karumba
New member
cool track! as someone mentioned before, this has a great vintage sound. like it!
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Greg_L
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joeym
New member
How do I start to describe this??
It sounds so professionally produced that it's hard to think it's a home recording.
Amazing would be a good word...!
Ramones meet the Beach boys and boy do they have a great time!
Your voice has been improving like Hell lately, Greg, I notice in your new songs that you're taking a lot more care when tracking them. The harmonies are beautiful and perfectly sung. A great song and a great recording!
PS: I entered the contest because it's just for the heck of it, no-one's gonna be crowned a king or anything and I'm sure I'm not gonna win. But there's a great collection of songs there and that's the positive thing about it. Your stuff definitely belongs at the top there.
It sounds so professionally produced that it's hard to think it's a home recording.
Amazing would be a good word...!
Ramones meet the Beach boys and boy do they have a great time! Your voice has been improving like Hell lately, Greg, I notice in your new songs that you're taking a lot more care when tracking them. The harmonies are beautiful and perfectly sung. A great song and a great recording!PS: I entered the contest because it's just for the heck of it, no-one's gonna be crowned a king or anything and I'm sure I'm not gonna win. But there's a great collection of songs there and that's the positive thing about it. Your stuff definitely belongs at the top there.
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tomanderson1991
New member
I can't stop listening to this, I find it really 'up my street', the lyrics are great, musically you have an amazing gift very nicely mixed too
Track Rat
Just Your Average Sized Member
By far and away this is the best thing I've heard on the net. Hands down. I'm your servent
(I'm not worthy).
(I'm not worthy).
Richard King
New member
MANY years ago I engineered a song for a band with the same philosophy. The song and the story behind it is here: That's What I Said by Richard King on SoundCloud - Create, record and share your sounds for free. Take a look, you may change your mind. I'm only leaving it up for 24 hours, so take a look and enjoy.
Wish
Never Sarcastic....Honest
Nice job, Greg. I love the vocals and harmonies.
Excellent, dude.
Excellent, dude.
heatmiser
mr. green christmas
Sounds very nice Greg. I'm not wild about the string sound but I understand the purpose it serves here.
I think this is the best vocal performance I've heard from you.
I love the big open sound you got here. All of the layering has a pleasant cumulative effect without building up into a pile of mush as I might expect it to. The overall effect of your massive production is surprisingly subtle actually. I think this speaks to the quality of your tracking. Very well done man.
I think this is the best vocal performance I've heard from you.
I love the big open sound you got here. All of the layering has a pleasant cumulative effect without building up into a pile of mush as I might expect it to. The overall effect of your massive production is surprisingly subtle actually. I think this speaks to the quality of your tracking. Very well done man.
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Greg_L
Banned
Thanks a lot Joey. You are the vocal maestro of this here establishment, so I take that as a great compliment.How do I start to describe this??
It sounds so professionally produced that it's hard to think it's a home recording.
Amazing would be a good word...!
PS: I entered the contest because it's just for the heck of it, no-one's gonna be crowned a king or anything and I'm sure I'm not gonna win. But there's a great collection of songs there and that's the positive thing about it. Your stuff definitely belongs at the top there.
Good luck in the contest.
Thanks man. I appreciate the kind words.
Lol. Thanks a lot, but come on. Best thing you've heard on the net? I'm flattered. You can be my servant though.
Manslick
Road
You got it!
This is great. I cried I laughed so much. That bit about the broken cortex just took it over the top.
This is great. I cried I laughed so much. That bit about the broken cortex just took it over the top.
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Greg_L
Banned
Lol. That's pretty silly. Fine, I'll enter it in the contest.MANY years ago I engineered a song for a band with the same philosophy. The song and the story behind it is here: That's What I Said by Richard King on SoundCloud - Create, record and share your sounds for free. Take a look, you may change your mind. I'm only leaving it up for 24 hours, so take a look and enjoy.
Thank you, Wish.
Thank you very much. I might have overdone the strings. I have no idea how strings actually go, so I used like ten layers of violins and cellos. The samples sound pretty good and authentic on their own. I probably fucked them up somehow. I have no idea how to use MIDI. It's a miracle I got it to work at all. I borrowed a friend's controller, bought some cables, and fumble-fucked around with Reaper until I got sound.
