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A selfie of me, a white man with a short red beard and short brown hair—although both are getting a bit scruffy—smiling at the camera. I'm holding a guitar and standing in front of my standing desk, which has an Arturia MiniLab 3 MIDI keyboard in black sitting on the desk. On the main computer display is Logic Pro with Arturia's Analog Lab plugin window open, and on my laptop's internal display to the left there is Toontrack's Superior Drummer 3 plugin window showing half of a frankly absurd number of cymbals and toms, partially covered by the window for Neural DSP's Archetype PliniX guitar amp software showing a cool-looking black amp with a red glow coming from inside it.

Current status: feeling inspired. 😎

(Of course, it's probably going to end up being another couple of months before I actually finish this thing. 😅)

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Posted on 18 May 2025, 20:47

Sans Metronome

And the song is finished! I wrote up a full blog post with the details: https://blog.virtualwolf.org/sans-metronome/

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Posted on 12 January 2025, 21:03

A selfie of me, a white man with a relatively short but getting somewhat scruffy-looking red beard and short brown hair, wearing a black Fear Factory t-shirt. I'm holding a white Fender Player II Stratocaster electric guitar and smiling at the camera.

You'll have to speak up, I'm playing a guitar. 😎

I finished the bass line this morning, I've got the broad strokes of the rhythm guitar down and just need to record the rest, so now I'm mucking around with the lead. I recorded some lead earlier in the week but listening to it again now I realised it doesn't go, especially with the increased energy of the new bass track, it was just too slow.

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Posted on 5 January 2025, 21:26

A photo of my standing desk in its upright position, with a bass guitar sitting to the left of the desk, an electric guitar sitting to the right of the desk, a bass guitar multi-effects pedal with a whole ton of knobs and dials on it ON the desk, and Logic Pro showing on the main display.

Doing some more mucking around with my song, I've redone the bass line now. My problem is that each time I come back to the song and listen more I decide I'm not happy with something and need to change it. 😅

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Posted on 24 December 2024, 17:09

A photo of three people smiling at the camera. There's me at the very right, a white man with a red beard wearing a Metallica t-shirt and while you can't see it, I'm holding a guitar. To the left is Hob, a lanky white man with shoulder-length curly hair and a bass guitar on his back while he's sitting at an electronic piano, and then on the other side is Dan, an Asian man with... uh... not long but also not short hair? He's sitting at a Roland electronic drum kit. The floor of the space we're in is a bit of a mess of wires.

And last on the agenda today was a jam session after work!

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Posted on 24 October 2024, 19:44

A photo of an electric guitar with a white body, black pick guard, and a maple fretboard and headstock. It's VERY handsome.

A photo of an electronic drum kit sitting in a corner, with a mesh snare and three mesh tom pads on it, and three black cymbals. Two of the cymbals are noticeably larger (and also cleaner) than the third one, and they're the new ones.

New gear day! 🎉 A Fender Player II Stratocaster, and upgraded cymbals for my drum kit (CY-16RT ride cymbal and CY-14CT crash cymbal, both Roland).

Mannys only had one of the crash cymbals in stock so I'm still waiting on the second to arrive, as well as a Boss ME-90B bass guitar multi-effects pedal. I haven't had a chance to play with the Strat yet, but MAN the new cymbals are nice, they have a far better feel to them than the stock ones, and the new ride cymbal has three trigger zones on it, so you get the bell sound in the very middle too.

I'm currently trying to see if I can fit another cymbal mount on there to use with the last input on my drum module so I can make use of one of the now-spare CY-8 cymbals as a third crash... 🤔

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Posted on 14 October 2024, 13:58

A photo of my standing desk in its upright position, with an electric guitar sitting to the left of the desk, a bass guitar sitting to the right of the desk, a MIDI keyboard on the desk, and Logic Pro showing on the main display.

Recording the bass and drums for @[email protected]'s upcoming Christmas song has gotten me into the mood to try record a short little something of my own. 👀

I'm trying to do some kind of cool minor pentatonic thing, we'll see how it actually comes out. 😅 I've got the bass riff recorded so far and it's sounding pretty good, next stop is some lead guitar over the top of it. (The MIDI keyboard may or may not end up being made use of in the final product.)

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Posted on 15 September 2024, 21:12

A photo of the corner of a room that has a whole bunch of musical equipment in it: there are three electric guitars and a bass guitar sitting in a stand at the left, two very large speakers, an electronic drum kit, a MIDI keyboard, and a full size piano at the right that is painted in extremely garish bright colours.

A photo of five smiling people looking at the camera. There's me, a man with short brown hair and a short red beard holding a bass guitar, a tall man with shoulder-length hair sitting down holding an electric guitar, two men sitting at the drum kit each holding one drum stick each, and a woman with long brown hair holding a bright pink ukulele.

The reason I was in the office today was because it turns out we have a whole set of musical instruments in the "wellness room", so a bunch of us decided to get together to play some music!

It was SO FUN! Only two of us could play guitar or bass so I mostly stuck to one of those, and we ended up with two people playing drums together (one person would do the hi-hat and the other would do the kick drum because nobody was coordinated enough to do both together, lol) and we absolutely got into a groove and were rocking out and it was so excellent. It's planned to be a regular thing and I'm so looking forward to the next one.

(There is a group of Very Talented people who get together and play most Wednesdays and Fridays but that was way too intimidating for us so we did our own little thing.)

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Posted on 15 August 2024, 20:35

A wide-angle photo of seven people sitting around in a loose circle with electric guitars on their laps.

Spent a couple of hours this afternoon jamming* with some local dads.

*Well, I say "jamming" but that's overstating it in my case, I'm not good enough to actually just look at what someone else is doing and be able to play along with them.

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Posted on 30 June 2024, 15:59

Metal Tones in A Minor Pentatonic

I made another short little song! This one is 100% me playing all the instruments (guitar, bass guitar, drums, keyboard) rather than doing it via loops, and I'm very pleased to report that I didn't need to quantise the drums at all, I smashed the timing (the same can't be said for the guitar and bass guitar, they both need a little bit of nudging, though I didn't realise they needed it until I had recorded the drums).

The guitar was a bit frustrating to get right, I had most of it but the little "solo"-esque bit in the middle required quite a few takes. I also subsequently realised that if you have the loop mode on and are recording something, it'll just keep looping over and recording the whole looped section as a different take, so I did that for the drums and ended up recording it like nine or ten times through then listened to them back and picked the best. The guitar and bass sounds come from Two Notes' "Genome" software, I had quite a bit of fun dialing in the sound, and I used my Epiphone SG Standard rather than the JIVA for a bit of change.

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Posted on 5 May 2024, 15:05