Wabatuckian
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My name is Josh. I'm 49 next month.
I used to play a little bit of guitar when I was a teenager in the 1990s, then got other interests and quit.
I've always had this thing where I get earworms, songs stuck in my head, but they're not always existing songs. Often they have lyrics. Other times the lyrics come after. About four or five years ago, I bought a thrift store guitar and re-learned to play, so I could get these melodies and songs out of my head.
Lately I've been trying to sing better. I'm autistic, and so I have speech patterns that go with that. These limits show up when I'm singing. I've worked all my life on inflection and varying pitch and tone, and I've been trying to apply it to singing. It's been successful to the point that I don't absolutely hate my singing anymore, but there's still vast room for improvement.
My equipment consists of two old microphones from probably the 1990s, a Realistic mic mixer from ~1982, and a cheap MP3 player/recorder from Amazon that I also use to listen to music on my mountain bike, on the rare occasions I want music while riding.
One mic is duct taped to a music stand and pointed at a Peavey Transtube amp, and the other mic is on a mic stand for me to attempt to sing into.
The guitar is an Indiana electric I also bought at a thrift shop and rebuilt, and it runs through a Boss DS-2 pedal. While I've owned several other pedals, this is the one that gives me the sound I want and the only one currently hooked up.
I do my mixing, which I'm still learning, on Audacity.
I'm not perfect at this by any stretch. I'm a fan of 1990s grunge and punk, and believe that "happy little accidents" (thanks, Bob Ross) make the music at least as much as what's deliberate. I hate overproducing, overprocessing and sound wars. Otherwise awesome music ends up sounding sterilized.
I look forward to participating here, and hope to better both my mixing and singing by being a member.
A note: If I publish any songs here, don't expect to really understand what they're about. I like imagery, and a lot of that time that imagery describes people and situations unique to my friend group and me, often from shared events in the '80s, '90s, and early-'00s. A song called "Muskrat", for example, is particularly bad about this. My friends roll with laughter when they hear it, but everyone else is confused as hell.
I look forward to my time here.
Thank you.
Regards,
Josh
I used to play a little bit of guitar when I was a teenager in the 1990s, then got other interests and quit.
I've always had this thing where I get earworms, songs stuck in my head, but they're not always existing songs. Often they have lyrics. Other times the lyrics come after. About four or five years ago, I bought a thrift store guitar and re-learned to play, so I could get these melodies and songs out of my head.
Lately I've been trying to sing better. I'm autistic, and so I have speech patterns that go with that. These limits show up when I'm singing. I've worked all my life on inflection and varying pitch and tone, and I've been trying to apply it to singing. It's been successful to the point that I don't absolutely hate my singing anymore, but there's still vast room for improvement.
My equipment consists of two old microphones from probably the 1990s, a Realistic mic mixer from ~1982, and a cheap MP3 player/recorder from Amazon that I also use to listen to music on my mountain bike, on the rare occasions I want music while riding.
One mic is duct taped to a music stand and pointed at a Peavey Transtube amp, and the other mic is on a mic stand for me to attempt to sing into.
The guitar is an Indiana electric I also bought at a thrift shop and rebuilt, and it runs through a Boss DS-2 pedal. While I've owned several other pedals, this is the one that gives me the sound I want and the only one currently hooked up.
I do my mixing, which I'm still learning, on Audacity.
I'm not perfect at this by any stretch. I'm a fan of 1990s grunge and punk, and believe that "happy little accidents" (thanks, Bob Ross) make the music at least as much as what's deliberate. I hate overproducing, overprocessing and sound wars. Otherwise awesome music ends up sounding sterilized.
I look forward to participating here, and hope to better both my mixing and singing by being a member.
A note: If I publish any songs here, don't expect to really understand what they're about. I like imagery, and a lot of that time that imagery describes people and situations unique to my friend group and me, often from shared events in the '80s, '90s, and early-'00s. A song called "Muskrat", for example, is particularly bad about this. My friends roll with laughter when they hear it, but everyone else is confused as hell.
I look forward to my time here.
Thank you.
Regards,
Josh
