Demo sample of new music

[JohnJohn]

Working on a third disc, this one will be a full 10-12 song disc, (about 3 1/2 minutes each).

Here's the demo of one of the songs 'Get Bent', few bits that are gonna get redone for final recording and this is minus solos.

 

[CTN]

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solid man. no real timing issues that i could make out, and the tones are great!

good jeaorb!

 

[Funkfingers]

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I hear timing issues all the way through. I suspect this is because the guitar and bass parts want to push and pull against time whereas the guide drum pattern is in absolutely strict tempo.

 

[JohnJohn]

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There are issues through out, and there's parts that are gonna get chopped or re written.
This is just a demo, the actual tune will be re recorded over the drum track soon.
The second guitar comes in and out quite a bit right now as I was mucking about with ideas.

This was my first time using a techno beat, overall I like the groove it has but the sounds threw me a bit as I wrote and layered the parts.
I had a basic rock idea with the track and have to change the approach a bit with the final recording to synch it properly.

 

[CTN]

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dang, i guess i need my ears checked. sounded fine to me

 

[JohnJohn]

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Depends on what part you listen too.

The second layered guitar comes in and out.
I was playing with different ideas and moving rhythms with it and it can throw stuff.
The rhythm guitar and and bass lock with the drums for the most part but there are a few weak sections where I hit record and just blasted through an idea instead of developing it.

The bass around 1:00 - 1:10 is an example.

~edit~ BTW - are you gonna develop the idea you had in 'Frosted Soil' ?

 

[Funkfingers]

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The drum track does not groove. It is unforgivingly mechanical throughout. This, in my opinion, is hampering what the other instruments are supposed to be contributing.

I do not know whether the drum pattern is individual samples, snapped to a tempo grid or whether it is a commercial loop. Some commercial loops use a feature called Groove Control. This makes it possible to manipulate the timing of the individual percussive samples to achieve syncopation. In some software instruments, there is a Shuffle parameter, adjustable to introduce swing, groove, whatever adjective you prefer.

 

[JohnJohn]

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I like it, probably the mechanical basis of it that gives it the groove to my ears.
Previously I wrote all my own drum stuff and this time around I have the okay to use and release the drum parts from someone else's software.
I'm puttin the drum parts together by stringing a series of patches together.
Not as flexible, (and a bit more sterile) than writing it all myself or using a real drummer.
But it's added a fun element to recording this time.

 

[Bass_Medic_05]

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Sounds awesome, great job, the bass was very busy lol!

 

[JohnJohn]

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Thanks mate, glad to see you around again.
This disc is gonna be very bass heavy.
Almost everything was written on bass with the guitar fit in around it.