So I’ve finally started pushing the Record button. The hardest part of making music is learning your instruments and your tools. After picking up all this equipment, it’s taken me some time to get familiar with the basics of my synth, sampler, sound module, drum machine, and DAW software. Five months ago, when I knew …
Yearly Archives: 2010
Wrapped Up Like a Douche
Lyrics websites — those sites that appear on the first page of search engine results when you type a song name followed by “lyrics” — have proven themselves useful to me from time to time. Since my CD collection is locked away at home, when I need to look up the lyrics to Manfred Mann’s …
Phaysis.com: Celebrating a Decade of High Hopes
> whois phaysis.com Whois Server Version 2.0 Domain Name: PHAYSIS.COM Registrar: GODADDY.COM, INC. Updated Date: 09-mar-2010 Creation Date: 14-apr-2000 Expiration Date: 14-apr-2011 Yeah, you read that right! Today, Phaysis.com (this very website, yo) is TEN YEARS OLD! Oh shit! That’s older than most websites I visit. If it were my kid, it’d be in fifth …
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Least Career
So I’m getting feedback from three of my proofreaders regarding “Lost Carrier”, and it’s all some heavy stuff. They’ve provided me with a ton of ideas and a few pounds of problems to work through. They’re proving to me that no matter how “done” I think a thing is, there will always be more work …
Vintage Inspiration
It appears I’m developing a gear fetish. Been feeling the itch to make music again, and my recent acquisition of music equipment is apparently spurring that. It started years ago with a MIDI controller and a softsynth. Then, two years ago, a microphone, an audio interface and a drum machine. Then, in the past year, …