Recent content by SwissArmyKnife

Interesting. When you listen to Edge on interviews, he says his only function is to create a sound canvas that supports the vocals. So obviously HE thinks the vocals are the most important part of a song. But then again, for most blues songs, vocals are little more than filler to get to the...

Gotta agree ... it's only lacking confidence. But remember -- confidence is not a light switch you can flick on when you need it. Confident musicianship only comes with practice, recording, listening critically, playing live whenever you can, more practice, more recording, and more listening...

You're wise to get an external hard drive. Macs are great (I own an iMac) and reliable and all that jazz, but they're no different than any PC else when it comes to hard drives. They're all susceptible to crash at the same rate. Happened to me last fall ... I had Mac arrogance and hadn't...

I record with the X3 all the time. It sounds great for electric guitar and bass -- like any technologically based piece of gear, you do have to know what you're doing with it. I haven't run it as a keyboard amp or anything like that, but I'd assume it's pretty good. I also haven't done much with...

I'm a Christian rock musician. I write lots of songs, I play guitar, I play keys and I play bass. But vocals are sort of along for the ride. For a long time, I hated my voice. And I still have my days. It's tonal quality is OK-but-not-great, but it's on pitch. Interestingly enough, I've got...

Thanks for the encouragement. I definitely plan on, well, planning. That's why I'm looking into it now, a couple of years out. I want to do it right ... or as right as I can afford to do it. Some of you enjoy the building part of it. I guess I just never got into building things. Honestly, I...

Within the next year or two, provided I can get my house sold, I could very well be moving into a new place, as in new construction. The design we're looking at has a huge basement with 9-foot ceilings. Since it's new construction, I could conceivably have recording and mixing space built by...

Actually, I'm pretty sure MainStage 2.0, which comes packaged with Logic Pro 9, can do this. I've mainly used MainStage to control keyboard patches, but I know you can do live looping, backing tracks, etc. Here's a link to some videos showing you how. Good luck!

That's OK. I wasn't asking you. Anybody else?

Really? Interesting. So how was the universe formed? The bible isn't clear on the details. I'm anxious to learn the truth. More importantly, WHY was the universe formed? The bible is much clearer on that subject ... and to my knowledge, it's the only document in history that is. For science...

New forum member, far from new songwriter. I'm not even going to answer the question ... because from the rest of this thread, it's a virtual certainty that somebody will dive into personal attack mode. No thanks. But ... here's what I want to know: 1. Why does a simple question have to be a...

Hi all ... first post. Please be gentle. I'm not a drummer, so take that into account. But I've been around music for a long time -- and drummers for a long time -- so I do have a good feel for what is realistic on the drums and what is not. I'm also not a professional engineer, and I don't...