General @ Friday November 04, 2005 10:17 am by WunderKraut

White Trash Home Recording

Cullen has a great post up about how he tried to do some home recording, on the cheap.

You must listen to the finished product. Not too shabby my buddy. Not too shabby.

This setup, as white-trash fabulous as it may be, worked quite well. I was able to lay down guitar and bass tracks this way and synch it all up in Cool Edit. Took about an hour to do all this (after the drum track was already done). I am not linking to this experiment because it sucks donkey balls. But it proved to me the process was sound.

Heh :-)


Back in the Day, I could actually play guitar half way decently. My buddy and I were HUGE Metallica fans – back in the days of real Metallica. My favorite albums were And Justice For All and Master of Puppets. I also enjoyed Garage Days Re-Visited [1987] and Kill Em All.

My favorite Metallica songs:

  • Seek And Destroy
  • Am I Evil
  • For Whom The Bell Tolls
  • Fade To Black
  • Master of Puppets
  • Last Caress / Green Hell
  • The Frayed Ends Of Sanity
  • And Justice For All

    • My buddy and I would get together and jam all the time. He was MUCH better than I was, but I could do rhythm pretty good, so he would set me up with that and then he would do the solos and other cool riffs. We even filmed ourselves playing a few songs. I sure wish I knew what happened to that video.

    We never tried to record ourselves back then. But in 1992, we both gave up the heavy metal for religious reasons. We then moved into more acoustic stuff and began writing our own stuff. Right before I left for Tech, we got together and recorded about 5 songs or so. This picture was taken on that day. (I am on the right.)

    Too bad Cullen was not around back then, we could have had a kick butt band!!!! Oh well. Lost youth.

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    2 Responses to “White Trash Home Recording”

    1. on 04 Nov 2005 at 10:26 am   Cullen

      I have been in a few kick butt bands, always as a singer though (amazing as that sounds, if you heard the recording). I did play bass in one band, but we sucked.

      However, that I quit that band and wound up becoming their singer later. Then we rocked. Mostly because the rhythm section was much tighter. We didn’t have a full-time drummer when I was playing bass, and the new bass player wiped the floor with me in four-string skills. It was fun though.

      I have recordings of some of my old bands, really bad though. Like, a tape recorder set in a room while we played. That kind of bad.

    2. on 05 Nov 2005 at 11:06 am   prechrchet

      I would love to have seen the video of of you guys. :)

      Prechrchet

      BTW: it should be “not too shabby.”