New Cradle of Filth cover

I know..life just blows by....but anyway on to the show.... lmao....love the change up @ 1:50ish....that kit work is killer....2:40 gets sooo epic and the like "Smiths" vox i loved.... 4:50ish the lead is blazing.... wow...the ending is in yer grill...nice work... this is a huge production and tons of work it seems...great job getting all the pieces glued together. Nice job Good luck w/the house and new job! Congrats!

Hey, Mark,


Dynamite job on this excellent COF cover!  I'm on my second listen. The drum programming must have been crazy on this, I really like the great sounding piano and orchestration at around 1:50, and you captured Paul Allender's thick, meaty guitar tones nicely.


Great playing and production, as always, my friend! Have a good weekend!
Bob

Yep, sounds really good. Drums are nice and tight, Guits sound fat and guttural......... just the way I likes em!

Tom - thanks for listening mate - yeah took a bit of work to get everything to gel, but i hope it's worth it... Z - yes, these guitars are direct. TBH i can't be arsed setting the mike up to record it that way, once i get to the new house and have a bit more space i can leave it permanently set up so will be easier - but i think the DI guitar sounds fine on this one anyhow... Bob - cheers, i appreciate you always take the time to post on my stuff...i don't find the drums hard too bad to programme, using the step sequencer it'll take me about an hour or so to do a song...the difficult bit is compressing/eqing the kit to make it sound half decent, i still can't quite get the kick sound i want!

Mmmmm "Filth..." "I am a practising Catholic" I was? But I got so good at it? I didn't need to practice anymore! Grew up with it though, CCD? Kudos on your .wav Mark.

Marius - thank ye!

MT - drums were a pain, glad it was worth it!

BB - from the king of mixes that is good news...and yeah, sorry bout the vox, you should hear the original!

Rhyno - thanks, i like twist turny proggy music in many forms too! i listened to your latest but i think i didn't comment? will have to sort that out, sorry!

Robby - cryptic as ever! yeah when i get good at being a Catholic i'll become a monk!

Daryl - yeah a lot of this music is pretty melodic and tuneful if you can get past the vocals...which is me though i do add a valve emulator with the drive up a little... thanks!

Bobby - glad for once i gave someone something useful in terms of advice! many thanks for stepping by and listening and giving a glowing review!

cheers everyone!

James - yeah the piano on the front sounds a bit naff, just my piano DI'd, but sounds fine in the rest of the track...the original is some really thin digital piano with chorus...I should add seom chorus to the start.
As far as covering, i worked this out many years ago, but to double check i put the original on a track in Sonar, and worked out where the tempo changes occured etc...this version is slightly shorter than the original, the end is a little faster. Put down a scratch guitar track, then did the drums, then added the rest of the tracks...you and Larry must be due a release, no? 
thanks for listening mate.

MGH: This is about as good as you're gonna get unless you go into a super pro studio. By far one of the best productions I've ever heard from you all across the board. I might have pulled a little 8k out of the vox a little as they seemed a bit crisp in certain sections...other times they were fine. I loved the guitars, the orchestration, the drum programming...everything was absolutely killer.

My only pet peeve...which there is only so much you can do on stuff like this, is the drum velocities. Sometimes they just sound wide open at 127 and robotic...especially toms and the double kicks. I know that this is probably more an issue of limitations due to drum software as even some real kits nearly sound robotic when things are played this fast. But me being the anal person I am with this stuff...I probably would have really messed with those velocities in some of the parts more. That's the only real issue I hear on this piece. But everything else was totally spot on man...excellent job! Man...what a production!

-Danny

Damn awesome job on this cover, Mark.  Crazy guitar performance and wicked tones!  Drum programming is excellent.  Overall production is awesome.

Definitely one you would expect the Pugs to do.  Glad you did it first!  LOL.  I always like your stuff, buddy.  It is BIG!  I don't listen to a lot of it but it sounds as well mixed as any I do hear.  I too always wondered if that hurt your voice.  It fits with the music.  Nice job.

Everything sounds great! Who knows what the lyrics are but I probably would not like them and I'm a recovering catholic. I'm not into this style either but this is one smokin track.

Very well done!