Where:
Millburn, NJ, USA
Who:
Justin Nortillo (30) ( Guitar, Bass, Pianos,
Drums, Vocals )
When:
NA
Why:
As a way to keep in touch with friends.
What:
Blues, Rock, Jazz, Funk, Thrash.
In
Short:
Influences:John Denver, Doc Watson,
Wes Montogomery, Fugazi.
What I listen to: Beck, Jimi
Hendrix, The Strokes, Vivaldi, Woody Guthrie, Crosby Stills Nash and Young.
Where I play:
My basement mostly but I have done the off coffee house acoustic show
in the past 4 years.
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Justin Nortillo
by Alessandro De Murtas
Featured
Songs:
Songs By Nortillo
#note: 42 songs!!!
[..] I'm just a
guy who has a normal job and a wife and a mortgage who loves to write
songs. It's total therapy to write a piece of music and record it.
I'm not in it for the money. I work for an international company who
pays me too much and allows me some nice downtime. I write music for
myself and for two of my musician friends. I started nortillo.com
when my best friend Ian moved to the West Coast. I used to give him
tapes of my work. Now I can create mp3's with n-track and post them
on my website for him to listen.
I've been in bands since I was 15. Now I do everything myself, all
the
composing and all of the playing. I can pretty much play all standard
rock instruments. I'm now trying to figure out how to play a banjo.
My roots in music start with the Doors then to Crimpshrine and Filth
then to Jimi Hendrix and Beck to Tom Jobim. I'll listen to any music
except for late 80's glam rock.
Tips
and Tricks from Justin Nortillo using n-Track Studio.
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[..] I use two mixing boards, one for drums and the other
for everything else. I have them connected directly into my
IBM A30p think pad notebook's sound card.
I use 6 microphones on the drums, snare, bass, tom, floor
tom and two
overheads. I usually write the music on guitar, bass or piano,
get the tune in my head, then record the drums. Occasionally
if I've played to fast, I'll make the drum track a bit longer,
slowing it down. I then switch my mixing board connection,
and record my guitars, basses, pianos, keyboards and vocals.
I have an inexpensive condenser mic I use for vocals, acoustic
guitars and for my Rhodes piano. I go direct through my POD
2.0 on guitar and sometimes go direct into the mixing board
for bass. I also have a bass POD and a 1965 Fender Bassman
with some rack effects. I almost always clone the guitar tracks
then pan them, one right and one left. I depend on drawing
volume envelopes. It allows me to record my tracks sloppily
and then silence my mistakes or cut out unwanted sections
of a track. I also use the punch in tool quite a bit. I colorize
each track based on the instrument. This helps me keep track
of what is what. I also depend on Fasoft Compressor v1.1 It
gives my tracks the depth they sometimes lack. N-track is
so brilliant. It's completely easy to use but full of useful
features. There isn't much you can not do with it.
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