I recently (Wednesday) got a new toy: The M-Audio Fast Track Pro<\/a>, and I think it’s pretty awesome. I can’t believe it took me this long to get an audio interface, as it’s going to make life immeasurably easier when it comes to recording and brainstorming songs.<\/p>\n Anyway, to test out using it with the free (mostly-awesome but has some real weird side-effects) music editing software Audacity<\/a>, I decided to try and get a better recording of one of my more ambitious covers, Waltz # 2 (XO)<\/a> by Elliott Smith. It took plenty of takes, as I was not as brushed up on the song as I had hoped I was, but I was able to make a recording that sounded as good (and likely better) then anything I’ve made on my own before. My direct recordings are not really very listenable I find, but it is an idea of what I’m doing, and I hope to use them as the starting point to demo some of the upcoming Severe Bass with band stuff I’m working on.<\/p>\n