Faith No More tribute - work in progress...

[slashvanyoung]

Hey guys,

I recently started a new band with a few buddies. A rock band with a punkish edge.

To familiarize with each others playing, we thought it would be a good idea to start out with a cover so we started jamming Faith No More's "Digging The Grave".

Liked it and got the idea to record it.

Well, anyway, last night I recorded scratch guitars for bass and vocal tracking this weekend (hopefully). So this rough test mix misses obviously the low-end of the bass and the vocals. But I'd like to get some opinions in this early state anyway...

So what you guys think? http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/1673763/diggingv2.mp3

It's a bit untight here and there because it's only been one take for each side without any drop-ins whatsoever.

It's also in Eb instead of E and I play the chorus slightly different to the recorded version. But it's not intended to be a 1:1 cover, neither tone-wise nor playing wise.

The tones are quite unusual for this forum anyway. But it's rock! It's menat to be dirty, sluggish... at least that's my philosophy.

 

[Manicompression]

great song to cover, love king for a day..., In terms of the sound id say it sounds pretty good it just needs more guitar, and a bass.....and a mike patton.

 

[slashvanyoung]

Working on it... the Mike Patton part might be a bit tricky haha.

What a way to break in your singer, make him sing Patton!

 

[slashvanyoung]

So I reworked basically the whole chain on both guitars and drums:

http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/1673763/diggingv4.mp3

 

[pattonfreak1]

.....and a mike patton.

Yo!

 

[slashvanyoung]

... and a bit progress:

http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/1673763/diggingv5.mp3

Tracking vocals the upcoming weekend...

 

[slashvanyoung]

And there are vocals (finally):
http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/1673763/diggingv6.mp3

He sounds a bit too stressed at parts IMO (I WISH we would have had time for more takes)... and I went a bit nuts with the doubler at some spots. So I'll probably be rectifying that... but it's enough for today.

 

[ahjteam]

please take the doubler away, pretty please?

and to answer your question: atleast Josh Homme comes in mind

 

[slashvanyoung]

Yeah, the doubler, that was a brief moment of complete insanity. It sounded neat on one part of the pre-chorus so I applied it to the other too... but it is already doubled so it sounds weird and phasey now.

I was in experimentation mode I guess... there's also a TS on the vocal track that's lower in the mix