Pop / Rock Mastered Polished Turd - Want Some?

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Holy Shite. This is primo. Really good. The prod is pristine and the song is solid. How long have you been doing this?

Moo
 
joeym said:
This sounds great Jason!
Everything is in its place, performance is great, what more could one ask for.
Agree with Greg, that drum sound is good, man!
Well done and keep it going!
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Dude... Thanks so much. I'd give ya more repute, but the site won't let me. :mad:

Atom Bomb said:
Sounds great. And the drums do sound awesome. Snare is damn near perfect. Good friggin job.

Who is signing? IS that you? Dude sounds like the guy from weezer. Pretty much a perfect match for his voice.
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Thanks, Mr. Bomb! :D Nah.. My friend is singing - and he's a pretty huge Weezer fan. And thank you for your comment on my snare. That's been a huge learning curve for me.... (as well as the kick drum) Getting that kick and snare to sound right has been tough, and I still think they can sound better. The road has just been following advice given to me by Greg L. - slowly and steadily it's been getting better.

bassdweller said:
Hey. . . it does kinda sound like the guy from Weezer. Like them alright, too.
Not to echo what everyone else is sayin - but those drums do sound great.
A very listenable song; I enjoyed it more than many songs I have heard on the radio recently. Good work!
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Thanks - and don't worry about echoing the sentiment... It never gets old hearing that you've finally done something right. Really - thank you.

moohead said:
Holy Shite. This is primo. Really good. The prod is pristine and the song is solid. How long have you been doing this?
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moohead! Thanks for listening and commenting! I've been recording stuff for only a few years, but I had no idea how badly I was doing it, until I joined this forum. I heard a fellow forum-mate's recording and was absolutely dumbfounded, flabberghasted, and in all other ways astonished at the sound he was getting from sub-professional equipment. The song was "On My Own" by Greg L., and from then on, I've read everything I can find by him as far as recording drums, and I've just tried to put his words to good use, and this is the result thus far. I think I joined this forum less than a year ago... Yeah.. Probably August of last year.

This forum is a solid-gold mine. Lots of really, really good advice going on in here.
 
Yeah, lots of oomph coming out. Kick is pretty awesome actually. It has a lot of depth. No bass guitar though to compete with it?
 
nzausrec said:
Yeah, lots of oomph coming out. Kick is pretty awesome actually. It has a lot of depth. No bass guitar though to compete with it?
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Thanks for the compliment on my kick, nzausrec. There's almost a full 30 second spot in the song which really brings out the contrast between the bass and the kick. The first section 1:12-1:25 has no kick with the bass and vocals emphasized - and then the 2nd section brings in the kick only (with ticking hi-hat) from 1:25 - 1:35.

So yeah... The song definitely has bass, but I tried to keep them in their own space as much as I could.

Thanks for listening!
 
Linux user eh? Same here. I also had problems with Soundclick, couldn't even create an account.

Gotta ask. Was this recorded/produced on Linux? if so, can we have some technical details?

Great production by the way.

Amanda
 
commanda said:
Linux user eh? Same here. I also had problems with Soundclick, couldn't even create an account.

Gotta ask. Was this recorded/produced on Linux? if so, can we have some technical details?

Great production by the way.

Amanda
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Heh... Go Linux! Yeah.. The entire production of this was done with 100% free open-source Linux-based software.

Specs are as follows:

Hardware:
AMD Phenom-X4 (forget the model, it's the 3.0GHZ one)
4 Gigs memory
ASUS Motherboard
WD 640G Black Hard Drive
M-Audio Delta 1010 Interface
Focusrite Octopre 8-channel preamp
Audix F10,F12,F15, Shure SM57, Trion 7000, and AT2035 mics.
(if ya want more details on hardware, just lemme know)

Software:
gentoo Linux using the 2.6.31-rt patched kernel.
Ardour 2.8.2, JACK, and Jamin
Main plugins used were sc4, 4-channel parametric, and I forget the reverb, but they're all LADSPA plugins. I recently bought LinuxDSP's Stereo Reverb LV2 plugin, and would highly recommend it. Didn't use it on this project, though.

That's really it.... Unless I'm missing something obvious. Jamin was used to master the final product, plugged in as an insert in the main bus. Took about 25 channels total.

Yeah, that's about it.

Pretty cool that a production like this which, according to all the comments I've been getting, is pretty darned solid can be done on Linux with 100% free legal software... I think that's just cool.

Thanks for listening, and thanks for the inquiry!

What distro are you using?
 
Sounds great. Yeah-ah, snare and cymbals are there!! Big difference from the first time I heard your tracks. The kick sounds a little boomy to me, could just be me. But try a narrower eq setting around the kick.

cool,
 
Anyone who says you can't do this stuff on Linux needs to listen to this track!

