Mood: TiredListening To: Schizzow - Album Sampler
Been both a bad friend and a supporter...
.. WOOO HOOO FREDDIEEEEEEEEEEEEE <33333333333333333333333333333
Okay, I admit that ever since I got the free CD whatsoever from him, I never even popped it into my DVD-ROM.. Never even checked it out..
Until now.. The production's better than I expected, honestly ..
Which brings me to my current thoughts.
First, Metallica. Then Ol' Skool rock bands. Then Steve Vai/Satriani stuff. Then music production. Then mixing stages, production, and appreciating the art of mixing itself? THEN Dream Theater.
What am I up to, really?
Easy. Screwing up my personal life
ZOMGSSSSSSS LOVE LETTER BWAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
I mean, screwing up my personal life. So far, I've been messing around with a shitload of wires via Reason 4, and been experimenting with new sounds that.. I can bet you've never heard of before from me. It's good in a way that I'm progressing in a certain direction with music, just that it's rather.. unexpected.
But taking all at one shot can be rather stressful for the brain, and I'm feeling it now. I'm slowly fading away into my musical sanctuary once again, and skipping meals, over and over again. It's like, the more I venture off, the more I learn. And the more I learn, the more I forget about reality.
It's somewhat... beautiful.
Not really, when you come up with nothing. But that'll end pretty soon. Just need to pick up the guitar and lay this track once and for all..
But by daytime, I'm walking around KDU, looking at ledger accounts, understanding the economy, dropping by the library to check out more books regarding how screwed up the politics and our economy REALLY is.. Definitely one side I've never expected myself to see and live through.
Either I do music, or .. books. I don't know. Yet I've got a couple of books to finish up regarding music, to purchase, and to order to expand my knowledge.. hopefully.
Another thing.. Will be measuring the probabilities through working, and see if I can save up for some musical equipment. Here's my checklist for the moment ..
- Yamaha Keyboard - RM1150
- Yamaha 4string bass for recording - RM 760 ~ 980 (Yeah, thanks to wormy for making me eye on these damned things after I went surveying around for him -_-)
- Line6 TonePort UX1 guitar/bass/mic audio interface for recording - RM 650
- A new laptop strictly for music nonsense. Either MacBookPro , or normal crap Windows-based laptop .. downgrade to XP, change internal HDD, overclog processors, installation of 4gbs RAM.. RM10,000+ or RM 6,000
Looks like I'll be working for the rest of my life .. ugh.
But what I really want, is to know what are my intentions are for..
I've been listening to Dream Theater's album over, and over again. And this time, it's not regarding about how great the musicians really are. That's one thing to do. But always do remember that 50% on how a song sounds is based on the production crew. The audio engineers, the masterers (SP?), sound engineers, writers, producers, etc.
And all this while, I've been listening to how they record Mike Portnoy's drums (shitload, ok. Would be a headache to mic the drums, and yet sound so bloody ass clear.. let me get you a picture..)
HOLY SHIT. SOMEONE IMITATED THE PORTNOY'S SIAMESE MONSTER. LOL
.. And on how John Petrucci's live recordings progressed. From somewhat mono-sounding, to the Live at Budokan's DVD. Where it's stereo sounding. Is it because of the way it's mic'd up? Or the technology of MIDI Racks just bloody progressed which he uses?
And his sound.. So delicious .. Free from biased, I would still prefer Steve Vai's sound mainly because of his equipment.. Far more superb in some ways.
I could go on and still ponder about what am I really up to .. but..........
It's just.. thoughts..
