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I am still using version 2.09 of Winamp that I downloaded on Febuary 9th 1999 to play my MP3 files with.
If you are having difficulty with maintaining a download, I recommend using Getright to download files with as your download manager. You can get it here below.
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Audio files of Tom Porter's musical skills (encoded in MP3)
10-21-2003 was recorded on October 21 2003, it does not currently have a name so I call it by it's record date. The song idea was initially mine (Kristian Naugle) but Tom and his brother Andy helped me take it to another level.
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Tom Porter is who played the drums for this song. But we had no drum equipment so Tom used the drum synth on the keyboard to get our drum track. He actually manually did the drums himself through the keyboard using drum sound samples.
Tom also wrote the lyrics and did the vocals for this recording. It is his voice that you hear for this song. I can't tell you what the song is about because it is an inside secret. It was me who did all of the guitar for this song. I started with a presentation to Tom and Andy of Tranquility.
They liked it and asked if I wanted to make a song of it. I liked the idea so we began working on it. I did both the rhythm electric guitar and the lead guitar. My sound has some roughness in it because I had the microphone angled directly at the speakers and so I have a little too much treble sound in the mix.
It sounded good in the room. We were messing with this recording to see what it sounded like. I might put the beginning and the whole first verse on this page soon. Besically all that we have recorded of this. What I have here on this page of 10-21-2003 is just a sound sample so you can hear some of my lead guitar skills.
I did some recording on March 22, 2004 to try out how my Athlon system would do in recording of audio. I still get the same syncronization promblems. I don't think that I have enough system resources needed, Windows abuses them too much. But my Athlon system records DVD quality video well with that ATI All-In-Wonder Radeon 9200.
I should be putting the video up soon of these new song ideas if I did actually catch these recordings on tape with the camera. These new song ideas were recorded on March 22nd. My most favorite is "Entering the outerworld". Initially I was trying to re-record a song that I started in July 2002 but the recording process became complicated so I began to improvise some new parts while recording.
The result is this new song idea. I am suprised how well the guitar playing and musical reasoning was done in this when I was improvising it. I am really impressed because I haven't recorded anything since October 2003 and because I have been messing with the computers so much lately, I haven't even touched a guitar but a few times in about 5 months.
I have been working a lot on my website and my computers. I didn't think that my musical reasoning and note selection would have increased like this while not practicing much. But maybe that was it? Perhaps focusing on something else refreshed my concept of music? This song piece shows that I can begin to finally do some of the stuff in music that I want.
I did everything in these two new songs demos except the drums, they came from the Acid Music program disc. I was just superficially messing around and experimenting when I did these recordings. I did all of the guitar which includes the rhythm and lead parts. Entering the outerworld's lead parts really impress me, especially because they match good to a new style of rhythm playing for me.
3-22-2004 was basically an attempt at matching and slightly improving the song that Tom, is brother Andy, and I did on October 21, 2003. It really reminds of the 1980's. That song was based on my work with "Tranquility". It was our remade version of it. While we were still working on the development of it, we were playing Grand Theft Auto: Vice City so it had some influence on how we put the feeling in the song, the whole 80's thing. We love the 80's, it is the decade of our birth.
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You might be able to hear some influence from Steve Vai in some of my stuff I do in music style. That should be, because I listen to Steve Vai and Joe Satriani much of the time that I am not listening to my own made music. But other influences include Van Halen, Eric Clapton (mainly the stuff he did with Cream in the late 1960's), Scorpions, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Jimi Hendrix, many of the guitarists from rock and metal bands who were on the music charts in the 1980's, and some more people but the list would be fairly large.
If you want to know what I was using to make this song with I will tell you.
I used my 1986 Marshall JCM 800 50 watt (all tube design) amplifier, speaker cabinent that I made using two 10 inch Eminence Legend 105 guitar speakers (8 Ohm version), Boss distortion pedal, Arion digital delay, Zoom 509 DPM, early 1990's model Peavey Predator guitar, Dimarzio Evolution humbucking pickup (bridge model), Creative Labs SoundBlaster SB 128 PCI sound card, Shuttle Ai61 slot-A Athlon motherboard, AMD Athlon 850Mhz slot-A Thunderbird processor, and a Cyber Acoustics ACM-1 computer microphone (costs $2.12, I am sure that I paid $2.12 for mine) to record my songs with, mainly the two newer ones because some of the older song idea demo recordings were recorded differently.
But these are the things that I use as a preference to achieve my sound and recording quality level that I currently have.
Below are some pictures of my musical gear. Click on a picture for a larger view.
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