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oh hello. you magically somehow found my website. nice .01ho
28. former grocery stooge turned accidental college admin. trying to figure my Redacted out. not here to sell anything, just here to share what i make after work. rabid WFMU fan. card-carrying member of the gay agenda. go O's.
all of my music lives on my
Bandcamp. << click to jump to bandcamp
ALSO DID U KNOW THAT ALL OF MY STUFF IS FREE?
Under "Buy Digital Album," type 0 when it asks for the amount, then "download to your computer"! You should be able to jam always!!!!
click on an album cover for more
Muscle Memory - EP
a collection of things written & recorded at home between March and December 2023.
Therapy Is Working
my Covid project. recorded at home/other non-studio locations after work between Feb 2021 and June 2022.
(recorded 2020-2021)
home recordings from my phone, layered in Garageband. experiments and early versions of songs that wound up on "Therapy."
strange machine ep
recorded at Bard in 2019 with Ethan Isaac (in a real studio!!)
(recorded 2013-2020)
home/dorm recordings from my phone, layered in Garageband.
(recorded summer 2016)
home recordings from my phone, layered in Garageband.
video I made in 2019 with the first home recording of Ishmael. I took the photo of my then-housemate Conor Williams in Poughkeepsie, Ny while we were on a walk.
LYRICS: the phone call ends and the fact remains that I'm left with my worries and a hundred things to say. Can't understand, it's a mystery why you won't speak a word but you'll write to me. maybe you're a sailor with private worlds in your mind sending messages in bottles for civilians to find. what a catch! what a treasure, this vessel on the beach. i'll carry it forever but I sure do miss your speech. ishmael, oh ishmael! come on home, we wish you well! ishmael, oh ishmael!
ok but when u say
HOME RECORDING
what does that mean?
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this was my old apartment, and yes, that was (and still is in my current place) the studio ehehehehehe
2011-2015
in the old days, everything was recorded through my laptop. if i wanted to record a song that was just me singing over my guitar, i would hit "record" in Garageband and try to get it all in one take. then I'd put headphones in and record the vocals through there. any electric guitar parts were played through my amp in a live room (which is why the summer 2016 album on my bandcamp sounds like absolute dog water)
2016-2022
eventually i realized that my phone had a better mic than my laptop, so i started recording each single take or part in the voice memo on my phone. after i recorded a part, I'd immediately import it onto my laptop, line it up where it was supposed to be in Garageband, and repeat the process. this actually worked relatively well but the amount of parts I was adding was getting to be too annoying to have to constantly switch between phone and laptop.i asked for a little interface for Christmas somewhere around 2019 so I could plug my guitar into that and run it through my laptop but I was too scared of new tech that I didn't actually use it for a few years.
2022-now
in 2022, I decided to make "Therapy Is Working" and i wanted it to sound at least a little more polished than anything I'd put out before. someone gave me an effects pre-amp for free, so i decided to see what that was about. for guitars/bass, i run them through the pre-amp, then through the interface, and then right into my laptop so I can sit at my desk and layer everything in real time in Reaper (grown-up software!!!) for drums/vocals/keys/ other things, I have two mics that i run through the interface into my laptop. someone gave me a third so now i need to rethink how I do those. this set-up also allows me to transport everything so I can record loud vocals in a (parked) car if needed since Reaper doesn't require internet
and for any curious gearheads......
this is the preamp I use (Digitech GSP1101). i went to actually buy a guitar from this guy off of Facebook marketplace. he was v nice and let me try the guitar out. he liked the song I played a lot (can't remember what it was) but he was like "hey take this for free." so for anyone curious on the guitar tones on "Therapy", they came from this thing
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if you've ever asked "is it possible to just like plug your guitar into your laptop?" the answer is yes if u run it through something like this (Scarlet Focusrite 2i2). I can either run two mics into this and record on my laptop, or I can plug the preamp into one channel and leave a second to record scratch vocals. literally im just sitting at my desk playing guitar.
instruments i use (im not making more PNGs)
guitars:
schecter solo 6 custom
for rhythm mostly
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grestch g5120
for lead mostly
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ernie ball olp 5string bass
for bass
drums:
a gretsch kit
i couldn't tell u any details
keyboard things:
akai mpk mini
very new, still noodling, haven't released anything that uses it yet
the composer table wind organ
a keyboard
literally no idea what kind but it had effects
other stuff:
a banjo
kalimba
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bought new
craigslist
parents basement
bought off a friend
gift from a friend
I also regret to inform you that i played TROMBONE for six years
(and violin for 10 but that's less humbling)v