"monkeyfeet"

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This is a good mix man. Nice and clear. And yeah... the bass sounds pretty freaking good... The drums are pretty good too... but there's a couple stray cymbal hits that could use bass beats behind 'em. :p (p.s. is that a snare edit at 2:29, or did you hit the rim?) Speaking of the rim... how did you record them? They're obviously fake, but there's a couple times where they sound pretty dang close to live drums... what's the deal? V-drums? They were obviously played by a human.. can't be midi. But they sound pretty freaking good on those hi-hat groove parts.


WATYF
 
Unbelievable!!!

Great playing and great recording from what I can hear. Best of all, I loved the song. I'm not into poppy stuff for the most part, but this has a lot more going for it than just being pop.

"I've got no business on the dance floor" LMAO... I loved the way you did that. If there was more stuff like this playing on top 40 radio, I'd probably listen to it more.

Did I say I really liked this?? I agree with what someone else said earlier: cut it down to under 4 minutes I see this on the radio easily.

Very nice work
 
Ya Man,I dig dem Monkey Feet!
(Glad I'm not the only one who wore platform shoes,and bell bottoms!):D

Totally rockin song,that funky bass is just kicking my butt!
Great job in every sense of the word,just awsome!

My favorite line was "It's fun to see a car wreck,but not when your the star of the show."
Ha ha,good one Mike!:p

Just one fine piece of music my friend!

I really enjoyed it (on many levels.):D

Thanks,
Pete











FS-It was late,I was tired!:o
 
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ok...

Mike... I'm finally calmed down now after that shock-to-the-system from last nite... from the "patas de mono" :D


-Awesome harmonies... you're singin like your skin is gonna come off if you don't get this song off your chest... great delivery.

-The snare (open rim?) is lite-weight in certain places only i.e. the verses... first verse... before 0:53... etc... in those places... after that, the open rim sounds perfect... i.e. "the ladies are compelling... car wreck"... in THERE it's perfect.

So... how do you thicken the snare? 1) Use a heavier snare sample... 2) try putting chorus FX on it ... 50% wet for starters... make the delay match the music... just enough so that you get fatter drums, not enough so they sound "swirly".

-EXCELLENT FRIGGIN ROLLS! Those snare-drum rolls damn near sound perfect. "Bust a moonwalk at the prom!" :D

-The overall mix balance seems too centered at 1kHz... no, don't go reachin for the EQ dial... (not on the stereo buss, anyway)... it's just that many of your instruments seem to like 1k...

-During the "worth a damn" part, why not try some whacky panning? Delay the spoken vocals... something... to get the clean guitars away from 'em? nitpick :)

-Now the real reason all we kiddies dropped our pants an ran? The bass solo? That was EXCELLENT... but no... (almost :D)

The bass "solo" pattern carries over into the following "bridge"/"chorus" part; the emotion builds; in the 7th & 8th bars following the solo, you FUCKIN KICKED MAJOR, MAJOR ASSSS!!! That's literally when the jaw hit the floor ;) Everything came together in that moment, for this song.. the climax... the splooooge... whatever :p

-Crash cymbals in that part right after the bass solo... some of 'em aren't brite enough... the dark cymbals work a couple of times, but I'm left craving some high crash to balance everything... maybe instead of riding the bell, you could put some more splash in 'ere?

-Guitar (elec fuzz) tone could use more beeef... you say it's prolly the guit? Could also be lite-guage strings? F'ed pickups? Have you tried using the J-station as a stomp-box.. into an amp, then miking the amp? Works pretty well... a good amp can give you some more sludge, if needed... (then again, you just may need a LesPaul ;))

-in the very next to the last measure, clean git & bass only, seems to be a small timing issue... couldn't bee the bass tho!! :eek: :eek:

A f'kin AWESOME song that reminds all of us that TALENT is thee most important aspect (well, it's one of 'em :))... musicianship should count for the most anyway, no?