I'm using Ubuntu 9.10 with the:
Linux ubuntu 2.6.31-9-rt #152-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT RT Thu Oct 15 05:01:14 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux
kernel.

Foxconn 45csx motherboard with an Atom 330 cpu and 2 Gig ram and sata hard drive.
Behringer UCA 202 in place of a soundcard.
Behringer MS40 monitors; Sony headphones; and a line-in to my stereo.
Zoom MRS4.
Samson CO5 condenser mic.
ART studio MP preamp.

I play rhythm guitar (of which I have several) both acoustic & electric; and try to sing.

Software; I use Audacity, Rosegarden, and a Python script called MMA (musical midi accompaniment). Think Band-in-a-box. This script parses a text file(s), and outputs a midi file.

I have installed Ardour, but haven't applied the effort to learn to drive it, yet.

Amanda
 
Chili said:
Sounds great. Yeah-ah, snare and cymbals are there!! Big difference from the first time I heard your tracks. The kick sounds a little boomy to me, could just be me. But try a narrower eq setting around the kick.

cool,
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Thanks for the listen, Chili! I was hoping you'd comment... As far as the kick goes, I'm in awe that so many people don't think it's boomy... The kick is totally empty, and un-padded, except for the batter head, which uses a Remo Powersonic skin, which is pretty deadened by default, but still... No pillows, no blankets, no nothin' - just a kick and a mic. I'm in the process of getting an Audix D6, to see if I can beef it up a little. Right now, it's extremely EQ'ed, and each take sounds different (the Audix F10 sucks on kicks, but it's the only sub-sonic mic I have right now, and all my SM57's are being used on other drums...) I've heard *very* good things about the D6, though, so my hopes are high. Thanks for listening, and as soon as this is posted, I'm gonna go have a listen to your new song!

commanda said:
Anyone who says you can't do this stuff on Linux needs to listen to this track!

I play rhythm guitar (of which I have several) both acoustic & electric; and try to sing.

Software; I use Audacity, Rosegarden, and a Python script called MMA (musical midi accompaniment). Think Band-in-a-box. This script parses a text file(s), and outputs a midi file.

I have installed Ardour, but haven't applied the effort to learn to drive it, yet.

Amanda
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Hear - Hear, sista! I've always been a bit frustrated with the comments I get (not on HR.com) about doing audio work on a completely Linux-based system, but proof is in the pudding. Now, I just hope I can re-create the same quality of sound on my next project! :eek: I've heard from a few professional audio engineers, who have used the gamut of DAWs today, and they say that ardour is among the best non-linear audio editors out there, and it's being actively developed, too... So it's getting better all the time. So, to the nay-sayers, I say "Listen to this, and pound cats!"

Thanks for the kudos, and thanks for listening. You really need to try ardour. It doesn't do MIDI (yet), but for recording audio, it really does the job well.

Okay, I'm done ranting now. :cool:
 
PoeticIntensity said:
As far as the kick goes, I'm in awe that so many people don't think it's boomy...
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Yeah, I figured the lack of comments from others tells me it's my system. I have a sub-woofer, maybe still need to find a balance.

Nonetheless, a good song you've got there.
 
shameless bump, to see if I can get jeffmaher to comment.
 
I'd buy it - I like pop rock & this veers into power pop which is a genre I really dig.
Yeah, the drums man, I hate to say it... they're bloody good!
 
Bulls Hit said:
sorry, I'm not Jeff, but it sounds good over here
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Thanks, man!

rayc said:
I'd buy it - I like pop rock & this veers into power pop which is a genre I really dig.
Yeah, the drums man, I hate to say it... they're bloody good!
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Thanks a lot, rayc! Thanks loads about the drums. Ever since I heard Greg L's drums, I'm on a quest to get them sounding as good as I possibly can. Now, I'm down to room treatment and drum tuning, because I'm confident my mics aren't the problem.

pistachio said:
Sounds like good Weezer. You are killer man.
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Hehe... Thanks for listening!
 
How'd you get these drum sounds, but can't seem to duplicate them on other stuff? I'm starting to suspect shenanigans! ;)
 
Greg_L said:
How'd you get these drum sounds, but can't seem to duplicate them on other stuff? I'm starting to suspect shenanigans! ;)
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Well... To be perfectly honest, I worked on the EQ of these drum tracks for about 3 solid hours to the snare and kick. I've never spent that amount of time on any other drums I've done. So... Yeah... My drums sound pretty good naturally, but definitely not that good.

Hopefully someday I'll be able to get those sounding that good without all the digital trickery. :D

Also - Greg L. I'd be interested to know how you have your overheads set up? What configuration do you use?
 
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