{"id":425,"date":"2006-05-29T11:49:23","date_gmt":"2006-05-29T11:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nargalzius.com\/blog2\/http:\/www.nargalzius.com\/blog2\/archives\/2006\/05\/2006_05_29_1949.php"},"modified":"2017-02-08T05:22:26","modified_gmt":"2017-02-08T05:22:26","slug":"new-song-sorta-with-t5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/05\/29\/new-song-sorta-with-t5","title":{"rendered":"New song (sorta) with T5"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I took a break and fiddled around with the BOSS GT-8 (with the T5 of course), and I thought I ought to at least try recording some of my new material. I have <em>tons<\/em> of them&#8230; but guitar and vocals only.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s simple enough to make songs with a guitar and a pen (in my case, the text application of the laptop). The real killer is coming up with the accompaniment to <em>complete<\/em> the song (bass, drums, strings, etc.). Even if I had a clear idea of the accompaninment &#8211; it&#8217;s still tedious to sift through the software and pinpoint a patch that is closest to what I had imagined (not to mention having to go surgical with a myriad of plugins and EQ just to shape the tone into what I want).<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s only the &#8220;laying in of the tracks&#8221; part of it. Mixing, then mastering is a whole different beast altogether.<!--more-->Anyways, enough of that. Going back to the GT-8, I spend a considerable amount of time creating <em>two<\/em> patches.<\/p>\n<p>First was a Carlos Santana sounding lead tone, which is pretty specific if you&#8217;re familiar with his music.<\/p>\n<p>The second one was a generic distortion rhythm patch for the typical &#8220;rock song.&#8221; I guess my peg here was to be able to pull of a sound somehwere between a Matchbox20 and Switchfoot (in terms of &#8220;heavy-ness&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>So I ended up with this.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<!-- iframe plugin v.5.1 wordpress.org\/plugins\/iframe\/ -->\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"20\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/306058603%3Fsecret_token%3Ds-QVXyy&#038;color=ff5500&#038;inverse=false&#038;auto_play=false&#038;show_user=true\" class=\"iframe-class\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p>It&#8217;s only the intro as I&#8217;m still stumped on how to do the drums for the other parts. Once I think of a decent drum track then everything would be faster.<\/p>\n<p>Quite honestly, I really like it \ud83d\ude42 I like it for a number of reasons:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>To the best of my knowledge, it sounds nothing like my other songs, which I guess is a good thing.<\/li>\n<li>I was trying to get an &#8220;OPM&#8221; feel of a rock song (since this particular song will be in Filipino), which I think I <em>did<\/em> accomplish.<\/li>\n<li>What you&#8217;re hearing in that file is all raw. No EQ, no plugins, no mixing and mastering (yet)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Which leads me to the conclusion that <em>having a good guitar goes a <strong>really<\/strong> long way. (DUH!)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I remember the time when I was still recording with my <em>Ovation:<\/em> I plunked in a bunch of effects and EQ-ed the shit out of the guitar tracks and it <em>still<\/em> sounded like shit. And here comes the T5 with a superb acoustic tone straight from the jack&#8230; <strong><em>and<\/em><\/strong> as proven by the mp3 in this post, performs just as well as an electric guitar!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I took a break and fiddled around with the BOSS GT-8 (with the T5 of course), and I thought I ought to at least try recording some of my new material. I have tons of them&#8230; but guitar and vocals only. It&#8217;s simple enough to make songs with a guitar and a pen (in my &hellip; <p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/05\/29\/new-song-sorta-with-t5\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New song (sorta) with T5&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7,8],"tags":[549,754,803,1143,1158],"class_list":["post-425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-music","tag-hiling","tag-media","tag-music","tag-t5","tag-taylor"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=425"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1579,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425\/revisions\/1579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nargalzius.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}