With a rare day completely free I decided to figure out how to make layered multitrack recordings. I think the right way to do this involves fancy software like Reaper, but I used Audacity because I already knew how to do that. The downside is that I had to manually align tracks and sometimes I didn't get it exactly right. [1] For each song I played a melody on the mandolin (my strongest instrument) then added various other tracks on top.
I made three songs. In decreasing order of how much I like them and increasing order of time since I finished them:
- Sandy Boys (mp3)
- Highland Laddie (mp3)
- Bus Stop (mp3)
Instruments include mandolin, piano, penny whistle (one of these in A), bass guitar, electric guitar, trumpet, baritone horn, and fiddle.
[1] All cases of loose timing in the recordings here should be blamed
on bad manual alignment and not my musicianship. Right.
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