What's you thing???
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Money, money, and more money 
.. Doing my thing (or anything) without money is difficult, if not impossible. I like to help animals, but that takes $$$.. But I guess in the bigger picture, my real thing is to eventually leave this life for something far better.. Not too many things matter more than that.
.. Doing my thing (or anything) without money is difficult, if not impossible. I like to help animals, but that takes $$$.. But I guess in the bigger picture, my real thing is to eventually leave this life for something far better.. Not too many things matter more than that.
This thread has thrown me a bit. I have watched documentaries on various people engaging in hobbies/passions. The most recent one was a man who loved the ocean and "had" to be near it daily. He started taking pictures under water as the tide rolled in. He became quite wealthy and famous as his art became popular. It was so dangerous as he has broken bones being thrown around under water by the waves. He couldnt give it up because he was so passionate and driven by what he did. Im not sure I have ever been driven by a hobby or interest. I enjoy knitting very much and it is a hobby. Im not sure I can say I am passionate about it. If Under threat of breaking bones I am quite sure I would not continue to do it.
Im gonna have to think about this more because outside of my faith and my son, I am not sure where my true passions lay. Hmmmm
Im gonna have to think about this more because outside of my faith and my son, I am not sure where my true passions lay. Hmmmm
My thing for the last four days was sanding, priming, sanding, painting, sanding and polishing my car's hood. I've been completely exhausted these last four days because of it. But it came out pretty great! I had to do it because the last time I painted it I used clearcoat that eventually cracked very badly.
There's a link to the 'Before' video in the description...
[video=youtube;OUIHStgVwBw]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUIHStgVwBw[/video]
But it came out pretty great! I had to do it because the last time I painted it I used clearcoat that eventually cracked very badly.There's a link to the 'Before' video in the description...
[video=youtube;OUIHStgVwBw]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUIHStgVwBw[/video]
Other than painting my car, I'm into singing mostly, followed by photography, drumming, working out, watching the stock market/global economy, cars, planes, nutrition (I don't practice a lot of what I know about nutrition though), shopping..
Sample of my singing:
Carly Simon - Nobody Does It Better on Sing! Karaoke by GabrielAventador | Smule
Sample of my singing:
Carly Simon - Nobody Does It Better on Sing! Karaoke by GabrielAventador | Smule
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I've been having a great time these last couple of years with acting and taking classes. It started with doing background extra work and some of the bookings turned into acting roles. Taking classes in improv etc. have been exciting. I even did a stunt work for film class that was dynamic. It pushed me further than I thought I could go and I love that. Going to auditions is nerve wracking but it also has so many possibilities! I will admit that I'm like a kid when I turn on the TV and all of the sudden I get a glimpse of me or a friend in the crowd. It is just plain fun. In the spring I was able to perform comedy on stage. It was frightening and also wonderful. I wrote my own monologue so if I bombed I bombed as a writer and performer. I felt really alive. None of this will make me a living but it is part of my adventure.
"don't have any recording equipment at all" don't need it.
"aren't real super clean or edited" don't need to be.
Thing about bass, you don't need a Centrance audio interface and a Shure SM57 microphone and 64-bit 96k audio recording. All you need is a cable with a quarter inch mono on one end (goes to your guitar, or to your amp output) and an 8th inch on the other end (goes into your laptop's mic port.) It looks kinda like this:
https://www.amazon.com/Hosa-CMP-310...-3&keywords=cable+1/4+inch+mono+1/8+inch&th=1
Of course that's a cheap one, but it works pretty well. You can get more expensive versions, but for the current purpose it is not necessary.
I would actually advise NOT having your amp in the path - just guitar straight to computer via the cable. Then in the computer you can compress it, stomp it, distort it or whatever. Or you could get a quarter inch splitter so you can have a line to the computer and a second line to the amp, so you can hear what you want to hear while playing (for monitoring) and still record it dry in the computer. Or you can just run the line from guitar to amp, then record what is coming out of the amp. It's your recording, I'm just telling you what is possible.
One thing I would recommend is using a metronome - or rather these days a metronome app, no sense buying a real metronome - because it will be MUCH easier to add drums, acoustic/electric guitar background and etc. later if the whole recording is on a solid beat set by an external source.
But yeah, you don't need a lot of expensive recording gear. A $6 cable to get the dry sound from guitar to computer mic port will do the job nicely. And you won't have to worry about the cheap sound of a laptop mic or building a recording booth - there won't BE any mic cheapness or room noise.
"aren't real super clean or edited" don't need to be.
Thing about bass, you don't need a Centrance audio interface and a Shure SM57 microphone and 64-bit 96k audio recording. All you need is a cable with a quarter inch mono on one end (goes to your guitar, or to your amp output) and an 8th inch on the other end (goes into your laptop's mic port.) It looks kinda like this:
https://www.amazon.com/Hosa-CMP-310...-3&keywords=cable+1/4+inch+mono+1/8+inch&th=1
Of course that's a cheap one, but it works pretty well. You can get more expensive versions, but for the current purpose it is not necessary.
I would actually advise NOT having your amp in the path - just guitar straight to computer via the cable. Then in the computer you can compress it, stomp it, distort it or whatever. Or you could get a quarter inch splitter so you can have a line to the computer and a second line to the amp, so you can hear what you want to hear while playing (for monitoring) and still record it dry in the computer. Or you can just run the line from guitar to amp, then record what is coming out of the amp. It's your recording, I'm just telling you what is possible.
One thing I would recommend is using a metronome - or rather these days a metronome app, no sense buying a real metronome - because it will be MUCH easier to add drums, acoustic/electric guitar background and etc. later if the whole recording is on a solid beat set by an external source.
But yeah, you don't need a lot of expensive recording gear. A $6 cable to get the dry sound from guitar to computer mic port will do the job nicely. And you won't have to worry about the cheap sound of a laptop mic or building a recording booth - there won't BE any mic cheapness or room noise.
