Author Topic: Crawlers: Stompin' Heavy Bluesy Thang (Read 7639 times)

carlaz · « **on:** April 30, 2006, 09:06:25 PM »

This clip is the beginning sketch of a song I've been working up. It came out of some random jamming on ye olde Grand Funke Railroad classic "Sin's a Good Man's Brother", but it kind of got changed into something else along the way -- so I renamed it "Bad Man" 8) and the attached MP3 has what's there so far.

It's all recorded in GarageBand, and the guitar is my Crawler-loaded Gibson LP Std, everything on the bridge pickup, going straight into the iBook for a GarageBand amp sim. (The bass is my Rick 4001 also through a GarageBand amp sim, the drums are programmed in Doggiebox using ns_kit7 samples, and the dodgy piano twinkling is a stock GarageBand piano loop :).)

It ends rather abruptly, but I'm still working on where things are going!

(The below is slightly updated over the original, perhaps a slightly clearer mix ....)

_tom_ · « **Reply #1 on:** April 30, 2006, 09:11:27 PM »

Sounds pretty good although I'm sure it sounds better through a proper amp. The drum samples sound really good, are they the Garageband pre programmed beats or not?

carlaz · « **Reply #2 on:** April 30, 2006, 09:19:54 PM »

Quote from: _tom_

Sounds pretty good although I'm sure it sounds better through a proper amp.

Well, hell yeah! Alas, I ain't got a proper amp! :oops:

Quote from: _tom_

The drum samples sound really good, are they the Garageband pre programmed beats or not?

No, I programmed them separately in Doggiebox (which is a nice'n'simple little OS X shareware drum machine app) using the ns_kit7 samples. I exported an AIFF file of the complete drum part from DoggieBox and dragged that into a GarageBand track. (Actually, I started off by using some BetaMonkey drum loops to record the guitar/bass over, then went away and programmed up my own drum part.)

WITH FULL DISTORTION · « **Reply #3 on:** May 01, 2006, 07:08:42 PM »

$%&#ing HAILS Carlaz
Awesome DISTORTED tone
i really loved that
holy shite. ahahahahahah heavy and crunchy, and $%&#ign metal(under a blues Banner)
Hails!
Q;P
KILL KILL KILL! Q:p
:twisted:
:shock:

carlaz · « **Reply #4 on:** May 02, 2006, 05:25:47 PM »

Quote from: WITH FULL DISTORTION

$%&#ign metal(under a blues Banner)

You have nailed it exactly! It totally comes out of '70s-style hard-rock blues-based hard rock (which is, I guess, what the Crawlers were made for!), but I've just listened to too much metal in my life to let it stay there stylistically! :twisted:

WITH FULL DISTORTION · « **Reply #5 on:** May 02, 2006, 05:28:09 PM »

Hails Carlaz ahahahah can you RE do that crawlers of doom clip, with the NOW tuned guitar!?
no need to downtune it.
Just the same riffage
Q:p
I loved the crawlers too
are they Based upon any other bkp pickup?

carlaz · « **Reply #6 on:** May 02, 2006, 05:48:49 PM »

Yeah, I gotta redo that one! (Which reminds me: I just broke a string on my bass last night, so I've got to get that restrung and settled down before the next gig on Saturday!).

In a post from early last year, Tim compared the the Crawler to the Mule, saying the Crawler has "more power but similar vibe", being "fatter and a touch brighter with unpolished Alnico V magnets" (the Mules are IV or II). I think the Crawler is a good middle ground between the vintage PAF tone of the Mule and the slightly hotter "metal" Alnico pups like the Holydiver and the Nailbomb. I've only got the one guitar, but broad tastes :) and the Crawler is very versatile!

WITH FULL DISTORTION · « **Reply #7 on:** May 02, 2006, 05:51:32 PM »

hUM Excellent.Unfortunately, one more BKP to buy
ahahahahahaha no $$$ left
ahahahahaha

Ratrod · « **Reply #8 on:** May 03, 2006, 11:41:27 AM »

Great Clip. I liked it alot. You should continue with this song and record it. It's a great arrangement. It should be a great song when it's played by an actual band and some lyrics.

carlaz · « **Reply #9 on:** May 04, 2006, 10:59:05 AM »

Yeah, I certainly plan to finish the composition and try to get band I play in to learn it -- though I'm not sure we'd show it off to its best advantage! ;)