KSband

Wow, I just checked out your site and listened to several of your songs, I'm impressed. Jazz and fusion are my favorites. Really good playing and song writing.

Nice groove. Drums sound pretty good to me.

Very cool guitars, I like a good head bang. I've been doing all jazzy stuff lately but this makes me want to crank up some distortion. Bass is good too. Is this all you playing?

Thanks very much!

I used to record with amps and mics and would spend days trying to get a good sound. I even built my own tube amps and effect pedals and Poo Poo'ed anything solid state. Now I use a plugin like Bias FX2 and it's so easy to get great recording tone.

Sorry, I think I just found the problem. Midi out was enabled in Jamstix. I hope that will solve this.

I have this random problem where one or all of my synth tracks will start playing random notes, just kind of pounding along with the beat, sounds kind of like Jerry Lee Lewis . I don't know if they are following my drum track (Jamstix) or what. I've played with changing the inputs of the tracks but nothing seems to stop this from happening, I'm really confused. There must be a setting somewhere to stop this. Thanks.

Very nice, pretty melody and the string arrangement is great.

Good playing. Sounds a little Pink Floyd at times. The drums seem a little thin to me but maybe that's the sound you're going for.

Thanks!

The fishman software just doe not work well with cakewalk, it freezes up and only a computer reboot will fix it. Every time I restart the program it changes the synth that is loaded in it too. I've been posting my problems on the fishman forum, they claimed they released a patch to fix it but I don't see any improvement. Cakewalk is not listed as a compatible program from them.

Wow, I really dig this track. Great sounding drums. Is that you playing guitar? That is some incredible playing.

There must have been some inspiration from What we do in the Shadows, love that show. Really like your song, super catchy.

This song is all plugins, my guitar and bass, really no room. The guitar amp is bias fx. Of my recent stuff only one tune has vocals and acoustic guitar. Back in the 90's we had a band with real drums etc. We would struggle all day trying to get decent guitar and drum sounds. This DAW recording is all new to me but it has been fun and I have a lot to learn.

Thanks for the suggestion. It's interesting, I'll mix with my Event monitors and then listen to my Audio Technica headphones and it seems good. Then I'll put it on my phone and listen through my cheap blue tooth headphones and all of a sudden something sounds way off. I wear my cheap headphones for hours working in the garage so I'm really used to how things sound through them. I think the final mixing is the hardest part for me, getting everything to sit in the mix on it's own is very challenging.

Nice song. Very hooky.

Cool song and great guitar playing. Lot's of layers of interesting sounds.

I got the Audio-Technica ATH-M40x after my 20 something year old sony 7506 died. I think they sound better than the sonys but are not as comfortable. I like them but I can't wear them for long, they start hurting my ears. They look really well built.

I re-recorded it yesterday, got a much cleaner track to stark with. Only needed small amount of adjustment. I think one of the things I did wrong before was the marker wasn't always before the start of the wave (small part behind) so I think it stretched or shrunk it weird. Recording is always a shock to me, it really reveals my bad timing and sloppy buzzy notes.

Oh yes the automatic quantization makes a mess. Thanks all for the help.

Thanks, that is what I was looking for. I gave it a try. I solo'ed my bass after the bounce and was surprised to hear some weird sounding notes, it must be from all my manipulating the wave forms to get them on time. It wasn't the bounce that did it, it was the editing. I may have to re-record the bass.

I use the fishman tripleplay wireless system on my guitar, you could use it to play vst basses or whatever else you want. It's not perfect but I find it useful for recording keyboard sounds. It's not cheap either. I'm a guitar player not a bass player but I got a 75 dollar ebay bass and am happy with my recordings. I can't do a perfect performance but the audio transient shrink/stretch is pretty easy but time consuming. I just do the transients on the drums and then line up the bass lines to that, works really well. My midi guitar tracks end up needing a lot of editing too because they never play perfectly clean.

When you say bounce do you mean record to a separate track (it's already audio) ?