Newest Sonar Project: Brutal F'ing Metal

Dave, can't say that "brutal metal is my thing", exactly... but I can say that I absolutely do not like the MySpace encoding!

Any chance we can get a little higher quality MP3 or something? Or snippets?

bleurghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! (that's not the vocals, it's for the myspace player!) listening on my monitors the guitars sounded a bit too forward of the drums, but on phones it's fine - i guess it's the player. nice guitar tone. not exactly the most original thing ever, but you've given them a great sound Dave!

Nice! Glad you liked it.

I'm not into heavy metal like this....however, this is a good job on recording. It sounded intense, which I guess it the desired result. I could not understand the words.... but I'm thinking that was how it's supposed to be.

I let it play into a few other tunes on your site... you have some good stuff there..I liked the reggae tune...the cold was rocking too, ...I have to say I liked Life Symphony best.

Well, I cannot say I like the song title or the name of the band. Screaming the lyrics (or in this case squealing like a pig) always strikes me as a poor excuse for actual singing. I found this song too much like skin head music which I have to reject in the most vehement way possible. It was reasonably well produced though.

However, the next one on the list (Practice Makes Alcoholic) was fracking awesome. Loved it.

Then you move into White Reggae? You are diverse, eh? . I also quite enjoyed "Girl With A Boyfriend" and "Something to Believe". Then you move into a contemporary English sound (like the band James). Also enjoyable. In fact the only song that I did not like was the one you posted lol.

I would love to talk to you more about the reggae. I think if I had to choose a favorite genre of music (IE stuck on a desert isle with only one genre) it would be reggae (English white or Jamaican/Carib). I want to make some myself, but have yet to figure out the components of it to my satisfaction (particularly the sound and style of the reggae rhythm guitar - my girlfriend, who is carib herself, has no idea about it either (odd that) and did not even realize that reggae always has a particular rhythm (either a git or keys) until I pointed it out)

Fascinating selection of music. You have some serious talent.

Cheers
Shad

bassline done mostly on the downbeat... that's a valuable bit of information. As is the copycatted dub style (I will need to figure out how to effect that). Thank you for the tips.

I hope I did not imply that it was skin head music. I did not mean to, and do not think it is. I was only referring to the unfortunate association that I have with the genre in general, as it seems to me to be very "violent" music (musically not lyrically ).

Cheers
Shad

interesting... How much did they pay you for this? Did they bring their own drums? Or play yours? How about the guitars? Sure they brought their own, but did you mic the amps? Or did they play direct?

ORIGINAL: dontletmedrown

I currently charge $400 per song when I record at home. They used their own drums. We were trying to move very fast so I honestly don't know what kind of drums he was using. I used samples on kick and snare and also ran them through a distressor. There is only one guitarist. I had him record two passes (one left, one right) through my Marshall Mode Four->UA-M610->Firepod. I also used a room mic (Neuman TLM103->Firepod) to capture the low chuggs in the bridge (the part where he says, "Why... Why... Why"). Let me know if you have any other questions.

Cool man :-) Thanks! Do you specialize in this type of music? Do you record other styles? Obviously you would if people coughed up the $$ :-) I'm just wondering if this is your main market, or if you also do pop, country, etc? Pretty cool that you whipped this out in 2 days? I'm impressed. I can't finish a friggen project in less than a month!