You guys aren't hardcore enough.

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noisedude said:
I recorded an entire song in 1 hour by standing in the live room and getting on the talkback to my 14 year-old brother and walking him through the 32-channel Soundcraft desk, HD24 and Nuendo-interface (RME?) PC system we were recording on. I played all the instruments, all down in one take, plus all the vocals, without leaving the room ... and then mixed it for an hour and handed it in as a university coursework piece ... and got a 1st! :)

Is that hardcore?
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Lets hear that shit! Post it up!
 
noisedude said:
I played all the instruments, all down in one take, plus all the vocals, without leaving the room ... and then mixed it for an hour and handed it in as a university coursework piece ... and got a 1st! :)

Is that hardcore?
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Did you play all of the instruments, in one take, simultaneously?

If not, then I'm afraid you might not be hardcore enough to qualify. :D Try again.
 
chessrock said:
Did you play all of the instruments, in one take, simultaneously?

If not, then I'm afraid you might not be hardcore enough to qualify. :D Try again.
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Perhaps he has one of those "one man band" get ups.
Actually I'd like to see that. A Ahrdcore singer guitarist with the one-man band thing, running in place so he could play a really fast beat! :p


Tim
 
VSpaceBoy said:
Lets hear that shit! Post it up!
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It got posted up a while back ... it wasn't too great but was better than the bullcrap I've done since. Damn my creative process being stifled by recording glitches! :mad:
 
chessrock said:
Did you play all of the instruments, in one take, simultaneously?

If not, then I'm afraid you might not be hardcore enough to qualify. :D Try again.
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Erm ... not quite, but I did simultaneously do percussion whilst directing the kid bro how to adjust my headphone mix using my spare hand ... through a TV monitor ...

Nah, forget it. I'm not hardcore and I know it. :D
 
Someone posted a song from a record, a while back, that featured a guy who recorded, entirely, with kid's toys. Toy drumset, toy guitars, toy piano, etc. etc. Also used other household items and such.

I don't even have to say it ...
 
I shoved a screwdriver into the speaker of an old guitar amp I had laying around and recorded it. Now that thing sounded incredibly hardcore... no joke... sounded amazingly heavy and good.
 
is it hardcore when u get some one else to:write your songs, record them and go on tour ?
 
werners said:
is it hardcore when u get some one else to:write your songs, record them and go on tour ?
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Not unless you're making the money off of it.
 
chessrock said:
Someone posted a song from a record, a while back, that featured a guy who recorded, entirely, with kid's toys. Toy drumset, toy guitars, toy piano, etc. etc. Also used other household items and such.

I don't even have to say it ...
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I believe that was the band Self. They had some major radio play a few years back, and have released several home-recorded albums. that guy is hardcore. his (normal) songs drift between live drums and programmed drums...I read he hit record in his control room and ran across the house to hop on drums and do the take. then layer every other instrument himself.. pretty cool stuff.
 
JazzMang said:
I shoved a screwdriver into the speaker of an old guitar amp I had laying around and recorded it. Now that thing sounded incredibly hardcore... no joke... sounded amazingly heavy and good.
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Shoving screwdrivers inside things isn't always a good idea. I once got knocked several feet while working inside an old 12" black-and-white TV. I'm alive, which is pretty much proof that it wasn't a 12" color set of the same vintage, but....

Oh, and once while working on wiring for a (relatively primitive) homemade video switcher (did I mention I was a TV production geek?) one night during band camp my freshman year in high school (or maybe 8th grade, I forget), I raised by hand into a hot soldering gun. You can still see the scar on the back of my hand if you look carefully.
 
dgatwood said:
Shoving screwdrivers inside things isn't always a good idea. I once got knocked several feet while working inside an old 12" black-and-white TV. I'm alive, which is pretty much proof that it wasn't a 12" color set of the same vintage, but....

Oh, and once while working on wiring for a (relatively primitive) homemade video switcher (did I mention I was a TV production geek?) one night during band camp my freshman year in high school (or maybe 8th grade, I forget), I raised by hand into a hot soldering gun. You can still see the scar on the back of my hand if you look carefully.
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Ouch.

Anyways,
It wasn't on. I poked a huge hole in it, removed the screwdriver, then played with it and got blown away by heavy sounds.
 
dgatwood said:
I raised by hand into a hot soldering gun.
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Do I need to say it? I don't even think I need to say it. :D


But that, my friend, is ...
 
chessrock said:
Do I need to say it? I don't even think I need to say it. :D


But that, my friend, is ...
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:D

Hardcore is the dude who got trapped under the rock and amputated his own arm, and rapelled back down the mountain.
 
I've been recording things since I was very young. Eventually I figured out how to overdub & bounce vocals onto things. Everything was mono, unless I was using my trusty old General Electric Stereo Cassette Recorder (That thing was awesome but had its share of problems).

I'd say, maybe 6 years ago, I decided to try and convert my ideas to digital. I had two computers. One setup to play a backing track, and one to sing through my crap RadioShack mic (or Apple PlainTalk mic, whichever worked) of the time. I would then save this track, copy it back over to the other computer (which was not fast enough to record well) and do another track.

Then I discovered Deck for Mac and the whole multi-track recording deal and my life hasn't been the same since. :P

Not very hardcore, but I think that digitizing an hour's worth of short plays from 3 different camcorders, color correcting and syncing them up, and mixing with a 2 track room mic audio mix that skipped a lot towards the end because Cakewalk & PC laptops suck and editing it all into something watchable is pretty hardcore. [Air gasp]
 
easychair said:
:D

Hardcore is the dude who got trapped under the rock and amputated his own arm, and rapelled back down the mountain.
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Didn't he have to do that with a pocket knife? Thats beyond hardcore.
 
JazzMang said:
Ouch.

Anyways,
It wasn't on. I poked a huge hole in it, removed the screwdriver, then played with it and got blown away by heavy sounds.
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Neither was the TV set. It still packed enough residual power in the flyback after... at least a couple of hours unplugged and turned off... to kick me several feet. Since then, I very rarely open TVs or monitors unless they have been unplugged for... months. :D
 
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