FAWM : nahlej381 (@nahlej381)

nahlej381

@nahlej381

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2020

Indianapol US
m.soundcloud.com/nahlejmusic

Indiana based guitarist/songwriter/recording engineer influenced by indie rock, psychedelic, punk rock, and hip hop.
I do most of my tracks with my production partner @DJTJB, you can find us on all major platforms as “The Practitioners”

We love collabs and working in all genres, hit us up!

Pronouns: dude/him but I’m not super worried about what you call me as much as how you treat me lol
whatever works

Gear I use: Mel McCullough guitars and basses, modified Ibanez jet king, squier bass VI, danelectro baby sitar, Gretsch archtop

presonus ar16c, Yamaha 8s (thx ebay), ART DI, studio one 5 pro, akai mpk mini
Presonus ATOM--highly recommend for studio one users, you can find em used for $75 or so and it works as a DAW controller/beat pad/automation tool, it's awesome

Akai MPC live 2 (still figuring it out)

pearl/Ludwig Frankenstein drum kit my brother left here, hand drums/percussion/chimes, Simmons electric kit

Amp: fender blues jr IV (sonic blue with cannabis Rex speaker)

Mics: neat mics worker bees (<3)
AT2020, rodes matched condensers, sm57s, sennheiser e421, sennheiser e604s, audix b6

Pedals: the rainbow machine, arcade machine, donner octave, volume, expression and multi fx, cry baby wah, big muff fuzz, dream drive, bit crusher, behringer compressor, spark plug booster, warp drive analog delay, Fairfield circuitry shallow water pedal, slow gear clone, gen 5 whammy pedal, danelectro back talk, stylish fuzz, digital delay

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@radiobenedetto 3w

yo, jamming would be fun. Haven't done much remote jamming before but I've been curious to give jamkazam a spin. If it's more the asynchronous variety, I'm a fan of what you and @djtjb do with the beat science. I have this track from last year that I would love to get a beat makeover. I was going for kind of a Succession theme vibe and I think I got that across well enough for a FAWM demo but it think it's a bit clumsy and could be so much more. If you're up for it, I could send you the files sans drums. Here's the FAWM version: https://soundcloud.com/bennett-grassano-92754464/after-the-rain?si=aa516ba48d08492c9473feabd0e51a11&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

@splittybooms 4w

"I literally just use bits and pieces of vocal samples from splice or this VST called Output Arcade. Or maybe I'll use the whole sample; depends on what it sounds like...how it hits me.
When it comes to sample work, I'm a novice...I'm like not even in the same building as folks on youtube or wherever out there who do sample work. Dilla, I am not.
I play my little chords and basslines, make my drums, and sometimes that stuff (the music) revolves around the vocal samples, and sometimes the other way around.
When I've made music first, I go browse Splice with the track playing in the back. That allows me to hear when a sample's character will fit somewhere in my track, even if its just a fraction of a slice of a sample that fits somewhere. I also just like to find rhythms in little sections (usually random) of a vox sample; see if they fit with what I got going on.
On the other hand, when I do samples first, its really just random; sometimes I feel a completely different vibe than what the sample was "meant" for - ex. if an EDM pop vocal is made for summertime festival bangers, I might use it in an old school hip hop track and try to mimic what a DJ would do if they scratching records.
FX help me a lot, too. I don't even utilize all the tools Reason has to offer/all the VSTs I've bought over the years, to even step my game up.
I really do nothing complicated...I'm too unskilled, unknowledgeable and lazy for all that lol
I'll tell you anything you wanna know, pour all my musical everything out for you - but I'm afraid there's just not much to pour out. No secrets here.
(this bit applies to both you and craig) I listen to your stuff and I feel like I don't even deserve to own a keyboard. I'M the one who needs to be picking YOUR brain (and others who have said things like "how do you do it???")"

@splittybooms 4w

Yo - saw your comment about picking my brain. Ain't nothing to pick, honestly. CTS asked too on that song. I hit his soundboard up and typed out pretty much all I do with samples...I'm gonna paste it here on your soundboard, too.
But honestly, like I told him - you can do anything I can do 10 times better.
And you already killing the samples; truly nothing I can show anybody. Travis, same thing.
I'm not trying to put myself down, but I honestly cannot do a fraction of what the majority of people on this site can do, including you. Just being real.
I don't think there's anything missing from yours or CTS' sample game.
But I'll tell you anything you wanna know, man.
Paste time, mon ami!

@sollis 4w

Thanks for the kind words on my track! I've been playing guitar all these years and only recently thought to try turning the tone dial down - Now I'm becoming increasingly fond of the flavour it creates!

As someone who's sliding helplessly towards investing in a 4-track cassette recorder, what can you tell me about the pros and cons of life with a 4-track? Do you find you get much use out of it when you also have the lovely convenience of digital?

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