DeeAa's tunes

[deeaa]

*EDIT* added guitar/amp info as far as I can remember it...

Well,

I thought instead of posting new tunes in whatever new threads, I’d just start one thread onto which I can just reply with new songs as they appear, and then people would also see the previous ones if interested.

So, here is my very concise music recording history…I tried to include examples of the main bands I was in at a given era; there’s a whole lot more available even online but I just posted a few examples here. A couple of bands I’ve recorded with are not included, Daily Bread, Murphy’s Kidz for instance, or the various production sessions I’ve done or when I’ve acted as a session player/backing singer or whatever.

Nevertheless the most important bands and examples of my songs at the time are here. To keep it short there's no explanations, band names or who with I've done the songs, or whose songs they were unless my own...but anyhow here it goes:

My first sessions in the 80’s example, lax pop and some a bit faster songs. Mainly vocals, some guitar:

http://deeaa.pp.fi/ALieAlive.mp3 - JCM800 + Am.Std.Strat w/laces, plus Gibson LP Custom
http://deeaa.pp.fi/WouldYou.mp3 - Fender Twin + Gibson LP Standard

Early 90’s acoustic / pop phase:

http://deeaa.pp.fi/StreetsOfGold.mp3 - Takamine 12-string
http://deeaa.pp.fi/Suzie.mp3 - Gibson LP standard, Ampeg VT-22, Frankenstrat w/PRS pups

Mid-90’s grunge era:

http://deeaa.pp.fi/Predator.mp3 - both Gibson LP Standard to Red-Knob Twin
http://deeaa.pp.fi/Shedonlikedit.mp3

Still a bit poppy in the 90’s too:
http://deeaa.pp.fi/DecadenceSong.mp3 - Still the red-knob twin & LP

But also more modern grunge rears its head:
http://deeaa.pp.fi/Dreamtime.mp3 - still...

Then some music in Finnish for a change, latter half of 90’s:

http://www.saunalahti.fi/~juho/bm/BM_Tahdon_olla_se_mies.MP3
http://www.saunalahti.fi/~juho/bm/BM_Onnellinen_el%E4in.MP3 - These both PRS Standard & Fender HRD, Gibson LP Standard & EMG preamp + Fender DeVille

Then around the end of the millennia more heavy sometimes:

http://deeaa.pp.fi/Things.mp3 - Marshall Valvestate, Gibson Nighthawk, some Strat
http://deeaa.pp.fi/MaryJustSmiles.mp3 - Marshall JMP-1, Valvestate, LP & Gibson The Paul

But then back to more poppy stuff

http://deeaa.pp.fi/Applepie.mp3
http://deeaa.pp.fi/serviceofthequeen.mp3 - Marshall JMP-1, LP

Guest appearances:

http://deeaa.pp.fi/Refrain_-_02_-_Lowdown.mp3 - Some Jackson w/some 80's tube amp (KMD?)
http://deeaa.pp.fi/alittle.mp3

Even some ambient/house/whatever:

http://deeaa.pp.fi/P43-WH-[Robert_Vadney_Remix].mp3

At one point released a solo album (link to more songs at once):

http://www.mikseri.net/artists/?id=31986 - Marshall JMP-1 D/I, Behringer D/I, some H&K CrunchMaster

Then more grunge, mainly as a guitarist(link to more songs at once):

http://www.myspace.com/crankenhaus/music/songs/bet-you-burn-someday-38322121 - Ceriatone 36RP, 'Davette' with EMG85; Ibanez RG + Marshall JCM900

Then metal again (link to more songs at once):

http://project-43.com/music - mostly amplitube I guess? Rockermann can tell better.

…and then back to my pop rock roots(link to more songs at once):

http://www.mikseri.net/artists/?id=133782 - Amplitube, GuitarRig, Vox VT

…and simultaneously some garage rock(link to more songs at once):

http://www.mikseri.net/artists/?id=129754 - Ceriatone and various EMG85 equipped axes, Line 6 Spider & Squier Obey w/Seymour Duncan

[guitartango]

You should market them as " DeeAa's Greatest Hits Vol 1"
The Best of DeeAa
DeeAa 1980-2011
DeeAa's in session.

