Bare Knuckle Pickups Forum
Forum Ringside => Players => Topic started by: TwilightOdyssey on October 29, 2008, 03:35:39 PM
-
This is the songwriting demo I made for a new instrumental tune, less solos:
http://www.soundclick.com/util/getplayer.m3u?id=7014490&q=hi
Enjoy! :)
-
very cool song. great job! i'd be interested to hear what it'd sound like with some more solos, if you are planning on adding them.
question for you: how long do you take writing/recording something like this? especially interested in the recording part...
-
Thanks, man. This song will actually be recorded with a full band in it's final form, and there will be solos aplenty!!
This song took me the better part of a month to finalize the arrangement. It was the false ending and then the clean, Maidenish bit, that stumped me, as I didn't know how I actually wanted to finish the dang thing!
To track this ... hmm. A total of 3-4 hours. Add 2.5 hrs for drum programming. 5 hrs to mix. That's ... about 12 hours, soup to nuts.
-
do you actually add the drums to the song after recording it?
sorry to turn this into a recording topic, but i really did like your song. great sound, great arrangement. really can't wait to hear it finalized!
-
Cheers.
After coming up with an initial idea, I will program the drums right away and start playing along with that loop again and again until I come up with something. In the case of this song, I had about 75% of the arrangement before I even sat down to do any drum programming. Many times I will find myself not even near a guitar, and will have to write out the riff on a scr@p of paper using notation, to be transcribed to guitar at a later time.
When the drums are complete, I make a 2 channel mix of them and burn it to CD. I import that mixdown into my DAW and then start working on the overdubs. I really don't use punch-ins, so each track is a complete take. Unless a part is giving me serious trouble, I will stop the track midway and start from the beginning again. I think this keeps the playing sounding fresh and unmechanical.
Feel free to ask any questions you please!
-
That was great! What guitar and amp did you use to record?
-
That was great! What guitar and amp did you use to record?
Cheers.
Guitar was Yoshi, a Cold Sweat-loaded Roland Ready Strat body/Warmoth neck.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v723/TwilightOdyssey/Yoshi.jpg)
Amp was a Roland VG-88 going direct.