https://soundcloud.com/aaudiomystiks/lament-in-d-minor
I've given up trying to be Beethoven, now I'm trying to be Led Zeppelin...no I'm only joking.
 
Ben

More Frank in the style than Zep I would say with the choppy break format, but it is different.
 
What did you use to create it, what instruments?

Strange one this Ben..no surprise there . Enjoyable though, lots of good ideas thrown into a big old stew of a song. Some odd timing issues going on, intentional perhaps?. Love that riff at 1:33. Overall, this wouldn't have sounded out of place in about 1972, which is not a not a crit, it just reminds me of people like Kevin Ayers, Beefheart, Henry Cow, etc.

I like this better than some of your other new ones so it's a very nice song.

Wookiee
More Frank in the style than Zep I would say with the choppy break format, but it is different.
 
What did you use to create it, what instruments?

Thanks for listening. As for instruments...the initial rythem acoustic I sequenced in Notion 4. I was trying to figure out how to write my rythem guitar style...all the palm mutes and the like...it's probably why the time is a little strange but on saying the time I think works. Its all in 8/8 7/8 9/8 11/8 12/8 6/8 and for good measure 7/4. What I also did was push and pull the beat in Notion as well. The notion accoustic created the bedrock. This is something I've stuggled with in the past. I needed an anchor track.

From here I used the dim pro to layer the accoustic rythem part. It sounded horrible. But it added tone and texture. I then added my real electric rythem part. Now I had a good stereo rythem guitar sound from which to add everything else.

I played a 303 bass in next using the you rock guitar...I mostly left what I had played...my playing is much tighter than it use to be.

Next I added conga or bongo. Both. Again I played these in using a keyboard. Then I added session drummer 3 dry zep kit.

Here I realized that by pushing and pulling the intial rythem guitar track the song was not on a perfect beat...ha. Id actually managed to make the machine sound funky but I had figure out what note to follow for the 1. Which I did.

Next I added another session drummer kit which was the npulse one. This gave the drums the extra bounce I wanted.

Then I layered some percussive parts and then the lead guitar lines. Then I added some more percussive parts. Oh. I forget I added vocals after the intial rythem track. At the very end though I added a couple more layers here and there.

Finally I added some sound effects which I had recorded last year.

All in all I used almost 50 tracks...so yep there was a 70s production vibe going on. Amazingly enough after turning the core parking off I was able to run the machine at 128 latency...so none practically and this meant I could hear the guitar effects as I played. Also recorded the whole the at 32 bit fp. So I was pushing the system.

Here is a tip...I used a USB 3 SSD drive...samsung evo pro 150 with a vantec case. It has more throughput than the best external hard drive systems...amazing. Only cost 150 odd bucks. Although it's only 128 to go use it only as a work drive not store storage. But it could handle almost 50 tracks of 32 bit fp no problems.

Ben.

Fun. Definitely a big ol' early 70's throwback. It took me a while to catch on to the peculiar rhythm sections, but now its catchy.
 
I think you are doing the thing where you hard pan an delayed echo of your guitar off to the left side (my left, anyway) and I'm not sure it wouldn't be better a tad tighter - the echo comes in later and offbeat. This could be exactly the effect you are going for . . . hey, it's still fun.
 
cheers,
-Tom

What's with that white noise all over the track?
 
Disconcerting to say the least.

bapu
What's with that white noise all over the track?
 
Disconcerting to say the least.

Hey Bapu. I can assure you there is no white noise...sound effects. That's what they are.

Ben.

strange Ben.  that's what you should be called! :)
 
there are some timing problems which are distracting to me (James mentioned as well).  otherwise, I agree with most of the above - very '70's sounding, with a little prog rock thrown in the middle.  there is a lot of noise on the recordings and I think that's what bapu is hearing. 
 
it's definitely different, but that's expected from you, so good job!

Your guitar sounds so much like the one on Red Rose Speedway it is almost freaky.