Hi- joel here...i've been creating music for about 30 years, a couple of live stints, music used on a cable program some years ago. Always experimenting but usually about 7 years behind the times...i signed into this place 'cause i like to read and learn new things. I heard of this place 'cause i search the web for audio, music and graphic links to add to my site in case the music does'nt attract people...oh...i play guitar and make noises and construct "musics" with other peoples noises...

Been playin guitar for about 30 years. I've starting my recording studio from scratch and have been working on it for almost a year now...........time flies when ur havin fun.

Anyway, I'm looking to get some of my tunes recorded soon to share with you fine musicians !

Dot,

Awesome site! I came here from the Planet, and I love visiting both places.

'Bout 10 years ago I moved to LA and tried to make it as a singer/songwriter. Joined a band, cut a CD... I didn't get famous fast enough, and the more I watched the music industry and "tasted" its main aspirations (to get into Rolling Stone or onto MTV), well, I found myself depressed....so I jumped back into my true love...psychology.

Now about two years ago, I' got a gig as a college professor, which I must say I've been struggling with, because man it is one isolating world this ivory tower. YUCK!

So in the meantime, a colleague needed a guitarist, I joined his band, and loved it...and it resparked my interest in music. I was learning new tunes and singing and performing and loving it. Then the real magji happened: I decided I'd start writing again...and pop, a song came out one evening. Then I started writing songs left and right (about 8 of them in 5 months). So I got on a roll and I realized, damn, this is cool...not only that, it's good for my soul! I bought the Tascam PocketStudio as a scratch pad, and that baby was very helpful, but my bro has a 1680 and once I got started I couldn't resist getting my own. Just got it 3 months ago, and I'm still learning the ropes of everying (the 1680, the computer, midi, and sound engineering).

This site and the planet have made the whole process that more pleasurable.

By the way, I'm from NC myself. Grew up in Wrightsville Beach, and have two brothers living in Chapel Hill.

Talk to ya later,
Fox

I live in East Texas where I own a recording studio and operate a small independent record label. I produce and engineer all styles of music from Country to R&B to Rap.
I write songs in several styles also, mainly Country, R&B, Gospel, and my own style of Rock. I believe that all genres of music have something worthwhile and relevant to add to our lives, and that there is no such thing as a good or bad style - only good and bad songs.
I play guitar, sax, keys, and harmonica, and I am by no means a virtuoso on any of them. I play decent enough to get it right eventually, but when I have the choice I prefer to let someone else do in an hour what would take me 3 hours to get it good enough to go on an album.
My real talents are songwriting, producing, and engineering. they are also my passion. I believe that "good enough" doesn't cut it when it comes to producing music. I work on every song until it is right. I also do freelance acoustical consulting for individuals building their own studios, schools, nightclubs, businesses, and churches who need help with their sound issues.
I truly enjoy doing my job because not many other jobs provide the opportunity to combine both technical expertise and artistic creativity at the same time.
I look forward to the discussions on this board, and getting to know you.

Hi@all,

i am a midi/sample programmer from germany and
like sounds of every art.
Inspired to makin music with pc by massive attack,bill laswell ,björk and naturely
adrien sherwood(on u sound records).

Hi numen, welcome! Wow, thanks for pulling out this relic of a thread! I'm a not-quite-so-newbie around these parts, but I've never entered here, so here goes:

My name’s Ed. I was born in the ‘50’s, on Long Island, NY. I began my life as a musician with the trumpet, at age 6. Played in school, church, drum & bugle corps, theatre productions, community bands – usually well enough to grab first chair. Took up the acoustic guitar in my sophomore year of college, when a cute girl from downstairs in my dorm walked into my room one day and asked if I could tune the thing, which I could, and fumble through a G, D, and C chord. (Besides, the trumpet's a lousy campfire instrument!) So, the girl stayed, for a few years … fortunately, the guitar never left. Became a Deadhead, then a hippy (boy, am I glad I outgrew that! – the hippy stuff, not the Dead). Drove out west, then hitchhiked back (CA -> NY) with aforementioned girl and guitar in the summer of 1980. Wild times … can’t remember much more of that decade! Met my wife, Tina (Bean) of the golden pipes, in 1988 … bought her a cheapie Epiphone bass (“Ooh, this hurts!”). Voila! Now I’m a bass player. Played with, did live sound for, recorded to Porta-studio, various groups with and without the Bean during the ‘90’s … relocated to SoCal in 2000.

Currently struggling to learn the art of audio engineering in my project studio (MudBean Music) stocked with low to mid level analog gear from the ‘80’s and ‘90’s, an ADAT-XT and an old PowerMac 7100, with an Audiomedia II board that I picked up on eBay for 50 bucks (which I thought was pretty cool, considering that, once upon a time, they were state of the art, and $800, which in those days, was a small fortune).

Reeeeally freakin’ glad to be here and meet y’all! Thanx, Dan, for hosting this forum! O.K., I’ll sit back down now.

mud

Hey, BTW - I'd love to see some of the grizzled veterans around here give up the bio's!!! C'mon, waddaya say, guys?



mud

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Originally posted by MudBean:
Hey, BTW - I'd love to see some of the grizzled veterans around here give up the bio's!!! C'mon, waddaya say, guys?



mud

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I'm not a "veteran", but I am a little "grizzled"... here ya go.

I'm relatively new to "all this." After walking past the recording department in the now defunked Mars Music in early 2000...I thought I'd give it a try.

...My own personal experience involves no tales of the tape here, straight to digital, with all it's harshness, computer glitches & crashes!

Started with Cubase 3.7/ Wavelab 2.0 on a Gateway PC. Since then I've done two "rebuilds"(with the help of a friend) and using a PIV 2.4GHz and now SX2.2. I haven't had any of the MIDI timing problems as was the case in SX1...and I use the drum editor extensively.

I just added the UAD-1 about a eight months ago, and was immediately impressed with the Pultec and some of the compressors. So much that I'd like to remix some past projects, but probably won't, or can't at this point.

Prior to all this I did music and sports in H/S. Played in Stage Band, Bass/Drums and Rock band at night, hauling generators out to keg parties. After College I worked in television and enjoyed the audio part over anything video...who would have thought this kinda stuff would be available 20 years later, I mean our Ampex A/V machines, "in the day" were like the size of an entertainment center.

Came close to a record deal (You've seen the pictures in "Let's see your mug"), around the same time when my brother-in-law... of the band "Imitators" agent flew down from New Jersey to sign us. That was my first taste of a "Pro Studio"...London Studios in Tampa. I was smitten right off the bat, Our guitar player had recorded our own demo, like any self respecting band on a Tascam xxxx something or other, but this place was it! I remember the "Engineer" saying ,' Well, we can replace your snare sound with anything you like, Alex VanHalen's, Bill Bruford's,...You name it'. Phew! this is better than Disney World I was thinking.

...Roll the clock forward twenty years and now,

I've had the benefit of recording some unsuspecting souls, three demo CD's & a fourth to start in 05'... which has turned out to be quite the experience for both parties involved! I never would have had the patience for tapes, tubes and musicians, at the same time...So life is good.

...But they're still demos

The rest of our compadre' would be here.

-Stixxs