On 12/06/2016 02:50 AM, david wrote: > I like the sound. It's real vs the slick kinda stuff a lot of people put > out.
The words that come to my mind are "not overly processed." That's largely because I'm not very good at mixing, and I didn't edit out all of the mistakes. > Is that your own personal studio setup? Yes it is. > One awesome drumset! That is my baby. It's a Gretsch Catalina Maple 7-piece, all the hardware is top of the line Gibraltar, and all the cymbals are Zildjian A Customs. I have 16", 18", and 19" crashes, 8" and 10" splashes, 14" hi-hats, a 20" ride and a 20" China. I'm running a Remo Ambassador hazy resonant and a Pinstripe batter on the snare, which gives it an unusual old school sound. The toms all have the factory coated Remo heads, tuned for maximum resonance. It's weird that I mostly listen to hard rock and metal, but the acoustic sound I chased is more '70s. If I want to drum like my favorite bands, I need to mute the hell out of the toms, and mute the snare even more, but I really like this sound. I paid up to get it. I could have aimed higher on the shells, but I've seen touring bands with less kit than this. > Accompanied > with the coolest looking beard and 'stache. You're certainly the best > looking trucker I've ever seen. I'm the only guy wearing a Swiss automatic watch on the road, I can almost guarantee. I've always been a fop. It comes from loving to play dress-up as a kid, I think. I haven't worn it yet, but I finally broke down and bought a proper kilt too. > I tweeted the link, who knows, maybe my small collection of followers > will tweet it on and you'll go viral and sign record contracts and > become rich and famous. Of course, then you can't have the blues > anymore, so you'll have to subsist on guest appearances on Lady Gaga albums. > > ;) It took a lifetime to come up with one good song, and I don't have much hope of doing a world tour next week. Also, the thing that makes me interesting is I play everything myself, and that act doesn't translate onto a stage. Almost everything I do is put together with minimal planning, and played stream of consciousness on the fly. I find it really hard to get on the same page with other musicians. Everybody wants to practice and play covers. I guess I would do that if I wanted to make other people happy, but I do music to make me happy. If you don't like my stuff, that's fine. I do what I do, and doing that is the only reason I bother with any of this. I'm too old and fat to be a rock star anyway. The coke would kill me, and I wouldn't know what to do with a willing woman. I should probably devote my next song to trying to get sex on the side as a married nerd in the 21st century. Spoiler alert, I never did get any. Faithful by way of a lack of options. Maybe that will be my album title. -- D. Michael McIntyre ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Developer Access Program for Intel Xeon Phi Processors Access to Intel Xeon Phi processor-based developer platforms. With one year of Intel Parallel Studio XE. Training and support from Colfax. Order your platform today.http://sdm.link/xeonphi _______________________________________________ Rosegarden-user mailing list Rosegarden-user@lists.sourceforge.net - use the link below to unsubscribe https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rosegarden-user
