For anyone interested...

[mark_guinn]

I posted a demo of a song in this forum this summer for you guys to analyze the song-writing aspects. Several of you expressed interest in hearing the finished product, so I thought I'd post a link in this forum as well as the mixing clinic.

http://homerecording.com/bbs/showthr...threadid=36522

Or

http://www.nowhereradio.com/artists/rockpop/huck/

[Krystof01]

Well Mark. Yet again I tried to listen to one of your demos but again every 5-10 seconds I got to hear about a minute was spent buffering. It must be my computer.

I liked the birds at the beginning, LOL. I'll see if I have time to try again later.

[mark_guinn]

That sucks. Sorry. You should be able to download the MP3 file if you think it's worth the wait.

[badgas]

Hi Mark.

I downloaded both of your songs, hope you don't mind.
I like the final vs of Being Alone.

When it started playing, I didn't recognize it. Been some time since I heard the first recording you posted. I like the intro. Something about it set the mood.

You guys are done now that you've posted your songs, are you? I saw that you got to together just to record some music. Hope you stick it out.

Thanks for posting the final. So often there isn't one, it's forgotten, or I miss them.

Good luck.

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For those of you who don't know how to download the songs real easy like, with a PC just right click on the download button, then when the menu pops up click 'Save Target As' and put the song where you want it on your computer. For me it's easier than messing with temp files.

[mark_guinn]

Yeah it was just a summer project. We all go to different schools twelve hours apart. Maybe next summer we'll do some more stuff. Who knows. Those are only two of seven songs we recorded, but the others aren't done yet.

[badgas]

Hi Mark.
You guys did a fine job. A project like that can be exciting, and have it's share of problems, I guess.
Do you mind elaborating on the kind of recording equipment you used, and where you recorded?
Just curious.

[mark_guinn]

The drums were recorded on a Yamaha digital 4-track at a local church building (nice wooden floors...). We used an NT1 for overheads and 57's for snare and kick (and tom on a few songs). I ended up replacing the kick with a sample. Then I bounced the drums to my computer (via the ESS Solo something card that came with it). Guitars were mostly recorded direct from a Digitech RP2000, but some were from a mic'ed amp. The vocals on some songs were recorded in the same church building with the NT1. The bass and the rest of the vocals (including those two songs)were recorded in the post-production studio at school (not a nice sounding room, but better A/D converters). Bass was DI with a mic on the strings mixed pretty low. Being Alone also used some loops which were created in Fruity Loops. Everything was mixed in n-Track using free plugins (FreeVerb, etc.). This is my first major project like this and I'm definitely learning a lot.

[badgas]

Thanks Mark.
Sounds like that was an interesting project.
Good job.
Be nice to hear the other songs also when you complete them.

Since you guys live apart like you do, did you get to meet and practice before the recording start?
How did you get together.

This home recording stuff has to have an effect on the future of music in some way. Were all pioneers in it. It makes me wonder just how many great classics have been forgotten or unfinished over the years.
Keep up the good work.


I working with a few people from different areas of the world. One is in Austria, Russia, Latvia, and South Africa. There was a man from Ireland and a lady from Maylasia but we lost contact with them somehow. We each have a song we've written and laid a vocal and rhythm track. Everyone else is adding their parts. In the case of the drummer and bass, they have added both parts. It's something I've never done before and am having some fun with it.
We are a mix of country, rock, metal, blues and classical.
So far we don't have any single song completed. When they get finished the person who wrote their particular song is going to mix through master it.
Having fun and playing music, world wide. Pretty neat.

[mark_guinn]

Wow. That's really cool. Internet collaboration is a pretty amazing thing. I'd like to hear the results when you get done.

We all grew up in the same town and we were all home for the summer break. So we were in the same place for the recording sessions. Actually, we never rehearsed as a band until after the drums had been recorded. I just gave the drummer a CD of the acoustic demos and he familiarized himself with the songs and then he tracked them with a click track and those same acoustic demos (played through a portable CD player). In retrospect, we should have rehearsed ahead of time. He had A LOT of timing problems because he wasn't confident with the arrangements. As a result, I spent many hours editing the drum tracks to fix the timing and they still don't have quite the groove they could have. You live and learn, I guess.

[badgas]

Thanks Mark.
That was interesting.
I like to hear how people get together and do things.
The songs still sounds good.