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Totally amateur recordings thread

#1,222
2many said:
This song has NO official lead break in it...........

Everytime I come down to the town.
I leave the mountains and I'm flat on the level ground.
I see the city lights staring back at me.
I talk to the moon when it's in the sky...

That was the first verse. You gotta try to figure what's being said in the rest of the song as I'm not going to provide that right now. You can ask for clarification of anything you can't figure out.

OK, So I do al kinds of different stuff. It's just about taking an idea and making it happen. There's a lot I could tell you about Flat People, it's origins, how it goes, who's playing on it, ect. But It would be a lot of explaining. A little here;
The song I wrote is from about 1996. What I am giving out to ya here is the studio version from the first album released in 2001. Being early on, I don't agree with eveything inside that version. And I gotta tell ya, ...my vocals... egh...
But I couldn't get anyone else to do it. So it's an example of the "road map" how the song truly goes.

But WAIT! I want you to listen to this other one first. A much later "exercise" at playing my instruments with in the song's parameters. We've got BH on drums and DW on guitar. I'm doing the rest. Not perfect, but of note... It's already laid down from multitrack, so I can't do anything about fixing it up now! As you listen to this first example of flat people, try to understand the song format in your own mind. It will reveal itself more readily in the studio version.



And then there's the studio... (home made on 4 channel machines and bumping it down) We've got a nice 12 sting acoustic player in this one.
I can't say that this is commercial, it's amatuer, but it was an accomplishment I poured over back then... Flat People...



But WAIT! I just want to give you a random version from weekly jam sessions. Literally, this was just pulled out of a hat and tossed out to you here...
Ya, it was on our song list. No guarrantee this one has no flaws, but it further gives perspective on the song. During weekly sessions, we just played em, we did not pour over perfection. stereo room recording from 2-8-08.



And as a final note to all my fans out there... I just uncovered and brought the multitrack up and on last night. MAN!' it's deep! I hardly remember how to operate it cause it's been over a year since I ran a project on it. I got it up and running, but drew a blank as far as creativity. Yet that's coming soon. More brownroom productions.
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I like the sound and feel of the last version the most.
 
#1,225
FilterFunk said:
I like the sound and feel of the last version the most.
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Cool...! Thanks for that. The live band doing it as opposed to contrived overdub versions.
Live two track room recording...
 

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Ritter667 said:
So I came up with this beautiful, sort of ballad, tune, however I got a feeling I might have stolen it from something I have heard before, but can't quite put my finger on it.

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Do anyone recognize where I might have gotten it from?
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Sounds really nice! I don't recognize it, though (but yeah, I hate when that happens. (Spent hour recording an "original" tune before I realized I was ripping off The Warning's "When I'm Alone" hehe).
 
#1,235
Hey! This seems to be an appropriate thread to post my own amateur recording, cool idea :)
So for my new band I've set up a pedal board kind of like Royal Blood to split my signal with one part going to an (up) octaver and into a guitar amp and the other path going to the bass amp. Been having a lot of fun with this and a little tune came up while messing around. Wanted to simply record it and one thing led to another... All "strings" are solely done on bass, (crappy) drums were quickly punched in and even threw in a bit of (crappy) vocals...

Here goes... :)

 
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RedNuk said:
Hey! This seems to be an appropriate thread to post my own amateur recording, cool idea :)
So for my new band I've set up a pedal board kind of like Royal Blood to split my signal with one part going to an (up) octaver and into a guitar amp and the other path going to the bass amp. Been having a lot of fun with this and a little tune came up while messing around. Wanted to simply record it and one thing led to another... All "strings" are solely done on bass, (crappy) drums were quickly punched in and even threw in a bit of (crappy) vocals...

Here goes... :)

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#1,239
FINK PLOYD !!

..featuring Gavid Dilmour! hehe



just practicing lead over PF ripoff backing track I stole off YT. Plenty of crap and whoopsies as I'm finding my way, but some sweet moments too, I think. Anyway, coming along. Not flashy here, more trying to cop DG ethereal floaty feeling... ...first situation I've tried where Dorian mode actually works. Kewl. Kept missing that note though,.

By the way, which one's Fink? 🤪:p
 
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bholder said:
FINK PLOYD !!

..featuring Gavid Dilmour! hehe



just practicing lead over PF ripoff backing track I stole off YT. Plenty of crap and whoopsies as I'm finding my way, but some sweet moments too, I think. Anyway, coming along. Not flashy here, more trying to cop DG ethereal floaty feeling... ...first situation I've tried where Dorian mode actually works. Kewl. Kept missing that note though,.

By the way, which one's Fink? 🤪:p
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From the overwhelming reaction, it looks like I'll have to rename this "Fart in Church" sigh. :p
 

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