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And now that I've replaced the stock hi-hat I have a spare cymbal, so I've hooked up that up at the very right as a second crash cymbal! 😁
Posted on 5 January 2023, 16:31
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I've started doing some more advanced stuff on the drums and some of it involves using the hi-hat pedal to open and close the hi-hat, but the stock hi-hat pedal that comes with the drums is fairly mushy and I was having a lot of trouble getting it to register when doing fast switches between open and closed (it's perfectly fine just when it's fully closed or open, just not so much when switching between the two in rapid succession). I did some research and Roland actually have a hi-hat that you mount on a regular acoustic hi-hat stand and it physically moves up and down as a regular hi-hat would. I ordered both the cymbal and the stand earlier in in the week and it arrived today, and man it feels nice to play!
Posted on 5 January 2023, 14:14
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I bought an Audio Engine speaker around this time last year to use with my drums (https://virtualwolf.org/media/posts/1906) but it was always just sitting on the floor pointing at my feet so today I decided to build a little stand for it so it'd be angled up at me! I can definitely notice the difference, everything sounds a lot crisper.
Posted on 29 December 2022, 16:16
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And we're all set up!
Posted on 25 December 2022, 19:13
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Drums and chords with single coil split (Electronic Remix) And then of course, I had to spend like two hours playing around in Logic Pro turning this into an electronic song. 😁 I duplicated the guitar track three times and applied different effects to each one, very pleased with the result. The drums were slightly annoying because apparently my Roland drum kit uses different MIDI notes than the defaults than Logic uses for a bunch of the individual pieces. I always end up having to manually edit the drum kit within Logic Pro so a quarter of the notes are even playing anything at all, and then I need to change another quarter of them because things like the toms and crash cymbal have ended up being weird effect sounds instead.
Posted on 10 December 2022, 21:35
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Drums plus chords with single coil split I made another song! This time it was just straight up recording a track on the drums, then playing guitar over it. Definitely doing significantly better in terms of staying in time now. 😛 For the guitar, I used my new Ibanez and switched it to the split between the bridge humbucker and the middle single coil, and it's SUCH a nice sparkly sound! I added some reverb after the fact in Logic Pro as well, since I don't have my reverb pedal yet, and man it's amazing how much of a difference it makes. The whole guitar just sounds more... open, I guess? It's hard to describe but it's quite a noticeable difference.
Posted on 10 December 2022, 18:59
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A friend lent me his "The RAT" distortion pedal since he hasn't been using it. 😁 Very excited to give it a blast tonight.
Posted on 8 December 2022, 16:34
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That was a productive morning, and a good use of spare wall space.
Posted on 3 December 2022, 12:18
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AHHHHHHH IT'S HERE! And it's so prettyyyyyyyy!
Posted on 30 November 2022, 13:57
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Electrosynths I did a song! The initial track that comes in was just me putting notes manually onto the MIDI view in Logic Pro, but the drums and guitars are both me playing the actual drums and actual guitar. I recorded them as loops and dropped them into Logic's Live Loops view, and then recorded each section as a scene, which is FAR less stressful than trying to play the whole thing in one take. Also, check me out actually playing in time with the drums this time. 😛
Posted on 5 November 2022, 18:15