Hey guys I'm posting here my two latest preproduction mixes for my band's upcoming full-length. These are programmed drums, ampsims and programmed keyboards with DSK plugins. The complete album will have real drums, real amps and good hardware keys and piano, but I'm using the preproductions as a bit of practice and checking how things would be in the real thing, trying different guitar tones, bass tones, etc. So anyways, let me know what you think about these two completely different mixes, and comments on the songwriting itself is more than welcome!
First song: "Silent The Night That Shelters Me" (Music and Lyrics by me and myself). Guitars are simulanalog's JCM900 and some TSE X30 also in some extra rhythms. Don't remember the lead tone
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/954292/Ep%20Prepro/Silent%20the%20Night%20That%20Shelters%20Me.mp3
Second Song: "The Wind That Brings Life" (Music by my wife and me, lyrics by my wife). Guitars are all SoloC fullstack.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/954292/Ep%20Prepro/The%20wind%20that%20brings%20Life.mp3
This one is still missing keyboards, and the vocals although IMO had a better performance than the first song, were recorded in the most terrible way ever imagined by man, so most of the time I had to drown them in reverbs to hell and back in a vain effort to disguise the shitty-ness, plus some surgical eqing was necessary to filter out most of the noise coming from the vocal tracks. Despite of the terrible vocals, I like this mix more than the first one.
To credit who is due, these recordings are all done by my wife and me, she does all guitars and I do everything else (bass, vocals, drum programming, keyboard programming, mixing), we have a full band but writing so far is always our task and then we just hand these preproductions to the rest of the guys so they can work on learning them.
So, watadaya think?
First song: "Silent The Night That Shelters Me" (Music and Lyrics by me and myself). Guitars are simulanalog's JCM900 and some TSE X30 also in some extra rhythms. Don't remember the lead tone
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/954292/Ep%20Prepro/Silent%20the%20Night%20That%20Shelters%20Me.mp3
Second Song: "The Wind That Brings Life" (Music by my wife and me, lyrics by my wife). Guitars are all SoloC fullstack.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/954292/Ep%20Prepro/The%20wind%20that%20brings%20Life.mp3
This one is still missing keyboards, and the vocals although IMO had a better performance than the first song, were recorded in the most terrible way ever imagined by man, so most of the time I had to drown them in reverbs to hell and back in a vain effort to disguise the shitty-ness, plus some surgical eqing was necessary to filter out most of the noise coming from the vocal tracks. Despite of the terrible vocals, I like this mix more than the first one.
To credit who is due, these recordings are all done by my wife and me, she does all guitars and I do everything else (bass, vocals, drum programming, keyboard programming, mixing), we have a full band but writing so far is always our task and then we just hand these preproductions to the rest of the guys so they can work on learning them.
So, watadaya think?
