One of my first adventures in Cubase. It involves me playing guitar and bass, drum programming, mixing and all that other recording stuff. It also needs remixing, but I need to find the time first.

Freeze

Your Side / My Side

An adventure in Cubase, circa May 2014, now remixed and remastered. All guitar/bass/drums/weird noises/mixing by me, so there's no-one else to blame for all the mistakes.

Partition

What started out as a drone-y Eno-esque track quickly escalated into a psychedelic wig-out. I can't help it.

More an exploration of guitar sounds than a proper song.

Volca

Probably a few too many tracks going on in this one - it will likely be the last 'epic' I record for a while. Mainly because it takes so bloody long to mix.

Malaise

Active Podcast

Upstart Jingle

Got tired of mixing this one, even though I tried to limit myself on the number of overdubs this time. Must cut back on these 'epic' structures. First recording using an actual bass (not octave-down guitar), so probably overdid the low-end stuff here, too.

Gins & Rosés

The official jingle for Cardiff School of Journalism's Reporters and the Reported podcast.

Guitars, writing, mixing: Michael Brown
Bass, keyboards, drum programming: Will Thomas

CJS Jingle

Crunch Box clips for michaelbrown89.wordpress.com

Clean Up - 1 o'clock tone, 12 o'clock gain, neck singlecoil

Clean-Dirty - 12 o'clock tone, 12 o'clock gain, neck singlecoil/bridge humbucker

'80s Metal - 12 o'clock tone, 2 o'clock gain, bridge humbucker

Morello - 1 o'clock tone, 1 o'clock gain, neck singlecoil

Satriani - 1 o'clock tone, full gain, bridge humbucker

Tone Down - minimum tone, 10 o'clock gain, neck singlecoil

Tone Up Grunge - full tone, 11 o'clock gain, bridge humbucker

Page - full tone, 8 o'clock gain, bridge humbucker

Guitarist. Fan of effects, overdubs and long-winded songs. Amateur DAW user. Average track completion time: one year.

Michael Astley-Brown

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