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Totally amateur recordings thread

#822
MasterBrianD said:


Recorded the main bassline and most of the other parts with a Spector Euro LX Doug Wimbish signature, 90% done with the Spector even most of the "guitary" sounding parts , I layed down a small bit of guitar to even out the highs (don't kill me):roflmao:

Drums are standard Logic Pro loops.

Original song.
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Groovy.
 
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#827
A little more finished version. It would definitely help if I knew what I was doing with my software. Bass tone is my schecter hellraiser extreme, single coil neck, dual bridge, both dimed and run through a compressor and a darkglass b3k. Cant remember what amp sim. Still need to figure out what to put in the little interlude. Maybe get a recording of my dog barking since it's about him
 
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Several weeks back, the drummer of the garage rock band I'm in recorded some rough multitracks of us playing in our practice space for the purpose of making songclips to be used in excerpt/montage form as the soundtrack for a brief promo/demo video for the band... He attempted some mixdowns but none of them really gelled into something we all were satisfied enough with, so I asked him to send me the raw multitracks so that I could experiment with them using an old version of SoundForge and a basic version of Audacity and try to come up with something usable. It was my first attempt ever at doing anything like this, and the raw tracks were pretty rough to say the least. My bass track was probably the most troublesome; I wish I could have rerecorded it, but all I had to use was the crappy take that we recorded several weeks ago. The bass is a Harmony H22. Anyway, this is the first result of my experimentation...Our cover of the Spencer Davis Group's version of "Keep On Running". We currently don't have a lead singer, so our guitarist handled the main vocal task...

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#829
lunarpollen said:
Several weeks back, the drummer of the garage rock band I'm in recorded some rough multitracks of us playing in our practice space for the purpose of making songclips to be used in excerpt/montage form as the soundtrack for a brief promo/demo video for the band... He attempted some mixdowns but none of them really gelled into something we all were satisfied enough with, so I asked him to send me the raw multitracks so that I could experiment with them using an old version of SoundForge and a basic version of Audacity and try to come up with something usable. It was my first attempt ever at doing anything like this, and the raw tracks were pretty rough to say the least. My bass track was probably the most troublesome; I wish I could have rerecorded it, but all I had to use was the crappy take that we recorded several weeks ago. The bass is a Harmony H22. Anyway, this is the first result of my experimentation...Our cover of the Spencer Davis Group's version of "Keep On Running". We currently don't have a lead singer, so our guitarist handled the main vocal task...

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Greetings from citrus heights. Um... your band is great. I enjoy your treatments and cover song choices.
 
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#830
2many said:
Greetings from citrus heights. Um... your band is great. I enjoy your treatments and cover song choices.
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Ha thanks! Hopefully we can find a lead vocalist soon and start playing some live shows... We also want to start composing original tunes in a similar vein... We are practicing this evening and are gonna try to add the Fleur de Lys version of the Who's "Circles" to our repertoire, so I need to try and learn the bass line today...
 
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lunarpollen said:
Several weeks back, the drummer of the garage rock band I'm in recorded some rough multitracks of us playing in our practice space for the purpose of making songclips to be used in excerpt/montage form as the soundtrack for a brief promo/demo video for the band... He attempted some mixdowns but none of them really gelled into something we all were satisfied enough with, so I asked him to send me the raw multitracks so that I could experiment with them using an old version of SoundForge and a basic version of Audacity and try to come up with something usable. It was my first attempt ever at doing anything like this, and the raw tracks were pretty rough to say the least. My bass track was probably the most troublesome; I wish I could have rerecorded it, but all I had to use was the crappy take that we recorded several weeks ago. The bass is a Harmony H22. Anyway, this is the first result of my experimentation...Our cover of the Spencer Davis Group's version of "Keep On Running". We currently don't have a lead singer, so our guitarist handled the main vocal task...

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Sounds pretty good to me! Even the bass.
 
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lunarpollen said:
Several weeks back, the drummer of the garage rock band I'm in recorded some rough multitracks of us playing in our practice space for the purpose of making songclips to be used in excerpt/montage form as the soundtrack for a brief promo/demo video for the band... He attempted some mixdowns but none of them really gelled into something we all were satisfied enough with, so I asked him to send me the raw multitracks so that I could experiment with them using an old version of SoundForge and a basic version of Audacity and try to come up with something usable. It was my first attempt ever at doing anything like this, and the raw tracks were pretty rough to say the least. My bass track was probably the most troublesome; I wish I could have rerecorded it, but all I had to use was the crappy take that we recorded several weeks ago. The bass is a Harmony H22. Anyway, this is the first result of my experimentation...Our cover of the Spencer Davis Group's version of "Keep On Running". We currently don't have a lead singer, so our guitarist handled the main vocal task...

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I like it! I think it sounds like a garage rock band should sound. If you polished it too much, you would take the "garage" out of it.
 
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MonetBass said:
Sounds pretty good to me! Even the bass.
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Thanks! I had to do a lot to get the bass track to sound good enough for my liking, little cut & paste patch of a flubbed note, a bunch of EQ adjustments, and a TON of compression. Ended up with more of a Small Faces bass sound than a Spencer Davis Group sound but I'm very OK with that! Same type of bass in both instances anyway! haha

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I like it! I think it sounds like a garage rock band should sound. If you polished it too much, you would take the "garage" out of it.
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Thanks, I was trying for a cross between something similar in punch to the original recording and a raw UK garage rock vibe... I kept the stereo panning to a minimum, and embraced the results of my inexperience with this type of mixdown, the extra compression that ensued, etc.
 
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#835
bass4u said:
I recorded this in my basement with a 16 track Fostex hard disc recorder. No DAW.
It's my band 'East is East', out of Annapolis, MD. We had a guest singer Meg Murray do a duet
with us. I engineered and I play bass in the band.

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