Category: Audio Channel

Here’s the sixth song from the album “Frenetic Stereoear” titled “Quadruple-A Battery.”

Quadruple-A_Battery.mp3

This one has a number of different guitar tracks/sounds in it (4 to be precise) and a wah-wah kind of bass. It’s a simple song, but with a few extra bits thrown in, and some nice counter rhythm. As usual, the drums are pretty boring. As for the name… I can’t remember why I called it “Quadruple-A Battery,” but I like it.

On a scale of 1 to 10 (10 being awesome) I’ll give this song a 6. I actually think this one is a little short, and I could have explored it a bit more… Maybe I will in the future.

Here’s the fifth song from the album “Frenetic Stereoear” titled “Attack of the Mole People.”

Attack_of_the_Mole_People.mp3

I had a hard time mixing this one, but in the end, I think it turned out OK. The sounds at the beginning and end of the song are from the lift on the Light Force truck. When we were loading it one day I had the recorder running to capture background noise. The title is in reference to the Mole-Richardson lights we were using that day.

On a scale of 1 to 10 (10 being awesome) I’ll give this song a 6. It’s got a heavy-ish sound to it, which I like.

Here’s the fourth song from the album “Frenetic Stereoear” titled “Potato Shirts & Skins.”

Potato_Shirts_Skins.mp3

This one has some nice bass, but the guitar is sort of, I dunno…lacking. The second half has the guitar doing some off-time thing, which I’m not sure works, but hey, I just went with it. The background sound in the song is from the lightning talks at BarCampMadison3, I think it’s before the talk where everyone was in the room talking to each other, and the recorder was just rolling, so there’s great audio of people talking, but you can’t make out anything that anyone is saying. I threw on some Fuzz-Wah and Platinum Reverb and it worked.

The name was originally “We’re all out of potato skins!” in reference to the night the wife and I hung out with the guys from The Black Jew Dialogues and went to Applebee’s and Larry tried to order from the Gluten-free menu. I ended up changing it to “Potato Shirts & Skins” because I thought it sounded funnier.

On a scale of 1 to 10 (10 being awesome) I’ll give this song a 5. I like how the drums and bass go together. The guitar could be better. Heck, the whole song could be better, but really, it’s not that bad… right?

Here’s the second song from the album “Frenetic Stereoear” titled “Song: Nuthin’ but an 8-bit Thief.”

Nuthin_but_an_8-bit_Thief.mp3

The beginning and end of this song feature some tone generation done with an Arduino. I was hoping to build an Atari Punk Console in February, but really didn’t have time for it… but I did do a bit of playing around with the Arduino’s tone library. And yes, I completely forgot to incorporate the Easy Button in any song!

At some point this song went a little math rock, though poorly done. I admire the stuff that Don Caballero does, but hell if I can pull it off.

The title? It’s an ode to the bleep-bloop 8-bit style sound that the Arduino generated. On a scale of 1 to 10 (10 being awesome) I’ll give this song a 4. It’s really just some weird noise with a beat. This one is also short. After I recorded this, I briefly considered making the entire album up of songs that were under 1 minute each. In the end, I didn’t do that.