After a long summer of doing stuff other than recording it was time to get back on the horse. Sonically, this isn't much of a departure but I am trying a couple of new things technically. One it that I spent more time on the drums (an achilles…

Sometime yesterday, sandbags posted "In the Ocean of Night". Fuelled by a lovely walk and some pints, I was inspired to make some additions. Technical/process details: Guitar was my Michael Kelly going into GT-10 which had compressor, delay…

A little something I've been toying with based on one of the chords from Free's "It's Alright Now". Apologies for my rusty recording mojo...

A rough one to keep my account alive :-) Just capturing some ideas with using my new Freeze and uPOG pedals.

Something that might have ended up on my failed RPM attempt.

This is a one hour piece I did after having poisoned myself with MSG.

Recorded at a cottage in the Canadian woods in late August.

A test track of sorts. I typically mix a track, bounce it out to my ipod and then go for a drive. The stereo in my truck is kind of boomy and if I get the bass wrong, I'll hear about it. This has been a matter of a certain amount of guesswork…

A quick little indulgence. Got a new toy this week (valhalla shimmer). Just had to totally overuse it. Now to eat some chocolate.

Today, the Ableton folks surprised us all with the release of 8.2 which came with a new plugin called Amp. Of course, that meant a bunch of presets to explore... Without aiming to do anything, I happened on these four presets (played simultaneously…

An ambient guitar piece done rather quickly, warts and all. Stems from ideas I've been developing on my new JamMan looper pedal (catnip for guitarists if there ever was such a thing).

Very raw, completely improved piece. One track, one take. Guitar -> GT-10 -> JamMan Stereo A touch of Discord 3 was added as a send effect. Limiting on the master track. Et voila. Sorry about the clipping. Recommended listening…

I've been noodling about with these chords for what feels like an eternity. They just are telling me what they want to be when they grow up... so I thought it's just time to record them and maybe solicit some kind of feedback. Since I was…

Took sandbag's [Andromeda 1](http://alonetone.com/sandbags/tracks/andromeda-1) and applied some BigSeq2 and LiveCut. Added a little FM8 underneath. And this happy little accident came out.

I frequently go on training skates on a beach front trail. The parking lot is just off of a major highway bridge (the Burlington Skyway for those that know it). It's always an interesting sound there... I recently acquired got a little Pocketrax…

I took Galileo's Cough Drop's Too Early To Tell and added about 8 tracks of guitar.

Gurgling, bubbling, churning. This is the last track of the March 2010 24 hour challenge. The process... - find some interesting synth sounds (have collected many) - work out some basic chords - do some filtering - add two tracks of e-bow…

A happy kind of electro pot-pourri. The process: - find a sound, noodle in Ab - find another sound, develop a compatible noodle - repeat a couple of times - program a beat - add replicant - find other sounds for a B section - find more sounds…

Another ambient noodle for this weekends 24 in 24. The process: - record a bunch of Plinkton (iphone app) - dupe the tracks a couple of times, screw with the warping tempo - add camelphat to one, camelspace to the other, leave the third alone…

An ambient anthemic piece. The process: - Start with a live take of me playing an iphone app called tonepad. - add camelphat and camelspace - add an Alchemy instance, find a big fat pad, work out a riff - record a single take accompanying the…