Haha, thanks.
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stringtheory
New member
Of the vocal takes i've heard of yours this is definitely my favorite, very nice. The lyrics are clever and fun and the mix is... well, it's just outstanding i wish could do that, nice job.
rayc
retroreprobate
I LOVE mono & Spector & the ramones & End of the Century isn't the greatest Ramones LP but it is a great LP.
I listened to it both ways. The stereo is enormous.
The mono isn't as monumental as I'd expected - I mean it's big but I don't think you used a trowel to add the reverb as Fill Sphincter did.
The Song - you are an excellent lyricist!
You are an excellent multi-instumentalist
You are an excellent engineer & Prudooshah.
The layers upon layers work better than puff (poof?) pastry.
I liked it.
I listened to it both ways. The stereo is enormous.
The mono isn't as monumental as I'd expected - I mean it's big but I don't think you used a trowel to add the reverb as Fill Sphincter did.
The Song - you are an excellent lyricist!
You are an excellent multi-instumentalist
You are an excellent engineer & Prudooshah.
The layers upon layers work better than puff (poof?) pastry.
I liked it.
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Greg_L
Banned
Thanks a lot, stringtheory.
Thanks brutha Ray. The mono mix isn't really a true mono mix. I mean, it is mono, but I didn't actually mix it for mono. It's the same mix as the stereo mix, but I bounced it down to mono. It would probably be better if I actually mixed it for mono, but I'm not going through all that again.
I think End of the Century is an okay album. Everyone involved should have known beforehand that a Spector produced Ramones album would never work. The Ramones recorded like they played live. Just bang through it and on to the next one. Spector reportedly spent 7 hours on the sound of one guitar chord during those sessions. It had to be torture for a band like the Ramones, and the album reflects it. Great songs, bad production. I will say this though, the slow, ballad-ish songs on that album are fantastic. Spectors madness worked well on the slow songs. I think "Danny Says" is, to this day, one of the most beautful songs I've ever heard.
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Tobe
Simon
Excellent production and mix as usual Greg, perhaps too much reverb. I feel the tempo is right for the "(fucking) beauty Queen dropout" mood, but that the vocal lines and melody might still enjoy a slightly faster tempo.
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RAMI
Guest
So, you want him to sing the vocals at a faster tempo than the rest of the instruments? Yeah, that should sound really good.
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Greg_L
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Thanks.
Thanks for checking it out. As far as too much reverb goes, are you familiar with Phil Spector's recordings? This was supposed to be done in that style. He'd mic up a very large live ensemble in one room, then pump the feed into an echo chamber through loudspeakers, and then record what was coming through the speakers in the chamber. He'd literally have a mic in the echo chamber recording what was coming out of the speakers. I tried to replicate that by myself by recording in one big space and sending all the tracks to one reverb. It is what it is.
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bruiser1964
Member
Awesome! Greg you are legend Are those real castanets?
Are those real castanets?
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Tobe
Simon
Thanks.
Thanks for checking it out. As far as too much reverb goes, are you familiar with Phil Spector's recordings? This was supposed to be done in that style. He'd mic up a very large live ensemble in one room, then pump the feed into an echo chamber through loudspeakers, and then record what was coming through the speakers in the chamber. He'd literally have a mic in the echo chamber recording what was coming out of the speakers. I tried to replicate that by myself by recording in one big space and sending all the tracks to one reverb. It is what it is.
Sorry Greg... it might still sound better with less reverb
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Greg_L
Banned
Sorry Greg... it might still sound better with less reverb
Yeah, it might, but then it wouldn't be Spector-ish.
I have thought of re-recording it more in my usual style just to see what it ends up like.
Awesome! Greg you are legend
Thanks dude. Yup, real castanets. To be perfectly honest though, I bought the cheater version. Castanets-on-a-stick. I originally got some true castanets that you play with your fingers, but those bitches are impossible and i didn't wanna spend months getting good at them .So I returned them and got the stick version. It's basically just real castanets on a stick. You shake it and slap it against your hand to get the fast clack-clack-clack sound. Even that thing took some getting used to.