Alaskan music producer/teacher/fan. I especially love vocal pop, rock, retrowave, and adjacent genres. I play keys and guitar. He/him.
Love is not a zero-sum game.
A rising tide lifts all boats.
My artist name is a reference to nagoonberries, a rare Alaskan berry. No reference to the movie Blue Lagoon intended; I haven't seen it and hear it's quite problematic!
| Website/Linktree | http://www.bluenagoon.com |
| Bandcamp | https://bluenagoon.bandcamp.com |
| YouTube | https://www.youtube.com/bluenagoon |
Today I sold my 2001 Toyota Echo. It saw me through so many eras of my life. Our salted winter roads finally took too much of a toll on the underside and it had issues I couldn't handle. It's bittersweet to see it go, but the buyer has the skills to squeeze some more time out of it.
Follow up car will likely be an electric Subaru or something like that. I live in a place that is well-suited for electric cars.
My baseline patch is currently made of three amp models:
Clean - US Deluxe Normal (Fender)
Dirty - Line6 Litigator (Helix original "boutique" amp, )
Hi gain - Brit 2203 (Marshall JCM800)
Lead - hi gain + 808 in front + delay
So far it's working well. Some songs will require their own copies of this baseline with effects (chorus! flange!), but for many of my songs this will suit me fine and will save me a ton of work.
Preparing to play my music live: guitar sounds.
Originally I exported my guitar patches for each song from Helix Native to my floor unit, tweaking them as I went. This quickly got tedious and I've realized that in a live setting 90% of the nuances are lost and it's going to be WAY easier if I just dial in good baseline sounds and use them most of the time.
MicheleV_AK