Ooh-aah (It's So Easy) - AndyR Original

AndyR · April 04, 2010, 04:34:06 PM

First music post in a while from me... and a little rougher round the edges than usual

It's not really a song, but it kinda turned into one... sort of... more of a jingle (or a jangle)... it's only 1:40 long.

It's the first thing I've recorded with my new BR1600. I used this project to transfer my Boss knowledge over from the MBR and to learn how to use the thing. Before I knew it, I'd started adding all kinds of stuff and it turned into this huge wall of sound

It started out with one strat, which I used for 4 basic rock n roll electrics, two accoustics, and a bass part... I'm quite impressed with the accoustic and bass simulation - I wish this, the bass particularly, was on the MBR.

The drums are just patterns from the BR, plus one I created step-wise to get a crash at the end (somehow the later over-dubs have kind of only vaguely gone with the spirit of the thing

- it was my missus's main comment on her first listen...)

Then I wondered what I could get going with some vocals.... remember this was just a learning project at the time... So, ummm, I got an old SM58 out and proceeded to quickly record a large number of voices... that's when it got the title.

I experimented with some interesting panning and then flanging of the vox on the second chorus. It was actually even more experimental than this... the title was originally "Ooh-Aah Ukka-Ukka-Ukka (It's So Easy)", but the Ukka-Ukkas, effective as they were in all their glorious panning across the stereo field, turned out to sound just a little too avant-garde for my liking when I listened to it the next day

. So I wiped them, much to my wife's relief...

That left me with what to do with the second "verse"... I still didn't think of it as a song and didn't want to write any lyrics. Solution: A nice guitar solo, I thought... I'll do it before the in-laws arrive for the Easter Saturday visit...

So I got out my Brian May Red Special that my missus got me for christmas... That was sometime yesterday morning... and, Oh dear, did we have lot of fun over the last few days with a Brian May guitar, a single BR guitar patch, and almost unlimited tracks...

So, ladies and gentlemen, the massed choirs and geetars of Tootynge proudly present... this 1 minute 40 seconds wall of noise...

... I'm REALLY gonna have fun with this new box of tricks

"Ooh-aah (It's So Easy)"
Words and music by AndyR