Remember the more catchy/ambient stuff I used to write?

Virtual Kevorkian

Virtual Kevorkian

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I've had a huge dryspell (IMO) in my writing... I either have been writing more 'barbaric' music, or not writing it at all.

Tonight, I went back and listened to a bunch of the music that used to trigger inspiration to write the textured things I used to. Had an idea hit me at about 9:30pm, and it turned into this:

POD:
http://www.upload.celtiaproductions.co.uk/uploads/Devish.mp3
JSX:
http://www.upload.celtiaproductions.co.uk/uploads/DevishJSX.mp3

It needs some polishing on the transitions, and the guitars are just PODxt scratch tracks, but I can't wait to see where this goes.


*EDIT* Latest mix/incarnation:

http://jefftd.googlepages.com/Part1-June24.mp3
 
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In a word: Uplifting



Great job, man. Can't wait to hear what this idea becomes.
 
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sounds cool! beginning is jester's race/whoracle-ish. middle/ending is predator's portrait-ish. killer.

[left-field observations deleted]
 
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Yeah, it's a common riff, but if you nitpicked every single little riff, you'd find that everything is just another thing recycled. It's a totally different song in the end, and the vocal pattern over it is going to be ridiculously different from anything on Predators Portrait.

That Buried In Blood sounds nothing like it... I dunno where you're comming from on that?
 
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Virtual Kevorkian said:
Yeah, it's a common riff, but if you nitpicked every single little riff, you'd find that everything is just another thing recycled. It's a totally different song in the end, and the vocal pattern over it is going to be ridiculously different from anything on Predators Portrait.

That Buried In Blood sounds nothing like it... I dunno where you're comming from on that?
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it's more a game for me - not trying to nitpick (although I guess the game itself is annoying for everyone but me). I heard the riff and it rang a bell and I had to search my brain and the net to see where I'd heard it.

the other riff by hyades - I was just saying there's a ton of bands using that one these days. I downloaded a bunch of songs the other day and like 4 bands had variations of it, some fast, some slow, some other licks thrown in there, that's all. it's like the modern metal world's version of the "wild thing" riff that every 90s power pop nirvana-like band used.

your stuff is light years ahead of what I can do these days - in tightness, drum programming, and sound quality. mad props due, man!
 
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I LIKE this. I have a few "upbeat" metal riffs laying around that I should try making into a song.

BTW - that POD tone is great. What are your settings for that? I always tend to stick to a tube drive -> plexi patches for that kind of stuff myself.
 
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Another cool clip, man.

I wouldn't mind knowing what POD tone that is, either, as well as other effects you've got rolling.

DKFH as per usual for the drums?
 
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Thanks guys.

DFHS for drums, swapped snares this time, though.

POD is just screamer stomp model infront of the treadplate dual with matching cabinet, sm57 on axis, 15% room tone.

Clean was a mix of the DI'd 81 neck (mixed low), and a chorus'd blackface model.
 
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I love it!Great riffage meverything sits perfect and it sounds really tight and tidy!Great job!
 
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I like that a lot.

I could do something with that.

But I won't.
 
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I don't normally write in that style so it just sounds like it would be a lot of fun to play over.

Cool stuff.
 
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good stuff, but short. got any full length clips?
 
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What effects did you use on the opening?

Man i want a jsx some day, it seems to be the most versatile amp that still sounds good everytime.
 
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Full length clips would be in my sig.

Intro was just a chorus'd POD tone.

The JSX is cool... but to be perfectly honest, my honeymoon period with it is coming to an end. I'm starting to miss the 5150 :(.
 
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Virtual Kevorkian said:
The JSX is cool... but to be perfectly honest, my honeymoon period with it is coming to an end. I'm starting to miss the 5150 :(.
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Say it ain't so!

Dude, when are you going to realize that the 5150 is just your amp and that nothing else is going to make you as happy? Why do you keep swapping it for something else?
 
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Say it ain't so!

Dude, when are you going to realize that the 5150 is just your amp and that nothing else is going to make you as happy? Why do you keep swapping it for something else?
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I seriously think this is going to be the last time, if I actually go through with it... and I'm going to get an actual 5150 - not some modded or extremely beat up thing, but an actual 5150. Hell, it'll probably be a 6505 just for the sake of it being more likely to be in good/great condition, and I think they look a little cooler.

I first swapped for the Recto because I liked how powerful and thick the gain was, and it had an amazing clean channel. I ended up not liking how stuff the Recto was, and how it always had a buzzy quality to the top end.

I picked the JSX up for similar reasons - I thought I needed a clean channel, and I liked how there were more gain channels that were (seemingly) more versatile. What I'm actually finding is that I never, ever use the clean channel, and that the gain channels really aren't that aggressive, so me boosting them into that territory is making the tone suffer in the end.

I told myself when I got the 5150 the second time that I'd never make the mistake of selling it again, unless Peavey came out with something else that was like an upgraded version. I tried the JSX, and dug it... justified it by thinking of the clean channel and other channels, and saying that it was close enough to the 5150 that I wouldn't miss it... I was dead wrong.

I get 100% of my clean tones from DI'ing or from the PODxt, and even live, a simple crappy clean channel would work to get the idea across.

I think that I was simply destined to be with that amp. I'll own others down the road, I'm sure... but I think I really need to bite the bullet and hold onto one, come hell or highwater. :(
 
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