Michael's Texas Embrace

Well, Murf says, "if you're recording anything with your fancy new set up, why aren't I hearing any of it?" (He probably said that with better English, of course!) So here's something I recorded. It's an instrumental variation on a thing I've been playing with. Simple, just some acoustic guitar and bass. It's a little sloppy, I didn't run it through the compressor or anything. I wasn't doing it for posterity; I just wanted something to record, so played this. Yeah, there are some bad runs in it, and some awkward parts, but it's kind of jazzy and there are some nice runs in the lead. So listen, and chill to it.

The Garden Wall

(Here's the technical nerdy part) The new condenser mic I got picks up subtler and higher frequencies than my old radioshack dynamic mic. This lends the recording of these acoustic instruments an "airy" quality my old recordings didn't have. So the technical advancement for me here is all nuance. But I care about nuance, so why wouldn't you? (Why wouldn't you care about nuance? Jerks.)

This recording also highlights the only guitar skill I have. I've never been a fast guitar player(or fast at anything else, thank you very much). And I've certainly never had much technical skill on the guitar. Anyway, I'm not fast, and my technique is poor. But, I think as far as guitar playing goes, I'm a decent mid-tempo emotive/textural sort of guitarist (this is carefully tempered by a firm belief that I am a decent judge of myself, though. And who knows how accurate the judgement or the belief it's based on is?) I think a mood comes across in the lead here. Maybe. I would be excellent in a generic, mid-tempo blues band. Oh yeah. Baff. What a long, stupid post.