Another scrap to fling at your ears!


It occurs to me that nobody's ever really seen my songwriting process before, which mostly consists of flinging ideas into a big bin called the "scraps folder", leaving some to rot for years but occasionally dragging out the promising ones, eventually working them up into full songs. While I learn about this new environment, I can see a lot of very small things like this being created.

This is an experiment named (unwisely) NNNNNNNN, which is mostly playing around as per usual and adding in a lead guitar through my existing Pod X3 settings. And it's actually sounding all right for it (it actually sounds better in the render than in the workstation), even if the tone of the bass and the rhythm guitar has led me towards a more aggressive sound than usual... I still have to learn about sound production and how to avoid the problem of everything trying to sound louder than everything else, but if I keep everything at half volume to begin with then more room exists to adjust things up and down. I think the next thing I need to learn how to do is vibrato, which the Shreddage library has support for somewhere...

I'm finding my way around Reaper, as well - I spent only five minutes trying to work out why I was no longer getting sound before realizing my microphone was plugged into the audio out.