My Recording Gear

Hello people!

I thought I might guide you through the gear that I'm currently using to record music and sound.

I use several guitars, both acoustic and electric. Two acoustic guitars (Woodrock and Taylor GS Mini)
and three electric guitars (Squier Stratocaster, Ibanez RG350EXZ and a Ibanez RG7321 7string). I also got a bassguitar (Cort), a keyboard (Yamaha YPG-235), an electric drumset (Roland TD KX2 V-drums) and an electric piano (Roland F-120 SBA).

I got and Marshall 1960A cabinet with a Randall RH50T Tube amplifier head and a Orange Crush 30W Bass amplifier. Usually only used when practicing.

I got a MXL 990 and a MXL 991 condenser microphones. To record vocals and acoustic guitars I used to connect the condenser-microphones to a mixer, which is the Behringer XENYX 1202FX, which was connected to the computer. But that was when I used Audacity as my DAW. The Behringer mixer has phantom power which is what you need if you're going to use a condenser microphone. The phantom power gives the microphone power. Without that it simply won't work.

After a while I bought an Mbox with ProTools 9, which is the DAW I currently use. The Mbox has two inputs for jacks and two mic/line inputs. The Mbox is only connected to the computer by a USB cable.

I also got a effect pedal that I connect to my Randall/Marshall stack. The pedal is a ZOOM G9.2tt. I usually don't use this when I record, but I use it when I'm practicing. This is because I don't mic up the amplifier when I record, I use direct input into the Mbox.

When I record in ProTools, I use a USB-keyboard called KeyRig 49 from M-Audio. It's a small bus powered 49-key MIDI keyboard that is easy to use. Bus powered meaning that it gets power from the USB-connection, just like a typing keyboard or a mouse on your computer. This keyboard is great to create music with virtual instruments. You can choose a variety of instruments in ProTools and use this keyboard to create the notes. If you're familiar with MIDI, you will know that a MIDI-keyboard doesn't create notes. It only tells the program what notes it should generate.

Under you can see a slideshow of some of the gear. If you have questions about the gear or how it's connected, comment in the comment section below.

If you want to see the rest of the gear, check out my videos on youtube here.

Enjoy!

-Kianul

                          

Without You

Hi again!

Here is a new video for you! This time its David Guetta ft Usher "Without You". This is the first time I have ever sung in a video and uploaded it.

It was easy to make. Only a USB-keyboard and a cheap microphone to sing in. Recorded it all on ProTools via my Mbox.

Hope you like it. Feel free to comment in the comment section below with any opinions or critisism. Also you can submit questions about anything you want answered.

Enjoy!

-Kianul

R.I.P

Sad to real that the founder of Sabian Robert Zildjian just died at the age of 89. RIP. Thank you for all yourself contributions you have given us!

If you want to read up on him follow this link.

-Kianul

20th century intro

Helle good people of the internet!

Here is a new video for you. It is a custom intro I made of the 20th century fox intro.
It is very easy to make, but the rendering takes about 6 hours to get completed.

I used a free program called Blender. If you want an intro for yourself, comment below and I will reply how you can make it.

Enjoy, and have a happy easter!

-Kianul

Drifting!

Hi again! 

Here comes a new video! This time its Andy Mckee's song "Drifting" that I made a little cover of. This song is very different from how I usually play on the guitar and so therefore I had to learn the way to play it. It took some time but after a while I got into it. The way to play this requires alot of concentration, but when you get a hang of it, your guitarplaying sounds awesome! It's almost like a one-man band. You got the low DADGAD tuning which turns the lower strings almost as a bassline. The tapping on the body of the guitar is percussion or drums.

If you play this to people they go nuts! And it's not even that hard to learn... All you need is patience and time.

Let me know what you think about the video in the comment section below.

Enjoy

-Kianul

New video

Hello good people of the internet!

As I promised in a previous post, here is another video that is on my youtube-channel (which you can access here).

This one I made in two versions, one instrumental version and a version where my dear sister is singing. Both of these I will post underneath. This was the second time I recorded and mixed a song together, and I was still using Audacity and direct input to do it.

Feel free to comment below on what you thought about these and also come with tips/critique on how to improve.

Enjoy!

-Kianul

New material

Hi folks!

I'm currently trying to figure out what I'm going to upload next on youtube. I wanna make a musicvideo, but I have no idea of which song I'm going to cover or what I'm going to play... Maybe put up a original song or a tutorial or something...

If you guys have any requests, comment underneath and I'll see what I can do! I'm always happy to hear from my followers!

Hope to hear from you!

-Kianul

Update

Yo!

I made a few improvements on the blog. I added a gadget in the right sidebar that enables you to view some of my videos that I have on youtube.

Later!

-Kianul

New blog - First video!

Hi!

This is a blog where I'm going to post my old and upcoming videos that I have on www.youtube.com.
Currently I have 11 videos on my channel. You can access them by pressing the link above. 

My videos mainly consists of coversongs played and edited by myself. But there are other videos aswell.

If you like my videos, subscribe and you will be updated if I upload a new video. You can also follow this blog or twitter.

Underneath you can view my first video I made and the first I put on youtube. It's a cover of "Narcotic" by Liquido.

I will post regularly the other videos once a week or often.

Talk to you later!

-Kianul