Everything on this song was played and produced by me.
The drum machine was, as usual for me, the hardest thing to make sound real, but after about a week of tweaking the mixer and controls I got it to sound pretty real.
The funnest part of this song was getting the chords tracked and then plugging in my Fender Stratocaster and playing some lead guitar. I got a chance to play some cool riffs.
All the guitar sounds were played through a program called Guitar Pro, even the bass guitar is really just a Strat played through the program.
Everything was recorded and mixed on another program called Cubase.
If anyone wants to have a go at writing lyrics to this song go for it.
Hope you like it.
I enjoyed this! Reminds me of the closing music to english dubbed Dragon Ball Z movies.
I'm a musician myself and I'm hearing this mix over my monitors. This is solid.
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Thanks for giving it a listen and for your take on it.
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lol I hear DBZ a little ~
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@luzcypher, I take it from what you wrote that you're using a hardware drum machine? The reason I ask is that I might be able to steer you in the direction of some software that is easier to program realistic drums with, since you say it takes you a long time. I use a MIDI drum set to play my parts, so it automatically sounds real, but even if I didn't have that and had to program it would be relatively easy with the sample sets that I use. As usual, this sounds great. I could learn some things from you about mixing and mastering. Your stuff always sounds so polished.
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I'm actually using samples and software, it just takes me a long time to make it feel real. I guess from years of standing in front of a real drummer most of my life, I got spoiled. I would love to hear your software tip.
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Well, I was just going to recommend a couple of specific sample sets. What are you using? I have a lot of sets, but the ones I always use are the hypersampled ones. They not only record each drum/cymbal at different velocities, but also several times at each velocity. So even if you play several notes in a row at the same velocity on the same drum, it will play a different sample each time. It's subtle, but of course that's what you're looking for. They also have right and left hand samples, so you can get the subtle differences between those. Even if you didn't randomize the velocities and everything was the same, it would still sound pretty good. So for the specifics, I have Abbey Road Vintage Drummer for Kontakt Player (Logic is my DAW), which is what I used on Dirty Games and Mountains (I used a brush kit for both). All the other kits I use are in Reason Drum Kits, which I can only use in Propellerheads Reason. It's a pain to do the drum part in Reason and import it into Logic, but the kits sound so GOOD! There are kits modeled after John Bonham, Phil Selway from Radiohead, Chad Smith from the Chili Peppers, Clyde Stubblefield (the "Funky Drummer" drummer from James Brown's band), and many others. Reason leaves something to be desired as a DAW, but Reason Drum Kits is amazing. But to keep everything within Cubase, I would recommend any of the Abbey Road kits to you. They have them for every decade since the 40's, I believe. I'm sure there are other great hypersampled kits, but those are the ones I can speak from experience on.
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may i know, how did you insert the soundcloud in your post?
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click on your profile, then click on embed on your song and copy the code into your post
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The sounds are pretty epic, you make it hard to be disappointed. I thoroughly enjoyed the entire fast paced rush,thank you very much for sharing. Easy upvote
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