TheDelilahRitual
What is The Delilah Ritual?
It's a simple name I picked back in the 1980s as a label to release music under
At the time I was recording on a Tascam PortaOne 4-Track tape "multistudio" (which I still have)
I did a few, very rough, recordings, using a Fender Super 60 amplifier, a Yamaha SG200 guitar, and a Boss Dr Rhythm DR110 drum machine
And that was it.
Years later I bought the domain name and put those recordings up so that they were out there, did nothing to promote them, didn't put them on youtube or anywhere else
We'll see if they appear here
Sweet
This is "Sweet"
It's a really lo-fi recording, but does have some stereo movement going on, best listened to via headphones
3 guitar tracks recorded directly into a Tascam PortaOne 4-Track
The guitar is a "Teisco" semi-acoustic, which I bought in the 1970s for £30
My guitar has been modified (by me, sorry) to replace the vibrato with a really cheap and light trapeze tailpiece, and I also replaced the default 3-way switch with an on-off-on (DPDT) for each pickup, and an on-on series/parallel switch - which effectively allows you to use the two pickups either individually, or both together in either in-phase, or out-of-phase mode...
In series mode you have to have both pickups on, and you get a much thicker, higher output.
I also took a flatstone to the frets. The action was terrible - about 1/2 an inch at the neck pickup - the frets had grooves and dents in them, and I think the spring was mising from the vibrato...
Sweet on Youtube
I installed OpenShot and Blender on linux and just played around with generating titles and transitions to make a very basic video
Listen with headphones.
My recollection is that all of the stereo panning was done directly from the Tascam PortaOne, and I bounced it / mixed it down to a Stereo track on the PortaOne...
OpenShot
Blender
Om No 10
This is a much later recording from 2004, using a Line6 Pod 2.0, a Vox White Shadow Bass, and a Yamaha SG200 guitar
I think this was recorded direct from the headphone output of the Line6 Pod into my computer, not sure into what software, but I would have probably been using Windows 98 at the time, and the software would have been Freeware.
I've done a quick video and put it on my Youtube Channel
This time I played the music file in xine, captured the visualizations using vokoscreen, and again used Openshot to do the titles and compile it into a video
I have no idea why I called it Om No 10
Sad Happy - or Sad Not Happy?
I still can't make my mnd up what to call it. It originally had a two letter name, referring to a case of unrequited love
Back to the 1980's with the Boss Dr Rhythm DR-110 providing some basic drums, recorded on the Tascam PortaOne, the Yamaha SG200 into a Fender Super 60 - a 1980s one, with the red control knobs, and possibly the 12AX7 valve replaced with a slightly more aggressive 12AT7.
I do have the original 4 track tape, but it is snapped, and I've tried - unsuccessfully - to repair it.
So this was mixed on the PortaOne before the tape snapped, and output to a computer probably via the AUX outs.
It's a bit buzzy, sorry.
Video was done via Xine and VokoScreen, and titles added with OpenShot.