Elko

Getting a little closer to what I'm trying to achieve. Which is that "scratchy vinyl record found in a thrift store that sounds like it was recorded in the back of a moving van" kind of music.

Rolled off a lot of the highs. Compressed it a bunch. Used Izotope's Vinyl on a bus. If I could take it out and drag it around a parking lot for a while, I would.

I'm ripping off a lot of this sound from this:

http://www.myspace.com/whoisclutchyhopkins

But trying to find my own wrinkle on it.

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Back in Business. 72 Maverick

I think I've used this riff before on one of the other songs I've posted. Don't let that stop you from listening though.

Guitars: Variax -- Strat for one model; Jazz thing for one of the others; bass by Fender. Synths: Logic's ES1 for the warm synth pad. Keyboard: Logic's EVP88. Drums: straight out of the box Logic EX24 sampler.

Effects: Ozone on a lot of the tracks. Room emulation space designer reverb used on the bus. Logic compressor on second bus -- with everything going through it a little bit to help bring it together. That's the idea anyway.

For bouncing, I ran it through one of Ozone's mastering plug ins.

Overall the sound is pretty clean...which is great. But I'd love to have this sound like it was recorded in 1978. So achieving that is going to require more experimentation or a time machine.

I've got this idea to record an album of instrumental rock in this vein with each song dedicated to a particular vintage car. Duster, Mustang, GTO, etc.

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Ain't It Funky Now

Hey I'm pimping for Superbad. Very excited about this film.

Check it out.