I wrote a song to encourage you to post / participate at LM! “Say Hello”

[peter]

I wrote this silly song in 5 minutes and recorded it in around 60 minutes in an attempt to entertain and amuse you — and most of all, to encourage you to post!

SAY HELLO

I want you here, that’s why you’re here…

but if you’re silent, then I don’t see a point that’s there

so tell me now, give me a sign

if it means something
then make your presence clear

I want you all to stop and say hello
I want you all to stop and say hello

say hello
say hello

Words and music, copyright, 2005, Peter Woods. (You know, because it’s gonna be a hit!)

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[lastcall]

Omg you need to complete this!

Super catchy, even my mom loved it!

I think you have some punk vocals going on here,  this style suits you so well!

I hope you get more thoughts on it because YOU ROCK!

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[peter]

Haha! I thought it might have been so terrible that no one wanted to say anything! Thanks so much!

The idea was to get us talking! I was thinking about that when I was posting deals yesterday, wishing that people were posting more instead of 100 topics with my name on them, and the idea of my writing a short song about it popped into my head and I started singing the song and lyrics into my phone recorder. I later spent half hour to an hour recording that, basically recording each track two times and using the best take (for the first guitar part, lead vocal, and drums, everything else was a first take, which I find a lot more fun, like a jam where you try your best and live with the imperfections).

But I suppose it worked, you posted! Hello there!

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[fretman]

He’s right. This is pretty good. Keep going on.

Please list the instruments you used.

Studio One, Windows, RME UFX, Yamaha MSP7

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[peter]

On fretman said

He’s right. This is pretty good. Keep going on.

Please list the instruments you used.

Ha, thanks. I only wrote it to be silly and show how far I’ll go to encourage everyone to comment more often! I suppose I should start recording my originals instead of covers at this point. As far as what I used, I’m not on my DAW PC now, but from memory:

Electric Guitars: Orange Tree Samples Evolution Rock Standard, Evolution Indie Rock – Evolution guitars are my go-to guitars. Nothing comes close to their ease of use and realism, IMO. I put this together super quick and didn’t do editing or tweaking on the MIDI. I just played it and accepted that it wasn’t perfect. But Evolution guitars sound better and more realistic than any other virtual guitar instrument out of the box. Personally, I just want to be able to play and get a decent sound. I have no interest in spending tons of time with MIDI, and besides, with my tendinitis, that would certainly result in pain for me. I think I had — way in the back of the mix — an instance of NI’s Session Guitarist (the Les Paul that comes with Komplete collection).

Bass Guitar: Evolution Vintage Violin Bass – This sampled Höfner 500/1 violin bass guitar. I begged Greg Shclaepfer to sample that for over a decade and do the magic he does with guitar-based instruments that even his competitors have praised to me privately Andew Aversa, the developer who did Big Fish Audio’s Electricity told me that he reverse engineered Greg’s guitar libraries to script those libraries, another BIG legendary Kontakt developer privately told me that his guitar libraries — like everyone else’s — can’t hold a candle to Evolution (I don’t want to share his name after that one, but everyone here knows who he is).

Electric Piano: UJAM Vice Vibe  – I just bought the 5 for deal and picked up 4 of their pianos/electric pianos and love how the each have a lot of very usable and inspiring presets.

Superior Drummer 3 – I don’t remember which kit I used, but I think it was from the factory library. SD3 is my go-to choice for acoustic drums.

For the effect chain on vocals, I use ezMIX 3 and love it. It blows away ezMIX 2 (I realize that I might be getting the capitalization wrong on that!). I love being able to dial up ready-made effects chains that sound great.

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[fretman]

Um, “I use ezMIX 3 and love it. It blows away ezMIX 3”?

Studio One, Windows, RME UFX, Yamaha MSP7

[peter]

On fretman said

Um, “I use ezMIX 3 and love it. It blows away ezMIX 3”?

I meant ezMix 2.  Version 3 is a giant leap ahead of version 2 was my point. I mostly use it for vocals and I’m very happy with it.

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