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I like a lot of the songs on Bruce Springsteen's album "Ghost of Tom Joad"... Here is my attempt to produce something with a similar feel (that "desperation" vibe)...I appreciate your listening and welcome all opinions/comments. Song is "Kingsport Bound"...

Audacity and Kristal - I've never used these free programs (I am using PowerTracks) but have seen them mentioned here - I recently looked them up on hitsquad.com (I am trying to encourage other musicians I know to experiment with computer recording) and they are described as multitrack-recording...

Hey Adam B...my two cents...I don't have "real" monitors and I can't justify getting them at this time...I comprehend their importance and would like to get official mixing-monitors in the future...I've alway just used the sound system available to me at the time for mixing...A year ago when...

Hey Nick... I have seen Radio Shack sell what was esentially Casio keyboards with just different model names on them...I suspect this is the case in this situation also...I'm not putting down Casio, just letting you know..."Home" keyboards have come along way in sound quality over the last...

In the mid-80's I somehow came into possession of a cassette tape of Michael McDonalds. It had the hit "I Keep Forgetting" on it, which I liked pretty well. I was a kid with limited funds to buy music and I would listen to what I had over and over. Most times I would grow to like something after...

Hey...I played your songs twice in lo-fi and this is my take... I thought as far as the recording side that everything sounded real decent and clean (levels, EQ, effects). For 40 kbps the sound quality was great. Your singing was unique, but, at the same time, somehow familiar sounding to me...

Hey...I have a song on soundclick called "June '96" that I am offering...don't know if it is what you are looking for... but it's done almost totally (mixing/sequencing/effects) on a (circa 1989) Yamaha V50 syth (FM sound with sampled percussion). I just came out of the keyboard outs and...

You could use a hit song title by one of the artists...what about "Texas Flood"...or "Purple Haze"?...don't know if there are any copyright issues involved but you could probably get away with it (as long as you didn't get too famous)

Hey...At sonicstate.com (in their synth site section) there is a lot of information...mostly it is from users though and not always 100% complete/accurate...I have a book called "Keyfax Omnibus Edition" by Julian Colbeck that gets into the history of the synth makers and many specific models.

If your computer has a CD drive already, then all you need is a WAV -> MP3 converter. You rip the song off the CD onto your harddrive as a WAV file, then you use a software program to convert it to MP3. I use Cakewalk Pyro 2004 for ripping/converting (when I last looked it was a $29 download...

Hey... keep in mind that I have a Yamaha MT-50 4-track cassette so some of this will not apply...I have found Maxell type II tape quite good (though I can only find them locally in 90 minute 5-packs at Walmart, for around $7...my manual says it is okay to use 90 minute tapes, but no longer...

Hey...I'm not really into reading lyrics without the music......I've heard seemingly profound words in (overall) uninspiring songs (something just didn't work right with the words set to the music they were assigned) and lyrics that are quite shallow/uninterpretable by themselves, that, with...

Okay...I have a keyboard that isn't that well-known but I think is cool. It is a Yamaha V-50. It came out around 1989 (I bought mine used in '94)...It is a 4-operator FM synth (what a book I have describes as DX21 style)...I didn't know what I was buying (the Korg M1 and others had brought...

Hey Rokket......I did that same thing (two tape recorders, back and forth) many years ago when I probably didn't know what multitracking was or knew I couldn't dream of ever having access to it myself (thankful for affordable technology).....I agree with you about getting a 4-track...I would...

I had an experience with my Yamaha MT-50 4-track that sort of pertains to your question.......I was re-recording a friend's vocals on track 2 (since his first try was riddled with mistakes), this would normally erase his first take. But we found that his first vocal was still present on the...

Hey...She sounds great to me...I thought the music was all right also (I was expecting a cheezy autoaccompaniment). I don't know enough to give you much technical help on recording vocals...It does seem that the whole recording has a noticeable hiss that (by troubleshooting your signal-chain)...

Emusic is right...I recorded the last version (and maybe the one before that) at 74 beats per minute instead of the original 75 bpm...I've become a bit obsessive about getting the music as right as possible so I am going to put one more (I seriously hope this is the last) version on soundclick...

Herm...Home keyboards used to sound real cheesy but they've come a long way(especially the ones that have come out the last 5 years) and have sounds that rival pro-level keyboards from 10 years ago (I have a Roland XP-50 and a Yamaha PSR 540). I have often seen entry-level Yamaha's on display at...

Hey BentRabbit...cool...you definitely have a better voice than me... my wife was really happy that someone she never even met took the time to sing her lyrics...made me thing of Michael Crawford... Emusic...that is really dramatic...anticipating the finished song I posted an updated version...

Hey grn...cool...let me know if you want a higher quality music file (either here in this thread or PM me)...and send me a link to the finished song (you could even put it in this thread if you like) Thanks Flechdrop for listening...this type of song isn't what I usually do, just sort of hit...