"Live recordings, sounds, styles & mixes - by Michael Brick"

This site is password protected and only intended for friends who might be interested in music- and sound gadgetry. The recordings were spontaneously created over time until 2017. Appart from my notebook and my Fender Stratocaster guitar with GK3 pickup system I used a Roland GR - 55 Board (Guitar Synth & Modeling), a ZOOM G3X Board (Guitar Effects & Amp Simulator), a variety of VST plug-ins, an ESI audio interface and for styles my own age-old, self-programmed MIDI-software "RMCA Pro". The improvisations, takes and "snippets" are based on backing tracks or loops and were directly recorded and only reworked for sound.

The complete musical material can rightly be called "couch rock", since it was
mostly actually created "on the couch", i.e. was recorded "live" with guitar completely
"in one go" and thus freely improvised. So no "overdupping", but "recorded in one piece"!

 

  

                                 ROLAND GR-55                                             ZOOM G3X                                                     ESI UMG96

Ibanez musician     Cort Western    Fender Stratocaster

The CD "Couch-Rock-Selection" mentioned below was produced later, in early summer 2018,
using the following equipment:

• Arrangements & instrumentation : RMCA Pro (my own, self-developed software).
  
• Drums : DrumCore 4 (software by Sonoma Wire Works)
  
• MIDI-SoundFont : Black Tyros24 GM Edition by JaZMan
  
• Guitar amp modeling : TH3 by Overloud and S-Gear2 by Scuffham
  
• Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) : REAPER (software by Cockos Incorporated)
  
• All songs recorded and mastered with HP ProBook 450 G1
  

For the recordings I used my old guitar, "Ibanez musician", from 1977.

All songs of the CD are my own compositions, which were written in the course of time

using my software "RMCA Pro" (Realtime MIDI Chord Arranger Pro). For further information,

audio- and video- demos, tips and tricks etc. please refer to the XDigits.com - website.

 To the XDigits.com web page

  

If enough time is available, it is recommended to play all takes of this page.

Depending on the system, the correct "MP3 player" should be loaded and

used. Required is an MP3 player that can process *.m3u files (playlists),

 such as the Windows Media Player, Foobar2000, the VCL Media-Player or AIMP.

In the corresponding players at the configuration line provided for it in the attitudes,

e.g. under "Play location" at Foobar2000 the following entry has to be made:

http://www.xdigits.com/MyMix1.m3u 

And please: Use headphones and then "TURN UP", if possible!

Enjoy listening and I hope that I will always have time and

fun making more shots and improving this website

 
The following 3 playlists are only usable for Windows user !!!

 Play all takes on this page  

 Own collection of titles  
 Download and open playlist

Individual songs can also be played or listened * here *.

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The "special" thing about the music files - some of which were created more than 13 years ago - is that they are "mastered" in an optimal and modern way (i.e. suitable for all sound systems - no matter whether very small or very large). This applies to the uniform sound, regardless of when and how the recordings were made, as well as to the frequency response, dynamics, volume and sound, which is now essentially optimized over all years of creation and independent of the instruments and technical possibilities used, and which corresponds to the so-called "industry standard" (e.g. for studio recordings of drums, guitars, bass & keyboards).

All 68 songs of this website (Playing time: 3 h 39 min.) are available within a zip-archive as *.mp3-files and can be extracted into one directory after the download without any problems. This may be recommended, because it offers the possibility that within this directory a possible random selection refers to all songs from all periods!

Store all takes as mp3 files: [419,03 MB, 68 takes] - *Download* (extract all files into one directory !) 

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Play CD "Couch-Rock-Selection" (only for Windows-User) :  Start

Play movie "Liverpool" [29:26 min] :  Start

Play short movie "Boats & Beaches" [2:54 min] :  Start