Busted

Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 7:15 am

hueseph wrote:

Ok. Which box is that? I should've spoken for myself I suppose. Could've sworn it was c major. Someone stop me before I get hurt.

Don't you know, guitar players don't play MAJOR pentatonic scales/licks?

Laughing

Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 7:59 am

EricUndead wrote:

You say there are drums in there?

"turns up volume knob........"

You could probably place the MIC (1 MIC is it?) facing the kit and pick up enough of the guitar to work. Guitar players are usually to loud anyway. I would know.

Aye just the one mic, I usually pay a bit more attention. But as you may know, once you set something up if you blink someone has moved the amp or altered one of the 50 volume controls guitars and amps seem to have.

As far as the guitar being loud, in the room it's about as loud as the hi-hats... So when I heard this I was annoyed. I like the groove but when you crank it up the guitar pierces my ears. I've tried Eq'ing but it sounds nasty.

Meh, just have to record something else.

Btw, Sshack, totally missing your joke there. Smile

Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 8:13 am

No worries, I'm not very good at making them.
Embarassed

Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 1:58 pm

Where are the drums?

Where is the bass?

I take it this is with one mic and it was not a good mic placement.

Was the guitar player that loud or was the mic put right in front?

Sorry not much to critique here cause I can't hear anything

I like the bass playing, but I'm not so keen on the guitar playing

I like the phone

Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 9:58 pm

I too like the phone.

I kinda like this track even though it is busted, something about it makes me keep listening to it trying to hear different things in it. the different ways the bass and my drumming interact and the lead guitar should be listened to like a voice, think of it like vocal soloing. I don't find it hard to listen to because of how hidden everything is under the guitar. I just don't like how it hurts my ears when it's loud.

Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2008 10:50 pm

Greener wrote:

Codemonkey, classic as usual Razz

It's just one 57 in action.

Space lol! It was my GF busting me for being out late ;P And we are soloing, it's improv Razz

I now have a t-shirt with HACK DRUMMER on it Razz

Well well well.... Here it is, the truth...

I just looked it up becasue it's been bugging me, I recorded Busted on the 24/6/08... I bought the SM57 on the 1/7/08...

What this was recorded on is a Behringer UltraVoice XM8500...

Shame on me and shame on all of you. Was anyone actually listening? (this is just my ploy to dodge blame)

*changes his shirt to HACK ENGINEER*

Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2008 1:52 pm

OH! It was recorded on a Behringer?
That's why it hurts your ears when you turn it up Very Happy

Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2008 2:24 pm

Ouch.

Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2008 2:56 am

Don't quit your day job.

I've got better stereo recordings from a 1986 Sony Cassette Walkman and a radio shack microphone. I've got better recordings from a Tandy cassette tape recorder that was made in the 70's stuffed in the corner of a room with an oven mitt over the built in microphone.

Where are the drums? Usually with this type of amateur recording, the drums are way too loud. It sounds like you are in a different room down the hallway, second door on the left. How did you bury them like that? Is the guitar player really playing that loud?

You can find better placement and get a better sound. You like to blame the equipment, it's usually the operator (this applies to everything in life).
What is your room like? What are you recording with? How are you guys setup in the room? What are you feeding the bass player?

The best advice that I have received from this website, is to start using my ears. It's a sense that, until you go blind (like from all the wanking that you and your band do) you forget that you have ears, and no longer pay attention to them. Open your ears. Walk around the room when your mates are playing. Then get the guitar player to jump on the skins with the bass player. Do the same. Find a good spot.

On your other critique thread, you asked if this was acceptable as a demo. Yeah sure, a demonstration of how crappy it is. Or maybe a demonstration of delusion, seeing as you had to ask, and could not hear for yourself how piss poor it is.

I won't comment on the musicianship. Rocking out is fun to do, regardless of your skill level or age.

Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2008 7:00 am

I don't have a day job.

I do this shit all day long.

Living the dream.

Also, I note Vonrock, that you do not address the main point of my first post in this thread. Which is how I may remove some of the energy from the guitar parts.

If you had of said a parametric eq I wouldn't be calling you this now... You are useless, scratch that. Your use is to serve as a reminder of who not to be.

Now show me these recordings, because all I've seen of yours is some push bike vids which bored me to death even before their quality made me want go wash.

C'mon.

Edit:

This bit;

"The best advice that I have received from this website, is to start using my ears. It's a sense that, until you go blind (like from all the wanking that you and your band do) you forget that you have ears, and no longer pay attention to them. Open your ears. Walk around the room when your mates are playing. Then get the guitar player to jump on the skins with the bass player. Do the same. Find a good spot."

is valid.

The rest isn't.

Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2008 8:45 am

You sure he isn't trying to sell you a cassette player and a cheap mic Greener?

Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2008 9:45 am

Interesting you should say that.

I wouldn't mind a 2 inch 2 track, something built like a Russian shotputter.
But hey, I can't afford tape let alone a Studer.

I'm going to cut straight to the point.

I'm saving up for a lathe.

Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2008 1:17 pm

Greener wrote:

I don't have a day job.

I do this shit all day long.

Shit being the key word here.

Quote:

Living the dream.

Until your student loan runs out.

Quote:

Also, I note Vonrock, that you do not address the main point of my first post in this thread. Which is how I may remove some of the energy from the guitar parts.

If you had of said a parametric eq I wouldn't be calling you this now... You are useless, scratch that. Your use is to serve as a reminder of who not to be.

"Pot calling the kettle black" mean anything to you?

Quote:

Now show me these recordings, because all I've seen of yours is some push bike vids which bored me to death even before their quality made me want go wash.

C'mon.

Um, what do my personal vids have to do with your recordings and your delusions of grandeur? I never offered my personal biking vids (all with original soundtracks of a friend of mine and made on really crappy still cameras with 15 second max times) up for critique on a professional audio forum. Nor have I offered up any of my recordings, and then make excuses why they suck so much.

Here is a live recording made on a cassette tape. I posted that latest song just for you. There are also other examples of music that I've either recorded or been involved with if you look around that website.

Someday, when I'm a little less nomadic, I'll dig those old cassette tapes out of storage, and digitize them. I've been meaning to do that for some time anyways, before they deteriorate to nothing. The point that I was making, was that your recordings are nowhere near being even remotely acceptable as 'demo' quality, and that many people, including rookies can do a better job with the same, or lesser quality gear.

Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2008 2:01 pm

Well if you think it's shit then I KNOW I'm doing something right.

For the record, when you go on about having better stereo recordings than this one...

Busted is Mono...

Ears, use them.

Also, your link didn't yield any music.
I clicked, and all I got was the blog page no link to music, no player, no nothing.
I'm keen as too.

My student loans never run out.

Honestly, I didn't mind your bike vids, they made me jealous of your access to some of the most beautiful geography in the world. Why, when you are surrounded with such beauty do you then come inside sit down and post shit like your last post?

Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2008 3:06 pm

VonRocK wrote:

"Pot calling the kettle black" mean anything to you?

Touche' :)

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