Heartscore's thoughts about music, gear and recording
Recording, review, guitar, Midi, progressive rock
Many artists refuse to do cover songs, because they want to be successful with their own material. It seems to be a question of pride not to rely on the qualities of a well known classic and to spend all effort to write own songs, which might become classics in a dark future (most likely … Continue reading Why you should do more cover songs … and how you can publish them legally
Since a few years I use Toontrack EZ Mix for Mixing and Mastering (sic!) and because meanwhile I am really familiar with the software it’s time to review it. I will look on it from the perspective of a home-recording artist doing everything myself, from the first idea to a finished album. Before I discovered … Continue reading Review: Toontrack EZ Mix 2
I told you last time, that I will publish a little cassette edition. Meanwhile I have changed my mind a bit and will also release it on CD and divide the edition into two batches of fifty pieces: Fifty cassettes and fifty CDs. Thinking about the way to publish an album in 2018 I was … Continue reading Artwork and publication concept for the next album
I plan to publish a new heartscore-album in 2018 and actually I am a bit torn between the available media, so I take the chance to discuss the Pros and Cons of CD, Vinyl and Audio Cassette. Or are there more options in 2018? The Audio-CD: The decline of the CD is obvious. On every … Continue reading Why I will publish my next album on audio cassette
Meanwhile I have practiced with my selfmade axe for a week or two and can present the first musical result. I have chosen an old violin-etude, which I had studied on the violin twenty years ago. The etude was composed by Rodolphe Kreutzer and it is the fourth of his etudes for violin solo. It’s … Continue reading Building a guitar: How does it sound?
It’s time to look back on the guitar-project. What have I learned so far? What would I do different the next time? What tools were most helpful, which were useless? How much money I have spend for the whole project? Is it worth to build a guitar, if you do it for yourself? I will … Continue reading Building a guitar: Conclusion
Do you still remember on my guitar-project? Today I went on and executed the fretjob. Before I had studied some useful tutorials on Youtube, but as usual I experienced, that not everything works as expected. First I inspected the frets with a long ruler and recognised some gaps. Then I adjusted the trussrod to set … Continue reading Building a guitar: Day twenty-two