Or do a Pete Townsend and remarket them for £70 + booklet

anyway i will be ripping them onto my mp3 player for some driving enjoyment :rockya

[deeaa]

OK...I thought we'd start just recording all our training sessions on the Zoom recorder, see how it goes.
Here's a couple of songs we did like that. Just put the Zoom in front of it and run XLR's from guitar amps and vocal line (but they bleed direct to Zoom more) and bass amp, and put a mic in front of the kick and snare.

So beware this is completely unedited, just panned etc. set the track balance right quickly.

http://deeaa.pp.fi/spookbox/3011_2011/2011_Training30_11_getyourlifeback.mp3

- This is a brand new song I just showed to the guys the first time, so there's no vocals yet and everyone's kinda thinking what to do still...will have to develop it a little and come up with some lyrics and vocal lines. As with all these I'm on the right with the JVM (starting the song and of course vocals. Used my Davette all the time w/EMG85.

http://deeaa.pp.fi/spookbox/3011_2011/2011_Training30_11_zerotolerance.mp3

- This is an old song of ours from a year back at least, so this one we already know how to play. EXPLICIT LYRICS!

http://deeaa.pp.fi/spookbox/3011_2011/2011_Training30_11_farfromtheedge.mp3

- bit more recent basic rocker.

[deeaa]

I just realized I can use a delay to compensate for mic placements when recording our training sessions...it works like a charm!

Here's a very short clip of very drunken song intro with latencies corrected to sample accuracy with a latency delay plugin...makes it way clearer.

I may have too much of room verb there, but it serves well to mask the overall ugly verb mush coming from the mostly concrete-wall small room we play in.

I think it works really well for training demo purposes, and what more, it needs no mixing - this is what you get now dumping the zoom material onto a ready-made mix template, so I can export the training in minutes after recording and it sounds quite fine. If I want to mix it further that is easy enough as well.

Amazing this technology, even a hobbyist like me can make quite acceptable demos that are a far cry better from what we did in the 80's and 90's with some multitrackers or even in many a studio. Can't wait to record full songs with this system!

Short clip:

http://deeaa.pp.fi/spookbox/LATENCYTEST.mp3

[Ch0jin]

Slightly off topic, but in relation to your last post, I grabbed an iPad 2 recently and I've produced more song ideas (using Garage Band) in the last two weeks than I have in the last 41 years. It's just ridiculously easy. The thing is, I haven't even picked up my guitar. I just work up ideas using "virtual" guitars and basses and stuff and save them for working out on my real guitar gear. Today's tech is pretty amazing, I completely agree.

[deeaa]

Here's a tune from the new CD that we'll release soon enough. Hopefully this is final master version already; haven't checked in car yet etc.

It's completely live recording...no second takes or overdubs, only mixed in Cubase from 8-track material so it's kinda raw and has mistakes too etc...comments welcome! My guitar is what comes with drums on the right, first lead spot.

http://deeaa.pp.fi/spookbox/08_always.mp3

[deeaa]

Preview of something completely different coming up...still missing 2nd guitar:

deeaa.pp.fi/lzm/2011/Jazzy/Jazzy_100bpm_17_3.mp3

This would be more like jazzy pop.

[Hampus]

Preview of something completely different coming up...still missing 2nd guitar:

deeaa.pp.fi/lzm/2011/Jazzy/Jazzy_100bpm_17_3.mp3

This would be more like jazzy pop.

Well done!

I like it! So does my 4 month old son. Smiles and wild flapping of limbs as soon as the song came on :dance

[deeaa]

Hehe...yeah some songs seem to work well for kids. Pets too, I used to have a cat who listened to Metallica's Ride The Lightning quite intently; whenever I put it on, she'd find a place right in the middle of the stereo image and not move at all as long as it lasted, listening intently. Much as I tried, no other music interested her. Go figure :-)

[deeaa]

I just realized I have a bunch of my bands & songs on MySpace as well, never really got around to promoting them in any way though. Here's Crankenhaus album on MySpace (grunge):

Crankenhaus on MySpace (http://www.myspace.com/crankenhaus)

[deeaa]

And here's the 4 already ready tunes from upcoming Whobody release...

http://www.myspace.com/whobodyband

[deeaa]

And more:

DeeAa's solo album on MySpace (http://www.myspace.com/deeaaband)

[deeaa]

Here's our drummer's vision he shot & edited for one of Spookbox songs, 'Pathetic Song'...our first thematic video.

Check it out please!


http://youtu.be/jNM3HeU6RCk