Viraj's Weblog

This girl has some incredible metal guitar playing videos on youtube. I should just give up!

Here is a rock track I just finished. Enjoy!

This is a bit dancy. Check it out.

Got some new music up on Sutros:

• Sleepytime
• Back to Basics

Enjoy!

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.