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So I'm pretty sure no one reads my blog but I'm going to make an entry anyway.  I've finished recording my first studio album, and it's available currently through Bandcamp.  In 1-2 weeks from this post, it will be available on Audio CD as well as digitally through Spotify, iTunes and Amazon MP3.  The Bandcamp player is below.  Thanks, and I hope you enjoy it!

squelch

So this is a music project that I've been working on with my good friend Aaron for a long time now. I will be on drums and he will be on bass. The songs are originals that Aaron has been writing. We're looking for a 3rd member, possibly keys or guitar.

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spaceship in the city


walk away

Winchester Ear Plugs

I've begun the process of digging through the 60GB of audio data from my old studio computer. I stumbled across this little gem. It is the product of much whiskey. Unfortunately, in my inebriated state, I set the gain on the snare mic way too high which resulted in many, many clips. I manually edited most of them out and tried to level out the recording a little bit so it's listenable. Enjoy.

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freedom now

This is a song that I wrote recently. It's dedicated to the people of the Middle East, Japan and places all over the world where people suffer from adversity.

I'm Back

For real this time, I swear! Anyway, a lot has happened recently. I moved to Boston recently, and there has been a lot of driving and shuffling things around but I'm finally just about settled in. I've moved the whole studio out of CT and while I don't have everything with me here at the apartment, I still have decent access to it. I've been working on a lot of different things. Right now I am bouncing some footage that I took of Valley FEAST part 2 up in Northampton. I'm about halfway through it and will be posting it all up later tonight. My portable recording setup is almost where I want it to be. For now though, I'm just excited to be able to go places and make some decent recordings. I'll also be posting a few other things that I have been working on, hopefully this weekend. Stay tuned, and in the meantime, here's an older video that I neglected to post.

/r/musicmakers songwriting competition

This is a piece I wrote for a small songwriting competition on http://www.reddit.com/r/musicmakers. The only rule is that the chord progression Dm, C, G has to be used somewhere in the song.

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Love, American Style

The following is a music video I made with my new band. Most of the recording is live, with vocal edits and one small guitar edit.

Used in the live recording:
1x AKG D112 on kick drum
1x Shure SM57 on snare drum
2x MXL 993 as drum overheads
1x Sennheiser MD 421 on Mesa Boogie 50 Caliber thru Kustom 2x10
1x Shure SM57 on Fender Princeton Reverb
1x Shure Beta 52 on Fender Bassman
1x Shure SM7 on vocals

Love, American Style is:
Kari Bunn - Vocals / Guitar
Keith Wood - Guitar
Aaron DesLonde - Bass
Carey Gumaer - Drums

Audio for recent recordings

Since I mainly was working on video for my last two projects, I've neglected to post some high quality audio Here it is:

Coherence:

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Two Moons:

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Coherence

Greetings. For the past few weeks, I've been working on a video for one of my original songs called Coherence. It is now finished and uploaded. Thanks to my friends who participated. Stay tuned for the next one.

Two Moons

Hello Everyone. This is a full cover of a song called Two Moons by a band called toe that I've been working on over the past 3 weeks. I learned every part by ear and improvised my own parts in certain places. I learned the classical guitar part first, then the drums, then bass, then did the synth mastering and finally did the electric guitar part. I used my friend Aaron's Presonus Firestudio for recording the drum and classical guitar parts with a combination of our mic collections. For the synth and glockenspiel parts, I used Propellerhead Reason 4. I recorded the electric guitar direct through a Line6 PODxt interface. All video editing was done in Adobe Premiere. Enjoy!

Long time

Hey there. So it's been a while since I posted anything. Right now, I'm working on a multitude of projects as well as dealing with mandatory 45 hour weeks at work... So time for editing and production has been cut down. I have been working on a bunch of different stuff though, and I do plan on posting a bunch of stuff in the near future. For now, here's a little teaser to whet your appetite... I've been messing around with video editing and production for the first time in my life and I really don't know why I didn't get into this sooner. Here's a clip of fyrii playing a currently untitled song a couple months ago:



If you don't know anything about fyrii, it's an instrumental project that I've been working on for about 2 years now with my good friends Chris and Keith. We have a good group of friends that are also musicians that we jam with regularly, and we could probably form 5 or 6 different bands out of the lot of us. My goal out of all of this is to start my own independent record label starting with music made by yours truly and friends.

