Eric Burns - Mbox 2 Mini & Pro Tools LE 8 - My Third Session (unfinished)

[shaterproofblosm]

this is great :-) good work! i listened to it twice. i just started looking into recording and i found the Pro tools with mini Mbox, so far it looks like exactly what i need for making my first solo demo, i understand that all i need is the mbox with pro tools, a computer, some cables, my guitar and my sterio is all i need at this point? any advice or anything would be fantastic :-)

[hoffaods]

Sounds like great space music...Keep up the good work

[DJustice91]

Guitars sound rad, drums are kinda sucky. In the simple octave strummy part, it sounds like Tom Delonge's guitar sound, just with more distortion. Interesting stuff guy!

[ericburns]

@DJustice91 Thanks for the honest feedback!

[kcvirock]

Great job!

[DJQuedo]

If i want to hook my guitar up to the Mbox, can i then just use a normal jack-stik who normally is used from guitars to an amplifier?

[guitarjeepdude]

sounds awesome!! i just picked up the mbox 2 mini and a Bluebird mic. listening to this is giving me hope that these will do the job of just a basic demo. thanks you have given me hope.

[mpbjazzrock]

You are a true artist.

[Erithlon]

thats really cool! I acctually thought this was gonna be some kind of lame piano-only song until the guitars came in!

Great job!

[daverobinson121]

wow man like the music, similar style to Explosions in the Sky which is cool. Did you mic an amp for the guitars or apply the effects with pro tools ? keep those tunes coming !!

[ericburns]

@daverobinson121 The guitars are direct in to the Mbox, so I applied all of the effects afterward in Pro Tools. I used Eleven Free that comes Pro Tools. I'm getting Line 6's Amp Farm Platinum soon, hopefully. So, the guitars should sound better in the future. I'm in an apartment so I can't mic my head/cab, yet. Thanks for listening!

[paulgut420]

dope... can u give us more info about ur gear? do you have monitors?... midi controllers? how do you program the drums to sound like its being played live. thanks.

[ericburns]

@paulgut420 My gear is REALLY lame. I hardly have any equipment yet. I'm just getting in to this. I was using a crappy pair of old Panasonic headphones that doesn't even allow me to hear the mix in stereo so I would have to bounce it to .wav to check the panned guitars. I have an m-audio O2 midi keyboard but I haven't gotten it working with Pro Tools yet so, in this song, I just sat there are clicked on the midi until I got the sound I had in my head. The drums are imported midi from TabIt.

[catoakac4]

u did a good job keep it up

[yunggrizzo]

hey, did the pro tools LE 8 come with the Mbox? and can you use that MBox with pro tools HD

[ericburns]

The Mbox 2 Mini does come with Pro Tools LE 8. I can't say for sure if it works with Pro Tools HD but I'm betting it will.

[bajer111]

@yunggrizzo I'd say that Pro Tools comes with the Mbox ;)

[theDrumkilla]

@yunggrizzo You cannot use the Mbox or ANY LE interfaces to run Pro Tools HD.

[produccionesmiranejo]

@yunggrizzo

dude to use run pro tools HD you need a shitload of money, at least 10,000 bucks just to get some really basic hardware for it.

[kwaker400]

this one is great I like this one very much... I am about to do music like this myself +1 mate keep it up!!!

[lyargutten]

drums? what do you use

[ericburns]

I used Xpand!2 that came with Pro Tools. YouTube EZDrummer's Drumkit from Hell, though. It's way better. Once I get it, I'm going to go back and redo all the drums.

[PaulMcBrideMusic]

Superior Drummer 2.0 is basically the new version of ezdrummer. It's further still.

[ericburns]

I'd love to get Superior Drummer 2.0 but it's out of my budget at the moment. Hopefully someday I can get some higher quality software/gear! Thanks for the info!

[PaulMcBrideMusic]

Sorry, i meant better still.

[fashklash]

feels like i'm trapped in a galaxy and i can't get out

[ericburns]

It's funny because it's true!