A Halloween song, a trick or treat gift for you

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A Halloween song, 'the payment'- something for you to sharpen your claws to...

http://www.nowhereradio.com/artists/album.php?aid=2302&alid=-1
or
http://tinyurl.com/yx5kqx

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a new mix of this song-recorded a few years back.
with a new DAW is in the house, i thought i'd revisit this one.
i did some cool experimenting with the mix on this one, and i wanted to share it.


story:

it's a little ditty about 2 brothers and a lycanthrope.......

it's loosely based on the original wolfman movie, the one where larry talbot gets bitten by the werewolf, and he see's the pentagram in his hand, and he knows he's phucked, so he goes to the old gypsy woman to try to be cured, and she basically tells him the only thing for him to do, is to kill himself...... what a bum deal...

anyway, these 2 brothers have been partying all night, drunk as skunks, and one of them staggers out into the moor, and meets his maker.

the remaining brother wants revenge, but is sober enough to figure out that he'd better get some ammunition first...
so he goes to see the gypsy-witch, to get some aconite (wolfsbane), and a spell here, and a prayer there, and thinks that he's well prepared, and so he goes out to the moor to get his revenge.



but that's not what he gets......



“The Payment”
Written by Robert F. Gilliland
c1999 Robert F. Gilliland


Nightime, on the moor
drank up all the mead
mist is in the air
full moon, did the deed.

never saw the evil...
that poor ole son of a bitch
felt the claws that gripped his throat
yeah, he was dead without a twitch.

'it's your brother down on the moor,
with his head down at his feet!'

drink the aconite, tonight
toast the witches curse
pray to whoever you believe in
to pass over you the worst

it's your brother on the moor,
with his head down at his feet
and the debt has not been paid in full
will you, your maker, meet?

run into the moor
and see the evil eye
upon you cast a glance,
and the payment, it is nigh.





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yikes.....
25 listens, and not one comment...
wazup?

nobody in the halloween mood?

song's too heavy?
not heavy enough?
not enough blood?
too much blood?!!

LOL

really looking for mix and production comments.....
 
GONZO-X said:
yikes.....
25 listens, and not one comment...
wazup?

nobody in the halloween mood?

song's too heavy?
not heavy enough?
not enough blood?
too much blood?!!

LOL

really looking for mix and production comments.....
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You rarely, if ever, comment on anyone else's stuff, so that may be it. I'm just saying....:o

This is pretty good. The drums are kind robotic and canned sounding. The kick is especially not very kick-like. It doesn't even really sound like a drum. But I've heard worse. Guitars sound great, as they always do with your stuff. I'd personally like a little more bass gtr and drums - once they're humanized. Vocals sound great. I like the feedbacky breakdown in the middle. Pretty good overall.
 
hey greg L.....

thanks for listening...

You rarely, if ever, comment on anyone else's stuff, so that may be it. I'm just saying...
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ok, that's fair.

i rarely have time to even get on line to post my work, much less check out many other threads....
i hate that part, of being so busy.
i mean, i've gotta pull teeth, just to find time to work on all the projects i've got cooking....too many half finished, unfinished...

yes, the drum machine: i had this track in the can LONG before i scored my current toontracks EZdrummer program....
so, i think maybe this would be a good time to try to learn the autosnap function in Sonar (current DAW) and see if i can write a new drum track?

i just wasn't sure if the song was worthy of the extra time it'd take to score a new drum track.
agreed, i did a LOT of tricks with the drums tracks, just to get them to sound this good!!
LOL

like splitting the track into two, high and low eq'd tracks, and blending them with varying degrees of compression and eq...
and creating a 3rd track, just to isolate the kick drum, to give it more depth...
that was quite a trick for me, and it worked, only, the base sound of the kick just isn't what i want.

but i did all the other tracks...... so i definitely want to salvage it....
just depends on how good i can become at tweaking midi drum data, i guess.....
i'd love to hire a drummer just to overlay on it....
 
Not the Monster Mash, is it!

Great. Love it. Fine work. Nothin' but net. No nits. Especially like the panning and blend. Plays like pro stuff in my defective listening environment.
 
The song's cool.

The mix is kinda dull and 'back there somewhere', which surprised me as from what I remember of your Bat's Brew tunes, they've pretty much all blown my face off.

Ah I just noticed it's an older tune. As you were then
 
jeffmaher
hey, i dig the monster mash!!
LOL
or at least i did, when i was about 6 years old....
not much has changed since then.....

heheh

thanks for listening, glad you dig it.



Bulls HIT
you know, on the mix eq, i had it brighter and more upfront, and it fatigued my ears.
i started listening to some older classic rock tunes (old zep, uriah heep, etc) and found a common eq with them that i liked...that vintage eq.

so, i pulled the eq back on this, to match that.
when you listen to it REALLY LOUD, it doesn't make your ears hurt like a lot of modern mixes out right now.
it's especially cool in the cans, at volume.
but yeah, i know what you're talking about, with some of my other mixes.
 
I think you posted this once before - diff mix?
I like it - the bass works well.
the drums need work.
The blending of the voices so cleosley seems to diminish them both in my ears - a little too Jeff Lynn maybe.
It's worth fixing.
 
hey rayC-
thanks for listening!

yes, i posted a version of this a year back.
since then, moved onto a new DAW, and this is the 1st updated version of this tune with it.

the drums, were an older track with a drum machine, i'd love to simply replace the drums in this one...
it'd be kinda hard, i don't have any kind of click track, the metronome is a moving number, and i only have a stereo file of the drums at this time.

the voices, typically there's 2 and 3 part harmony on most of it, and i panned the lead vox center, and either backup voice off at 15% left and right. i think the blending is probably more the way i sung it, rather than panning or levels.

thanks again...
 
Guitars are good, vocals are upfront and sit just right. Drums, not so good, but you already know that. Not much else to add.
 
I like the middle melt down. Vocals sit well. As everyone said about the drums and I know your pain when the clock varies in a past recording and you want to revisit.
 
GZ-
you know, with the drums, i like exactly what's being played, and the timing of it...
that's exactly what i wanted.
i just don't dig the sound.

i've been trying to learn how to snap a tempo map to the existing drum track, to create a new one..
but the timing fluctuates too much (my original programming put in all kinds of push's and pulls to create the feel i wanted)...
but the program i have (sonar) just can't quite do it.
still messing with it tho....


tainted-
the middle melt down is my favorite part!
i tried to get the feedback guitars to swell in and out of the mix, and create the mental visual of the dense fog, out on the moor, and the idea that something's creeping around, like you're just waiting for something bad to happen.

i guess i could just re-do the entire thing, but i like the performances in this one so much, and the feedback guitar requires some pretty loud sessions...
 
ok, last chance to review this one before i yank it down, and thrash it again...
 
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