"World of Insanity" music video and song - done with SONAR

Well it took a little time to get used to the newer version of SONAR, so it seemed smart to start with a less complex song and learn the new interface with a simple, straightforward "chugga-chugga" & "widdly-widdly" uptemp hard rock song.

We knew we wanted a video to go along with it.

Enjoy the chaos and rough "live" sound
(smile)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYLqjGE9yiM

a few of you have asked about the royalty free media used in the video .
I took some of the photos, and used 2-3 different media companies ... but MOST of the videos and photos came from CanStock Photo

http://www.canstockphoto.com/

Thanks - it was the first stuff I recorded after recovering from torn tendons in my hand from an accident doing yard work ... not back 100% yet
3 months wearing plastic splints on my hand.

Lesson to all guitar players ... Be careful when doing things like heavy duty sports, yard work,  car repair, home improvements ...   it's too easy to mess up your hands if not careful.

Great song and video!  Well done.  Awesome playing.  I can't imagine when your hand is 100%. :) 

Lesson to all guitar players ... Be careful when doing things like heavy duty sports, yard work, car repair, home improvements ... it's too easy to mess up your hands if not careful.

I hear playing guitar can bugger up ur hands too

While the song technically.. I thought was good, I have enough stress surrounding me, that I honestly don't need anything else reminding how crap everything is.

Good job tho, best of luck with it all.

Well, back to the I like more bass in the mix, I suppose. Sounds fine though, although not my cup of tea in music.

(the only reason that it sounds fast, is because we have gotten older, and if you think your hands don't work now, well, keep practicin', because more will probably be needed when you get older, especially if you have not done it for a few years and get back into music.)

All of your observations above were accurate and correct
Good ears

This was a "transition" recording where I was moving some tracks originally recorded on Analog and making other switches over to new gear .......

DRUMS-
Yes they probably are too precise by today's tech standards
They were programmed on an old Yamaha RY-30 drum machine (yikes !!)
I made lots of variations in patterns and even inserted some small +/- tempo changes to try and make them sound more human (something like 85 different 1 measure patterns in that song)
But still, no way to get the more realistic sound and variation now available with BFD (and other drumming software).
I am now using BFD for future projects

VOCALS
Yes, we experienced some time shift problems we were wrestling with.
Original tracks were recorded on Analog Tape
Transferred to Sonar at 24/96
Guide Track for singer emailed to him across Country as a 16/44 WAV Export
He imported this WAV guide track into Pro Tools.
He did vocals in ProTools HD singing along to guide track
Emailed back 24/96 vocals WAV which we imported into Sonar project

For some reason we kept running into some time shifts between the two systems
We fixed them the best we could  but you have a good ear to hear where the singer is off a bit in a few spots as a result.

But have still not tracked down where that time stretching is happening between the files and projects being shared between SONAR and PRO-TOOLS

Any ideas ?
I would like to solve that problem for future use.

Thanks

Of course, perhaps you could just convince people that the song is that way, because it is a "World of Insanity", well, I digress.