looping song recorded

[forgotten_aria]

This is a long time coming. This is a song I developed for my gig on June 2nd. I wanted to record it before I forgot it, but June was busy (in wonderful ways.) I needed time to repractice and then figure out how I wanted to record it. Should I take it straight off the looper, which didn't allow me to remix that well or should I record each track separately and mix later. Ultimately I took it right off the looper. I experimented with some autotuning, but because it wasn't a pure voice track, I couldn't do that without making the harp sound honky-tonk. There's a hum I should have removed as well. I wasn't amazingly happy with the take, but I think I need to embrace the "keep doing your 80% best and your 80% later will be better than 100% now" philosophy. I did some clumsy edits to the take to clean out some of the worst problems.

I have a second song, but I don't know if I'll record it. I'd like to get a set of songs for an open mic, but I need to scout the open mic since I have a lot of setup, what with the mixing board, looper and whatever instruments I bring. If I do, maybe I'll record again and hopefully be more practiced and have better pitch.

Also, one day I'd like to make music that is in the style I like. ;)

P.S. I love my cajon tab. I hope to use it enough to really get to know it.

P.P.S. No, I have no idea why one of the camera angles kind of tries to follow me. I wasn't sure how to fix it.

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Comments

[jadia]

Woo!!

[coraline]

oooooooo... I really like this one! Every time I see you playing with your looper it makes me want to find mine and try to learn it again (although really I should probably start with something with a UI like yours...)

I'm particularly noticing and enjoying the quality of your voice on this one.

[forgotten_aria]

Thanks!

It's too bad we're not in the same place more often. I could loan you mine for a week. I never got the hang of old loopers, something about the 1 felt natural. This one does have a very strong idea about tempo and sometimes that can trip me up (for instance if you record some of the second track it will sometimes keep recording until the next measure comes around. I think there might be options to prevent that, but I haven't delved deeply into it yet.)

[coraline]

....wait, it's keeping track of the tempo to get the loop length right??? witchcraft! (that's seriously cool, and one of the major stumbling blocks on my one try with the old looper).

[forgotten_aria]

I start with a click track for consistency, but it will divide your first sample length by 4 (or whatever key signature you've set it to) to get the tempo. It also has a lot of really good visual clues about where in the loop it is.

[eub]

Wow.