I recorded the most brutal fuckin' band of my life today.

[joeritson]

Check out the instrumental (pretty rough mix/master). Tracking vox tomorrow, I'll keep yall' posted.
http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=dbe7675ae405075c41446e35a78dc463e04e75f6e8ebb871
Feedback?

 

[MetalJonesy]

some mental stuff goin on there, a bit too brutal for myself, but good job in it just being a rough mix/master after tracking. id say theres alot to work on but at this stage its totally fine!

 

[joeritson]

Thanks man
I'm fucking digging it hey, Can't wait to track vox. One question, I've got it all to a click, but the click is an mp3 that they brought with them. How do I transfer that into Reaper without knowing the BPM's or having to figure them out?

 

[MetalJonesy]

im of no use there as i use PT and have never used reaper!!! sorry dude

 

[Parka Dez]

Cut from one transient to another of the click, then take a measurement of time to the ms. Then do the maths working it out to an 1/8th note or 1/4 note.

Hope that helps. If you meant something else, sorry!

 

[Ataraxia2320]

Two words.......holy shit!

When you said brutal you werent kidding. Is there vocals on there, the track i downloaded was instrumental.

 

[joeritson]

No vocals yet. Tracking them tomorrow bro!

 

[Trevoire520]

Not bashing on the band or yourself, but that just sounds like noise to me, no structure, no hooks just OMGWEAREPLAYINGASFASTASWEPOSSIBLYCANANDITISTEHFUCKENBROOTALZZ!

But hey, to each their own I guess.

 

[joeritson]

I know right! It's this genre that's been around for about two decades called tech death
Heard of Cryptopsy? Origin? Psycroptic?

 

[Dennis Shaw]

I really didn't find that all too brutal... They sound great and play well, no doubt! But to me what makes a band brutal is a mixture of raw emotion (be it anger, fear, hate, etc...), power, and lyrical content. I'm going back some years but I look at bands like:

Ripping Corpse


and

Human Remains


My old band played with Human Remains a few times and they were fuckin sick! In my opinion both of the above are way more brutal... but that just may be me!

-Dennis

 

[GarethSE]

I can't see how that's all that brutal either. Where's this raw emotion you're going on about? All I hear is a few groovy death metal riffs hidden under some of the worst production ever.

 

[joeritson]

+1

 

[Dennis Shaw]

I can't see how that's all that brutal either. Where's this raw emotion you're going on about? All I hear is a few groovy death metal riffs hidden under some of the worst production ever.

Ahhh, standing on the shoulders of giants!

The production was pretty much on par with the rest of the heavy music of it's day (although YouTube makes it way worse than it actually was). I agree it's bad when compared to today's standard.

-Dennis

 

[GarethSE]

The production was pretty much on par with the rest of the heavy music of it's day (although YouTube makes it way worse than it actually was). I agree it's bad when compared to today's standard.

-Dennis

It's on par? Really?
Hell, I always thought Cynic - Focus sounded well below average, and this shit sounds even worse. I want to know how it's actually at all possible to get a guitar sound that fucking awful.
Producers must have been smoking too much crack around 1991, that's the only explanation I can think of.

 

[joeritson]

It was the sound man. Shit guitar tone = 90's death metal. It wasn't about production quality, it was about the music, as cliche' as that sounds.

 

[Suicide_As_Alibi]

It wasn't about production quality, it was about the music

Actually I'd say that's not entirely it - a lot of the bands then were trying so desperately to be anti-mainstream and offensive they wanted their production to sound bad to put off everyone but the most 'evil' listener (read: most "rebellious" middle class idiots).

Steve

 

[joeritson]

Actually I'd say that's not entirely it - a lot of the bands then were trying so desperately to be anti-mainstream and offensive they wanted their production to sound bad to put off everyone but the most 'evil' listener (read: most "rebellious" middle class idiots).

Steve

+1

 

[GarethSE]

good music transcends shit production, but this just happens to pretty much suck. *shrug*
a few bits of groovy riffage here and there, but apart from that it's all just an empty shell to me.

if i ever listen to DM like that, i make a point to listen to the good stuff. decrepit birth and cryptopsy any day for me.

 

[GarethSE]

why are you +1'ing two statements that are sort of in disagreement? o_o what

 

[joeritson]

Fuck yeah man, I didn't like above clips at all, but Cryptopsy FTW.
The quote thang confused me