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Pro Tools Overdubs Video

I made my first educational video the other day. My friend Mike recently got Pro Tools and had a question about making overdubs sound smoother. So rather than typing out a huge email, I just broke out the video camera. After doing that, it seemed like it was something other people might find useful, so I threw it up on youtube. I might do some more some time if the mood strikes. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11owV-LZ5d4&fmt=18 [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11owV-LZ5d4&fmt=18[/youtube]

face down in cabo

i spent a couple hours last night after finally deciding that i wanted to be able to play cabo wabo (van halen) on guitar. while there’s still a couple spots that trip me up (some crazy syncopations in there!), i can officially play like 95% of the song now, minus the solo, since i don’t have a whammy bar and didn’t feel like trying that part yet. but i can rock the rhythm part at…

Caught up on that song

I spent a few hours this weekend re-recording the missing parts from that song “So Long”. I do quite like this song. So, now I’m back to where I was before with it, and I also have the new harmony ideas recorded. Cool. The song was inspired by an awful article I read last year about a kid who was killed. Apparently, this kid was at the site where his friend died in an accident…

If it doesn’t exist in 3 places, it might as well not exist at all

So I have a ton of new songs I’ve been working on, recording demos as inspiration strikes and when I have free time. Last night I thought of a vocal harmony for one of them (“so long” is the title). So I brought up the Pro Tools session to record it. To my horror, the lead vocal and the bass guitar tracks were nowhere to be found! PT couldn’t find them, and I couldn’t find…