Picking your brains about your music!

[ncc1701]

Apr 30, 2008, 5:16pm, silvercord wrote:better off dead? never heard of that movie..and i loved 80s teen movies....so now there's a big bug in my ear to find it; )http://www.amazon.com/Better-Off-Dead-Y ... sr=8-1Also, here's one of the songs my partner and I wrote for our Perseus-in-outer-space musical. Keep in mind this was recorded with a mic plugged straight into an e-machines home computer sound card and Cakewalk Pro Audio 9.Still, it has to be probably my favorite thing I ever wrote. Daelen's Prayerhttp://www.taximusic.com/song.php?song_id=1258 ... =1Kathleen

[silvercord]

thanks Kathleen~i had an e-machines computer too (go Korea!;)Daelen's prayer is..funky at :58 the song really opens itself up! it has epic (and dark) lyrics and feels light with it's soulful melodyand due to the topic of the thread(i know this is for a musical),but i can really see it as an opening tune for an animation.and wow you plugged straight in to the sound card? the vocals seem pretty clean, so nice job~ why kind of mic wasit if i may ask?(im always asking about mics;) fun still for sure! thanks for showing us Kathleen!(and for the movie info too)

[ncc1701]

May 1, 2008, 10:13am, silvercord wrote:wow you plugged straight in to the sound card? the vocals seem pretty clean, so nice job~ why kind of mic wasit if i may ask?(im always asking about mics;)I think it was just a Shure SM57 - my songwriting partner's family had a variety band and that was one of their stage mics. This was back when I had no clue about recording (not that I do now!) and I was just happy to be able to make an mp3!Kathleen

[milfus]

ah, i use an sm58 now and again, both of those mics are just outstanding when it comes to pulling something out of your hat, *shrug*, they will never cease to amaze me

[ncc1701]

May 1, 2008, 12:15pm, milfus wrote:ah, i use an sm58 now and again, both of those mics are just outstanding when it comes to pulling something out of your hat, *shrug*, they will never cease to amaze meYeah, when I made the decision to try and do something commercially with music last January, I joined TAXI, bought Sonar Power Studio, a Shure SM58 mic and a stand. That was my whole investment. Since then I've also bought EWQLSO Silver XP and I don't foresee myself outgrowing any of those things anytime soon!Kathleen

[milfus]

no doubt, its a great little mic, specially if you are fighting room noise, I used one exclusively for like 4 years, just because ambient noise made a condenser hard to use, and for aggressive vocals and guitar amps and stuff, i still go for the sm's

[buildingcastles]

It's hard to say, because I write in a number of different genres and different moods. I will say that none of my music would ever end up in a Western movie.

[geo]

Cool thread Geoff, for me.... an updated version of "The Big Chill"... the first movie I liked that didn't have a gun in it!!! That is one of my favorite soundtracks and movies of all time....Peace, Geo

[ibanez468]

Hey Geoff!I'm like the Squids & the H'bird! At this point, anything that pays. I'm not particular (at least not at the moment) about where a piece of my music might end up (besides the garbage), as long as I could get compensated for it. That's the whole purpose for this, or so I thought. I-468

[Mark Kaufman]

All my songwriting life, the next one has been completely different than the one before it. I think I have Genre A.D.D. So I guess the movie wouldn't matter...it would be just as thrilling to have some incidental background music behind a scene as it would to hear a proper song play at the opening credits. ANY music of mine used in a movie would blow my mind.