More madness from The Boogiemen

[Pinky]

This time I think we're finally starting to sound good straight from the box

I did the most recent ditty all by myself. It's called "Nightmare" and can be downloaded from our site:

http://www.the-boogiemen.com

Feel free to also check out "Rudy Strooglitz", "Bug Bomb", and "Cyanide and Say Goodnight"... some funny stuff we'll be putting on a second page when I have the chance...

 

[Pinky]

Oh, and thanks again to Homerecording.com for all the useful tips from the past that are really making things a lot easier on me as I trudge through all these sessions and lose some bad production habits from the old 4 tracking days...

 

[Qwerty]

Sounds good - maybe a little long for my taste.........love the reversed gtr lines......maybe lose it after the intro?......Interesting rhythmic elements throughout.

Nice work

Q.

 

[Pinky]

Sounds good - maybe a little long for my taste.........love the reversed gtr lines......maybe lose it after the intro?......Interesting rhythmic elements throughout.

Nice work

Q.

Thanks.

I will probably leave the ending, we border on excessive anyway (daydream is 12 minutes long for absolutely no reason too )...

 

[Seanmorse79]

...listening to it now - yeah, the reversed guitars are very cool. The guitars do seem to blend together a bit though. It sounds okay if that's what you're going for, but if you'd like them to stand out a bit more on their own, you might want to do some EQ sweeps / cuts, and/or adjust some of the panning. I'd also like to hear the kick a bit more.

It's very groovy sounding stuff though. I'm hearing all kinds of influence/similarities. Wow - wierd-ass slide work at the end ...I like it

 

[Pinky]

Wow - wierd-ass slide work at the end ...I like it

Thanks, it's a pick

I used a Danelectro Reverse Delay, I've owned it for about 6 months, still learning how to use it (it's not exactly tape and not exactly digital, kinda hard to learn the right delay/slap back and speed for each song so notes don't blend from one measure into another...).

Is there a thread/discussion you could link to about the EQ sweeps, etc?... I'm not familiar with the terminology (I find I do a lot of things that others have names for, I just learn from tinkering).

 

[Barometer]

I like it, very unique sound and style. Mix sounded good too, nice work

 

[Abbott]

hey man it's awesome. i'm really interested in how you recorded cuz my band's going to the studio soon. Equipment? Techniques? Thanks a bunch.

 

[Pinky]

hey man it's awesome. i'm really interested in how you recorded cuz my band's going to the studio soon. Equipment? Techniques? Thanks a bunch.

90% of it is done with software.

Musicians: Me (on "Nightmare", but Lewis Benko and Myself on most of the others, just listen for the killer blues guitar playing, that's Lew )

Equipment:

(1) VERY fast PC with a Turtle Beach Santa Cruz soundcard
(1) Cheap Washburn electric, adjusted/tweaked for maximum performance
(1) Not-so-cheap older Washburn acoustic
(1) Marshal Jackhammer distortion pedal
(1) Danelectro Reverse Delay pedal
(1) 8 channel/cheap (Mars music special) mixer
(1) Shure SM57 mic

Software:

Sonic Foundry Acid Pro 3.0 and Soundforge 6.0
Cakewalk Pro 9.03
Korg drum machine samples

I focus on getting the cleanest sound I can into the PC (multitracking with cakewalk and setting the built-in metronome so I bounce tracks to Acid to add the drums in the same thyme).

I have been recording for years, I have most of the basics mastered at this point. I am still learning the software despite having used it off-on for the past 18 months.

I suggest you start playing with the software now so you don't have to learn under the pressure of completing a project for the band.

Kevin

 

[Seanmorse79]

Pinky,

Again, very nice job - especially with the equipment. Here's a link to some essential EQ stuff. Take a look at the 3 part series ("All things being EQual". Print it out, grab a cup of coffee, and dig into it. It's very well written, and I learned a lot from it.

http://www.studiocovers.com/articles6.htm

 

[Pinky]

Pinky,

Again, very nice job - especially with the equipment. Here's a link to some essential EQ stuff. Take a look at the 3 part series ("All things being EQual". Print it out, grab a cup of coffee, and dig into it. It's very well written, and I learned a lot from it.

http://www.studiocovers.com/articles6.htm

Thank you very much

 

[TripleM]

The song had a nice feel to it. You had different things going on, like backwards guitars, crazy solos, crazy drum sections, etc. But at over 7 minutes, there weren't "enough" new things going on and it got to be a bit long for me.

It seemd like a 4:30 song, with three minutes of playing around at the end. It sounded like one of the amps was crackling here and there.

Heard a little skip at 6:51.

I did like the overall vibe though...

 

[Pinky]

It seemd like a 4:30 song, with three minutes of playing around at the end. It sounded like one of the amps was crackling here and there.

Heard a little skip at 6:51.

I did like the overall vibe though...

The fuzz you heard was from the light pick play on the acoustic during the end ... I heard the same thing, and since I plugged direct into the mixer/board (no amps and all clean/low input signals) I figured it out... (good ears you have, BTW ).

I also heard the skip, unsure if it's the danelectro pedal or not, will look into that as well...

Thanks for the tips

 

[Pinky]

Got rid of the skip (dunno how/why), found some other production related issues, solved that hissing picking sound from the acoustic track, and added drums at the end

 

[mixmkr]

nice sound textures in the beginning..but the clear guitar (blended in) sounds out of tune to me. Now that I'm up to to 1:30 mark, I wonder if there is going to be anything new..vocals?...or more chording. Sorry...but this was just a wall of noise to me...and at 2:45, I heard enough. The recording quality is fair, and the frenzy of sound, drums, backwards stuff, became non-musical to me very quick. ...interesting, however. It's 3:30.....click...

 

[Pinky]

nice sound textures in the beginning..but the clear guitar (blended in) sounds out of tune to me. Now that I'm up to to 1:30 mark, I wonder if there is going to be anything new..vocals?...or more chording. Sorry...but this was just a wall of noise to me...and at 2:45, I heard enough. The recording quality is fair, and the frenzy of sound, drums, backwards stuff, became non-musical to me very quick. ...interesting, however. It's 3:30.....click...

It's all good

Some people dig King Crimson, Zappa, Floyd, some people have no clue what I'm talking about... that's the great thing about music, what one may not like another couple thousand will...

Thanks for the feedback