At my folks'

[na_th_an]

Whenever I go visit my folks I bring my MBR with me. I keep my very first guitars, bass, a couple of cheap keyboards and some gear there which I love using to record little, lo-fi, noisy songs I usually compose on the spot.

This is what I have at my mom and dad's place:
- Academy Stratocaster replica, a very cheap guitar bought more than 15 years ago and really beaten up. Rusty pickups and (badly) tweaked electronics.
- Academy P-bass replica. My brother's friend bought it circa 1999 to learn bass playing, but abandoned it at my home shortly after. Sounds sexy, but it lacks the G-string (no pun intended!). It was completely broken until I "fixed" it a couple of years ago soldering here and there. It sounds mudy, dark, and gritty. Love it.
- An unbranded, old, rusty acoustic guitar.
- A Casiotone MT-70. Most Casio keyboards in the early 80s used square waves, but this one uses sine waves. Has a nice chimey sound, almost FM-like.

I'd like to show you some of the songs I craft at my folks' using the above mentioned gear. Again, sorry for the spanish lyrics.

Everything recorded in the MBR, mixed on the computer (ACID Pro). Drums are from Ez-drummer, I don't really like the drums in the MBR.

This song is really simple and just has a bass track, an electric guitar track, and acoustic guitar track and maybe a couple of vocal takes, all mixed together. There is no track limit when mixing in your computer, so the 4 tracks limitation in the MBR is not really a limitation for me.

Hope you enjoy this one.

[DeificDave]

This is awesome; really love it, what a great sound you're getting with those instruments, very catchy tune as well. Well done! 

[Hilary]

Oh I thought it was a great song, I loved the bass line and thought you've captured a great tone on the vox. I loved that the lyrics were in Spanish but thought they were a bit repetitive. Thanks for sharing.

[Oldrottenhead]

monto bueno byrawaymaman
luv it

[na_th_an]

Thanks for listening!

Here's another. This one has two keyboard tracks, one of them recorded with a cleanish preset and the other one using the SQR TR preset (which I love for keyboards!). For thirds, a bass guitar track using my beloved VO COMP preset with a couple of tweaked values. Percussion is achieved by using a couple of very old, dirty loops which I blend together using the VTape saturator VSTI (works wonders, specially for blending drum tracks from separate sources!).

Hope you enjoy this one.

[Greeny]

Both great tracks. Lots of cool stuff going on, and some really slick mixing. Slightly prefer the second track (love that dirty drum loop) - but only just!

[kenny mac]

I'm with greeny here,I prefer the second track but they are both good songs.
Well done to you for putting out two cool tracks.

[Gritter]

Great sound. Hats off to your production and songwriting skills.

[Tangled Wires]

Have only listened to the second one so far and it is excellent, I think I could listen to this just as an instrumental but the vocal just flows so naturally over it all.

Some cool beats in there, and a real masterclass in mixing and production

[Redler]

Nice work, nathan!! Loved the vocal melody - you've got a great voice! Catchy tune!

Kari