So way back in October 2012, this guy named Ted shows up in New Orleans. Long story short, he spent a month recording to vinyl everyone and anyone who would show up, no matter what crazy thing they had to spew. Well, anyone as long as they scheduled with him ahead of time.

So I scheduled it, and in typical fashion I completely forgot about it the next day. Then the day comes up, I show up, and have nothing but some crappy high school poems to recite. I wanted to do a song on ukulele too but I got too nervous and wimped out.

So this stands as a monument to my lameness, so that one day when I'm a much better artist I may look back on it with fondness...and a little cringing.

Also I kind of ghetto recorded the audio off the vinyl by just using my regular tascam recorder to record the sound from the turntable. So it's a little bad, I'll try to get a proper recording later.

Never Records rough. Very rough.

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Playing with Figure

Toying around with a bass synth

Just testing out my new Tascam DR-05 linear PCM recorder with a short little blues line. I'm pretty happy with it, I just wish I could find one that could record video like the Zoom recorders do for a decent price.

Tascam DR-05 test

Trying the DR-05 with my concert ukulele. Nothing special, just a non-rhythmic mashing of chords to see how it sounds.

Tascam DR-05 Ukulele Test

Reason it sounds so different (crappy) I'm tired from just having finished exercising, and I tried something different. The other recording of my bass, the backing track was playing directly from the bass, so I set the recorder in front of it. This time, the backing track was coming from my crappy computer speakers, so I put the recorder closer to those.

More terrible tascam recording

Testing out the new GHS Pressure Wound strings

Pressure wound string test

New bass pedal = more mindless noodling. Not good at on the fly improvamazingness so I just hit strings blindly...like I usually do.

Testing Big Muff Bass

Trying to play Next Girl by Black Keys on Rocksmith. Did pretty well in this take, actually. Unlocked the master mode. I need to practice it a bit more though.

Black Keys - Next Girl (Rocksmith bass cover)

First simple bass track added to Muhiad's song. Definitely needs a little cleaning up on all instruments, but it's a start.

Ed Fonseca