM! There is absolutely nothing like playing music, nothing at all ... (just back from a rehearsal for West Side Story myself) ...:3eye:

Mmmm, finally got around to photographing mah baby...


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I am a flute player.i can able to play various type of flutes .Flute is a divine instrument.The sound of lute depends on the diameter of flute and the number of holes in it.it is also in different costs.http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/ins...lute-front.jpg

Hawaiian style guitar
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If we're going to turn this into a picture thread ...

I have drums.

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I have several others, but they are commericially produced, not hand painted.

Aw man, I want a hawaiian guitar!

But I want a Ukelele even more.

i play (guitar) for a living (such as it is) also write songs. working on my own cd of mostly original tunes

Hi Gibsy, welcome to the Cellar. :D
Tell us more, man;
Band/Solo?
Studio?
Type of music?
Will you still love us when you're rich & famous?

I have been a baaaaad girl.

On the theory that they are just like potato chips, I have had a Native American Courting Flute population explosion.

I already had one in G, Forks attendees in 2005 probably heard me play it.

I have friends who play NACF. Of course, none of us have the same key. Actually we all have keys that cause incredibly painful dissonance if any attempt is made to play them together.

I like to hang out with my friends and do things like play the flute.

So I "corrected" the problem ... buy buying flutes tuned to A and F#, the other two most popular keys. Apparently most recorded NA Flute is F# because the tone is richer, so I should be able to play along with Carlos Nakai and Douglas Spotted Eagle now.

Do you know about Israel "IZ" Kamakawiwo'ole? Take a listen to "Facing Future". Nice stuff.

I've got a gig this afternoon, two songs only... I'm doing American Pie and Hotel California.

Wish me luck...

That would make you a very good girl.



(luck!)

Good Luck!!

Wait. Break a Leg!

How'd the gig go, Ibram?

Got up there, played American Pie, everyone loved it (well, didnt hate it too much, which is a win in my book), and then I played Queen Bitch by Bowie and didnt totally blow it, so...

All in all, a not-completely-awful gig!

(now, if I could just learn to sing...)

There ya go! American Pie is pretty hard to pull off well, too; it's so long, with a ton of weird lyrics to remember, all that interferes with how much soul you can put into it without blowing it.

So, Ibbie, "Ziggy played guitar" from the looks of how your axe is strung.

Wolf, perhaps if we ever jammed, it could be multiple bodhrans (which tend to develop hypnotic rhythms) or my bodhran to your flute (good for dancing).

But bodhran's only what I double on. I play the Highland bagpipe. Different sort of woodwind... a compass of nine notes, A to A plus a G on the bottom, one dynamic -- fff -- and no rests. Scale Of Bagpipe is a pentatonic-with-supplements approximation of B flat, and that is the only scale it plays -- oh, and my A is everyone else's B flat too.

@Urbane Guerrilla: Are you familiar with the band Brother?
Aussies who play the US Celtic circuit. Three dudes who play, variously, bass, drums, and guitar - plus bagpipes and digeridoos...

grats on the gig ibram -- doing stuff alone is so much harder than being in a band. to this day, i shake like a friggin leaf if i have to play without anyone backing me up.

If I ever have my B-flat Clarinet recorked, we might have a heck of a jam there.

Or an accordion, of all things!

Flint, I might have heard Brother among others at the Highland Games at Pleasanton, CA. Quite a few years back though. There are a lot of electro-Celt-folkie groups with a piper and I'll listen to about any of them. There are a lot of pipe tunes that would sound very well wrung through a lead guitar, IMHO. I should learn guitar and put this before the public.

Back in the day there was an electro-Celtofolk outfit in your general neck of the woods called Celtic Stone. They seem to have lasted 1980-86, and I heard them at the SCA's Twenty Year Celebration on the Texas Renfair grounds outside of Houston. There's a charming history here.

Gig on the 21st... with a band, this time!

We're gonna do The Kids Aren't Alright (offspring) and Blitzkreig Bob (do I even need to say?), plus another song to two tbd.

@Urbane Guerrilla: I'm taking my baby to Celtic Heritage for her one-month birthday!

WHAT?!? You want to get dismissed early or something??

Nice reference. But seriously, we'll mostly be walking around to the booths of various people we know(showing her off!) as opposed to disturbing the musical acts with baby interference. Although, she does nicely during the day, in her little canvas baby swing that I carry her around in.

And, of course, if she gets fussy, mama can stick a boob in her mouth.

Just as long as she hides in the porta john where she belongs.;)

That looks like a nice festival. Ours are usually smaller here, although you are in Texas.

You should see North Texas Irish Festival or the Highland Games!

One of the local radio personalities on station KVEN Ventura is going to take a stab at a local upcoming Highland Games. I think he's praying he won't rupture himself tossing the caber. Novice class, I gather, circa eighty-five pounds @ fourteen feet. The more advanced strong-guys-in-kilts generally compete at over a hundred pounds of log. Highland Games athletes are generalists; everyone enters every event at the games, which list may vary.

Little baby girl attended her first Trinity River Whalers show from outside of the belly.

Alright, the band is GO for the gig next saturday. The Kids Arent Alright, Blitzkreig Bop, On Mercury (RHCP) and Immigrant Song (Zep, duh).

Aren't you doing See Spammer?