playing with my birthday present
So the other day was my birthday. For my birthday, I splurged a little and bought myself a present – a Behringer UM2 audio interface, so I can start fiddling around a bit more seriously with digital recording. I want to be able to record without latency, mostly to share tracks with collaborators, though partially because I have a couple of songs people have asked me to lay down; I’ll get there, once I learn the thing.
Anyway, I spent a bit of this evening fiddling around with drivers and settings and whatnot, and eventually got it to mostly work properly, though I’m still really flirting with the idea of tracking down a used beater mac so I can run GarageBand, because it kind of just works, and I know people who can coach me through it.
Yes, Apple people, I’m thinking of picking up a cheap mac. Enjoy your self-satisfied feelings.
I probably ought to buy a decent condenser mic first – I don’t have one of those yet.
Anyway, after fiddling around for most of two hours, I took 15 minutes and knocked out this quick and dirty track…some of you may find the bass line familiar, I just plugged in and started noodling. The mix is terrible, but I got a nice reverb sound on there somehow. Enjoy.
