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My First Song (Electro Mix)

There we go, I present to you "My First Song (Electro Mix)"! 😁

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Posted on 26 August 2022, 21:21

A screenshot of Logic Pro showing three audio tracks and two floating windows above it with all sorts of knobs and dials.

I am having ENTIRELY too much fun in Logic Pro right now. I've taken the song I recorded back in May, recorded a bass track with my guitar amp/load box/audio interface setup, and have turned it into this electronic-sounding thing. (Once I'm happy with it, I'll upload it.)

Also, man, listening to this back again I can really hear that I sucked at keeping the guitar in time with the drums. 😛

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Posted on 25 August 2022, 21:42

A photo of a set of wooden drumsticks, and the boxes of an Ernie Ball "Volt" power supply and a drum practice pad.

Why yes, it IS more music-related things!

I got a teeny little power supply for my yet-to-exist pedal board because I don't want to have to deal with 9V batteries, and a practice drum pad because I've seen multiple (extremely good) drummers mention that every aspiring drummer should have and use one.

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Posted on 23 August 2022, 13:09

A photo of a shiny black electric guitar sitting on a guitar stand.

There we go, one fully restrung and intonated guitar! (I haven't chopped the overhang fully off the top of the strings yet because I'm not convinced I wound them around the tuning pegs enough. Going to give it a couple of days and make sure it's not slipping out of tune.)

I can definitely tell how much brighter the sound is with the new strings, even without having plugged it into the amp yet.

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Posted on 19 August 2022, 17:13

A photo taken at night looking up at three huge tower buildings. The front of them are curved and the lights are mostly blue but with a couple of sections where it's a much warmer, yellow colour. The photo itself is slightly blurry which makes it almost look like it's looking up into clouds which makes the buildings seem even taller.

After Featherdale, we went into the city for dinner at a Chinese restaurant called "Lotus". It was definitely tasty, but WAY overpriced, next time we'd just as soon go to Chatswood and get the same food for about a third to half the price.

After that we did a brief wander around Barangaroo, and while this photo isn't the world's best quality (it wasn't even night mode, just the ultra-wide angle lens on my iPhone so it struggled a bit with the low light), I REALLY love the feel of it. Gives me very Bladerunner-esque vibes.

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Posted on 18 August 2022, 22:19

A photo of a set of guitar strings, two guitar wall mounts, two straps, some patch cables for connecting guitar pedals together, some string cleaner/lubricant, some 1-metre instrument cables, and a set of heavy-duty velcro for fastening guitar pedals to a pedal board.

Also my next batch of guitar-related bits and bobs arrived. Looking forward to getting the new strings onto my guitar, I realised it's sounding pretty muddy at this point given I haven't changed them since I bought it two years ago. 😬

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Posted on 18 August 2022, 15:59

A photo of three brown goats in a section of a barn. One of them is standing on top of a short tree stump.

A photo of a grey kangaroo lying on its side, with its torso propped up on its front arms.

A photo of three quokkas, two are huddled together eating seeds and grass off the ground, the other is holding the bottom of one of those very cheap ice cream cones and going to town on it.

Then we went to Featherdale and saw animals! We brought the DSLR and took lots of photos, I'll link them once I've processed and uploaded them.

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Posted on 18 August 2022, 15:39

A photo of a square white ceramic baking dish with delicious-looking chocolate brownie in it.

I made gluten-free brownies for Kristina's birthday! It's a new recipe we haven't tried before so it's possible it'll be awful, but we'll find out this afternoon when we have it.

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Posted on 18 August 2022, 10:46

A screenshot of incredible tackiness. In the middle is a "rack" with various guitar effects on it (harmonics, compression, output), all with actual dials that you need to awkwardly move with the mouse in order to adjust. At the top of the rack is a "Power Amp" section that has actual vacuum tubes that light up if you turn the power dials up. To the left and right it shows the "room" that you're recording in, with a full-size photo and a little version of the speaker cabinet you've selected, and the microphone you've selected mounted on a stand.

The load box comes with a license to use Two Notes' "Wall of Sound" DAW plugin that simulates speaker cabinets (with a limited selection of their full suite of available cabs), and it always amazes me how tacky audio software user interfaces tend to be. 😂

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Posted on 15 August 2022, 15:30

The load box arrived! It's very cool being able to have my sweet tube amp sounds but also being able to record them straight to the computer without fucking around with a microphone setup.

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Posted on 15 August 2022, 13:02