Lexical_Whale
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Cool song but the guitar tuning sounds really off to me for those clean arpeggios. Shame really as the track has a great vibe and sounds grand apart from that.
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Was literally just on here to see if there'd be any interest in my one of these before I eBay it . Don't want to poach away any interest in yours though so I'll knock that idea on the head for now!
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General Gear and Tab Season IV: Can it play barre chords?
Lexical_Whale replied to Dave.'s topic in Kit & Tab
The tradeoff being that you have to look like a total dweeb doing it and therefore defeating the entire point of picking up a guitar in the first place. -
Finally got round to releasing our first LP today. Easily the best thing we've done to date and hopefully something in there for everyone: long ones, short ones, loud ones, quiet ones, rocky ones, ambient ones, riffy ones, proggy ones. Some of my favourite guitar tones I've ever heard out of my gear too so really quite proud of those particularly. Can be streamed/downloaded from Bandcamp, iTunes and Spotify. A fine way to spend a 40 minutes or so on a fine spring afternoon even if I say so myself!
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Evening all. New track from my band Wicket from our forthcoming album recorded back in the summer. Instrumental post-rock for fans of Mogwai, Sigur Ros etc: https://projectwicket.bandcamp.com/track/we-were-sinking
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Anyone here coming along to ArcTanGent at the end of the month? My band Wicket are kicking things off on the PX3 stage on the Saturday. Lots of instrumental post-rock like this to be enjoyed: T5WZdeYhXV0
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Thanks! This to get the controllers connected and generate usable data from them which then gets shunted to Ableton and MAX/MSP for a lot of experimentation and fun.
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Pictures of your gear III: Pics or it's a Soldano
Lexical_Whale replied to james90's topic in Kit & Tab
Cheers. Yeah a black one's on my list of things to look into after payday. Last one from me before I spam up the thread too much more. Thought I'd go for something a bit different this time: Moog_03 by Lexical_Whale, on Flickr -
I'd say that's probably true as a general rule. I think I've only really used it once for a project that wasn't heavily MIDI or sample based and that was just to see if the change of environment helped with the writers block I was having (it did). I wouldn't say the workflow is any easier or harder, just different to something like Logic but as I say I tend to use them for completely different things really. This is one of my favourite things I've used Ableton for that just wouldn't have felt easy or natural to do in other DAWs: nd6yk2fxSeM
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My choice would almost always be Logic and that's what I've always used when I've been tracking at home or mixing. Pro Tools is fine and it's usually been the only option in studio situations but I'd agree with Jaicen that I find it a bit counter-intuitive outside of tracking. I've used Ableton a fair bit too for triggering instruments and samples live mainly but also for a few more experimental bits or messing around with things that need a more immediate hands-on kind of approach.
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Pictures of your gear III: Pics or it's a Soldano
Lexical_Whale replied to james90's topic in Kit & Tab
Got a very similar setup to what you're using I think. Got the same flashgun (based on the price/features/good things said about it on here ratio), Canon DSLR and a bit of white cotton material as a backdrop. Was a bit on the fence about 'needing' the flashgun but so glad I went for it (diffusing the pop up flash with bits of paper to nice soft lighting was getting tiresome ). Will have to look into mounting the flash off camera though; have you found any big benefits doing it that way? Can hardly compete with your collection but here's a couple of shots I took a bit earlier. Really should've cleaned the dust off... LP DC_01 by Lexical_Whale, on Flickr LP DC_02 by Lexical_Whale, on Flickr LP DC_04 by Lexical_Whale, on Flickr Couple of others here Really keen to try out some different backdrops too. Would thoroughly recommend it Matthijs, especially if you're trying to disguise the fact that you're actually shooting in a cluttered bedroom...y'know hypothetically. -
Pictures of your gear III: Pics or it's a Soldano
Lexical_Whale replied to james90's topic in Kit & Tab
Taking a few very tentative steps into this taking photos lark recently so thought I'd try a few tips I've seen thrown around here to get some shots of one of my main live guitars: First time putting any proper thought into what I'm shooting rather than just messing around getting to grips with the camera and also first time going for subtle post processing adjustments rather than overt image editing or graphics stuff. Hopefully going to have a go with some of my other gear tomorrow so any technical advice or composition suggestions/interesting angles for this sort of thing would be very welcome (currently my thinking goes as far as getting rid of the wrinkles in the background and maybe trying for slightly less narrow depth of field to keep the top cutaway in focus too). -
Not really that easy to comment on it as a score without the visual. Don't really care so much for the melody: feels a bit aimless and improvised at the moment but obviously that perception might change in context. Like the chordal stuff between 0'20" and 0'36" though so would have been interested to hear it based around that idea a bit more but context blah blah. Any chance of hearing it with picture?
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Don't think I've heard either of them before but then I only tend to dip into this thread every so often seeing as the quantity and quality of material varies so much! Great stuff though, all three are very cool and thought the first two were particularly fantastic. Lots of potential there and to be honest the recording quality didn't really get in the way of enjoying the songs at all. Everything comes across really well in spite of any production issues but would also love to hear them all polished up and whatnot though.
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Noice! Got any more?