Jon
Recent additions to my lil studio
Oct 9, 2010
Not long ago I added Cubase Studio 5 and Native Instruments Komplete 7 to my arsenal. I am more than complete, I have musical tooling oozing out the wazoo. Now I need to invest TIME. I paid for these tools with my job, but now that I have them, I quit my job so I can start using them! Yeah, I quit my job! I was making a nice income at a big-name company you (whoever you are) have probably heard of. And naw, making music wasn't my reason for quitting, it was *a* reason, though, a really minor one in my list of many reasons.
I also recently bought a ukelele. I kind of like how it is used in the intros and first-verses of some great pop-rock songs so I figured I should have it. Plus it's a super handy little instrument that can be taken anywhere, being like 1/10th the size of a guitar and all. (OK maybe not quite that small. But mine's a soprano uke, it's tiny!)
The Phoenix, Arizona metro has some events worth checking out to expand the right-brain IQ, I've RSVP'd. Among them are TEDx events, which offer up both unique musical talents as well as fascinating monologues from the world-changing leadership leagues. Another one is "open mic night" with a group called Infuse. They meet every other month or so and do music and poetry. I recently saw some YouTube videos featuring open mic at Infuse, it's very inspiring and in quite a few cases (about half) very impressive talent-wise.
So now that I'm freed up from my job, .. well, I have to go look for another job soon. But I'm definitely going to take a bunch of the time off to dabble in music further, i.e. to learn how to use my new tools and how to play my uke. :) Meanwhile I still have guitars that I need to keep skilling up with.
It's all fun and fulfilling, isn't it? Having musical instruments and production tools; I don't dream of profiting from it all but now and then I imagine what it would be like if I made a career out of it ... wow, just wow. So fun and fulfilling. To those of you who are making a career out of music production .. well, none of you are reading this, I'm sure, but if you were, I would really like to shake your hand. If you're in Scottsdale, Arizona, ping me! I frequent Coffee Plantation (a local rather large and 'spensive coffee shop) and I'm there right now where I'm writing this blog entry. Maybe we can chat about music production.
I might like to do some live music performances here someday, if only my live musical performance skills weren't so weak......
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It's remake time
Oct 9, 2010
It's remake time. Time to start fresh on the music being produced. Time to rewrite the rules--and perhaps to restore some forgotten ones. Time to deprecate what we're seeing on SoundClick. Up the ante. Make the iTunes crowd wonder what they're doing over there.
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2600 Hz is coming back for another round of studio time
May 17, 2010
It's been quite a ride as 2600 Hertz has been resting on the laurels of previously mixed music. And it's nice -- if a bit sad -- that my songs stayed at the top of the charts for as long as they did, until I literally felt sorry for the other musicians and for the listeners who surely got tired of my music, so bad that I pulled some of the songs completely off the charts.
But it's time for new beginnings. Time to dust off the keyboard and optimize the music workstation PC to start producing some more music worth listening to, and sharing with the world. If you'll excuse me, I need to crack my knuckles and get to work.
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Marijuana and 2600 Hz?
Aug 11, 2008
Haha .. This was on my web referers list.
https://www.marijuana.com/music/104497-2600-hz-you-need-listen.html
"Definitely on my playlist next time I get baked!" .. wow, couldn't ask for better feedback...! LOL.. I don't use nor endorse the use of marijuana, but if it's always nice to know that my music is liked.
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