This is Peter and I jamming.
At this point in time, my audio interface had shit the USB bed and the chip involved is some kinda chinese bullshit I can't find online, but Peter got a two input interface with XLR inputs and brought it over.
So I just put up the two condenser mics in some kinda bullshit configuration which I think was one overhead, and one kinda down near the kick.
I was certain it would sound like total mouldy diaper-filled garbage, but I listened to it after and I was kinda surprised. The balance of shit wasn't bad.
I did the usual EQ and compressor shit, but shit was panned all over, and simple panning didn't help. I mostly gave up, but of course started wading through the Waves plugins.
I found some fucking plugin, and I don't remember what it was, but it was magic. Wish I could explain more, but I think phase has something to do with it.
Maybe psychology too.
Drums: Me
Bass: Peter
Drums -> 2 Shitty Samson mics -> XLR -> Peter's Audio Interface -> USB2 -> REAPER
Bass -> Pat's Fender bass amp -> 2 Shitty Samson mics -> Peter's Audio Interface -> USB2 -> REAPER
Mixed and Mastered by me in REAPER with REAPER, Waves, Amplitube and maybe other plugins.
This is Shaner and I jamming, which in 2013 became known as Doomsday 2012. You know,
just to remind dumbasses that the world didn't end and that's not what the Mayans predicted and
Ancient Aliens is a stupid fucking show. This is all I'm posting right now,
so fucking enjoy it before Hitler rises from the dead, fucks Jesus' shit up,
blows up the planet, and does a 360 and walks away.
Drums: Me
Bass/Guitar: Shaner
Drums -> Shitty Samson mics -> XLR -> Tascam US-1800 -> USB2 -> REAPER
Bass/Guitar -> Shaner's Fender bass amp -> XLR -> Tascam US-1800 -> USB2 -> REAPER
Mixed and Mastered by me in REAPER with REAPER, Waves, Amplitube and maybe other plugins.
This is a band Shaner, Nev and I did from like 2009-2011. We played the same six songs for like three years, then decided to change shit up. Then it ended.
These last three songs are probably my favourites though. We only jammed on them like three times, so there are plenty of mistakes, and they're unfinished of course.
It's not as horrible as you may think though. I was putting in a new effort and I also figure I finally got a pretty good mix on the audio.
Drums: Me
Bass: Shaner
Guitar: The Almighty Nev
Drums -> Shitty Samson mics -> XLR -> Tascam US-1800 -> USB2 -> REAPER
Bass -> Shaner's Fender bass amp -> XLR -> Tascam US-1800 -> USB2 -> REAPER
Guitar -> Nev's amp -> Shure SM58 -> XLR -> Tascam US-1800 -> USB2 -> REAPER
Mixed and Mastered by me in REAPER with REAPER, Waves, Amplitube and maybe other plugins.
The other night I somehow got into the oldass tunes I wrote back in the 1995 day
and figured that seeing as I have this array of horribly expensive VST plug-ins,
maybe I can make it sound better. This is what is known by sound nerds in the
audio recording industry as "remastering". They take old boring music that everyone
compulsively listens to all the time and make it sound better because it rocks socks, but
was recorded by neanderthals and sounds like a petrified woolly mammoth turd.
Because the sound nerds have since acquired computers that are exponentially
smarter than the average high school student, they take the old, woody turd
recordings, feed them into a bunch of equipment that Bill Gates would have
to borrow money from his mom to buy, and extrude out fresh, steamy turds that sound
exactly the same, unless you factor in the embarassingly expensive equipment
they just processed them with, in which case they sound better, and since they
sound better, they have to be put on CD and sold again so people can listen
to the the shit on their built-in laptop speakers and say, "Wow! The bass has
so much more presence! The clarity makes me want to dook in my pants!"
So I decided to remaster my petrified turd songs.
At first I was like, "I wrote this shit, so it's already Master,"
but then I read a Wikipedia page about mastering and realized there's the
noun 'master' (me), and the verb 'master' (which is me sounding even better).
So yeah. I did Quavering Ambience and I think it sounds better, but I don't
know because I don't have $400,000 speakers. All I know is that this song
actually benefits from remastering because it sounded worse than a tough, woody
turd.
A few years ago, a friend said he heard about CJs, or Computer Jockeys.
I thought this was the dumbest thing I had heard in a long time, so I
decided to use it. GJ is Garbage Juice. So I'm CJ GJ. Fuck that's a
stupid name. I have no idea what to call myself on this shit, so until
I care to think of something better, CJ GJ it is...
All of these songs except Something's Wrong With The G-Diffuser were done in
Acid. Not ON acid, IN it. Acid was created by
Sonic Foundry,
but got bought by
Sony.
I started on Acid Pro 4.0. The samples are mostly the free ones from the
Sonic Foundry web site. Others are totally illegally ripped from games, songs,
and other copyrighted sources.
As for "Something's Wrong With The G-Diffuser", that was done in
FastTracker 2.
Fuck yeah.
The "What's all the ruckus?" sample is everyone's favourite turd,
Mr. Hanky.
The "Something's wrong..." and "Noooooooooooooo!!!" samples are from
Starfox
64. Craiger played the game with everything but the voices
turned off for an afternoon, recording it, just to get those dumb samples.
Now they're a part of musical history. I have no fucking clue where the rest of
the samples came from. All I know is I downloaded them from BBS's.
A lot of the songs say unfinished, even though they're more or less complete.
The Joys of Being Alone will always be unfinished since I lost the
Dillinger Escape Plan
loops I made. All I have is the last MP3 I rendered...
The band was me, my brother, and Simon. I played drums, my brother plays
bass and Simon plays microphone. No guitar. We started this band because
Shane got a girlfriend and stopped jamming with us and we still wanted to
rock out.
This band was me, my brother, and Shaner. I played drums, my brother played
guitar and Shane played bass. No vocals, except the odd strange sound from
someone or another...
This crap consists of garbage songs I wrote when I was 18 or so.
The equipment was something like this:
Recording: My brother's 4-track cassette recorder. I forget what model it is.
I'll ask him next time I remember to ask him. The tapes were good quality
Maxell metal tapes or some shit, even though it doesn't sound like it.
Guitar: My electric guitar I made -> cable ->
DOD FX53 Classic Tube
distortion -> cable -> 4-track
Bass: My Samick Artist Series 4-string -> cable -> 4-track
Vocals: My dumb mouth -> some old wireless mic -> electromagnetic waves ->
receiver -> cable -> my brother's
DOD FX68 Super Stereo Chorus
pedal -> cable -> 4-track
Drums: My brother's DR-550 MK II Dr. Rhythm drum machine -> cable ->
4-track
I'm only posting this one song here because Shaner thinks it's awesome.
I kinda like it too even though I hate my voice.
The rest of the shit I did at that time is too embarrassing...
Anyway, this one doesn't sound that great because it's a copy of the final
mix on a shitty tape that's been listened to a million times. I don't have
the original master tapes any more because some dipshit stole them.