Test song

I know, I know... I haven't blogged in a while. One of the reasons behind this is that I've been busy setting up (one more time) my small digital home studio.

The studio is not yet 100% set up. However, I've found that this is generally the case. I'm always connecting things some different way, changing, updating or adding hardware, breaking things, moving things around, unplugging cables, etc. So since I don't spend that much time on it, I've learnt to accept that its good enough if it works :-)

After some hard work (even if I enjoy working on it), its always good to have fun. So I've decided to do a small test song to try out my new setup. It took me about 14 hours to compose, record and mix it. That's very fast (at least for me) on a new setup and for a 3.5 minutes long song, and that's why it is a test song ... so don't expect anything great, OK ? :-). Wow, that was a good excuse. Now seriously... I need to work more on the melody and the harmony (and the intro, and the end, and ...), but just wanted to record a test song anyway.

OK, enough words, hear it (once you click on this link, follow the "click here to download" link at the bottom of their page -you might need to wait a few seconds for the link to appear-) at your own risk :-). After listening to myself a few times, I don't really like the song a lot, but I can still recognize the influence of some bands I like, mostly:

Dream Theater
Kitaro
Tony Macalpine
Yngwie Malmsteen
Deep Purple

Oh ... and, by the way... here are some pictures of the studio (yes, while editing this post! ha ha ... can you read this? try harder :-)


















I hope to be blogging again soon. May be I'll have some good (better?) song next time! :-).