Holy cow! I'm coming to your next show, dude. I am *so* there. ::kicks self for missing the first two::
What'd you guys do? Hijack Mixerman Studios for a night? That sounds fucking unbelievable! And I bet it'll sound even better when those lazy asses at the electronics store finally get around to fixing my dead studio monitor so that I can listen to it in stereo. (I'm down to one, so everything is mono right now, and they've had it for like two or three weeks already. :P ) The only criticisms I could offer are some nitpicks with eq and compression/levels here and there, but it really doesn't matter because once you get it in the ballpark that's ultimately the mastering engineer's job to fiddle with that stuff anyway, so why bother? And speaking of fiddling, if you guys want any live violin tracks, just say the word.
Nicely done, yo!
God damn. I'm really impatient to get the Triton rack now. I want synth goodness NOW! Grrr. Out of curiosity, how much of all that stuff was Reason, and how much was your keyboard? Any other software/hardware synth action going on in there?
Did you ever hook up with Dave Devlin over e-mail? If you did, make sure he hears this, too.
We don't sound quite like this live...we don't have that many layers of sound and good mixing to work with live, but we put on a good show.
We hijacked a few bedrooms, my lead singer's brother, and his computer. We did it all ourselves. 4 guys, a few instruments, and a lot of software. First of all, it really helps that the vocalist is a gifted song writer with amazing vision. He's one of these guys with entire songs and all their tracks just sitting in his head waiting to come out.
He uses software called Fruity Loops. Familiar with that one? It's one of those programs where you don't even need to know how to play an instrument. It has all built in sounds. He writes with that. So, a large part of the song comes straight from Fruity Loops. All the percussion/drums. That bell sound. The bass line. Might be a few other sounds here and there. All are Fruity Loops sounds.
I play only the live piano sound on that track. (I did that in one take, too...sometimes I surprise myself).
Live guitar. There are about 2 or 3 guitar tracks on there. Rhythm and lead are separate tracks at least.
There are about 2 or 3 live vocal tracks.
My singer's brother is becoming quite a talented mixer/producer. He took all the Fruity Loops tracks and all our live tracks, mixed them in some audio mixing software that I forget the name of, applied effects as needed, spent a lot of time tweaking levels here and there. And that's what came out at the end.
Yeah, I noticed some of the eq and compression levels stuff. But overall, I never thought my first band would sound this good.
I did exchange a few emails with Dave Devlin. I should send him the track. Thanks for the reminder. Glad you liked the song. Hopefully we'll have another one available in the next few weeks. We recorded two songs. The other one hasn't been mixed yet.
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Holy cow! I'm coming to your next show, dude. I am *so* there. ::kicks self for missing the first two::
What'd you guys do? Hijack Mixerman Studios for a night? That sounds fucking unbelievable! And I bet it'll sound even better when those lazy asses at the electronics store finally get around to fixing my dead studio monitor so that I can listen to it in stereo. (I'm down to one, so everything is mono right now, and they've had it for like two or three weeks already. :P ) The only criticisms I could offer are some nitpicks with eq and compression/levels here and there, but it really doesn't matter because once you get it in the ballpark that's ultimately the mastering engineer's job to fiddle with that stuff anyway, so why bother? And speaking of fiddling, if you guys want any live violin tracks, just say the word.
Nicely done, yo!
God damn. I'm really impatient to get the Triton rack now. I want synth goodness NOW! Grrr. Out of curiosity, how much of all that stuff was Reason, and how much was your keyboard? Any other software/hardware synth action going on in there?
Did you ever hook up with Dave Devlin over e-mail? If you did, make sure he hears this, too.
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We hijacked a few bedrooms, my lead singer's brother, and his computer. We did it all ourselves. 4 guys, a few instruments, and a lot of software. First of all, it really helps that the vocalist is a gifted song writer with amazing vision. He's one of these guys with entire songs and all their tracks just sitting in his head waiting to come out.
He uses software called Fruity Loops. Familiar with that one? It's one of those programs where you don't even need to know how to play an instrument. It has all built in sounds. He writes with that. So, a large part of the song comes straight from Fruity Loops. All the percussion/drums. That bell sound. The bass line. Might be a few other sounds here and there. All are Fruity Loops sounds.
I play only the live piano sound on that track. (I did that in one take, too...sometimes I surprise myself).
Live guitar. There are about 2 or 3 guitar tracks on there. Rhythm and lead are separate tracks at least.
There are about 2 or 3 live vocal tracks.
My singer's brother is becoming quite a talented mixer/producer. He took all the Fruity Loops tracks and all our live tracks, mixed them in some audio mixing software that I forget the name of, applied effects as needed, spent a lot of time tweaking levels here and there. And that's what came out at the end.
Yeah, I noticed some of the eq and compression levels stuff. But overall, I never thought my first band would sound this good.
I did exchange a few emails with Dave Devlin. I should send him the track. Thanks for the reminder. Glad you liked the song. Hopefully we'll have another one available in the next few weeks. We recorded two songs. The other one hasn't been mixed yet.