Diary Of A Madman

[ex-250]

Working on a cover of this. All I have missing at the moment is the clean electric and the leads. So far I'm very pleased with the results...


https://dl.dropbox.com/u/3444936/DiaryOfAMadman.mp3

(100% raw, no EQing or compression or whatever. Nor have I trimmed the fadeouts, so you'll have to deal with those)

And before you ask about the backing...yes, it is.

 

[Andrew Lamprecht]

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Very cool man!

 

[DankStar]

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ambitious! sounds good. dig the acoustic tone.

 

[ex-250]

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Acoustic is my Ovation Balladeer mic'd with a Samson C01U (USB condenser). For a plastic guitar it sounds decent enough.
Electric is my Gibson Explorer, Super D in the bridge, into the PODxt with a Maxon OD-9. 800 amp model.

 

[Gearjoneser]

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Good job. It's one of my favorite Ozzy songs, and definitely my favorite Ozzy album.
I even have Diary of a Madman seat covers in my truck. LOL

 

[Eblis]

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That came out great! Nice guitar playing for sure!

 

[guitarrob]

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Cool. One of my favorite songs...

The beginning of that song is actually heavily influence by the classical piece Simple Etude #6, if you listen to that piece you can hear where the chord progression and idea comes from.
I just watched a video the other day of Ozzy speaking about that song, in which he said he heard Randy was sitting practicing that piece and said we gotta use that...and it turned into Diary of a Madman the beginning anyway.

Very weird timing for a metal song rock song at the time. Sort of trailed off on that one

 

[Lazarus1140]

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That sounds great!

 

[misterwhizzy]

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Diary of a Madman really showcased Randy Rhoads' grasp of the how to put feelings into music. You performed it brilliantly, although of course the acoustic needs to shine through the backing held chords a bit. That's just a bit of mixing, of course. But the hard part is definitely done, and done very well.

Songs like this always impress me. You go through and try to learn it note for note, and it's certainly not easy. Then you have to think that the guy originally came up with this or adapted it from an exercise or whatever. It really is musical genius.

 

[guitarrob]

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The timing of this piece was also very unique for this style at that time.
Perfect example of taking ideas from one style and using them as inspiration in another.

 

[ex-250]

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Diary of a Madman really showcased Randy Rhoads' grasp of the how to put feelings into music. You performed it brilliantly, although of course the acoustic needs to shine through the backing held chords a bit. That's just a bit of mixing, of course. But the hard part is definitely done, and done very well.

The acoustic may actually stay the same volume in the end. I haven't recorded the clean electric parts yet, I think if I include those at about the same volume they'll blend to the ideal level. Changing the levels would be easy as hell, but I'm just saying I think it'll work out like that.

 

[youngthrasher9]

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This is REALLY good.

 

[Chris of Arabia]

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Excellent work

 

[Phantasmagoria]

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Sounds awesome! I love this song/album...you did a great job with it

 

[ex-250]

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I just noticed a really annoying timing error in the intro electric part. I cheated and just budged the part over a bit. It would've annoyed the hell out of me though. Link should be updated.

 

[everdrone]

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I dont know this song, but it sounds awesome! I dig the electric guitars, that maxon and pod sound dopeness

 

[JOLLY]

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The guitars sound better than the original.

I dont know this song

WTF?!?!

 

[ex-250]

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Don't worry, I'll **** up the solo plenty.

 

[alteredbeast]

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sounds tits, man.

 

[MetalManiac]

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The guitars sound better than the original.


WTF?!?!

Yeah, thats the first thing that crossed my mind exactly!

'Clearly you are one of the best perfromers here. To be honest, there arent any besides one or two guys Ive ever hear here that are any good, most of the guys who post here the most are absoloutely atrocious(even though they have their moments)but you certianly are the real thing Sir!