Can see it now.. the HR.com supergroup: G-man on bass, Jeff on guitar, WATYF on drums, stevey Lt. on horns, chrisharris on triangle(cowbell?), and crawdad (or Tom... or Sam :)) on the lead voice.... awesome :D


c, wishing he could do w/5 everytime he posts to this thread
 
Oh yeah! YES! Two thumbs up ALL THE WAY UP! All around great sounding production. Vocals are perfecto! What a great hook in that chorus! Really just too cool. I hear a lot of work and attention to detail in this one and its paid off , believe me. Hell, between you and SluiCe, I'm about ready to give up recording altogether. I'm walking away impressed as can be.

As for the J-Station, I had the same impression. My latest box is the Digitech Genisis 3. If you want those big guitars, I think you'll find them in there. I've used the Pod, J-Station, Boss GT3, V-Amp and now this Genesis. I think this is my favorite of all the modelers. I still like micing up an amp, but there is a bunch of really good stuff in this box
 
What else can I say without repeating everything already said,fantastic work.









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My wife has "dead ears" and she was tapping her feet and bobbing her shoulders, while she was cooking supper, to this tune. My daughter listened to it for an hour +. This is just a good song...

We definately need more info on the recording process. How were the drums done, mics, blablabla...
 
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Alibish,
Powder,
Rustyfingers,
Davelvinstone
Acidrock Thanks for listening fellas:)

jcmm-thanks for listening man. I try to track everything dry as close to finished as i can. I figure if the tracks sound half decent when assembled dry, things should go ok when i start mixing and dumping on stuff. Thanks alot for the kind words re: vocs:) .....and thanks for always showin up to listen.

WATYF-I got you meester smarty pants:D :D All of the drums are programmed. Its a nice compliment fooling a drummer though. I went back and listened to that rim edit comment you made... that was supposed to be an intensional lick kinda thing:D ......maybe not. I'll go back and straighten that up. The drums on this are a drastic improvement for me. These are all stock sounds on the triton, using triton processing. ...Its just worlds different than that shitty drum machine i was using. I did however sample the main verse snare from the drum machine and use it here.... i liked it for some reason. Thanks for listening man:)

Jagular- thanks very much for the kind words man. I agree with you and mixmkr about the song length.....way too long. I should never record while I write:D It looks like Lt. Bob is gonna add some horns to this, so Im hoping the added detail mentally shortens the song a bit.

Pete-Thanks a ton for listening bro.....and always coming around when i get a chance to post something. Very kind:)

CHAD-You my man, areTHE FUCKIN' BOMB ..."That's what im talkin about!" I hope you understand how much i appreciate you taking the time to fish all of this shit out. The snare during the chorus sections that you mentioned is actually a really thin kinda loose snare overlapped over the sampled snare that im using in the verse. I think youre right... i lost too much of the sampled snare and used a tad too much of the thin one, i'll fix that. 1k.....:D ....right on again. I cut 1k in the vocs and may have added a touch to the instrumentation to fill the hole. A 1k(ish) cut was necessary for the vocs.... ....but the boost on the instruments i can work around. I'll take another look at that. I agree about the spoken part disappearing.... I think im gonna re-record that (as gay and corny as it is :D ). The "splooge":D :D ? ....my favorite part of the song. That dumb-ass vocal i recorded over that ("Dancing is something that your feet could never know "....talk about dumb lines:confused: :rolleyes: :D ) was done when that came together.... I was all pumped up...(refer to Sam's shirtless, sweaty post:D ) , and just wanted to sing something.... I'll take another look at the brightness on those cymbals. Re: using an amp w/ the J..... ....is that what you did on lumber? ...if so, there's my problem. ...I need a decent amp godamit. ....that and the axe, me thinks. Yeah the bass on the end is from the scratch bass track that i left on there after rehearsing the part (yeah, the meter varies....oops:D ..) It was never intended to be heard..... Im either gonna fade that out or.....?
Dude, thanks a million for this......... ......Chad for president!!!!

