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Hobbes
11-10-2008, 07:37 PM
New song I did, it's got a little different mixing than my other songs, but oh well.

Hear it and such.

http://www.keepmusicalive.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=2379&d=1226205730

I'm allowed to link to KMA, right? ;)

-Jordan
Raayl
11-10-2008, 08:25 PM
dude that was ****ing awesome.
huxtaposition
11-10-2008, 10:40 PM
Worthy of chills, man. The chorus is extremely catchy. I really enjoyed it.
radtaste
11-11-2008, 06:22 AM
Pretty cool.
Mikedrummer
11-11-2008, 12:54 PM
pretty sweet *** man, very listenable
Hobbes
11-11-2008, 05:04 PM
Schweet. Glad you guys like it... are there any criticisms? Do you think the recording/mixing is decent? I can probably do better, but decided not to hover over this one too much... plus I've only got about $1100 into my home studio so far. Freakin' expensive crap.
Raayl
11-11-2008, 07:50 PM
yeah ive got a criticism

why aren't you letting me guest vocals on some of your tracks
Hobbes
11-12-2008, 12:14 PM
Because you haven't asked, you shifty fukker.
Raayl
11-12-2008, 01:51 PM
Because you haven't asked, you shifty fukker.

well im asking

lets do this ****
Hobbes
11-12-2008, 02:49 PM
If you're actually serious, then email me. dragvw117@yahoo.com

We can collaborate or maybe just rake leaves together.
Raayl
11-12-2008, 05:36 PM
If you're actually serious, then email me. dragvw117@yahoo.com

We can collaborate or maybe just rake leaves together.

do you have MSN/AIM?
Hobbes
11-12-2008, 09:34 PM
Both.

MSN - rockettrat@hotmail.com

AIM - rockettrat

Old *** screen names.. I'm not online all the time, but sometimes at night.
Raayl
11-12-2008, 09:44 PM
added. when you get online we can chatz bout' it
Magnus55
11-13-2008, 05:36 PM
That was really catchy. I liked it a lot.
rohbit
11-13-2008, 10:52 PM
Did you sing that? It was pretty ****ing wicked! What kinda setup do you have?
Hobbes
11-14-2008, 10:54 AM
Did you sing that? It was pretty ****ing wicked! What kinda setup do you have?

Yeah, I did all the stuff in it... vocals, actual drums, guitars, synths all that crap.

I've got an 8-channel Alesis firewire mixer for input, it works pretty well. I've got a $200 set of 'digital reference' drum mics, but i've replaced the kick and snare. I would recommend the 'digital reference' 7-piece kit for someone who wants to screw around with drums without paying much. For such a cheap set (includes mounts) they work pretty well and the overheads are nice and can double as vocal mics... The kick mic is crap on it, but you can use Drumagog or some other trigger plugin to get some great results. The kick I use now is an AKG something-or-other and the Snare is an Audix I-5 I think. I never pay attention to my model numbers lately.

Vocal mic is a Shure, don't remember which... but it was a couple hundred bucks. For the guitars I've got a Marshall AVT150 stack, but for this song I used a couple setups on my RP350 modeller. Bass was run through the RP350 as well for a little distortion.

Just about all the synth stuff was MIDI into REASON and a couple bits into Fruity Loops. There's a mild drum'n'bass thing over the choruses and mid-part, but the rest of the drums I recorded with my kit, a Yamaha Stage Custom 5-piece. I recently switched to REMO heads and like them a lot better than Evans.

I ran everything into SONAR 7 (PC, windows XP) for mixing and such... A couple odds and ends plugins like reverbs and Sonic Maximizer (for the master). This isn't actually my best recording, but it's probably the second best I've got so far. The first I might post here soon...

Either way. I don't have a ton of money into my setup, but it works. Just about any setup will work pretty good if you practice enough mixing to learn all the tricks and get an ear for it. Crappy equipment just takes more tweaking.

-Jordan