team “OLD WEIRDO” reporting for duty, :)
As of the past few years, I produce pop songs performed in a pastiche of Leonard Cohen’s mid-late 80’s style (when he really started to sound super cool). My buddies and I call ourselves The Three Leonards. Our covers of Toxic and Rusted From The Rain have proven very popular. They’re not jazz but they’re also not not jazz. The cool kids seem to like them. We’ve made over 20 bucks in streaming which is as close to success as you can want. Have a listen and see what madness sounds like.
As far as home studio kit goes, I run Reaper: it’s just great.
Also a shout-out to ReEQ for Reaper which is free and as close to FabFilter as I need.
I have a Nektar 61-key MIDI keyboard. Just the right size. One slider on it has gone wonky but I don’t use the sliders that much. I like the touchpads; they’re fun.
I record vocals and acoustic instruments using a Scarlett interface and a really sweet mic from Blue evidently from before they got bought out. I got it as a gift and it does the trick.
I have a reasonably decent multi-effects pedal from Boss that I mostly use for gigging but occasionally for studio tracking.
I did buy Diva and Kontakt and SSD and Analog Lab : they’re all super handy, and are the ones I lean on the most. There are plenty of free VSTs out there to use: only when freeware/demo versions are insufficient should you consider spending money.
but yeah: OLD: check. WEIRDO: double-check.
Thank you for the kind compliment. You have to admit: this idea is pretty strange, isn’t it?
FYI there’s vocals from all three of us on those songs, a few are duets. Even people who know us very well have trouble guessing who sings which song.
I had a roommate in my 20’s who would sing AC/DC songs as if they were soft jazz while he was walking around the house. It took me a little while to figure out where he was coming up with all these banging lyrics on the fly. Haha. It’s kind of the same idea that you’re rolling with, just different genres, and you actually laid it out with music and recorded it. Pretty cool. Pretty fun.
hey thanks :) That’s so great to hear.
I enjoy talking about it because it’s such a fun project.
I really want to get the word out even more, but i gotta say: social media promotional type stuff can be pretty draining. and I want to focus on the positive things, y’know?
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