Crawdaddy- LOL....dude .....shut up:) Everyone knows that you are the bomb in here. If you only knew how i tear apart "every" one of your mixes for learning purposes. I think Im gonna have to ditch the modelling for heavy guits altogether and just go get a decent amp. I will take a peek at that Digitech that you mentioned though. Thanks a million for listening man:)

WISC-Thanks for the listen man:)





Thanks for listening to this thing everyone..... Steve is gonna lay down some horns for this so, til then, Im gonna retire this. Thanks soo much for all of the help. You guys rawk!:)

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I find that, somewhere around the 257th listen, the tune loses a touch of its "newness."

Not really sure what you can do to fix that.


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Guernica said:
WATYF-I got you meester smarty pants:D :D All of the drums are programmed. Its a nice compliment fooling a drummer though. I went back and listened to that rim edit comment you made... that was supposed to be an intensional lick kinda thing:D ......maybe not. I'll go back and straighten that up. The drums on this are a drastic improvement for me. These are all stock sounds on the triton, using triton processing. ...Its just worlds different than that shitty drum machine i was using. I did however sample the main verse snare from the drum machine and use it here.... i liked it for some reason. Thanks for listening man:)
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Well dude... that's some pretty convincing sounding drum programming. There are certain times (the intro, when the ride comes in, etc.) where you can tell that they're canned drums, but geez... in those groove parts with the tight hi-hat work, you could fool most people. If you did all that programming, then hats off to ya. I must say,.. I assumed it was hand-played because I heard a couple hits/fills that sounded just the slightest bit "off", so I figured it was a person. In any event, I haven't been able to get the hang of drum programming yet... (prolly cause I haven't really tried it yet. :p) But I figure I'll just stick to playing them instead of programming them. :p Anywho... There are some cymbal hits that hang out there by themselves without an accompanying bass drum hit... you might wanna clean that up. That's one of the things that "give away" fake drums. (cause no real drummer would ever diamond with a crash hit without hitting the bass drum along with it. ;) ) I'm at work right now, but I seem to recall that the very last crash cymbal in the song needed a bass hit behind it... something like that.


Either way man,.. this is all just nit-picking for the sake of perfection. The recording already sounds great. And that is some phat bass work man... you da' man. :p



WATYF
 
Cool-Great sound-Nice layered vocs-Like that ascending guitar fill during the verse-then into the talking heads section (you posted this before correct?). Cymbals sound kinda fake-can't have everything :(...Great bass work-very funky-good use of space. Nice guitar tones. Hell, nice everything-sounds great. I think the song could be shortened up a bit-It's a bit long for the genre(would radio play a 5:40 song? Is that a concern?)-anyway sounds great a real pleasure listening to this, nice work G.
 
Great job Guernica. Fantastic musicianship. Really great bass playing, to say the least. (I've spent a few wasted moments trying to do that slap type Flea type boinking, and I go blink, flop, doink, and then I blame it on the bass...) Anyway, a lot going on for a dumbass pop tune! Very Zappaesque, I think.

Macle
 
I have to agree with macle on this one.

Only I think it needs a lot more dinking, doinking and especially bloinking. No dumbass pop tune can have too much bloinking, IMHO, while the dinking is just a bit overdone these days. :D :D :D

Great song, man!
 
D@MMMMMNN!!!! THAT JOINT WAS MADDDD TIGHT!!!!!

Great spacing, superb vocs, funk-flowing bass action, drum-kit
awesome, dope-ass mix and lyrically insane!!! :p

Off the top of your head!!?? Dumb-@ss tune!!??
...."Monkey Feet Ain't Got No Brains!!".........

You are amazing!!! Peep's like you, that madd motivate me!!!

