Silent Hill (Nailbomb and Cold Sweat clean)

[lyonk55]

My second cover of a song from a Silent Hill game, this time it's "Silent Hill" - the origional theme. It's done as an "acoustic" version, with drums removed and a bassline added.

This was recorded with my modest, but greatly improved recording gear from before: a Line 6 POD Studio GX, POD Farm and Reaper.

Guitar settings were the "It's Been a While Acoustic" preset and bass was the "Dock of the Bay" preset.

There are 4 tracks:
1) Backing guitar - Cort X-11, Cold Sweat neck, coil split
2) Main lead guitar - Cort X-11, Cold Sweat neck, humbucker
3)End lead guitar - Cort X-11, Nailbomb bridge, humbucker
4) Bass - Ibanez BTB775PB, Bartolini MK2 neck, active EQ flat

Hope you like it.

[gordiji]

i liked it lyon, it's great to hear some of the more powerful bkp's played clean.

[Transcend]

Hey i really liked that you got it down pretty accurate.

Do you have the tab for this?

[lyonk55]

I've not got any tabs. I partly learned it from a Guitar Pro tab I got from Ultimate Guitar:

http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/tabs/m/misc_computer_games/silent_hill_theme_guitar_pro.htm

From that I took the "banjo" and "lead" parts and merged them to make the main lead guitar part. The backing guitar came from the "acoustic" track for the picked section. The backing chords I figured from watching a video of an acoustic cover and just playing with it a little 'til it sounded right. The pretty much just follows the rhythm guitar apart from the start, which is essentially the lead played on the low B string.

If people want, I'll tab it out though.

And thanks for the recording gear suggestions btw. I've recorded a cover of Palahniuk's Laughter by Fightstar using the POD and Steven Slate Drums that sounds pretty good. Doesn't have any BKPs in it though, so don't know if I can/should post it here.

[Transcend]

You are most welcome.

There is only one criticism that i have just noticed and thats the lead tremolo picked part sticks out a bit too much but i only realised this after listening to the original as i havent heard it since i played the game all those years ago.

[lyonk55]

Yeah, the tremolo bits could sit a little lower. Some of them sound a little off to me...a bit inconsistent here and there with the volume. I haven't actually played the first game, just Homecoming and playing the second just now (eventually gonna go through 3, 4 and Origins too I think), but the music in the series is great.

[Transcend]

the first one is by far the best.

I didnt get along with homecoming at all it seemed very diluted silent hill

2 & the room are the only others that i have played

[lyonk55]

I enjoyed Homecoming...but yeah, 2 seems to be a much better game.