I'm looking for some advice on equipment. Like what is really, really cheap,
but usable for recording/playing.
The only things I've got to play with right now is a Casio SK-1 (don't laugh)
and a PC with a sound card. I have a lot of ideas for cool (at least to me)
tracks, but I need a little more to work with.
So hey, what's your recommendation for:
1. Synths.
2. Recording Decks.
3. Drum effects.
Some ideas I've liked (though not necessarily original)
Record the highway noise by my house late at night. I've often
tranced out on the subtle phase shifts and phantom tones it gets late
at night. And I don't even take drugs.
Build up some tracks from Weather Report samples. I'm suprised their
first three records haven't come up here as seminal space music...
Did you know if you sample an acoustic guitar through a cheap mike,
lay down a lot of echo and reverb, and then cut and paste chunks at
random, it sounds just like seefeel? Hmmm.....
I play the 'cello. No one's done THAT yet.
I've also had a lot of fun sampling and looping from a cheezoid Radio
Shack electronic drum kit. The biggest problem I have with it is that
it's so flimsy that it falls over if you actually drum on it.