I bought a USB-C lead for a second hand Shure MV5 microphone I bought off eBay. The microphone cost about the price of a veggie pie and bag of chips. So basically…..nice price. The guy selling it only sent a standard USB lead which wasn’t great for the new Apple Mac system. The new lead bought cost nearly as much as the microphone. Both the microphone and lead price wise together were an absolute bargain though. Plugging the mic in a couple of days ago sounded thin and heartless. Maybe my settings problem. Who knows!

Receiving the USB-C lead this morning, it was plugged into the GarageBand system. I selected an audio drum track and tapped, onto the little square pads on the keyboard, a simple 2 part bass drum, side drum and finger snapping type percussion pattern of few beats onto two tracks. Third track I chose a keyboard piano chord of mood nature and held down some piano chords of who knows what! Then picked up the acoustic and strummed C and F followed by a simple plucked riff into the guitar mode of the MV5. Mistakes didn’t matter. It was a quick first time committed learning exercise.

Took a 30 minute period of one after the other 40 seconds track recording and an inherent mindset of ‘see what happens’. I checked volume overload levels with each stage. This was a fairly basic experiment.

What was surprising is that a tune never existed at all. It was a strange experience of ‘that’ll do’. After playing it back, it was important to see if it transferred by email on a base level. Pressing the share possibility it offered which level to send it by. I chose ‘low’. Base basically and sent it to myself. Listening back was nice. ‘Eureka’ came to mind. The playing is as basic as it comes. But it was that tiny little first step into the unknown.

Little bit of nonsense.

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