Transcoustic Dreams [original song]
This is an acoustic guitar driven electronic instrumental I wrote and recorded over the holiday break. It has some electronic/dance music elements meshed with guitar.
The Song
If you're on mobile please use this link as the soundcloud embedded player can sound pretty bad on mobile: Transcoustic Dreams
The Process
I've strictly posted fiction here on Steemit and thought it would be a good time to expand my horizons a bit.
I'm not sure exactly how much time I spent on this tune but it was north of 15 hours over the past 7 days. My story writing took a backseat as the project took up pretty much all my free time, though I did make time to write for the Writers' Block sci-fi contest. I haven't made a song in around 2 years, though I have continued to play guitar during that time, so this was a nice return to a long forgotten hobby.
Enter new guitar:
This beauty is the Yamaha TransAcoustic LS-TA which I purchased around 2 months ago. It has a great tone, but the main feature is a built-in reverb/chorus sound system right inside the guitar. With it enabled you get a beautiful sound coming straight from the guitar, no amp or other effects required, just 2AA batteries. But I didn't use this feature for the recording process.
I plugged the acoustic straight into my BOSS GT-10 guitar effects processor, and then from the GT-10 to my PC via USB:
I didn't use any of the GT-10 effects either, just put it on the bypass setting. I used FL Studio for recording and sequencing the song and adding all the effects. The software synths I used were Gladiator (the 80s sounds and strings) and Harmless (mostly for the bass). For mastering the track I used iZotope Ozone 7 with EQ matching.
Here is how the project looked on my dual monitor PC:
The Inspiration
I set out wanting to record something with my new acoustic, pure and simple. The melody came to me playing around with the Cadd9 and Em7 chords, which are the intro/verse chords. Once I had the verse and chorus I sat down at the computer and started recording guitar tracks to a simple 4/4 beat. The track evolved naturally from there.
Hope you enjoy it!
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That is amazing! Se you here, if you make it! :)
It is very beautiful sound and hope to hear you keep playing more music!
Thank you @kubbyelizabeth! I hope to record more acoustic stuff and not wait too long between songs :)
love it. i could play my sax over and compliment that easy. great feel awesome stuff :)
Thank you @clivemartin. A sax in the mix might work quite well, just imagining it now, would be cool :)
i can sure hear it so be interesting see what else you write. Message me or i will look out for more im going be setting up for life stream playing over those tracks so will send you a version see what you think :)
That would be cool :)... I'll see about writing more music, I haven't done much lately but I'm starting to feel inspired.
good work @cizzo, I like what you're doing keep it up
Thanks @lanmower!
I went with a moog style bass for this one :)
(a nice rolling trance kick and 303/virus bassline could be nice)
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