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Good day all, just some quick musings on my first step (I guess gearwise) into home recording... I've been reading these forums and learning everything I can for some time - all while recording with Reaper and a cheap USB mic/internal sound card. I figured I wanted to put some basic principles...

Wow, the first is nice n' poppy and really good! Now I don't know too much, and the speakers I'm using are subpar at best, but I almost think it needs some boost in the low end - my head gets all of the sound (especially with the vocals, which sound crisp), leaving my gut wanting for a little...

I Still Miss Someone, Johnny Cash. Someone had told me that A, D, and E were pretty common - I took their word for it and ran with it. And playing it through the first time was one of the more surreal and exciting moments of my adult life.

I oftentimes need something relatively emotional going on in my life - be it good or bad - to create what I consider "my best stuff". When I start to get really frustrated, I tend to look down the path of what rocknrollstar said and pick up another instrument. I've only been playing guitar a...

I generally come up with a specific idea for a song and write the lyrics - then, when the rough draft is done, I'll run it by people and see what they say. Periodically they'll point out inconsistencies in the story, or rephrase lyrics that still maintain the meat of what I'm trying to say...

To me, lyrics are hit or miss - I think of them as poetic, informative, enlightening, stupid, lowbrow, irrelevant. In the grand scheme of a "song", the message/its content are unimportant. If the music/sound/song works as a whole, I don't care if there are no lyrics, or lyrics that consist of...

I think using the word "I" is an unselfish act of songwriting. True, the origin of the song's emotion and direction may be a self-reflection of the author, but when the song is constructed in the first person and sung by others that maybe "get the message", it becomes the listeners' song - the...

I agree about the slide in the background - it's a bit repetitive (although I like how it works in the song) - and just having it here and there would open up the banjo and simultaneously make the slide more influential in the song. I also agree that there's not enough banjo on this forum, but...

I am tracking in the room as well - it's the only space I have available. And just the basics - guitar, bass, drums, keyboard, vocals. I am going to put the clouds above the mixing station. In addition, I was going to ask the best position to face the amps, etc. Of course, a lot of that is...

Good day everyone! My name is Daryl, and I've been lurking on this site for awhile, gathering info, half-ass chiming in now and then, learning and listening. I haven't had much to contribute, or for that matter even ask, as my equipment/space was non existent. However, I've been working the...

I use Hydrogen drum machine, which is free, and I do believe it has the ability to change tempo, etc. Not sure on texture/sound quality. To export it to my DAW I just record it through my computer. However, as a disclaimer, I'm unemployed and living at my parents house, so I have $0 to put...

I like it - but I'm also a big fan of Michael Jackson - and it definitely has that feel. If ya found someone to sing vocals over it, I think it would really swing. But I like the track - groovy. My speakers here suck, and I also know little about recording, but maybe a hint more kick...

Yeah, for me, comedy in music generally only works when the music is not intended to be funny, but strikes me in a funny way. Sometimes I wonder if I get the humor in the lyric or create it myself. Who knows, and to a certain degree, who cares. I had forgotten all about The Rutles! I'm a big...

Haha, nice. I almost tossed Eric Idle under the "most underrated songwriters thread" - The Galaxy Song is great! And maybe I'll try that writing a letter and burning it up deal - I got some old girlfriends that I should have probably written long ago - my fear though is that I'll actually drop...

Wow, great thoughts guys n gals. And I think that's a good idea David - I'll definitely give that a shot, about just writing without thought to music or melody first, and then bending those ideas around into a song that I already have written. But also, good advice from some of the others on...

Personally, the guys I find to be the most enjoyable currently (they change week to week) are David Eugene Edwards, Corb Lund, Ween, Joe Strummer, uhhhhh, Brian Wilson, I guess. Corb Lund is great - nothing too complicated, but for modern country, he's hard to beat. In fact, I'm not a big fan...

The tune's classicly raw, I like it. And not to be a total Neotronian in regards to the mix, but it seems like something right in the middle of the two posted would be perfect - however, in general, I like the new a bit more. I can feel it more, which I like.

Haha, the Ramones just bled rock and roll, and barely needed instruments to be badasses. For a short while I thought Joey said "Be tolerant with a baseball bat"... Yeah, the muse is what I'm in search of - a lark, of course . It's tricky because a I agree, at times when you're no longer...

Haha, yeah, my early 20's were too much fun - maybe that's why I struggle writing things now. :) Sometimes I'm too impatient, I think - it's only been recently that I have really attempted to put songs down, and arrange them, and at least attempt to make them what I want. It's just frustrating...

Haha, yeah, I still have a hard time getting into fiction, despite my efforts. I just read and ramble about politics and society and economics and what not, so that's what I write about. And you're right Grim, the sound can help make the lyrics make more sense or, if anything, appear and sound...