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I'm in the middle of doing my first solo album now. i'm doing everything myself. playing drums, bass, percussion, guitar, singing and keyboard(poorly). It is hard work but i have complete control....excellent. so far i'm covering folk, electronic dance, reggae, hiphop, rock, funk,free improvisation...whatever i feel like on the day. I also like to set myself challenges like mixing a track with no compression, effects or eq; recording a whole track with an sm57 (and trying to make it sound good); setting myself short time limits for writing, recording and mixing the track(an hour is the shortest i've tried); limiting myself to one take per overdub; sometimes i'll even improvise a complete song limiting myself to one take per instrument, having no idea what i'm gonna play before i start(performing all the tracks while looking at the wave form of the first track i have improvised can be fun).
needless to say i come up with lot's of crap, and you're not going to find my stuff on the charts anytime soon... but i have fun.
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