Haha, this thread should be fun.
As it turns out, I recently found and uploaded to my server an old album I'd done from mp3.com. This is pretty bad, lol.
That was recorded with
a Sonic Foundry Acid 2.0 demo and an included drum loop, micing my amp by putting my laptop on the floor next to it so that the built-in mic would pick it up.
The chorus effect is accidental - I couldn't record more than 30 seconds at a time with the limited processing power I had, so I had to peice this together by recording snippets and looping them.
This is pretty bad, too -
Recorded on my dad's Korg D-8 (I got him hooked on recording soon after I started). His acoustic with a TON of reverb was the "sitar" sound at the beginning, my Strat, I think, was used for everything (though I might have bought my first seven string, a RG7620, by the time I did this), through
a Marshall JTM-30 and a Metal Zone. I'd been playing maybe 5 years at the time, and it shows, lol. The drums were a clip from a keyboard I recorded into the Korg. There was no bass, because I didn't own one.
After recording most of this but before completely finishing it, I sold the Marshall for a Mesa
Rocket-44, so the tapping section in the middle is the same pedal but into a different amp, and listening to it it, it sounds rather like I doubled the melody with the Mesa to make it hold together better, too.
On the slightly less sucky side, this was my favorite song from that album:
Considering the gear I was working with, I'm still pretty proud of this, as this was the absolute best I could have done at the time, I think. The synth swells were actually guitar, recorded direct as three-part harmonies, reversed, manually lopped off the attack so it wouldn't end sharply, and then added a fuck-ton of chorus and flange and 'verb, then panned them around a bit. Bass is a bass loop, and the drums were a loop. The guitars were all my Strat, through that Mesa Rocket-44, mic'd with one of those little whammy-bar looking microphones, like so:
except that weird shade of taupe all computer gear was back in the mid-90's. I had to record everything in snippets of less than a minute because, again, the audio would start skipping and popping from the strain to my laptop if I did more than that, so the clean rhythm guitars were recorded and then looped.
It was a lot of fun, if nothing else.
