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Forum Ringside => Players => Topic started by: cakehead on February 03, 2008, 01:06:13 AM
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Hey, thought I would post up a new band for all to listen to! We are from a new-town in Scotland called Livingston (just outside Edinburgh), and have just finished recording our first demo track which can be found on;
http://www.myspace.com/acacmusic
Guitar wise, we used an Ibanez RGA 121 with Bareknuckle Nailbombs and an Epiphone Les Paul fitted with an EMG 81 in the bridge, all into an ENGL Powerball.
Any comments or discussion welcome!
Cheers.
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Sounds really good *thumbs up*
The vocalist reminded me of The Simpsons character 'Mayor Joe Quimby' :lol:.
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Ahahah! Probably the best comment I've ever heard about the vocals!
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i could not take more than a mere second of that vocalist before having to immediately close the tab, wow. But at least what i *heard* of the guitar tone sounded really well done, very clean, very well produced - its just those vocals... :?
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Hah! I get the Mayor Quimby reference!!!
Great sounding guitars. Reminds me of the '80s somehow... That may just be the vocals though. Something a little New Wave about them.
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Not normally my style, but damn, I thought it was pretty cool. Its funny how you are using EMG's and a Powerball for that though :o One of you obviously has heavier leanings? As for the Vocalist, I think the slight vocal trait probably has more to do with the Scottish accent coming through slightly?
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Remember Vote Quimby PDT_003 !
Anywho what amp settings did you tame the lovely beast at?
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Not normally my style, but damn, I thought it was pretty cool. Its funny how you are using EMG's and a Powerball for that though :o One of you obviously has heavier leanings? As for the Vocalist, I think the slight vocal trait probably has more to do with the Scottish accent coming through slightly?
Hey, cheers for the kind words! Yeah, we've had mixed feedback about the vocals, I suppose us Scots do have a bad habit of slurring our speech and such too! And yeah, you pretty much hit the mark on one of us having heavier leanings!
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Remember Vote Quimby PDT_003 !
Anywho what amp settings did you tame the lovely beast at?
I'm not sure of the exact settings, the powerball is the other guitarist's (I only have a wee baby Screamer 50) but I can tell you we used channel 3 with the gain about 4/10
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i have no problem with the odd Scottish slur, however, the whiny emo vocals i just can't take.
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I enjoyed that pretty cool! Youve got a unique sound there for sure, oh yea good playing :D
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i have no problem with the odd Scottish slur, however, the whiny emo vocals i just can't take.
To be fair, I didn't consider those vocals whiny, unique yes, but hardly in the same league as some of the terrible Emo- whines around today. He hardly needs to bring the 'brootulz' now does he? Good sh*t anyway.
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re-listened, and i do confirm that they are a whine; maybe an unusual uncharacteristic-of-emo-whine but whiny and, to my tastes, intolerable nonetheless. They are pretty knee deep in emo with just the vocals alone, regardless if you classify them as a whine or not. In any case, there is no need to bringah da br00talz, but a simple nicely sung, unstressed-vocal-chord passage would do. On the br00talz note, there are plenty of Death Metal and Black Metal vocalists that are shite, Grindcore pig vocals while amusing become quite annoying, pretty much all Metalcore is shite by default. It really depends on the band, i mean any good vocalist will have a characteristic sound, but then there is just the grating intolerable vocals of the above mentioned disciplines, and again it all depends. In any case, my original statement still stands, well produced and great guitar tone.
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Thought I would add that another song has been put up (Grey Square Symphony) which has the same recording set up as the last. Again, please discuss any thoughts!
Hope you will enjoy it!
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very well produced material! professional, I really don't see what's bad about the vocals, I quite like them actually. I can't really say anything bad about it, it's not perfect though. lol anyhow I like your guitar sounds quite original, almost has a japaneze gaming sound to it, very cheezy but in a good way! :P
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very well produced material! professional, I really don't see what's bad about the vocals, I quite like them actually. I can't really say anything bad about it, it's not perfect though. lol anyhow I like your guitar sounds quite original, almost has a japaneze gaming sound to it, very cheezy but in a good way! :P
+1 on everything JJretro said.
You've got a pretty unique sound going for you there! Congratulations
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Hey, thanks for the kind words, I love the cheese!
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Sounds good as always, I bet your band is a lot of fun to be in. I'll buy your cd if you make one.
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Though I would add another band update! We have been lucky enough to have been chosen as a featured artist on XFM Scotland. Heres a wee bit about it;
"Martin Bate hosts Xfm Uploaded on Music: Response every Monday till Thursday from 7pm till 10pm on 105.7 / 106.1 Xfm Scotland. Each night - from Monday till Wednesday - he'll play out a song by one of that week's three Uploaded Featured Artists, as chosen by Xfm."
We'll be up on Wednesday night between 1900 and 2200.
If we get enough votes, we get played on Music: Response on Thursday in full. To vote, visit our page at http://www.xfmuploaded.co.uk/amidconcreteandcallousness and scroll down to the left and click on the picture to vote.
Just remember that every vote is in support of Bareknuckle Pickups!! Thanks in advance to anyone who gives up their time for a listen or vote, I should also point out that it's worth having a browse through all the other bands and voting for the ones you like - some of them are really good!
Cheers!
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Just checked it out, nothing wrong with the vocals :D . Good stuff though, I am in a slightly similar band in Glasgow, though we have kinda 'imploded'.
Supported the American band Jubilee on their first ever gig though (Met Aaron North of NIN and Michael Shuman of QOTSA), we were so much better than them, they had a lot of 'sound problems')
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Just checked it out, nothing wrong with the vocals :D . Good stuff though, I am in a slightly similar band in Glasgow, though we have kinda 'imploded'.
Supported the American band Jubilee on their first ever gig though (Met Aaron North of NIN and Michael Shuman of QOTSA), we were so much better than them, they had a lot of 'sound problems')
That sounds awesome man, what were you called I might have heard of you guys?