new song out

[crusie]

Hey,

as some of you maybe have seen, I was over at "band management" posting about our singer not singing in pitch

Telling Sigurd to work on his pitch


well now the song is done.

as I stated in the other post - we ended up using a vocal recording done for an ealier taker. that plus many hours of fixing timing/pitch (Melodyne - I looooooove you) we got this:

http://www.myspace.com/HOSdk/music/s...e-mp3-79442917

please critique it - it's recorded at our home studio.

[Hellbastard]

I wouldn't worry about the singer's tunning problems as much as I would worry about your and the drummer's timing issues.

[ShredderMaximus]

Sorry, not meant in an insulting way, but there is something in his voice that I find reminiscent of weird al, track sounds great though!

[kb9wyz]

For the amount of reverb used on the track, I found the lack of it on the vocals annoying. And I think that the bass had too much chorus. (Personal preference all the way) Overall, I thought it was really good.

I found it reminded me of Widespread Panic. But with much better basslines.

[crusie]

Originally Posted by kb9wyz

I found it reminded me of Widespread Panic. But with much better basslines.

I sure hope there's a band called that


I agree on the timing issues.
this is recorded on a pro tools 8.04 LE system and we've had serious latency issues with it.
the computer is more than adequate to run the program - really don't know what's wrong. we did a test where we added a click track - and recorded it while the record track was muted, with a mic to speaker. we found out that the recorded track comes too soon. like the protools system overcompensates for latency.

of course there is the fact that I have only played bass for like 2½ years - so the human factor is there too. Recording while knowing that it's gonna be out of sync on playback is really frustrating. Not gonna touch this number with pro tools any time soon again - but if you have any ideas as to why there is this latency issue. we had a master fader on the recording ( yeah we don't know pro tools that much - still learning) and deactivating that actually helped a bit. but the recorded sound is still like 30 ms ahead.

thanks for all the input - I mostly agree, there is some reverb on the vocal, but he's not recording in a bathroom that's for sure. as for chorus on the bass I acutally think its more the defretter on the bossGT10b you hear.

[kb9wyz]

There is a band called Widespread Panic.

Check them out: http://www.youtube.com/user/WidespreadPanicMusic

I hope you enjoy.

[BassMeditation]

I for one really enjoyed it. I can tell you put a lot of thought into all of it. Good job man.

[djero44]

Latency free monitoring for the win! It shouldn't be too hard to work with.

I like the song quite a bit, and I can't tell there is anything done to the voice, it sounds good. There is a bit of dragging in the drumming, but at least it's real drums and not something else....

I like the sound of your bass too. Keep it up! =)

[crusie]

Well we've learned a lot of things about pro tools while recording this track. One of them being not putting effects and master fader on before we are done recording all the tracks. Did a click test test in that project tonight. Meaning mute record playback of click coming out of the monitors. It's way off. Like half a second or so. Weird thing is that recorded click is actually ahead. Pro tools is overcompensating for latency - any ideas on how to fix this?

[norwaybro]

Bortsett fra trommene syns jeg den låt veldig bra!! Nice!

[crusie]

jeg takker Norwaybro

[Munjibunga]

Originally Posted by norwaybro

Bortsett fra trommene syns jeg den låt jævlig bra!! Nice!

Strange word, jævlig ... what does it mean?

[norwaybro]

Originally Posted by Munjibunga

Strange word, jævlig ... what does it mean?

Hehe, funny you should pick the least 'friendly' word of the whole sentence - it's Norwegian for 'damn'. So, translated:

Except for the drums I thought it sounded damn good!! Nice!

[crusie]

Originally Posted by norwaybro

Hehe, funny you should pick the least 'friendly' word of the whole sentence - it's Norwegian for 'damn'. So, translated:

well english speakers tend to be curious when there's a new letter introduced. like æ or ø or å :P

[Munjibunga]

Originally Posted by norwaybro

Hehe, funny you should pick the least 'friendly' word of the whole sentence - it's Norwegian for 'damn'. So, translated:

Uh huh ... that's not what the Google translator says.

[norwaybro]

Originally Posted by Munjibunga

Uh huh ... that's not what the Google translator says.

Ok... ? Google translator is really not a great translator, as any bilingual will tell you. Great for getting the basic message, but nothing to rely upon for specifics. I've been speaking Norwegian for 20 years (minus two years of 'babydom') my friend, if I really wanted to cuss I would.

[Munjibunga]

Originally Posted by norwaybro

Ok... ? Google translator is really not a great translator, as any bilingual will tell you. Great for getting the basic message, but nothing to rely upon for specifics. I've been speaking Norwegian for 20 years (minus two years of 'babydom') my friend, if I really wanted to cuss I would.

I find it odd that Google would use the much stronger word for the translation. I'm not arguing though ... just reporting.

[norwaybro]

Originally Posted by Munjibunga

I find it odd that Google would use the much stronger word for the translation. I'm not arguing though ... just reporting.

Context matters a whole lot, as well as interpretation. This sentence wouldn't be 'bleeped out' if it was aired on TV, for example. Then again, us Europeans are a lot more lax when it comes to language.

Regardless, I really respect your contribution as a supporting member to the forum and wouldn't want you to be uncomfortable with the word being there, so I changed it (google translate it now ).

And the focus of the thread is Crusie's sick new song! Again, really liked it man!