I have a full time job and I do this stuff on the side, but honestly that is the way I want to keep it. When a certain field of work becomes your job (your main source of income), it is inherent that you will lose a bit of satisfaction and pleasure out of that line of work. I never want that to happen with my music. I plan to keep c4103 productions as non-profit as possible. Musicians desire to be appreciated for the music they make, and that is exactly what I want to help them accomplish without the label and marketing nonsense. On that note, if you are a musician seeking help with production please drop me an email. My work schedule limits the amount of projects I will be able to take on at any given time but if I dig your tunes and I have the time we can make it happen.

Walk Away

Ok, so I finally got around to this today. This is an original song written by Aaron DesLonde on bass guitar. I tracked drums and acoustic guitar over it. This was the first jam that I've recorded over the internet. Aaron recorded the bass track with his setup, sent me a copy of it, and I tracked over it. Technology!!


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Satan's Birthday Bash (NSFW)

This is an original song that I literally just recorded with my good friend Jesse Germain. It's called Satan's Birthday Bash, and it contains explicit lyrics. Don't listen if you're going to be offended.


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6-28-2010

Hey all,

Had a great weekend just jamming and chillin with the guys. We made a ton of live recordings, but I haven't gotten a chance to edit and cut any of them yet, so stay tuned. In the meantime, here is a video I recorded a couple weeks ago of myself covering a toe song called 向こう岸が視る夢. It's pronounced "mukoogishi ga miru yume" and means "dream of seeing the other side." Check back later this week for more listening fun!



- Carey

6-13-2010

Hey,

Got a few recordings here. They're all works in progress, and I'm open to suggestions as to what I should add next.

These first two recordings are from last weekend. This first one is one of my originals featuring Aaron Deslonde on bass. He was kind enough to bring along his mic collection to fill in the missing pieces of my setup. The first track on this was actually the drums, which is something different. I tracked guitars second and Aaron tracked his bass part last.


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This next one was kind of a spur of the moment kind of thing. I had this drum beat in my head and needed a way to bring it out. I recorded the guitar first, then the drums, then the bass. The song is called raquet.


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This last recording is from today. It's a new fyrii song that Keith has actually had in the works for a while now. This is a live recording done with one take, no editing. The only processing done is a bit of EQ and compression. The guitars are a little quiet, but since it's a live recording and mixed down to stereo before it gets to the computer, the levels can't be adjusted. Oh well.


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Well, until next time.

5-31-10

Today I went up to visit my parents and made some recordings with my dad. I'm not sure of the names of the original artists of these songs, but I'll find them out as soon as I can and update this post.


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This song is called "I think about you all the time." Guitars by Rick Gumaer and Carey Gumaer, vocals and mandolin by Rick Gumaer.


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This song is called "Empty Pocket Blues." Guitars and vocals by Rick Gumaer.

no matter

This is a song I wrote called "no matter." I tracked acoustic guitar, drums, electric guitar and bass. I recorded this over the past couple of days.


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5-28-2010

I've experimented with making music videos for a little while now. It's mostly just me covering songs at the moment, but once I get a better grasp on video editing I plan to record multiple tracks with different instruments and switch between the clips. Anyway, this is a recording of me playing the drums along with a band called Maserati. The song is called Monoliths.

5-22-10

Hello friends,

This is a live recording of Ripchord, a fyrii song, with Ben Barr playing drums. On guitars, Chris Zielinski and Keith Wood. On bass, Carey Gumaer.


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This is another live recording. I don't have the sound insulation set up yet, as I'm waiting on another box of foam before I buy the MDF to assemble the panels. I always have a hard time making live recordings with more than a couple people because there's so much going on that it's hard to capture everything equally. I also don't have the new console yet. Regardless, check it out. I hope y'all had a good weekend. Until next time!

Soon, I'll be building hinged sound insulation panels. They're gonna be totally awesome and portable and I can't wait.