Build a Home Studio using a computer and a cell phone

I just had the most fun with $1 that I've had in a long time.


In out Account Planning class, we've been talking a lot about collaboration and how things are shifting towards sharing and creating. As a die-hard music enthusiast, I can say that I've downloaded more than my fair share of music for free off of the web but this way, have discovered and become a big supporter of bands that I would have otherwise never heard. One of my favorite discoveries came during senior year of high school. When I was poking around the local music store (Millennium Music R.I.P.), I stumbled across Jamie Cullum: A young, short, British 20-something who had just made his US debut. Jamie started with a love of Jazz (like me) and has since branched out into different genres, creating his own sound by blending a few of my favorite styles together. After a few years of close following, I can say that I've listened to most all of his music that he's ever recorded.

However, now with iTunes people can take their enthusiasm with their favorite artists to a new level. iTunes offers tons of $0.99 Karaoke songs and after a day of running around and working on ads, I decided to air my head out and experiment with one. I bought the instrumental version of one of my Cullum favorites and tried my hand at covering it. With a Mac (excuse this for sounding like one of their ads), it's simple and with GarageBand I plugged the song right into it's own track.

Then using iTalk (a high quality recording program) on my iPhone, I tracked the vocals and imported them into GarageBand. This was done at 11:30pm in about 15 minutes so forgive me for sounding a bit tired but here's the end result for your listening pleasure. It seems like this is what the future of entertainment consumption could look like: giving people resources to play with their own music.

How's that sound?