Showing posts with label music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label music. Show all posts

Sunday, January 21, 2007

cigar box guitars through effects pedals

Just been playing with pushing my CBGs through different effects and amplifying them. I've been using a Zoom 505 and there are some amazing sounds to be found. Coupled with the unusual sound of playing slide guitar, the responses of the piezo pickups as opposed to normal wire wound coils - you can get some great results. One setting gives a sort of violin type effect. When you pluck a note, it sort of zooms in the sound (by volume). It works brilliantly with notes slid from one to another. I must try to record a sample and put it on my Mutiply site. I have some other sound clips on there if you haven't found them yet the link is:-

http://smojo.multiply.com/music/item/1

Thursday, December 28, 2006

More cigar box guitar music

Just added three more clips of my cigar box guitar music to my Multiply site. You can find it here:-

http://smojo.multiply.com/music/item/1

Tuesday, December 12, 2006

Trying to record some cigar box guitar music

Well I've been trying to get something down onto MP3 so I can put some clips of these little instruments on my site. It's proving to be more difficult than I thought. I bought a Korg PXR4 mini studio some time ago but never got to grips with it but I'm having another go. I'm nearly there with it. Just real basic yet though. I managed to save a single track to my PC but it's in MP2 format. You can play that on media player but this site doesn't support that. Trying to convert to MP3 but can't find an application on my PC to do that yet. Found a Korg thing that converts MP2 to WAV though but the files are too big to post but maybe I can convert that to MP3. There must be an easier way phew!

Update - I did it. Here it is http://smojo.multiply.com/music/item/1