A few days ago, I wrote all about the joy that is the Behringer Guitar Link.
I’m having more fun than should be allowed with that thing as I’ve been learning how to use it. All you need to use it is a free USB port on your computer and an ASIO compatible soundcard (for best results).
You can hear my pitiful rendition of Moon Over Marin by the Dead Kennedys by scrolling to the end of this post and streaming it.
The best thing about this guitar link is that I paid about $40 and have been finding plenty of free software to model amps and mix tracks on the Internet (I mentioned a lot of that in the post I just referenced). Yes, you can spend a lot of cash using commercial products set up for recording, but how many of us are professionals? My guitar playing stinks and I’m just having fun – the free stuff is more than good enough for me.
For the record, I recorded my guitar and bass parts on the aforementioned song through Kristal Audio Engine. The lead and rhythm guitar parts were recorded through the D.I.G. 2.0 amp modeler from AcmeBarGig VST plug-in and I ran my bass through FreeAmp3 from Fretted Synth. The mixdown in Kristal was in that weird Ogg Vorbis format so I converted the song to MP3 through Audacity.
While it’s obvious I need a better sound card and learning how to play worth a damn would be nice, I was able to lay down some tracks that sound good enough for me through a bunch of absolutely free programs. That’s great stuff.
Now all I need to do is finish my country song that’s sure to be a big hit one day -- “I’m Wearing a Hawaiian Shirt (But there’s no Luau in my Heart).” Go ahead and laugh but that song will be huge one day. Yes, there will come a day when my song will establish a fad – a bunch of people will be wearing Hawaiian shirts and acting sad. Count on it.
Here’s my awful attempt at covering a Dead Kennedys song. Enjoy!
2 comments:
My brother Rod always wears Hawaiian shirts and he plays the guitar, but he's not sad. If he reads this post, he'll probably finish the song for you - whether you want him to or not.
Sherry -- Hey, I wear a lot of Hawaiian shirts, too. I thought it would be great fun to write a country song featuring a protagonist who is completely unsympathetic.
Why's he sad and wearing a Hawaiian shirt? Because he wife threw him out of the house and that's what he was wearing at the time. Why did she get rid of him? Because he was fooling around with the neighbor's wife.
Ah, it'll be a tearjerker.
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