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yeah I just tried it and it worked.

bp

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Got it...would not open last night, nor would your previous song. The internet, she is a fickled bee-yotch... I'm in a sesh right now, but will listen as soon as I can.
thanks...

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Badperson,

I see what you mean about the lyrics - it took me a while to figure out how the flowers are a metaphor for man's relationship with God and how snacks show the duality of nature. Of course the references to the fine and ancient country of Hungary just put it over the top for me!

Seriously, it did have a nice groove - kind of a Grateful Dead thing (to me at least). At the beginning, the bass seems to be tripping over the guitar a little bit. Also, since it is the "jam" tradition, more guitar soloing would suit the song. Maybe even some soloing under the singing would free the form up a bit - not make it seem quite as repetitive. The structure of the song would support it just fine.

Keep up the good work!

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badperson,
CaveatYourEruptor's right, the lyrics do take some deep contemplation to fully grasp... I like it. I like the wah guitar and the solo too...it's a fun song. Made me hungry for Cheetohs...
thanks, Roy

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Thames Waves – A D&B remix, kind of light though;

And

Das Head – Who knows what genre this, I made it after seeing Photek and Goldie last week so there are a few D&B influences going on. There some samples have some bad language (nothing too bad though) so don’t listen if you’ll be offended.


Here --> http://www.iuma.com/IUMA/Bands/La_Sonica/index-3.html


Cheers,

Brent.

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Here's a few clips of my band. We tracked on 2" and dumped it into Digi 001 and I mixed it at home. Comments/critiqes/suggestions welcome. Here's the link: www.soulsgate.com/SGmusic.html

Thanks!
Beyond the Soul's Gate

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yo bp -
I LOVE IT
got my head noddin fo sure.

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I got an email a few nights ago from a singer/artist (Nick Rogero) who asked if he could put a vocal on my song, 'Moonbeam Seduction'. I agreed, he sent me this, and I think he did a killer job on it. Reminds me a little of Jim Morrison.
Check it out...
~rh

MoonbeamSeduction

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Roy,

What are you using for your drums sounds on Moonbeam? Are they a kit or loops? EGAD!!! They just rip right through you. I'd love to get my sounds that ballsy.

Moonbeam sounds nothing like Light My Fire. I hear an older Perry Farrell kind of vibe.

Is this one of your tunes or a tune done by a client?

Cool.

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yeah Jay, I was thinking I was hearing some old Jane's Addiction there. Sounds good though.. Hey Roy, It's too short... Make it longer.. hehehe

Steve

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Roy will just have to add some heroin into the fray. I hear it's better than Starbucks!!

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Hi Jay,
I'm definitely into percussion...I have a collection of one-hit percussion samples that I consider primo, and I create a kit for each new thing I do, including 'Moonbeam Seduction'.
On the Morrison thing, believe me, this vocal only reminds me a little of him, and I think it's just the range in which Nick sang this. I'm impressed that he wrote and sang this on top of an existing instrumental and made it work. That took some skill.


dwkick/Steve...
I agree with you...it's a little short at under 3 minutes, but I've sent Nick the long version, 'Seduction'. So it will likely be longer. He's also working on a second song of mine now (Route 666).

~Roy

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So all of those drums/percussions are one hits that you assembled into full tracks, cutting and pasting ad nauseum? Amazing. Now that's patience! I use Acid for all of my drums because it's just so damn easy to drag, drop, and create.

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I think the idea of it just seems tedious, but it's not. With Redrum and some other programs, you load your kit and play. It becomes a midi thing.
I've used loops in a couple of things, and have used one or two as a pattern, but I prefer to choose each sample if possible. It seems to work best for me.

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Badperson I love your stuff man. I dont get by the Latest Stuff thread a lot, but I saw you had some thing there and was like hey.....
Listened to Flowers. The song just had me grinning away. Played it for my wife too. Later on one of us would just start singing the words and cracking each other up. What a fun song
I guess you would have to have been there to know what I'm talking about.
Post some more man!!

I am going to try to get by here more often. I say that every time I drop in here

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HERE'S some Darkwave / Trance tunes done with Atmosphere. If you have a Sub hooked to your system you should really feel it!!!!!
1.Shadowless--- smoke your favorite..er..um....cigarette and veggg out!!!
2. Regurgitate---just click and chill!!!!!!!!
3. Caja de la muertes----erie song with a twisted storyline behind it!
They're good sized songs 5mb +

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Ok, Here's a new song I recorded on my digi 001. I'd really love some comments on the production and on the song in general. thanks

Here's the link www.karmarecording.com/longway.mp3

-Kevin

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Hi Kevin I thought the song was Rockin!! My only critique is the vocalist occasionally sings off key.The recording itself was also very nicely done good work man.

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Glad to see this post coming back around.

