Martin Ball
(Martin Ball)
(Martin Ball)
| Member Since: | Thursday, July 07 2005 @ 05:13 PM CDT |
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| Homepage: | http://www.download.com/martinball |
| Location: | Buellton, California USA |
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Bio:
I've been recording music since I was 15. Here are some of my latest creations using GarageBand.
In the early days I just recorded rhythm guitar tracks on a tape and played that back into another tape player with a lead track, or maybe bass. Eventually I graduated to 4-Track and used a Yamaha MT-120 for some years, which served its purpose but still had limitations. A few years ago my friend Kevin invited me down to his place in Santa Monica and had me lay down some mandolin and percussion tracks on some songs he was working on. Keven was recording with ProTools on his G4 at the time and suggested I download ProTools Free for my G3 and give it a whirl. That initiated my full imersion into digital music recording and I haven't looked back. With ProTools giving me such a clean and crisp recording, as opposed to tape, I got on an all-acoustic kick for probably the past 3-4 years. In 2005 I moved on to GarageBand when my dad passed his G4 on to me when he upgraded to a G5. I love recording in GarageBand and as you can hear, have given up the all-acoustic thing, at least for the time being (though I'd point out that my only guitar is the acoustic you can see in the photo, so all "electric" guitars you hear in these songs was all done with my acoustic with the effects added later). If you'd like to hear more of my acoustic music I'd recommend www.download.com/martinball, www.download.com/naturalroots, or www.download.com/orobai.
I've been recording music since I was 15. Here are some of my latest creations using GarageBand.
In the early days I just recorded rhythm guitar tracks on a tape and played that back into another tape player with a lead track, or maybe bass. Eventually I graduated to 4-Track and used a Yamaha MT-120 for some years, which served its purpose but still had limitations. A few years ago my friend Kevin invited me down to his place in Santa Monica and had me lay down some mandolin and percussion tracks on some songs he was working on. Keven was recording with ProTools on his G4 at the time and suggested I download ProTools Free for my G3 and give it a whirl. That initiated my full imersion into digital music recording and I haven't looked back. With ProTools giving me such a clean and crisp recording, as opposed to tape, I got on an all-acoustic kick for probably the past 3-4 years. In 2005 I moved on to GarageBand when my dad passed his G4 on to me when he upgraded to a G5. I love recording in GarageBand and as you can hear, have given up the all-acoustic thing, at least for the time being (though I'd point out that my only guitar is the acoustic you can see in the photo, so all "electric" guitars you hear in these songs was all done with my acoustic with the effects added later). If you'd like to hear more of my acoustic music I'd recommend www.download.com/martinball, www.download.com/naturalroots, or www.download.com/orobai.