Dill's one-man band - boldly going nowhere, one riff at a time...

[dill_the_devil]

So, yeah, I do recordings of my riffs with my Line6 Guitarport, Leafdrums 2.2 and Adobe Audition. Mainly, I'm doing it to practice home recording/mixing, because I'm hoping to go study at the School of Sound Recording in Manchester in a couple of years (http://www.s-s-r.com) and I'd like to be a little bit ahead of the game when I get there. Also, I just like playing my own stuff, and in the absence of anyone to jam with, this is the only way I can get my ideas down for further development.

Anyway, the point of all this rambling is this - here's my latest effort - please listen, comment, insult, criticise, whatever.

http://www.geocities.com/philwhitehouse/demo8b.mp3

 

[lurch70]

damn ... so this is what you can do nowadays with home equipment ... that sounded very "pro" ... good stuff

 

[MFJ]

Goddamn... I wish I had a sound like that. What drum sequencer/machine are you using?

edit: I did a sweet job of not even reading your post. Shit man, I had no idea that leafdrums could produce a sound like this...

 

[NAD]

Good riff mang, I dig it.

damn ... so this is what you can do nowadays with home equipment ... that sounded very "pro" ... good stuff

There is near zero reason to go to a studio anymore, seriously. My band does all our shit in my guitarist's bedroom for fook's sake.

 

[MFJ]

There is near zero reason to go to a studio anymore, seriously. My band does all our shit in my guitarist's bedroom for fook's sake.

You're totally right.. all of the non-digital stuff on the Noltem demo was recorded with a $45 instrument microphone, and even that sounds way better than a ton of stuff I've heard!

 

[Mormagil]

I made a pickup for my balalaika a few days ago and it rules. Well, it rules for something that cost less than $2, anyway.

 

[dill_the_devil]

Goddamn... I wish I had a sound like that. What drum sequencer/machine are you using?

edit: I did a sweet job of not even reading your post. Shit man, I had no idea that leafdrums could produce a sound like this...

Actually, the sounds straight out of Leafdrums was pretty shit... I replaced the kick sample with one I ripped from Murderdolls' 'Dead In Hollywood' to begin with. Then saved each part of the kit as a seperate wav, converted each wav to mono from stereo, stuck 'em each in a seperate track in Adobe Audition, and panned them in the stereo field how I wanted (kicks and snare center, toms spaced from middle-left to middle-right, cymbals spread around the outer edges of the mix). Then I faffed around with EQ and reverb on each part of the kit for a while, then submixed the whole drumkit through another parametric equalizer and some stereo compression, and that gave me a sound I'm fairly chuffed with.

In case anyone has trouble with the file being hosted on Geocities, here's another link - someone on the Andy Sneap forum kindly hosted the riff on their server for me.

http://www.mksstudios.com/demo8b.mp3

But anyway, yeah - thanks for the kind words! I shall be assailing y'all with more amateur riffage soon!