So much of my stuff ends up in the "almost finished" pile for so long, it is frustrating to not be able to post anything. However, this past week I made myself finish one up so here it is. A few notes about it

Includes a Spanish made mandolin and charango, both from South America...yet the song has a distinctive Middle Eastern feel. Go figure.

Drums were recorded from a standard "rock" set but in multiple takes and using only the high and roto toms. Could sound better (different?) with bongos.

Since there is no bass drum, didn't really have to contend with low end problems. Bass may not be "bassy" enough though (for this particular song, I only had a cheap bass guitar to work with).

http://mywebpages.comcast.net/chris_barrett/Starman.mp3

- cbarrett

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Hey Skip,
First of all thanks for the kind words ,I appreciate it. Part of the reason I posted the song was to get some ideas of what needed to be done to the vocals, they're by far the best I've been able to do so far but I just can't seem to step outside my own head to figure out what I'm doing wrong on a few parts. If you have any suggestions as to what words or phrases are be bad and or how to fix em I'd really dig that. It's hard to be objective when it's your own voice on the tape I guess.....at least for me. I also wanted some different ears to hear the mix in general, I feel like I've gone as far as I can take the mix, but my ears are also cooked right now so maybe in a few days I'll be able to improve on it.

Thanks again.

-Kevin

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Hi Kevin,your initial verses sound good but it seems when you sing the chorus or bridge you tend to get off just a tad.Are you able to hear yourself evenly with the music?My guess is your not hearing your music good enough to sing with and your slightly guessing.Then it could be your tired and do need the break.

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Hey Skip,
I had the music even with the vocals in my headphones, I have always set my mix that way for live and studio (I use in ears live). It makes me sing hard enough but not to hard and if my pitch is really off I can tell most of the time that way. I didn't get to spend quite as much time on the vocals as I wanted to but I'll be spending some more time working on them this coming week with a friend who has excellent ideas for vocals. My voice teacher helped me a ton as well but I can't afford that right now so I'm basically just asking anyone with ears to give me some opinions. I'm still kinda new at this whole singing thing. Thanks again for the kind words and the critiques.

-Kevin

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Hi Kevin,

The part "wanted let you walk out..." is good right after that the next word is where I heard the pitch variation. It was consistant every time you sang it with the exception to the next to last time at the end. I don't think that it is you hitting the note, there seems to be a clash of the note with the chorus that stands out. You hit that note several times in the other chorus section but it seems to be alone on its own.

I hope this makes sense.


Neat song though. Good listen for a Friday !!!


Take Care,
Gene

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I wanna know how the guitars were recorded... Was it mic'd or is that amplitube???

Enough of the voice stuff.. :-)

Please let us know the guitar way...

Thanks,
-Doc

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Ok the guitars, hear goes, it's a list man i must tell ya. The guitars we used were the following, 1956 les paul junior (single cut away with a p-90), 1989 Gibson Flying V, late 1990's Fernadez Les Paul style guitar with Wolfgang pickups in it, late 1990's Les Paul Custom double cutaway, 1980's Ilbanez Ghostrider (pickups were changed). All guitars were tuned to C G C F A D, using bridge pickups only and all tone controls wide open with Earnie Ball Slinky Strings. Amplifiers. Dual Rectifier Solo Thru a Carvin Legacy 4x12 Cabinent and a Peavey Supreme ( the 2 channel new version) thru a Peavey Cabinent. The Dual Rec had 2 channels, we alternated between with slightly different gian and eq setting, the peavey had just one setting we used. We would record each guitar thru the dual rec and the peavey at the same time and then do another take thru the same 2 amps with the other channel on the dual rectifier. The Mesa head thru the carvin cab was miced on axis about 3 inches from the outer edge of the cone with an SM57, that signal was then put into the JoemeekVC3 with a slight boost on the highs and a slight cut on the lows. The Peavey rig was miced off axis with an SM57 about 1 inch from the outer edge of the cone, that signal was sent into my Octopre which was also set as the digital clock. Both preamps were set to just barelly before clip. The dampening control on the peavey was set to loose to get a looser low end tone. I then covered the peavey cab with 2 moving blankets. I didn't cover the mesa at all and put it about 1 foot off of a wall in a 250 square foot not square room. Both Cabs were sitting off of the floor on milk crates to decouple them. Most of the signal you hear is the Mesa but without the peavey it doesn't sound as fat. This was the setup for all the dirty guitar parts for our whole cd, I couldn't tell you for sure which guitars we used but I'd say mostly the v and the fernandez. Part of the big tone is that while the 2 main guitars are playing the chordal progression in standard root, five, octave chords, there is 2 more guitars playing a root, nine chord, and a third guitar part playing a counter harmony the background vocal also mimmicks, it is very monotone and is mixed very far back but you can hear it if you listen(this is during the chorus only) The Bass was a fender p/j tuned C G C F, played thru an imp directbox into the octopre with light compression then I added some more compression, used maxx bass aggressive but turned the max bass signal down a bit. The guitars also had a small cut in the high mids around 2.9khz. Drums were a beta 52 in the kick, an ADK 51 TL about 3 feet from the resonant head of the kick with a tent built around it. Snare was an SM57, toms were 57's, hats were an audio technica atm857 and overheads were ADK CS1's. All drums were tracked without compression thru the octopre. That's the scoop for now. If i left anything out or you want to know more just ask. Thanks again!

