Thanks for checking it out man.
Okay, thanks dude.Sounds great dudener. Fun tune and a fantastic mix. Your vocals kinda seemed more upfront than usual and I might've lowered them just a smidge, but it sounds fine like this too. Just passing through to pay homage. Carry on...
After I posted that, my daughter told me she watched Rocky Horror Picture Show yesterday, so I thought of your song and decided to play it for her. She LOVED it!! She wants to put it on her iPod when we upload songs to it today so she can play it for her friends. I hope that's okay.
Thanks Bud. No Tele in this one bro. I'm pretty anti-Tele. I hate em. These guitars are mostly a Gibson ES-335. The SG makes a few appearances during the choruses and stuff. The lead is the 335.Great song and mix Greg! I had the same thought in mind about the 'Rocky Horror' sound-especially with the doo-wop 50's feel to it.
And are my ears fooling me? Is that a Tele added into the mix? I've found that an SG or Les Paul mixed with a Tele are a great combination, they both compliment each other so well.....
I cannot find any faults, dude!
Thanks trump. The bass is a Squire P-Bass thru an Ampeg combo with a 57 in front. Nothing fancy at all. I mic the center of the speaker up close to get a lot of bite from the bass. I don't like sloppy, mushy bass sounds. I like em a little dirty yet midrangey with some attack. I used to play a stand-up bass in a psychobilly band a loooong time agp, so I tried to match that sound with an electric bass for this one. This is what I came up with.
Okay thanks. Yup, same mics on the drums. Same kit, although this snare is a 14x6 Supraphonic. I'm also using spaced pair overheads now instead of the recorderman setup.
The 335 sounds great-cool score, Greg...
Well, it's my own bastardized version of spaced-pair. I drew an imaginary line through the center of the snare and the beater contact spot on the kick. That gives me an abstract right and left. The snare and kick are still center but the line runs diagonally across the kit. I stuck an overhead over the left half (which is kind of in front of my left shoulder), and stuck one over the right (which is out to the side of my right shoulder). With both pointing straight down, I tweaked the positioning until the capsules were equidistant from the snare. I started high, like 5 feet, and moved em closer with test runs. So far, the sweet spot is around 40 inches from the snare, with about 40 inches between the two mics. That goes against the 3:1 rule of spaced-pair miking, but I don't give a fuck. I don't have room to have my mics 10 feet apart. The toms sounded a little better with recorderman, but the overall kit and cymbal spreads sound much better with this spaced pair setup. I can dial in more hats or more ride by a simple tweak of the mics and still keep everything in phase.
ABSOLUTELY reminds me of the Dead Milkmen as well! Well done, Greg...the drums are, as usual, awesome. Especially in the ending. I thought your singing was fine, and totally suited the style of the song. Bass was very melodic, yours must have more than 3 frets, unlike mine.
I took notice when you first posted this, but I saved it up to savor it. I knew I'd probably like it a lot. I'm glad I caught this one. Super job. Not a single nit.
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Haha, thanks a lot Adam. Yeah there are a few timing blips in there, but I don't care. It's rock and roll!
I don't listen to Zappa or the Dead Milkmen so I don't totally get the comparisons, but whatever. I don't hate them or anything. It's better than being compared to awful shit like Korn or Killswitch Engage.
