Demo Music
Here's a sampling of demo recordings from my song list. Intentionally raw and under-produced, I feel these are the closest representation of my live sound and range. You can play them right here or stream directly from my SoundCloud page.
Everlong
original artist: Foo Fighters
Answering Bell
original artist: Ryan Adams
Crash Into Me
original artist: Dave Mathews
Tupelo Honey
original artist: Van Morrison
Production Notes/MIDI Nerd Info
I record the backing Bass and Drum tracks in Reason 5 and are the same tracks I play live using my tablet and ASIO audio interface. I record these tracks
linearly all the way through (as opposed to looping) to preserve the nuance of a real performance; in most cases my bass lines are played through using a
MIDI interface on one of my electric guitars to produce an articulated string feel on the bass patch - closest thing I can get to the feel of a real P-Bass,
without using an actual P-Bass. For the purposes of these demos, I record them as audio on a DAW with straight-up miced guitar and vocal tracks on the solo
acoustic numbers, and importing in my Reason 5 tracks as audio along side the acoustic tracks on the others.
These tracks are minimalist, raw, and note-wise are heard exactly as played live; there's not a lot of studio trickery, over-dubs or cover-ups, and just like life, far from perfect!
As always I welcome your feedback - please visit my contact page if you'd like to send me any comments and/or suggestions.