Evergrey Cover

[cobhc]

Recently got the Waves SSL plugin's and I must say I'm really liking them a lot. Also recently got the Evergrey DVD, so I thought I'd try a cover of them. So here's some of More Than Ever.


http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=DC3CD5671CAF094D

And let me say I fucking despise mastering lol. Anyways, let me know what you think guys.

Cheers.

 

[JBroll]

Very nice guitar sound. I don't actually bother with mastering myself, I've only posted a couple of things over at Smyth's forum and that was to test out the transformerless 57; just recorded, put it through C4, and that was it.

What plugins did you use for that?

Jeff

 

[cobhc]

For mastering?

 

[Torniojaws]

The palm mutes sound very floppy on the bottom D-notes, are you using very thin strings and palm muting heavily? :S

 

[zolhof]

great tone indeed, i just miss some low end, the fatness, maybe tweaking with the bass will help on that..

 

[cobhc]

Tornio, I'm using 11's and palm muting heavily, might be the low action. I'll have a go at re-recording them tomorrow. Zolhof, what area are you talking about, what frequencies?

 

[Atheist]

Hey, what amp have you used? And what's that snare?

 

[cobhc]

TS-9 into Krank Distortus Maximus into Peavey Classic 50/50 Poweramp. Direct out into Delta 10/10LT using I think it was all Kazrog's Impulses, but might have been a mix of both his and the 5150 combo ones that someone put up (Keregioz maybe? sorry I can't remember who it was!), The snare was 50% Pearl 2 from DFHS and 50% Andy's Samples.

Edit: Just checked, the impulses were two tracks of the Mesa panned 100% L/R and two tracks of the 5150 panned 80% L/R.

 

[Keiffer]

Not bad, but the guitars are weak with little body.

 

[cobhc]

I guess part of that is the bass tone and also the fact I'm using shitty pickups in that guitar. I need to get good pickups in all my guitars.

 

[Ola Englund]

Ah I just learned this song last week... It's a great song and you did a fine job on the cover...

I've always liked Evergrey, but there are something about their records that make them sound so demo-ish... I don't know what it is...

 

[cobhc]

I've always liked their sound on their albums, the latest one sounds like a demo to me, and the song writing has gone down hill dramatically. A lot of people don't seem to get them as a band, it's like they're prog, but they're heavier than a lot of prog bands. I guess they're loosing that prog sound as they move on. Like the last album compared to the solitude album.

 

[JBroll]

I don't know if they're heavier (read: Dream Theater) but they do have an entirely different sound, which is what true prog should be about - as opposed to copying King Crimson/Yes/Genesis/Rush/et cetera, which too much of the 'prog scene' is - and I haven't been able to figure out why there are so many people on the other side of them. Agree with the new album sounding a bit off and the writing being subpar, some cool songs are on there but the doofi at the helm seem to have just slaughtered them.

Jeff

 

[Ola Englund]

they're massive live though! That's where their real strengt lies... I've seen them possibly 5-7 times and they always blow me away...