I actually sat down with my other Christmas present yesterday to make a test recording with my own mic and guitar and such. The song is a ditty I made up one night when Emma was asking me to sing a song to her. I sing her to sleep every night. She was asking for some song, but I couldn’t make out what she was saying. Sounded something like Polly, so I made up a Polly Pocket song. This was my “hello world” with the Mbox, so forgive the rhythm, intonation, etc. problems. I was going to ditch it, but Alyssa’s yodel in the background made it worth keeping, I think.
{ 2007 01 09 }
Liz @ Buffalo
| 10-Jan-07 at 4:41 pm | Permalink
Whooooooo! That’s my new favorite song ever!!! The sound quality’s really great actually. Did you have the guitar plugged in directly or just pick it up through the vocal mic? I need to try more home recording. I think I have all the tools, just haven’t put them all together yet. I guess I all I need now is a muse, such as Polly Pocket, for inspiration.
Missy
| 10-Jan-07 at 6:51 pm | Permalink
I totally loved that.
jase
| 10-Jan-07 at 9:10 pm | Permalink
Liz! Hi!
I have an Mbox2 that I got myself for Christmas along with a Rode NT-1A mic, so I recorded 2 tracks of guitar, one on the mic and one direct via the pickup. I did the vocal on a 2nd take. A bit of compression and a bit of reverb on the vocal, a rough mix, and that was it. Had I only tuned my friggin guitar first
Or changed the 3 month old strings 
Glad you both dug it anyway.
Kat
| 11-Jan-07 at 7:40 am | Permalink
T-man (2) was standing next to me and gave it his highest ovation “AGAIN, AGAIN!”
jase
| 12-Jan-07 at 12:14 pm | Permalink
Kat - glad T-man dug it! Please feel free to download, burn to CD, whatever.
Michael Lewis
| 15-Jan-07 at 11:23 am | Permalink
Great first recording on the new MBox, dude. I look forward to many more. The guitar and vocal sounded clean, too. Well done.
Also, this is my first time checking out a blog, and, obvciously, your blog page. So beautiful.
M.