Fun tunes... (explicit lyrics)

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Roel

Roel

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I put 2 new tunes on my freedrive...
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They are both improvisations. Track one is what we refer to as the pussy-song. Just a lick I used to play alot, with a friend on vocals. He did this on a concert, we got him out of the audience (picked him out of all 20 peeps), and he just did this... This is a home version. 3rd time we did it. Still improvised. Just the subject and main lick is fixed. :D

Recorded with A90 and AKG C3000B, both directly in VS1880.

Second one is with the same singer, a bassist and a groovebox. Made last sunday. Completely improvised.

Recorded with Groovebox, A90 and same mic, directly in VS. Bass thru Ibanez eff board and Mesa Boogie V-Twin, that did a wonderfull job of compressing the damn bass and preventing clipping. And it sounded better too. Bass really sounds killer...

Mixes are just push mixes. Some reverb and delay on the tracks. Wurly(A90) and vocals need some compression to get the levels right.

Enjoy! (Oh, and... explicit lyrics on track1... sorry...)
 
(If anybody's having a hard time getting the songs, click on "My Drive" at the top of

YEAH! Love the voice!

ROTFLMAO. You beat us to it, Roel. The shtick is GREAT, I can't stop laughing (folks are looking at me up here at work).

AAAAaaaaaaaaaah. My sides are hurting. Wow, great stuff!

Have you tried the mix with a reverbed hihat? The hats now sound a little harsh, but it doesn't necessarily detract from the message (just the impression at the beginning of the song, if you're not expecting such a funny song).

I really like it, Roel. Now time to d/l song two...

:D
 
Thanks man...:cool:

You mean the hihat on track two? The, what would I call it, euh, 'All seeing eye'-song? (probably, there's no drum on the first track. Hope I didn't put the same track on it twice... hehe)

Can't do more reverb on hihat alone... The groovebox wasn't synced with the VS, and recorded directly in stereo. Could try some more reverb on the whole drumset maybe... Maybe eq a little...

Also, on the second song, his voice is lowered with some roland fm->m algorithm... It was recorded with the eff in the monitor-headphones. (Not that it matters.)
 
Just to get this mail on top again... :D

I was wondering, could anyone give some comment on the voice recording of track 1? The sound of the voice that is... I'll be working with that guy alot and I want to get it perfect. (Track 2 is pitch-shifted...)

By the way Kelly, if you really enjoyed that song that much, you should check out King Missile and James S.Hall. They do about the same thing. (our singer has never heard of them, we didn't copy.)
 
Song "two" (which is actually 01 track 1): i'm not as big on that one as the other... The vocal is distorting alot, seems like he's holding the mic and getting... uhm... "personal" with it...

:D
 
He WAS getting personal... :eek:

Is it distorting? I never really listened to it actually. Hehe... I do know that he sings very dynamically, and ALWAYS ends up singing louder in the middle of a song. That's why I really have to invest in a mic pre with compressor... But it's alot of money...

Oh yeah... I forgot to mention. We got married in the summer. :D
 
:D

**slaps kelly's forehead too**

:D
It's really push mix. Just set the levels in an acceptable manner, little verb, little swing on the delay button, and that's it... hehe. Listened to the beginning of the song few times to do this, but never the whole song. And then write a cd, and go show off to my friends, on really bad stereos, in pubs after closing time, or before :) , telling eachother what nice girls we had in the past week throughout the song... Sortof... hehe...
 
O.K. Here It Is

I promised you my critique, your far out of my style so take it with a HUGE grain distilled into whiskey, the first song (I'm not sure which one it was) I didn't really listen to. The second, the one with the hi hat thing going...

It's been a couple weeks now, but...
the first thing I noticed was the hat, little, yellow, different. I tried to figure out the pattern, what I figure is it's a 4 Pattern midi sequence, repeating the entire length of the (LONG) song, with a random sounding but pattered kick/snare sequance. the bassline is a repeated basic Jazz pattern with improvisations at the end, and a strangely timed (at the beginning) piano part. All I remember about the lyrics is... something about Eyes "all I saw was eyes, she was all eyes, one big eye" something like that..you should name the song All Eye'd Babe or something like that.

I tried to jam with it (on Guitar), I tried following the hat, no luck, the bassline clashed with everything I tried. I tried to follow the kick/snare pattern, just to sporatic for me. I tried lead, mostly I couldn't find a spot, you had the lead spots pretty filled in with the piano.
I was able to add a couple fill style leads, follow the bassline note for note, up to the improvisation, where I would have had to know what the bassist was going to do next. and in some places a sustained note or chord worked, nothing I could fit in throuout the whole song though, and the last thing I could do was repeat some of your piano fills.

you mentioned off time, I just thought it was the way the song was, like I said, not my style. what I heard on close listening in the beginning was a piano chord on the second beat of the first measure, and at the third beat of the second measure, repeat for the 3rd and 4th measures... untill you went into the the rhythem/fill patterns.

now that you see I really listened to it, I have to say I really hate that style Jazz, not you in particular, just the style, where instruments play against each other, rather than listening to each other, following accent pattern, and having a tight feel to the music. you IMHO should have tried to do more to keep the hat pattern in perspective, it just sounded like it was there for the hell of it, it had nothing to do with the bass/piano/vocal, the kick/snare pattern could have been much more accenting of the overall flow of the music.

The only other instruments I could "hear" realistically was a horn section playing just about as basic as the bass lines.

I rate it a 9 for silky smooth voice though, a five for piano(some decent chops), 3 for bass (too basic), 1 for drums(way out there)and about 7 for recording/mixing quallity, good job, again that hat could of used some help, that hat hurts, but it's original (to me, It could be someone elses for all I know)

well that's about all I can say about it. take it for what it's worth, (NOTHING)

TX
 
He Torpid. Like the comments... Actually, way to much for what it is. :D The way we recorded it is: plug in, eff on vocals, take a strange drumpattern out of the grooveboxes demosongs, or the songs the bassplayer once made, just let it go, bass-player started a very basic riff, and I started playing with him. Just jamming, nothing was said on forehand, nothing fixed. :cool:

So the drumpattern; well, can't change it when playing. The only thing that saves it is it's strange I-guess-kinda-syncopated accents, and the fact that the story keeps the song going...

The bassplayer. I expected more of this dude. He's supposed to be one of the better local bassplayers (of my generation) I know. We had him coming over to add bass to one of the funny galacticus songs we've been working on. The song has a disco-beat to it. Very basic rhytmic things, ordinairy pop. Well, he just couldn't play an ordinairy bass-line. Slapping tapping, all you want, but a good line. Nope... Very dissapointing. He also didn't react when I told him to play a 'c'. :roll eyes: So I completely agree with his 3. :)

Then, my 5... Can live with it. :) I had to keep it going. Get every hole out of it. I liked the patterns in which I'm kinda struggling with the rhytm; just playing my own thing, kindof polymetric stuff. Adds to the mystic feeling, I don't know. ;) . I did follow the bassplayer, tried to get him going too. But that didn't really work. So it was just me following his ideas. Never thought of following the drums, since it was a computer. Gotta take that in mind. Good tip. With a live drummer, I try to follow too. One thing I learned from the jammsessions I did occasionally. Play together. But I hardly played with any musicians that do it. Mostly they don't even listen! That singer does it. He's also a drummer, with lousy technique and bad timing, but his originality and interaction makes it up.

Recording/mixing quality. 7 is nice, but it ain't that hard with everything going straight to the board. Hehe...
Thanks for the comments!
 
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