First up, a fellow music-head, Eddie Hughes sent me the first track he's done using Reaper as his DAW. Eddie's a talented jazz guitarist with experience using Logic, Sonar, and other software/hardware recording set ups, but he's just switched over to Reaper (which is available for free as a demo, or for a frankly meagre $60!). The Audio Flasher Project convinced him to share this one with readers as another "I've never used X before, let's see what I can do with it" Experiment.
Also, Audio Flasher is proud to announce that our forthcoming collaborative project, Experiment X has already attracted some participants! I can reveal that one of those participants is the gifted guitarist, Chris Juergensen!! Chris is the Vice Principal of Tokyo School of Music, and a Guitar Instructor at the Musician's Institute in California. Now, I'd talk Chris up some, but why bother when I can let giants like Mike Stern and Jennifer Batten do it for me? Here's what they have to say...
"Chris is a phenomenal talent head to toe. 'Big Bad Sun' unleashes an unabashed dirty low down blues side of him that has you stompin' your feet to a killer variety of grooves. And prepare to stand back as the guitar speaks to you, alternatively ripping your head off and then caressing you." - Jennifer Batten
"Another beautiful cd from Chris Juergensen. This recording has a serious blues vibe. Chris sings and plays his ass off on this one." - Mike Stern.
That CD, and his others, can be found here and over at Spotify. I've been giving his tracks some heavy rotation on Spotify long before he agreed to participate in Experiment X, so I'm stoked to be having him on board for this. His site has a ton of well-written and really useful lessons for guitarists, ranging from beginner to the more advanced, and he has written some excellent books which can be found here, so his pages are definitely worth bookmarking. In true professional fashion, Chris has already submitted his track. And, in true "I'm going to prep as little as possible and through-compose my mix as much as possible" fashion, I've yet to give it a listen. I'm bloody tempted, though.
There's still plenty of space in this project for more contributors and, as I'll be editing from all the submissions to create the final track, please don't be discouraged from getting involved - all we need is 30 seconds-2 minute's worth of music from you, as a single track (either a live instrument, or a MIDI track converted to audio), using a D drone note as a tonal reference (don't include the drone note in the file you send to Audio Flasher). Please email submissions to audioflasher at gmail dot com, and state in the email what name you prefer to be identified as when we publish the track here in a few month's time. Full details of Experiment X can be found here.
Finally, Audio Flasher made an impulse purchase yesterday. It involves some portable MIDI controller gear, but let's not say more than that. It is expected to arrive early next week (doncha love the web huh?), so you can expect a further "I've never used this gear before, but I can push buttons well enough....let's try to make a track" Experiment to come out of that.
Thanks for reading! Hope to see you involved in a future experiment, too.
Here's Eddie's track - Autumn Leaves:
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First up, a fellow music-head, Eddie Hughes sent me the first track he's done using Reaper as his DAW. Eddie's a talented jazz guitarist with experience using Logic, Sonar, and other software/hardware recording set ups, but he's just switched over to Reaper (which is available for free as a demo, or for a frankly meagre $60!). The Audio Flasher Project convinced him to share this one with readers as another "I've never used X before, let's see what I can do with it" Experiment.
Also, Audio Flasher is proud to announce that our forthcoming collaborative project, Experiment X has already attracted some participants! I can reveal that one of those participants is the gifted guitarist, Chris Juergensen!! Chris is the Vice Principal of Tokyo School of Music, and a Guitar Instructor at the Musician's Institute in California. Now, I'd talk Chris up some, but why bother when I can let giants like Mike Stern and Jennifer Batten do it for me? Here's what they have to say...
"Chris is a phenomenal talent head to toe. 'Big Bad Sun' unleashes an unabashed dirty low down blues side of him that has you stompin' your feet to a killer variety of grooves. And prepare to stand back as the guitar speaks to you, alternatively ripping your head off and then caressing you." - Jennifer Batten
"Another beautiful cd from Chris Juergensen. This recording has a serious blues vibe. Chris sings and plays his ass off on this one." - Mike Stern.
That CD, and his others, can be found here and over at Spotify. I've been giving his tracks some heavy rotation on Spotify long before he agreed to participate in Experiment X, so I'm stoked to be having him on board for this. His site has a ton of well-written and really useful lessons for guitarists, ranging from beginner to the more advanced, and he has written some excellent books which can be found here, so his pages are definitely worth bookmarking. In true professional fashion, Chris has already submitted his track. And, in true "I'm going to prep as little as possible and through-compose my mix as much as possible" fashion, I've yet to give it a listen. I'm bloody tempted, though.
There's still plenty of space in this project for more contributors and, as I'll be editing from all the submissions to create the final track, please don't be discouraged from getting involved - all we need is 30 seconds-2 minute's worth of music from you, as a single track (either a live instrument, or a MIDI track converted to audio), using a D drone note as a tonal reference (don't include the drone note in the file you send to Audio Flasher). Please email submissions to audioflasher at gmail dot com, and state in the email what name you prefer to be identified as when we publish the track here in a few month's time. Full details of Experiment X can be found here.
Finally, Audio Flasher made an impulse purchase yesterday. It involves some portable MIDI controller gear, but let's not say more than that. It is expected to arrive early next week (doncha love the web huh?), so you can expect a further "I've never used this gear before, but I can push buttons well enough....let's try to make a track" Experiment to come out of that.
Thanks for reading! Hope to see you involved in a future experiment, too.