SonicMonkey

SonicMonkey is the online musical playground of Michael Hacker, an Arizona-based guitarist, songwriter, recording geek, and techie. Michael is the owner of SonicMonkey Studios (a.k.a. the spare bedroom in his house) and likes Pro Tools, Line 6, and other stuff that he wishes would give him a sponsorship. Michael occasionally talks about stuff. Sometimes, he posts musical sketches (read: filler). Even more rarely, he finishes a song.

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#FAWM – 04 – Rain in the Desert

Friday, February 19th, 2010

Just working out some ideas here… nowhere even remotely close to being finished.

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#FAWM – 03 – Hackerbel’s Cannon in Duh

Monday, February 15th, 2010

A well-known classical piece meets face-melting metal guitar in a melty-faced face-melting facemeltapallooza. Prepare to have your ear holes blistered. WARNING: Do not listen at full volume. Brain liquification will occur.

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#FAWM – 02 – Moinin’

Sunday, February 7th, 2010

Liner Notes: Vocals were recorded on a Shure SM-57 into Pro Tools. I’m not happy with the mix, but I’m not going to mess with that until FAWM is over. I improvised a bit with the lyrics, so the words on the recording may not perfectly match those below. Lyrics: Woke up this moinin’ Couldn’t [...]

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#FAWM – 01 – Figure It Out

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010

Behold! My first FAWM offering! Enjoy. Liner Notes: I threw this one together rather quickly with the help of my friends MasterWriter, Pro Tools 8, ProjectMix I/O, Vetta II, Variax, and MacPro (aka OctoMom). Look for them on future songs. Believe it or not, this took up nearly 20 tracks in Pro Tools. (Yeah, I [...]

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FAWM

Monday, February 1st, 2010

Are you FAWMing? FAWM stands for February Album Writing Month. Each February, hundreds of people all over the world are spending the entire month writing, recording, and releasing music. The goal is to complete 14 songs by the end of the month. Given that February has only 28 days, that’s a new song every other [...]

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