Hi everybody.
I just stumbled on this site whilst looking for bug fixes for my Boss BR-80. The information here seemed far superior to information I can access on Boss's website, so I decided to browse around the site a little. Then I began to wonder why I had not found this site years ago.
I've been into home recording for ages, now, but it's not something I'm very good at doing. No one really taught me much of anything, so what little I know about recording is from experimentation on my own.
I currently use the Boss BR-80, as well as Audio Evolution (Android app) and Sonar. I also have some old multitracks I rarely use, like a Yamaha 16 track and a Boss 12 track with a hard drive issue, and an old Fostex 4-track tape console. I have some good cheap mics, too: AKG C3000, and some small to medium diaphragm dynamics, along with a full set of drum mics, including AKG D112 and E/V's specific snare and tom mics.
As far as songs go, I like to record an eclectic mix of softer and harder rock. I play guitar, bass, drums, synth, and I can't sing, but I still pretend I can. I recorded my own double album ages ago, and I've done demos and EPs with a couple bands, but I don't have anything recent finished, just a lot of half-finished stuff (life tends to get me side-tracked for long periods of time). I've got some other hobbies, too, computer programming, game design, writing, riddles (I particularly like the Martin Gardener books, as well as classic riddles), puzzles (Particularly Rubik's Cube, which I have my own solution for), building my own instruments, and physics stuff like holography and lasers. My day job is nailed down as far as where I work, but what I do is in constant flux. My official title is as a chemist, and most of the people with whom I work consider me to be such, although my studies at the university encompassed lots of physics, then a great deal of maths, and only a little chemistry and biology, but what matters is that I seem to have a better grasp of chemistry than the other chemists here, who have their own skills, for sure, but not so much with hard science.
So anyway, thanks so much for letting me be a part of this site.
Cheers,
Bostjan
Welcome aboard Bostjan. And hullawrer from Scotland.
Hi from the English East Midlands. Post some stuff soon.
Paul
Greetings bostjan, from the sunny shores of southern Maine - hope to hear more from you!
Quote from: bostjan on November 11, 2015, 08:53:11 AMNo one really taught me much of anything, so what little I know about recording is from experimentation on my own.
There's a lot of members in that particular club on here, so you'll fit right in :-)
Welcome from London. Enjoy!
Welcome aboard from just south of London, sounds like you'll fit in well. Willie
Welcome to the site from Berkshire in the UK. This is a great site to share knowledge and make friends from around the globe. I've a degree in Physics, but sold my soul to software many years ago :-) so I can empathise. Enjoy the site, its great fun.
B
Welcome from Norway.
Another welcome from Norway
Quote from: Greeny on November 11, 2015, 11:17:02 AMQuote from: bostjan on November 11, 2015, 08:53:11 AMNo one really taught me much of anything, so what little I know about recording is from experimentation on my own.
There's a lot of members in that particular club on here, so you'll fit right in
indeed ;D
I look forward to listening to your music!
Welcome, glad to have you on board :D
Welcome from the East coast of Canada. From reading your little introduction I know that you will fit in real good around here. I am glad you found us. I can't wait to hear some of your songs and music.
Welcome to songcrafters Bostjan, from sunny and cold N. California! Not many of us have had any formal training in recording. Mine came from just doing it over and over until it I thought it was ok to let other folks hear what I was doing.
Farrell Jackson
A Warm welcome from Dunkeld, Scotland......
Alex
Welcome from Dublin Ireland.
A big welcome from New Zealand. I'm new here too, and I agree with you: this site is the best kept secret of the internet so far as songwriters and home recordists are concerns. I look forward to hearing some of your work in due course.
Best wishes,
::Leigh
Having started home recording back in the 1990's, and just barely starting to publicly share my recordings starting in 2015, getting active on Splice in 2018, and now I'm very proud to say that I'm now featured on a compilation album! I feel like there is still a lot of growth I need to try to do, but for me, this is a pretty major milestone.
About the album:
Here's a link to the album: https://www.amazon.com/Microtonal-Freedom-Compilation-Benefit-Ulbricht/dp/B07LFJGM1V/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8
All of the proceeds go to Lyn Ulbrecht, whose son was sentenced in US court to two consecutive lives in prison plus 40 years for starting a website (known as the Silk Road).
Each song on the album was recorded by a different artist, and each artist uses microtones (scales that do not use the standard 12 notes of the conventional keyboard). My tuning of choice has 19 notes, such that F# and Gb are actually not the same note/key/fret. I've been using that tuning since around 2003. Other artists there use different tunings: for example, Brendan Byrnes uses 22 notes per octave, similar to the scale used in Indian Classical music, but modernized; The Mercury Tree uses 17 notes per octave, which is similar in spirit to the 19 note scale I use; and Biptunia uses multiple tunings all at the same time.