Dropped a SOLO album today

aen · Post by **aen** » Sun Apr 03, 2011 3:19 pm

http://theronaldraygun.bandcamp.com/album/colossus

Droning guitar and synth love. Features a couple long improvs, bowed guitar, squaresnakes freakouts, toy drums, all that stuff you like. Right?

endsjustifymeans · Post by **endsjustifymeans** » Mon Apr 04, 2011 5:41 pm

An good stuff!

aen · Post by **aen** » Mon Apr 04, 2011 6:37 pm

WOO! Thanks!
It's mostly old stuff thats been waiting for release for aaaaaages.
Or, you know. Like, a year.

cobascis · Post by **cobascis** » Tue Apr 05, 2011 1:50 am

hao much of thes was recordin with an MXL ribbon?

aen · Post by **aen** » Tue Apr 05, 2011 2:04 am

NOt one note. This was all done almost a year ago. I just got that MXL for my barfday in November.

HOrror show- is all synthetic or sampled

Direct input- Self explanatory, no?

Lady Fingers- probably had a regular old shure 57 or 58 on the amp, and my trusty "giant CAD" condensor on the PA speaker

Transmission- is all made of samples I took from real world instruments, but probably in like 2001 and 2. Probably like a $30 best buy mic.

Christmas- was recorded on my iPhone

Haunted Masnion- Synthetic/drum loops

OPeration 1- Squaresnakes synths direct in

Colossus - 58 with the ball unscrewwed on Bassman 10, Senenheiser e609 or "Bigg bass drum Cad" on Twin Reverb into 15" Mystery cab, "Giant CAD" on the room

Snakes- Squaresnakes direct in. Toy drums and Jingle Bells recorded via built in macbook mic

As soon as we get the HEart Pills record mixed, you can hear that shit for reals. Pretty much every vocal, and a shit ton of the guitars are thanks to the MXL.

cobascis · Post by **cobascis** » Tue Apr 05, 2011 2:30 am

I dig it dude. Opening track is immense.

What did you use for tracking/mix?

Haze · Post by **Haze** » Tue Apr 05, 2011 4:12 am

This is freaking awesome when you're ripped

If i had any sort of coin i'd download this thing

aen · Post by **aen** » Tue Apr 05, 2011 2:00 pm

Haze wrote:This is freaking awesome when you're ripped If i had any sort of coin i'd download this thing

Save your pennies for The ROnald Raygun LP!

cobascis wrote:I dig it dude. Opening track is immense.

What did you use for tracking/mix?

Horror show and haunted mansion are all in Reason,
The rest was tracked/arranged and manipulated in Ableton Live.

NOw I do most everything in Record, but I've been meaning to work live into the band situation, since I have to bring el macbook anyway...

Haze · Post by **Haze** » Tue Apr 05, 2011 5:26 pm

aen wrote:
Haze wrote:This is freaking awesome when you're ripped If i had any sort of coin i'd download this thing
Save your pennies for The ROnald Raygun LP

I'm actually going to get into vinyl as soon as I have time/money and th Raygun lp is at the top of the list

cobascis · Post by **cobascis** » Wed Apr 06, 2011 2:17 am

Inspired me to make this today.

http://soundcloud.com/linckinator/aenspired-ii

avj · Post by **avj** » Wed Apr 06, 2011 10:04 pm

Immersed myself in this at work today -- nice work. Is it all soft synths or did the Moog LP make an appearance? Sure sounds like it in some places.

Also: fantastic work, cobascis. The extreme squashing really suits the material well.