A little Music Production project.

[madman3]

Hey guys. Basically I've recently got Samplitude, and I'm looking for some people to do parts in a little 3 minute metal song. I've already confirmed Sage as a partaker, so if there are any guitarists or bassists who are interested in recording a part contact me via PM (alternatively I may hound you via PM myself ). However, please do it within the next 25 days, otherwise my trial license will be gone, thus postponing this until I get the standard bought version.

BTW, if you're wondering what this software I'm using is, it's the same as the track mixer used by Andy Sneap on both of Exodus's Atrocity albums, which sounded very nice in terms of tone;



The end result will be posted as an MP4 file in this thread, so you can add it o your iPods or something.
 (I can play guitar, but my current equipment isn't great; so it won't be an absolute disaster if I get no guitar players, but it would be greatly preferred. I definitely need a decent bassist, though, else this will end up sounding like something out of ...And Justice For All).

[NFX]

I suppose I could have a stab at a guitar part. It wouldn't necessarily be particularly great quality, though, what sort of riff would I be doing?

[madman3]

I suppose I could have a stab at a guitar part. It wouldn't necessarily be particularly great quality, though, what sort of riff would I be doing?

A fairly fast thrash-style riff would be ideal; in terms of playing, something fairly technical (sort of like the above) should do nicely. Do you want any particular parts like rhythm or lead?

[NFX]

I suppose I could have a stab at a guitar part. It wouldn't necessarily be particularly great quality, though, what sort of riff would I be doing?

A fairly fast thrash-style riff would be ideal; in terms of playing, something fairly technical (sort of like the above) should do nicely. Do you want any particular parts like rhythm or lead?

I suppose I'd take rhythm. I'm not brilliant at lead parts, I still don't know techniques like sweep picking.

[madman3]

I suppose I could have a stab at a guitar part. It wouldn't necessarily be particularly great quality, though, what sort of riff would I be doing?

A fairly fast thrash-style riff would be ideal; in terms of playing, something fairly technical (sort of like the above) should do nicely. Do you want any particular parts like rhythm or lead?

I suppose I'd take rhythm. I'm not brilliant at lead parts, I still don't know techniques like sweep picking.

Okay. It would be preferred if you can do it in standard tuning (EADGBE) with your amp settings like dis;

Gain: 9
Treble: 7
Middle: 5
Bass: 10

...thus giving you a scooped thrash tone. I'll give you volume settings once Sage is done with drums.
If you need any other details, just PM. If you could record your part and then package it in a RAR file, then post here, that would be great.
However, you'll need to wait a bit because Sage doing his drum parts first, which you can then play to (if you just use the MP4 file and put it onto an iPod then you won't hear it in the track).

[NFX]

I suppose I could have a stab at a guitar part. It wouldn't necessarily be particularly great quality, though, what sort of riff would I be doing?

A fairly fast thrash-style riff would be ideal; in terms of playing, something fairly technical (sort of like the above) should do nicely. Do you want any particular parts like rhythm or lead?

I suppose I'd take rhythm. I'm not brilliant at lead parts, I still don't know techniques like sweep picking.

Okay. It would be preferred if you can do it in standard tuning (EADGBE) with your amp settings like dis;

Gain: 9
Treble: 7
Middle: 5
Bass: 10

...thus giving you a scooped thrash tone. I'll give you volume settings once Sage is done with drums.
If you need any other details, just PM. If you could record your part and then package it in a RAR file, then post here, that would be great.
However, you'll need to wait a bit because Sage doing his drum parts first, which you can then play to (if you just use the MP4 file and put it onto an iPod then you won't hear it in the track).

Ah, that sounds cool. I normally put Gain, Bass and Treble up to max with no Middle, which gives me a sound similar to QOTSA, or the opening riff of Rush's Driven. I'll try those settings when I get back home and see what they're like.

[G.K.]

If you need a trumpet part....



R0B0's your man! :P

I'd do too, hopefully. :P

[Lupus]

I suppose I could have a stab at a guitar part. It wouldn't necessarily be particularly great quality, though, what sort of riff would I be doing?

A fairly fast thrash-style riff would be ideal; in terms of playing, something fairly technical (sort of like the above) should do nicely. Do you want any particular parts like rhythm or lead?

I suppose I'd take rhythm. I'm not brilliant at lead parts, I still don't know techniques like sweep picking.

Okay. It would be preferred if you can do it in standard tuning (EADGBE) with your amp settings like dis;

Gain: 9
Treble: 7
Middle: 5
Bass: 10

...thus giving you a scooped thrash tone. I'll give you volume settings once Sage is done with drums.
If you need any other details, just PM. If you could record your part and then package it in a RAR file, then post here, that would be great.
However, you'll need to wait a bit because Sage doing his drum parts first, which you can then play to (if you just use the MP4 file and put it onto an iPod then you won't hear it in the track).

Ah, that sounds cool. I normally put Gain, Bass and Treble up to max with no Middle, which gives me a sound similar to QOTSA, or the opening riff of Rush's Driven. I'll try those settings when I get back home and see what they're like.

Also good for the distortion parts in the Metallica's The Day That Never Comes

[madman3]

If you need a trumpet part....



R0B0's your man! :P

I'd do too, hopefully. :P

Lawl
But no, I'd rather not have too many parts, although I may use more on a later project.

[G.K.]

Understandable.

[NFX]

Just to give you guys some idea of what recording quality I can get with the equipment I have (Basically my MP3 Player), I've recorded myself playing Toxicity. Just a couple of tracks pieced together. If it's not up to much, I think I have a USB microphone that I could use, I just have to make sure it hasn't been thrown out already.
 
Toxicity - Cover Version

[madman3]

Hey Guys.

Sage couldn't track because he busted his recording equipment, so I super quickly got a drum machine and experimented. I've managed to get a 3 minute thing done. It's quite a bit of double bass, and the "chorus" has a tricky little time signature. Feel free to add tremolo picking in these faster sections. Got some blastbeats too, so go full speed ahead in those sections.

Anyway, the slower bits are ideal for a thrash riff (try Exodus or Kreator) and the fast double bass blocks are good for brief technical picking.
Experiment with the track and as soon as you think you've got a decent track, post it in a Rar in this thread. Ideally, I want NFX to track first here.

Track download here. The hi-hats are rather high in the mix, but I can't seem to edit them down. Anyway, here's the track.

NOTE:
For those guitar tracking, I can acquire some decent recording equipment and do the parts myself if I REALLY have to, but that would spoil the fun of this project.

[G.K.]

I can now contribue some epic fail at guitar, since I have owned one for ~1 week. when I say fail, I mean fail - I can't really play yet.

[cephalopod]

See if this was a nice Alt-Rock song, I'd willingly contribute a guitar track. As it goes I'm not perfect at the technical metal stuff... I can play Sweating Bullets (without the solo), and some of MoP but that's the extent of my metal playing. I prefer playing Muse - Hysteria or Weezer - Hash Pipe :P

[madman3]

Didn't really want to place this anywhere else and since it is a little music project (very small one, unrelated), I might as well put it here.

Kinda creepy (stereotypical) acoustic track, which is going to part of a series of tracks I've called Visited By Madness. It's the only one I've finished so far, though.