-Kevin

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Nope that is what I was after! Thanks! Getting ready to record a new band and wanted some ideas...

Thanks man....

-Doc

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karma,

very nice job on those guitars. I'm going to print out that description and hang onto it. As for the vocals I think they sound good, I agree with the other comments, but it sounds like you're doing everything you need to be doing. Listen to some of my stuff if you want to hear ***imperfect**** vocals.

Actually I've just got to the point where I'm taking singing a little more seriously and doing some simple warm-ups everyday, and practicing.
What kind of pre's do you have?
Keep up the great work.

bp

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here's one more;

http://www.jasonwardenburg.com/duc/someday.mp3

It's a short one, just guitar and vocals.

I had a lot of trouble getting a sound I liked. Does anyone have some good tips for vocals and guitar?

Due to the rubato feel of the song, recording vox and guitar separately wasn't an option. I used an ntk, about two inches above my mouthand 18 inches away from me, angled down to get both guitar and vox. Actually, it didn't sound bad just like that, and if I were going to add any other instruments, I would have left it at that.

Then I also had a rode nt1a, and I could not for the life of me get a sound I liked. I tried it very close to the guitar in a number of positions, I'm pretty sure I was obeying the 3 to 1 rule to limit phase, but summed to mono, they sounded like s***. Very boomy, a lot of mids, no good at all. They sounded best panned hard left and right, but that put the vox too much to one side, and too loud.

I then experimented with the nt1a about 6 feet back. Better, but not great. I ended up having it about two feet from the 12th fret. I think there are probably some phase problems, but they were mitigated in the mix.

In the mix, I left the ntk dry, but cranked the verb on the nt1a. The ntk is about 50% right, and the nt1a is almost hard left.

I think it sounds a bit wet, but ok.

Also a couple minor performance things I'm not thrilled with, but minor enough that I probably would have made it worse with editing. Hmmm.....

Please let me know what you think.

bp

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i'd like to post some of my stuff but don't have a clue where to start. any suggestions would be apprecciated. thanks

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Post as much death metal as you can!!! Any music with lots of lyrics that depict pigeon sacrifices, the New York Rangers having ANOTHER losing season, or Rush Limbaugh's latest heartfelt no-no are fodder for this board.

Bass solos for me please..........

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you'll need some space on the web to post mp3's. I ended up buying space, it wasn't that much. then just put a link in this thread. Some people use sites like mp3.com, but a lot of times people won't download from sites that require them to register.

good luck.

bp

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ok, here's the product of a couple of hours of screwing around. its a little happier than my normal stuff...

happy drippy thing

if anyone wants to put vox to this, email me...

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if you'll except goth ridden mellow death stuff with some industrial injected straight into the femoral artery, i can help. possiby even some rush limbaugh stuff but i like pigeons and i don't have a bass yet. how about a little blood, sex, and retoric?

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Sounds Kewl Blindmelon!!! Dig the percussions!!!!!!
C' mon Macians!!!! Thousands of users here and no one wants to link up some songs? Must be alot of closet musicians out there, and usually they're the baddest ass musicians of them all!
With 30,000+ Digi members even if us Mac 002/002R/001/Mbox users are 5%---I doubt that number. But, that's 1,500 people....if we all did (((1))) song a year and posted them that would average out to be 28ish new songs a week!!!
Let's keep this thread bumping every week!!!
I know some of us record clients and it's not ours to give to the public, I just like hearing everything thats done pretty much on a system just like or equal to mine.
Not tryin' to start another his is better than yours thread!!!!

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Heres my mixez

mac dp 867
digi001 pt 5.1
waves ren & npp
art tube
motor mix
dr. groove
triton

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Brian/DaBasstard...I love it...you can expect a new 'teach me this trick' email here very soon... it's a cool piece, and I also like the real title of it...
~Roy

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bp,
Man, I love 'Someday'... just a simple soulful song does it all sometimes. It's great just as it is, and the vocal couldn't be any better.
-Roy

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Karma,
I finally got a chance to listen...they're right, the guitars sound really good...good job, man...
thanks, Roy

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DB,

Man, that is definitely dripping. I'm guessing that a lot of this is done in Reason. I just got my hands on it and am having a hell of a time learning it. Any chance you might put a Reason tutorial up one day? Anyway, I like the tune.

-chris

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Chris...I've got 'OutOfHere' in my car...need more just like it asap. Did you mention they'll be releasing a cd coming up?
thanks muchly, Roy