Hey there peeps.. yep thanks everyone that is a nice response. Everyone seemed pretty judicious and fair here. I have the feeling i did something right because so far one person hates what the other like (Yes i know everyone hates the drums, me too
) Well we finally dragged a kit up to my place so soon people soon.
groucho - Yep, always the drums. Today i begin my drum education. Part I miking snares. Not sure how soon i'll be able to put it to practical use but i'm glad to know that most of the stuff i've done so far can be revised down the road by having it's artificial sections stripped off and replaced with organic.
I hear what you are saying about that release man, I wanted to find it too it was just .... elusive. Thanks for your comments.
joro - Hey thank you joro, you were up pretty late last night as well eh? If you want ominous lyrics it's not always easy, sorry you didn't like em. I did think about just instrumental.
Pedullist - Hi Ped, good morning. Thank you for listening, I always hope you do. I will have to learn more about Buckethead. Yep i was thinkin the same way bout that solo
SABBATH - Yeah, i really wasn't serious when I said the stars would affect the amount of time I put into this, it was just a disclaimer because there was a big brouhaha last night over ratings. The vox were really tough for me, i thought something more structured might show up but it never did. Maybe one day.
Guernica - Thanks Guernica, yeah I tried to pack this baby with subtleties if i could. I recorded some of the rhythm parts 7 times with different eq/dist settings so i could (try to) move seamlessly between the colorations.
twist - Yep i hear ya. The problem I'm always having with drums are they are always 1 tracked and i can't squish that much out of them with out inducing some serious clipping. My goal is always to try to make you forget about the drums and pay attention to something else. It's a tough game.
mbuster - Thank mbuster I appreciate you taking a listen.
WATYF - First off thanks for the listen WAYTF. Yep, i hear ya about the stars but this brings up something I'd like to say about them.
The rating system will never impact my views on my production or quality of the song, but in my experiences stars have come to mean something. Not a large thing, but definitely something tangible.
When someone goes back and seeks out my threads and labels them with one star while leaving all the other threads unmolested it is basically saying to me "I don't like you, you're not welcome on this board. I want to fill the road you've chosen with more discouragement". I don't change my approach to music based on this, but I am now aware of an adversarial presence in the board.
Stars mean "recognition from peers" more than they reflect overall production qualities. I can't speak for anyone else but I do crave recognition for my work, i want to be heard. When i got a 5 I did feel a little bit of pride as if I had achieved something and when I get a 1 I always feel a little bit of disappointment. Call me crazy, you can always ignore the critics but you always read the papers.
You can't tell me they mean completely nothing because I've seen all of us use them for some purpose or another at some point in time, and if they were really useless why not just deactivate them completely so all threads are unrated. Stars are not so much for evaluating production as they are for sending a public and confidential message. Ok moving on...
chrisharris - chris you baby. Everyone's saying stars don't mean nothing and here it is yesterday you starting cursing at me and making threads talking smack about me because I 1 dinged your thread and admitted it. No matter how many times everyone says it don't mean nothing, don't believe the hype. Maybe not in a huge way, but in some small way people care....I really haven't let them get to me outside of HRC#3 I have like 11 1 dingers in row, have I given up? Hell no.
You don't like those guits? They are DI'd from
my Zoom-PS02. I have a Mesa 150 Triple Rec a Marshall Jubilee 25/50 with a t.c. electronic
Gmajor and Digitech sitting right behind me and what do I overwhelmingly like for my guitars?? My little palm sized practice unit, go figure, anyway i've used those amps on others stuff but they didn't get to make an appearance here.
Thanks for finally posting a comment on one of my threads chris. Your feedback is appreciated.
Lt. Bob - Thank you Bob, I hope you find at least something worthwhile in taking the time with this.
Jamal - Yep that's it I'm gonna tackle the live drums on this probably trying to match the pattern already in place. LOL one vote for the vox after 4:00 one vote against, one vote for the vox before 4:00 two votes against. 2 votes for the guits 2 votes against. I think it's neat not getting and concensus here. I tried to understand your last line but dammit! what are you talking about?
Thank you for listening!
ashulman - Thank you. You know i experimented with a techno thing a few weeks back with hip/hop drums. It didn't turn out as bad as I expected. I think I'm gonna try my hand at organic here.
lynx - I hear ya. I often felt like I had become stuck in melding two complete songs together. Help! Thanks for listening.
Toki987 - Sorry about the download only Toki, i got rid of AOL and I don't have a pay-email account to sign up for Nowhere. I think 5:00 was where I dropped the dual leads and panned one guitar center to finish. Garlic dip and oreos?? Hmm, have we been uhm "fishing"?
Thank you Toki.
