What do you you do to capture music ideas/riffs so you don’t forget them?

[Mikael Dez]

I’ve been pulling my phone out and taking an audio clip whenever I get a riff that I don’t want to forget. Seems pretty archaic to me, idk, is there a better solution y’all use?

 

[norminal]

iPhone Voice Memos app:

And yes, I do have a folder of recorded farts. I periodically send them to my estranged brother who ghosted our family.

 

[Mikael Dez]

iPhone Voice Memos app:

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And yes, I do have a folder of recorded farts. I periodically send them to my estranged brother who ghosted our family.

I have a pretty complicated and dramatic family drama going on and I could see myself ghosting all of them lmao

 

[norminal]

And yes, I do have a folder of recorded farts. I periodically send them to my estranged brother who ghosted our family.

Fun fact! I sent a bunch to 66Samus for his annual fart episode and once of them was featured along with one from Devin Townsend. Now that’s some real GAS!

 

[Sascha Franck]

I’ve been pulling my phone out and taking an audio clip whenever I get a riff that I don’t want to forget. Seems pretty archaic to me, idk, is there a better solution y’all use?

Maybe there's better solutions, but defenitely no quicker ones - and that's a large part of what capturing ideas is about, no? I use the voice memo all the time.

 

[Sidler72]

iPhone Voice Memos app:

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And yes, I do have a folder of recorded farts. I periodically send them to my estranged brother who ghosted our family.

Note to self. Never use Norminal’s phone

 

[newholland]

i have a tascam recorder on a stand thats always handy, and most of the times i still rely on memory which is usually as reliable at holding things as a steel sieve.

 

[PLX]

I use the RiggedTalk method..

Hit record and toss yore cell phone across the room, then turn the amp up to 11

 

[Jazz Padd]

Video on a smart phone here so I can recall the sound as well as how I achieved it (e.g. chord shapes, fingerings, pedal settings).

In the olden days, I used a SOS reel deck and after that a Tascam 4 track cassette. I still have the tapes but no machines to use.

I found a few I’d copied to normal cassette, but in hindsight very little of what I thought was interesting was not worth saving. Still, it’s fun to listen to some sounds now from 40-50 years ago to reflect on how things changed. Kinda like looking at old photos.

Digital media has its pitfalls, too. I’ve lost hundreds of files to format obsolescence, disk crashes, etc. I guess for me this kind of thing is more useful on the short term.