My Band's Debut Album "Autonomy" - Now Online

My Band's Debut Album "Autonomy" - Now Online

You can always buy the record for 5 bucks and listen to it in high quality through a better set of speakers :) lulz

And for the record it was not me who made the organic black album comment. That narrows it down to three people.
 
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joelap said:
And for the record it was not me who made the organic black album comment. That narrows it down to three people.
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Oh it was you... you love "teh metallikaz"! Don't try to hide it! :biglaugh:
 
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penny for my thoughts: u really shuld make a myspace...alot of people trust myspace as not a virus type site for whatever reason...fans are familiar with myspace and check it when making a decision to come to shows.
 
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joelap said:
You can always buy the record for 5 bucks and listen to it in high quality through a better set of speakers :) lulz
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Or just pickup one song! Get your favorite off bandcamp... its only a buck!!! How cheap can 'ya get? Put up or shut up!

Or don't do it at all. Whudda I care? Everyone in the artists camp was thrilled with the master, and my company got paid... makes no difference to me if anyone buys it or not.

Actually that's a bunch of BS.

These days I only get involved with projects and artists that resonate with me... I want every rekkid to do well. Doesn't do me any good to have the artist unhappy, or the release to fail entirely. What's the point in that?


And for the record it was not me who made the organic black album comment. That narrows it down to three people.
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Shuuuuuure...

:butkick:
 
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First off good job and good luck with it!

The mix sounds very natural, obviously you can spend forever mixing but this sounds about right for a young band, it sounds honest.

I like most of the songs and the instruments all sound really strong but unfortunately the vocalist doesn't do it for me. In thinking about it I might like it better if the vocals sat back in the mix a bit, just would be a little more comfortable sounding to me.

All in all that is minor stuff, go out and work it to death and make something happen!
 
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joelap said:
Main guitar sound was my Demeter tgp-3 into a gmajor2 for some reverb (ghast!! Digital??!!) and into my vht 2/50/2. Main cab was an avatar vintage 4x12 with g12h30 speakers. Most 2nd guitars were into an Orange AD0htc sometimes goosed with one of my custom booster pedals into a Madison Amps 2x12 (yes chris your old cabinet!!) with warehouse guitar speakers "veteren 30" v30 clones. Other amps used sporadically include a Valvetech Hayseed 30 with eminence red fang alnico speakers and my custom built 1Watt lantern battery powered russian subminiature tube amp with a 6 or 5 inch weber speaker, and we goosed that with the Seymour Duncan compressor pedal. All solos were the tgp-3 rig.

All main guitars for every song except rust are my Les Paul studio limited with ebony board, loaded with CC/A2pro hybrids. Most alternate guitars on the remaining tracks except Circus Massacre and chaser were my USA custom Jazzmaster into the orange rig with a SD custom shop jazzmaster pickup. Circus massacre 2nd guitar into the battery amp is a dead stock fender 60th anniversary hollow tele. Chaser has two tracks of the Les Paul/Demeter rig and one track of the Les Paul into my custom germanium booster into the orange/v30 rig. Bass is a blend of my Tube Instrument Preamp I designed and a Groove Tubes tube DI box."

Yeah, ditto, that's my rig too, kinda the trend this summer (well, not EXACTLY. My hollow body 60th ann. Tele has a few mods, not stock.)
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This is cool - a nice, thick, raw sound. Good, tight performances as well. I'll keep any criticism I might have of the mix to myself. "Chaser" is a really cool track.

joelap said:
One of our favorite bands is Clutch and we like to think of ourselves as a slightly more mainstream sounding clutch.
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This is so funny... it just goes to show that we, as musicians, may have our influences but at the end of the day have no idea how we might perceived by an objective audience.

I've been on a huge Clutch kick for the last two weeks - everything from Elephant Riders and Pure Rock Fury to Strange Cousins... and when I listen to you guys, I don't hear Clutch at all. Like ZERO. If anything, I'd draw comparisons to early-90s alternative bands like Local H or Filter (but that one might just be due to the guitar sound).

Either way you should be proud of this. I hope it brings you lots of good attention!
 
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sosomething said:
If anything, I'd draw comparisons to early-90s alternative bands like Local H or Filter (but that one might just be due to the guitar sound).
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I'll take Local H and Filter! Its true though about never knowing how others perceive you. In the past two days, we've been likened to
- Jane's Addiction
- Social Distortion
- Local H
- Filter
- and oddly enough, "a cross between Judas Priest and Disturbed"
- others I can't remember.

Wattage, thanks for the good words man. That's cool if the vox doesn't do it for you... think about the smashing pumpkins and GnR... who ever thought their vocalists would take their bands to where they did?
 
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Oh please don't take it as a knock, you did an excellent job. Now it's time to work it, make us all proud.
 
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Wattage said:
Oh please don't take it as a knock, you did an excellent job. Now it's time to work it, make us all proud.
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no no no no I didn't take it as a knock, I meant that seriously!

I'm not the least bit offended - really.
 
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everdrone said:
penny for my thoughts: u really shuld make a myspace...alot of people trust myspace as not a virus type site for whatever reason...fans are familiar with myspace and check it when making a decision to come to shows.
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Is this a joke?

Do people still use Myspace?

I mean, I think my band has one, but I've never been to it.

Besides, Bandcamp is a great site. Lots of indie bands use it.
 
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After a second listen, I can sort of understand where the vocal comments are coming from. It seems to me it's more of a stylistic choice than a quality problem though.

My band is all about the big Eagles/Queen vocal harmonies, but that's definitely not for everyone. I don't think that would really work for you guys. It works for us because we write our songs with that sort of vocal performance in mind.

I love REM's Murmur and Reckoning albums, and those have some of the weakest-sounding vocals ever recorded. Not every album has to sound like Dr Feelgood or Hysteria (in fact, no album should sound like Hysteria ever again ... please).
 
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HAY YOU GUYS!!!

For this weekend, we're dropping the price on the entire album to TWO FRIGGIN DOLLARS. Yes $2. And we're offering Autonomy and Circus Massacre FOR FREE.

Download away and listen through a dope soundsystem.

2 BUCKS!
 
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Bump - Last day for the $2 discount. Thanks to everyone who already purchased or downloaded one of our free songs. Tonight at midnight they go away and it goes back up to a $5 download.
 
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ratherdashing said:
I love REM's Murmur and Reckoning albums, and those have some of the weakest-sounding vocals ever recorded.
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Really? Maybe my judgement is clouded because I love R.E.M. to no end, but I always thought it was really fitting for the record (which was pretty raw).

I commend Joe and Moose for doing a more natural approach. They could have gone all out with triggered drum samples and heavily compressed everything, but they chose to keep it sounding like a real band. These days so much stuff is over-processed to the point that it loses all originality and they chose to do it differently! Strangely enough, the music does seem to remind me of the 90's more than the modern era stuff. Songs like "Rose Colored Glasses" could fit on a Lit record (if anybody remembers those guys...haha). "Circus Massacre" sounds like a more modern indie rock song though.
 
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^ Funny about the Lit reference, because I still play "A Place in the Sun" like its going out of style. Because lets be honest with ourselves... it already has.
 
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Only bands are on myspace. It defeats the purpose of myspace, especially when bandcamp does the same thing in a lot prettier package.

Either way, we'll be on iTunes and other "trusted" download sites that get a lot more traffic than myspace within weeks. We still have a myspace but its a ghost town there. We're using facebook for all promotions because thats what everyone else uses.
 
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yep! myspace is for bands, the inventor of it set it up for bands. like Im sayin, all bands that I go to shows have a myspace....I go to lots of local band and national act shows.
 
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