Viraj's Weblog

Science Friday had a good episode about hospital infections. Here is a site with some steps to reduce infection.

I've been trying to get a harder sound to the music I'm making. Most of my songs generally have soft guitars, with mostly drums beefing things up. I borrowed a friend's Art TubeMP preamp to see if this would help. It did, a little, so I went ahead and bought a Presonus TubePre preamp. In the end though, I'm beginning to think the only way to achieve that hard sound is by using a mic on a really loud sound .

This weekend was a lot of time spent on playing with my borrowed Mackie MS 1202-VLZ mixer (I've learned now that Mackie makes the most awesome mixers). The song I made this weekend used an ART DRX-2100 effects processor (again, borrowed), and I created some strange sounds by looping the guitar effects back to the effects processor. It was a lot of fun, though I think I'm slightly going deaf.

As usual, the song is like 3 songs in one. Usually when I'm inspired I create a few cool hooks, sometimes having nothing to do with each other, and end up putting it all together in a mess. Call it the anti-formula. I also am learning better how to get the sound I want in Ableton. Mixing is a lot of work, with lots of trips back and forth to my car for a listen.

The song is on Sutros.

Probably the best MTV Unplugged I have ever seen: Silversun Pickups.

My latest song. Also on Sutros.

Because I can't always come up with a video for my music, and also since YouTube sound quality is not so great, I've been looking around for some free music sharing sites. I've found one called Sutros that seems pretty cool. I've started to put up my music that's deemed worthy for public consumption. Check it out.

Pretty funny analysis of Linkin Park songs.