Overview
Everyone has different tastes in music. I like a pretty wide variety
from The Carpenters to Marty Robbins to Black Sabbath but I guess I
gravitate to Hard rock / Metal the most, so if you're not a fan of
this genre, you might not like most of this stuff.
Note that if you're on Android trying to use the javascript based
player in the links below, you'll have to hit the pause/play button
to get the playback going. This is because Chrome on an Android phone
by default won't play HTML audio so it won't eat up your data plan.
Starting in about 2011 (IIRC?) Danny Robinson and I started getting
together to make some "Noise in the basement". In 2013 or so we got
Danny's brother Mark to join us and play some real drums instead of the
canned backing tracks I had put together. Then around 2013 or so we also
got Dave Metzdorf to join in on the fun holding down the bass which was
sorely lacking up to that point.
Our semi-offical name is The Wedgie Pirates, I still have to get
Mark's napkin artwork up. Originally I dumped our recordings into a
folder called M2D for obvious reasons, and when Dave joined that was
easy enough to change to M3D (rhymes with mp3... ha) so a bunch of
older recording are called M2D or M3D.
We still get together most Thursdays to hang out, jam out and and
unwind. Originally I just recorded a few our sessions as a stereo mix
from the board (a Behringer 1202FX) into my Zoom H2. Occasionally
though the levels would clip the input stage on the Zoom. We now use
a Behringer UFX 1204 which is handy because it records direct onto
a USB thumb drive and can record each track individually which alows
for remixing in post which I sometimes do. If I'm lazy I'll just use
the original stereo track.
Play or download tracks/practice sessions here.
This was a case of "Lets see if I can actually get some songs done
instead of just messing around". One of the songs has my kids doing
the blast off count down. This was all recorded, mixed and finished
on the Zoom R8.
Play or download the tracks here.
As you might guess from the title, the Psycho S0nic 2unes
album was recorded entirely on the Zoom PS-02. Well it was supposed
to be, but I ended up upgrading to the PS-04 when I was almost done
so a few of the songs were done on a PS-04. Many of the songs are
collaborations with other Zoomers who hang out on this online
forum. The
forum is a fun place where people post songs and give each other help
and feedback. See the album track list artwork for credits on who did
what. The contributors were
Seth Bata,
Andrew
Thompson, Danny Prouty,
Paul
Tedeschi, and Jonny
Prouty, thanks again guys!
While the PS-0x's are great for song writing
I'm not really happy with the sonic quality of the end product
so I'll probably re-record some of them again just like on
Unsolicted. Seems like I never get it acceptable (to myself
anyway) the first time... or the second.
The equipment used on this is pretty straight forward: Just a PS-02
or PS-04, my Epiphone Les Paul or Guild acoustic, and sometimes a
Shure SM58 instead of the PS-0x built in microphone.
Play or download the tracks here.
Beige is an instrumental album. Originally it was just some song ideas
that I was messing around with, but I never made proper songs out of
most of them. I had burned a CD-R (remember those early recordable
CD's that were sorta a beige color? Hence the name) with the songs on
it to give a test listen in the car, and Heather ended up liking the CD
so this is how they just stayed.
Play or download the tracks here.
The songs for Unsolicited were written in the mid 1990s,
however my first attempts at recording them produced less than
satisfactory results. At the time I was just learning about recording
using my Turtle Beach sound card and Cakewalk Pro Audio. There was
also the matter of my lackluster vocal performace. Really it was
horrible! As a result I only shared the initial CD with some friends
who gave me some good suggestions on how I might improve it.
I ended up re-recording everything and even dropped a few of the
original tracks in favor of some newer things I had written that gave
the album a more consistant feel overall. The re-recorded tracks are
what you can download below, they were done in the 2001 time frame.
Most if not all of the guitar you hear was my Gibson Les Paul into a
Digitech RP2000 for effects. On some songs I used Band In a Box to
generate MIDI drum tracks which I fed into an Alesis DM Pro for drum
sounds. Some of the songs I played a Roland SPD-20 drum pad and
others I used a Pintech electronic set again into the Alesis DM Pro.
Vocals were usually through an AT4033 into a dbx compressor and from
there to an Alesis MidiVerb 4. Everything was recorded into the
computer through an Echo Layla.
Play or download the tracks here.
This is just a collection of miscellanous tracks I've recorded with
various people.
Play or download the tracks here.
