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~~Thursday, February 12, 2009~~

5:10 PM

Unyielding crusade - divine revelation
Does following faith lead us to violence?

- Experiment 3 (Outro)

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And I'm in love with the epic ending chords. Playing it over and over and I felt like nothing could stop me from playing music, and yes music is my most favorite hobby whether you like it or not. Hahaha.

:)

Edit: (Random)

Know your seven deadly sins. Well it's just a random quiz.

Greed:	Medium
Gluttony:	Medium
Wrath:	Very High
Sloth:	High
Envy:	Medium
Lust:	Very Low
Pride:	High

Take the Seven Deadly Sins Quiz

Labels: posts, random, recording

Sincerely, xnox.

~~Thursday, January 15, 2009~~

4:58 AM

So maybe haven't you guys heard of what it sounds like, or WHAT it looks like when a keyboardist tries to play like a lead guitarist? Well just audio for now. I'm still experimenting this, and of course.. it's a messy cover! Yes, I'm playing teh ghey leads.

Update: Another one, from Dream Theater. Rythm guitar-ish?

- Experiment 1 (If I Could Fly - Joe Satriani)
- Experiment 2 (The Test That Stumped Them All - Dream Theater)

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Let me know what you think, ;D

Labels: guitar-keyboard, recording, xnox-ness

Sincerely, xnox.

~~Thursday, June 5, 2008~~

5:38 PM

Would you go or would you stay? (Lyrics here)

Yet another by me.

Labels: cover, golden train, justin, nozuka, piano, recording, xnox-ness

Sincerely, xnox.

~~Saturday, May 31, 2008~~

7:39 PM

Okay so I had literally nothing to do, AT ALL.. this afternoon. Yesterday I entertained myself by watching Juno. I know it's last year's, but still I can say that it was one of the best movies I've watched. The story line is great, the actor's plot is perfectly laid out and all. The OST are awesome too.

So another boring afternoon today, I decided to cover The Moldy Peaches's Anyone Else But You song. It's really catchy, and I've been playing it over and over again in my Winamp Playlist. With the help of a good software like Audacity, I was able to record the following clip. I've recorded different tracks of Guitar, Vocals (all by me by the way :s) then into one audio track. Still not that good in my opinion (a willing female vocalist would help?!) but hope you'll enjoy, and again.. comments will be appreciated:

x)

Labels: another, cover, day, juno-ed, recording, xnox-ness

Sincerely, xnox.

~~Monday, April 28, 2008~~

10:29 AM

So what a weekend! Had a recording session again yesterday with qamaruz after chilling out with the guys (Qamaruz, Marsya, Farah, Maziz, Faiz) at the beach. Yeh, we're slacking off and having our fun times at the beach before the recording session. Some piccies at the beach.

Drop by his blog. He does write about this too. Hahaha.

Moving on, during the evening I made the arrangements of the equipments again. Made a revision on how the vocal miking positions should be. And, unfortunately when I was tuning my acoustic guitar during the setup, the last string broke.. and we had to use an Electric Guitar as a replacement! Then like the last recording session, I had to refine the reverb levels, equalization levels and volume of the instruments again.

The recording session lasted for 3 hours, there's like mistakes and stuff but yeh, this time we actually made more materials than the first attempt. Yes, there's times during the recording we're just steaming off things too. Recording Music and Mixing is not easy people! It takes several times to refine everything in order to blend it just right. Oh, during this attempt I suggested to add some percussion effects too like the tambourines, shakers, etc. I think it really adds to the music.. but gahhh.. I think there'll be a Recording Session Part 3 it seems, haha.

Okay okay here are the actual recording clips:

After Tonight, Second Attempt.

Be Back Soon.

Save Him, Second Attempt.

Why.

Other extra recording Clips:

Be Back Soon - (Retry Attempt 1 - Pickup messed up)
:: Okay, as he was strumming the guitar, he accidentally moved the pickup knob. Ahh!

Be Back Soon - (Retry Attempt 2 - Wrong chord)
:: Wrong chord for the verse, funny nevetheless.

Be Back Soon vs Save Him
:: I wasn't sure which to record first, Save Him's intro in .. Be Back Soon?

Cry Me A River - (Dry Run)
:: Dry run, was doing the mixer tuning process. Strum away, qam!

Little Fat Boy and the Letter "L"
:: This is just so wrong! The most funniest clip during the evening! Steaming off.

Save Him - (Dreaming)
:: I know si Moon is there watching you, but.. -_-?? You're doing a recording session!

Save Him - (Wrong Chord)
:: Keh, I was so frustrated on this one, not only he was doing a wrong chord, he was laughing away. But what the heck, hahahaha.

Do drop some comments in my shoutbox, alright? I guess it was a 'Weekend time spent well'. Wait, spent well on doing other things instead of my exams and assignments.

Xnox, out!

Labels: cover, guitar, recording, second, session, weekend

Sincerely, xnox.

~~Thursday, April 24, 2008~~

12:23 AM

So.. I always wondered how musicians and etc made their songs out by recording instruments. What I mean is, yeah I know there's mixing, waveforms, mics and cables, then more mics to record such instruments into the pc where they'll be processed and mixed. I wanted to try it on my own first, and I thought that Qamaruz can be my Guinea Pig for this experiment, and so he agreed anyway to do a recording session. (Thanks to ya too, haha!)

Nuff said, we actually made two recordings out from several attempts and as expected, for a first timer (like myself and hi), we actually tried several things trying to balance the vocals and in this recording attempt is the guitar acoustics' quality. Due to the fact that my guitar isn't like any Gibson's acoustic that sounds $1,000-ish, I've could only do the best out from what I could. But anyway, I guess I'm pretty much satisfied with the sound in the end. Poor him, I'm pushing him and his vocals to do this job, hahaha. You did good, and thanks to si moon jua? Support this guy lah, ane ketawa pulang :p

And of course, here are the recordings if you would like to hear. Note that these recordings (audio only) are genuinely done by him and mixed by me.

Qamaruz - Save Him:

Qamaruz - After Tonight

Thanks to Maziz for letting us to use the equipments, and the jamming/studio room. Though, any comments on the recording will be appreciated, but cover comments goes to "iamgeorgenozuka.blogspot.com"! Stay tuned for more Qam-in-action. Hahaha.

P/S: Gomen-neh si Anafish, I was doing this when you asked me to come over. Haha. x)

Labels: cover, guitar, recording, session

Sincerely, xnox.