School District Bans Halloween

The district says Halloween celebrations and children dressed in Halloween costumes might be offensive to real witches.

This simultaneously makes me laugh and makes me nauseous.

Political Correctness is a blight upon the earth.
(Have I said that before?)

I’ve been wanting to try to incorporate some heavy guitar sounds into my Starfinger songs lately, so I asked my Songfight compatriots if they had any suggestions for getting that sound. Here is a brief document of my attempts thus far.

For the record, I don’t know how to play the guitar. This experiment was really more about seeing what kind of tone I could get out of my crappy Gibson Jr. guitar [ don't ask ].

Anyway, I recorded a simple riff directly into a mixer, piped into my sound card. I duplicated it, and delayed the copy by a few milliseconds, and panned them both in opposite directions. Then I ran the whole thing through iZotope Trash, and fiddled with it until it sounded meaty.

MP3 sample.

Clearly I don’t know what I’m doing, but I thought this sounded pretty good considering the crappy equipment. It’s more of a testament to Trash’s quality than anything else, I reckon.