Foggy Bottom or Bust - liner notes

all tracks written, performed, recorded, and engineered by Ryan Paul using exclusively FOSS software @ OpenSourceSoundLab in Rollinsford, NH. album art by Ryan Paul.

track 14 "swirlywhirlywee" synths performed by Elia Brooke

thanks to Nate Brand for permission to use voice sample on track 8

special thanks to Lucas Ryan, Ethan Mitchell and Gavin Dennis for kindly lending various toys for audio samples heard on tracks 1,2,6 & 7. additional vocals on squeelin' provided by Gavin Dennis.

A few to dos

Mixing in phones
http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/jan07/articles/mixingheadphones.htm

choose some commercial audio as a headphone/loudspeaker reference

try mixing in my car at night
car speakers, circumaural phones, canal phones.

wu tang

nOe - rpm compilation

nOe RPM albums i & ii are "done." However, I would like to work a little harder on some of the tracks to do some more polishing and select several tracks from each rpm album to produce a finished album that I will release and "sell" to start raising money for my fav FOSS. Particularly I would like to raise enough in album sales to give the suggested donation of $45 to Ardour once Ardour3 (with MIDI tracking) is released. I think $5 each from me or $3 on the web would be reasonable. Here are the planned tracks:

nOe-ii: all tracks with the 3 SL tracks as bonus

nOe-i: i02, i06, i08, i09, i10

Track List:
yummy
cookies (zxcvb-vmpk)
drive
squeelin' (i08)
fresher (i06)
00110100011
hangman
choosing-to-walk (i010)
sunday breakfast (i09)
keep-the-time (i02)
synth-cocoa-phony

bonus:
bananacabananana
f*n pentatonic
swirlywhirleywee

seq24

I have been interested in and revisited seq24 a few times over the past year or so. Each time, however, I was apparently overwhelmed by its simplicity and could not make heads or tails of it since there is little to no documentation on it. However, I now have a much better grasp having followed a Dave Phillips tutorial from here. Now I am starting to realize the potential of this excellent little midi loop sequencer. Although it would take some time to get it set-up, I'm thinking of using seq24, standalone or with sooperlooper as an addition to my live looping set.

Betsy&Murgatroid: New Plans Forward

I have two acoustic guitars, Betsy (a 12-string Yamaha) and Murgatroid (a Guild) that I acquired in 1997 and 2001 respectively. Toward the end of my high school years and all through college, I focused on using these instruments as my principle tools for expression. Just after getting married in '03, Elia and I recorded a collection of a few of the 30 or so acoustic songs I had written using my very first crude studio, cakewalk on my MS-XP computer (no idea on specs). Despite my total inexperience with recording, the rushed job, and overall low quality, it still managed to be a hit with our family, despite several of them misplacing their copy... Nevertheless, I have decided to rerecord the album with my newer 'crude' studio. Below is my working track-list for this effort:

Soul Searching

Bullfrogs

Fascination Wonderment

Rain Turns to Snow

Moving to Arizona

Believe

Eternity

Funny Little Games

As it stands, I would like to have the record done by the 11.10 release of Ubuntu (october) and I am planning on putting out an album every 6 months from then on (following the Ubuntu release cycle).

nOe ii - RPM 2011 - liner notes

all tracks written, performed, recorded, and engineered by Ryan Paul using exclusively FOSS software @ OpenSourceSoundLab in Rollinsford, NH. album art by Ryan Paul.

track 8 "swirlywhirlywee" synths performed by Elia Brooke

special thanks to Lucas Ryan, Ethan Mitchell and Gavin Dennis for kindly lending various toys for audio samples heard on tracks 1,4 & 5.

FOSS Credits

Audio Engine & Routing:
QJackCtl
JACK
Patchage

Recording (Multi-tracking, MIDI, Looping):
Ardour2-GTK
Qtractor
SooperLooper

Mixing&Mastering:
Ardour2-GTK
Audacity
Jamin

Drums:
Hydrogen

Synths & Samples:
Qsynth
ZynAddSubFX
Yoshimi
Swami
VMPK

Plugin FX:
Jack-Rack
Rakarrack

Playback:
VLC
Brasero

Artwork:
GIMP

comments on the web @ overhauser.blogspot.com

album ii - second critique - car speakers

nOe-ii
car speakers

015 -drums too loud (esp. bass), robot okay

012 -drums too loud

014 -ok

hangman -awful! muddy, guitar way too quiet, drums too loud

OS002 -guitar too quiet, muddy

SL010 -chh too loud