Added videos to the site, which has sparked a desire to play live again. I am notorious for chickening out on this, though, so no breath holding please.

most of the time when i record or play something, its to sing more than anything else. although singing just wouldnt be the same without my own accompaniment, its still my favorite part of the whole process. my voice is my main instrument, as i hope will always be the case in my music.

when i was much younger i played piano, now ive graduated to synthesizers. i am not a very good player technically, but my ear helps me along moreso with a keyboard than with guitar strings. i find that i am happier with the results i get when using keyboards, even if i do play rather slowly.

well, i used to play guitar. every once in a while i will pick one of my four guitars up and start plunking with it, realizing why they all collect so much dust. i really am not very good at it, but if you'd like to heard some of my guitar stylings i would suggest checking out my covers section of the music page.. i use my guitars very little in the recording process of my original works.

THEN: (Point of Origin, Cover songs)

to make my first album, i pumped my Roland Juno 106 synth to the line-in of my Ensoniq PCI card and recorded the base music that way. when i wanted to record vocals or other instruments, i would have to muck with cabling and volumes as i only had one input to the computer.

to record my vocals, i would copy the base music file to a second machine (a slackware 4 machine called 'deroda', whom has since died) and play it through headphones. as i listened, i would record improvised vocals through a cheap $4 computer microphone into anya and effect the vocals after the fact in sound forge. if i tried to play the file and record on the same machine, the audio would meld together and i would get bleeding music in the recorded vocal track.

i then mixed all the pieces together in a single .wav file, using sound forges 'mix' command. this was all done by ear, as i would pause the needle indicator where i felt i wanted a certain sound to mix into the track.

in 1996 when i recorded my first cover songs.. i used the same technique, only i didnt have a synth and i played guitar through the cheap ass microphone as well as singing through it. i also encoded at a much worse quality, because at the time i was more concerned about the file size than about the quality of the sound. (i was on dialup) i used the famed l3enc program to encode those files.




NOW: Sepulture, and whatever lies ahead.

my production technique (if one would like to call it that) has not changed much in the past years. i now have a multiple input mixer so i dont need to get behind my computer as often as i used to, and effects processors to sing through.. but all in all its mostly the same. i have a professional microphone and no longer use a second computer, but i still listen to the base music to improvise vocals. i also still use the one wave method of mixing in sound forge, as well.. though i think i am finally ready to try a sequencer.

minimal is my key. i like the way i do things, it is hard for me to complicate my setup. gradually, with pressure from others, i am becoming a more proficient and fickle producer.. the result of which i believe can be heard over the course of my musical history.