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  1. BrandonS

    ZOLTAN Game-Inspired Death Metal Album

    Guys, I know I haven't been around UM in years, I used to be a reviewer here and mostly active on the long-defunct Opeth forums. But I'm coming to you with a plea to help out with this metal album I did vocals for. There are less than 2 days left on this kickstarter thing, based out of Japan...
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    Katatonia references in Skyrim

    Hey, playing Skyrim right now. Came across a quest with a journal that references Katatonia, as far as I'm concerned. So I typed it up with much pain on an 8" netbook and have it here to share. I'll try to fix the typos. It's called "Nystrom's Journal" in the Twilight Sepulchur
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    Add Reality cover

    Hey, guys! A while back you may have remembered me making a thread about a Swano cover I wanted to recruit for. Fast-forward to now, and I'm about to release my acoustic album "Always Remember" on Monday, May 9th. We put together a cover of Add Reality that is a FREE bonus track, exclusive to...
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    Serious Sound Card

    Hi. I use an Alesis io|26 firewire interface and the recordings are perfect, and awesome. The problem I have is with the soundcard I suppose, it is not able to process very much. This is why a lot of my current songs have less than 10 tracks in them. Open up a couple VSTs, try to use an amp sim...
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    Cubase 5 Dangit

    I got Cubase 5 and have been recording music with it, but all of my mixes aren't nearly as good as when I was using Audition 3. There's a lot of stuff I've relearned in it but the two major obstacles right now are: 1. Cross-fading. Doing rhythms has "drop outs" where it starts playing the...
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    Katatonia inspired song

    Hey, ya'll. Once a week I've been doing a one hour composition with a bunch of friends on the interweb. The theme for this week's composition was "Nightlife." So of course the first thing that popped into my head was katatonia (not clubbing.. like most people?) So here are the rules: You...
  7. BrandonS

    Opeth in Saint's Row 2

    I just bought "Ghosts of Perdition" in Saints Row 2 for $20. That is pretty awesome. It's fake money, but I wonder how much of a cut of real money Opeth gets from this game. Not that it really matters. But now I can make a custom playlist of just the Opeth song hahah...
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    Opeth in Rock Band

    Request Opeth http://www.rockband.com/request I would recommend a song that a lot of people would request, like Demon of the Fall You can do this every few minutes apparently Behemoth and Cannibal Corpse coming to Rock Band
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    GH: Metallica

    So I finally ordered this because I found that if you buy it from RedOctane right now, you get the secondary kick pedal and the splitter with the game for $59.99. Amazon and everywhere else is selling the game for that much without these essentials, so you basically save like $20 which is the...
  10. BrandonS

    Liquid Metal

    ...played "White Rabbit" a cover song by Sanctuary. I thought this guy sounds a little familiar so I wikipedia'd it like anyone does when they're looking for solid, 100% factual information. So yeah, guess what I found out about Sanctuary? Dane sounded so much different back then and dare I say...
  11. BrandonS

    Newport Music Hall

    Those seeing Opeth in Columbus on Saturday make your mark ;) My cousin and I will be in seats like fifty bajillion... probably on the 83rd balcony. I waited too long to buy the tickets.
  12. BrandonS

    Question about Soundcards

    Hi My computer is a 2.8GHz processor, I think pentium 4... It has over 2gigs of ram, and is firewire enabled... yatta yatta.. But when I try to export audio from larger audio VSTs like drumkit from hell, or art vista virtual grand piano, the audio cuts out a lot in the bounced wav files...
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    Stand-alone guitar sim

    Hey, my friend in Croatia needs a standalone guitar simulator to distort his tone. He's working with traditional black metal and his computer stats aren't too good. He can't run an active monitored VST and needs something for distortion while he's not recording. He probably uses a microphone...
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    Help with Uncreation cover

    Hey there fellas Well my next musical project is a cover double-CD, except that I'm releasing it for free digitally.... There's going to be a ton of covers from bands that influenced me and songs from my past, pretty much. And one of the songs I have chosen is "Uncreation" by Dan Swano. I...
  15. BrandonS

    Help with EQ

    Hey there... If I were to post dry wavs, 24-bit of my guitar and bass tone, and perhaps other tones, would you guys help me out with EQing them? I did a whole run and EQed everything but it doesn't get to the volume or wholeness that I was looking for. I want everything to, more or less, sit...
  16. BrandonS

    Question about Volume / Limiting

    Hi...... Well I have a general question about hard limiting process after you've bounced down your track... I usually mix the track and put in a mastering chain, then I bounce it down for the final touch -- the hard limiting.. Without it, the track is over 0db and clips like mad, of course...
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    I really need help

    Hi there... well I've been recording the second Rainwound album, and although the tones are SO much better than the first album, and the music has really matured, I think the older songs actually have a better consistency, they don't rumble the speakers or anything. But their tones aren't nearly...
  18. BrandonS

    In Staid Grace new CD

    My band's new CD, progressive black metal....... let me know what you think. You can pirate the whole thing or check a few songs on the MySpace. ;) http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4627768/In_Staid_Grace_-_2009_-_Revelations http://www.myspace.com/instaidgrace
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    In Staid Grace - 2009 - Revelations

    Pirate it. http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4627768/In_Staid_Grace_-_2009_-_Revelations Let me know what you think. It's my band's second CD. -B edit; yeah, the forum here is screwing up the link... http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/4627768/In_Staid_Grace_-_2009_-_Revelations
  20. BrandonS

    Pirate my CD?

    Hi. I know you guys in the band are pretty against the pirating of your music and all.... I, on the other hand, am not against the pirating of my music because I know that I am not going to make a cent with it at this point. Large metal bands are barely making cents. So I'd like to extend this...