Overall, this joint was slammin'!!:cool: :cool: :cool:

Guernica' El' Malo madi'con`!!! (I hope I spelled it right!!:p )
 
Guernica,

Man, I'd love to offer to add some nice trumpet/flugle parts for the mix along with Lt. Bob's sax (this song has a very strong Tower of Power feel to it) but I'm afraid my tracking abilities aren't nearly on the same level as my playing.

Oh, and since everyone has covered everything several times, let me just reiterate the most important point:

Sweet fucking bass playing. VERY sweet.
 
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Chris:) ......thanks man.

WATYF Thanks man, I'll take a look at those 'lone cymbal hits. I try to quantize as little as possible. ....Sometimes you just hafta, ...but i do what i can not to. Thanks again for listening.

Stratomaster Hey Man, Yeah, i guess the time issue is a concern...... but, for another day.:) Im sick of this tune and dont feel like getting into a big editting endeavor right now. You're righ though .....toooo long. If you dont like these cymbals, you really didnt like the ones I used to use :D

MacleThanks for the listen man:) . I always appreciate your ears. Oh yeah, Im a boinker from way back:D .

ChessrockThanks a bunch for the listen Chess.

MASTERque...naaaaa..... YOU da man:D . Dude, you dont post in here neeaaaar enough. I really dug that last one that you put up. ....Peeps like YOU motivate ME:)
....BTW: refer to my response to Toki ...........could be coooool.:cool: :)

Bigus ...Funny you mention Tof P. Thats exactly what the
Lt. said. I hear E,W,andF and Zappa..... .....whateverworks :D
Thanks for the nice words man. Get those tracking chops together man.... we could definitely use a good trumpet player in here........ DEFINITELY!!!!

Thanks for listening fellas.......:)
Im going to post another version of this when the Madd Lt. finishes his stuff, so Im gonna put this thread out in the corn field:)
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Well, after my 298th listen (this is the kind of song I need playing when I take a shower in the morning... take that however you want :) ) I think the TOP feel was when the slap bass kicks in.

That section just leaves such an impression that half an hour after listening to it that's really the part that sticks in my head. It isn't until I listen again that I realize the whole song isn't that way.

In short... very cool song. I like the variation... something almost all popular songs lack nowadays. You could cut some of the changes down to about half what they are and get this thing under 4:00... but whatever you do don't cut the bass funk solo!

I'm working on my tracking. So far I've concentrated on getting my piano recording to come out right, and it's getting close. Next up is the trumpet, which reminds me, I haven't practiced my horn in a few days. Time to go punish the chops.
 
...Sorry so late on this one... Very fun, and funny tune! Hooks, man! It's like a treble hook with sharpened barbs! Superb bass playing; top fucking form! Even gettin' down on the Yammie! I can't help but picture Rudy from Fat Albert groovin' to those guitar tracks!...LOL... Those drums off of the Triton? They sound rounder. Great snare. You get a great bass tone; what bass are you playing nowadays? The vocals sound awesome; is that all Rode? The vocals gel so well, in the harmony sections, you're intonation is perfect. The guitar tones are nice, J-Station? Do you record the J-Station direct only? Reason I ask, is I've been rigging my J-Station through a power amp, into a Marshall cab... and getting the best of both worlds; have you tried to mic a cabinet? The guitar parts are very cool. I like the introduction of the part around :47; very Vaiish, nicely resolved. The guitar at around 2:05 sounds very groovy... there is something about the last 2 chords of that little progression that don't quite sound right; being a guitar player, it stands out to me - not in a bad way, mind you, I'd just play with the fingerings on the chordings a bit... just me being picky :D , your guitar playing is getting killer! Everything is well mixed, man. No struggles, good clarity. The arrangement is unusual, but it works for this tune just fine...Great job! The lyrics are fucking great. I mean, the whole junior high section...:D
What? No Angel Flights reference?!?:D Great tune, man.


....But you didn't FEEL like a 12 year old fool at the time!!:D
 
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