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World's weirdest time signature
I've always loved this bizarre and cool song by Incubus, so I decided to try to cover it. It involved lots of head scratching on the time signature, then lots of knob twisting on a mini moog. It's got a real Floyd-ish thing going. I used synths and VSTs I have never even touched before! Super fun and educational. If anything sounds bad, or can be improved, let me know. Otherwise enjoy! https://soundcloud.com/cygnuss/quicksand
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stevec
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Re: World's weirdest time signature
2014/09/26 14:26:29
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I'm not familiar with the original, but I thought this was really well done! The mix sounds good here, and the performances are all real solid - vocals sound great. FWIW, as best I can tell the time sigs seem to be mostly 7/8+5/4 and 7/8+7/4. As a long time odd time-signature fan it works for me. 
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Re: World's weirdest time signature
2014/09/26 18:24:10
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I do like unusual time signatures, and this pleases me. Ditto on the fine performances, plus, I especially like the reverb on the lead vocal. It did not obscure the song or lyrics, but gave it depth. Kudos!
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Re: World's weirdest time signature
2014/09/27 18:04:43
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I too enjoyed this. Great vocals!
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Re: World's weirdest time signature
2014/09/27 19:44:20
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Great stuff. Everything worked together nicely there. I would be interested in knowing what you are using for vocal input.
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sven450
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Re: World's weirdest time signature
2014/09/27 22:40:39
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Thanks all. I actually couldn't figure out the time signature, so I just sort of memorized how to play the song, then did drums and bass like that.
Schafe: The main vocals were just a single track from my MXL V69 into an Art MPA Gold preamp . Both the mic and the preamp are kind of cheap-ish but good sounding bits of gear (the bass guitar is just a DI into the MPA Gold also). It think they each cost about $300. I had two different delays set up--the cakewalk tempo delay and the sonitus--then a big hall reverb.
That was about it. There is a 2nd harmony track that kicks in towards the middle, but that just had more of that hall verb.
Thanks for listening!
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robert_e_bone
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Re: World's weirdest time signature
2014/09/27 23:49:43
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Cool stuff - Jerry Goodman is a prog violinist that uses combinations of different meters throughout his songs, and I am a BIG fan of that sort of thing. Check out his On the Future of Aviation tunes on YouTube.
I think of it as being like taking Genesis further out, as they tend to get a groove going in 5 or 7, but then they stay with that for long periods of time.
Good job with this,
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Re: World's weirdest time signature
2014/09/28 09:37:59
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This sounds great, don't know the song but I like this. I does have an odd time sig/sigs, but they don't draw attention, it all flows smoothly.
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Re: World's weirdest time signature
2014/09/28 11:44:11
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Yup - Seal also does alternating measures where the meter changes from even to odd from measure to measure. I like the effect when it serves the song, but do not like it so much if it is just an exercise in math. :)
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