One-man-band fun

[Torniojaws]

So, I was asked to play at a school May Day afterparty at a hotel, so who am I to turn it down? It's beside the point that I have one week to prepare all the backing tracks, learn the songs on guitar, learn the lyrics, and learn to play guitar & do vocals at the same time (all the vocalists I know are travelling ).

But I think I'll do it So I now have recorded all the backing guitar & bass DI tracks (12 songs) in one day And next up I'll construct the songs + make all the electronic stuff. Not too shabby

Here's the planned setlist:

01. The Prodigy - Voodoo People
02. Clawfinger - Nothing Going On
03. The Cult - Rise
04. Pain - Zombie Slam
05. Clawfinger - Two Steps Away
06. The Sin.Decay - We Are All Slaves
07. Front Line Assembly - Internal Combustion
08. Steril - Egoist
09. Rob Zombie - Superbeast
10. Grendel - Harsh Generation
11. The Prodigy - Breathe
12. Front Line Assembly - Liquid Separation

Quite varied, as you can see But I guess since it's May Day, most of the folks will be happily drunk and not notice if I have to improvise something on the fly

This is something I've never done before, so it's quite exciting to say the least

The setup will be the same as I use with Vortech:

Laptop running Reaper
-> Every song in a single project (just rendered wav's)
-> 2 + 7 outputs (two DI tracks, 7 backing tracks: drums, electronics etc)
-> RME Fireface 400
-> ADAT Out
-> Behringer ADA8000
-> 7 balanced line-outs to FOH (2 DIs go to guitar amp & bass amp)

Simple but effective

And in addition to the backing tracks, I will be playing rhythm guitar and doing the vocals. But I've also had the idea to ask some people in the crowd to join in to do vocals for a song they might know. Kind of like live karaoke

Should be fun if it works :zombie:

 

[James-Doolan]

Thats pretty cool good luck with it man

 

[slashvanyoung]

That's quite an undertaking, good luck! I know exactly 3 songs out of that bunch...

 

[ahjteam]

(2 DIs go to guitar amp & bass amp)

Do you have reamp boxes for those?

 

[Torniojaws]

Do you have reamp boxes for those?

Yep, Redeye for guitar and ProRMP for bass.

 

[TheDude]

But I think I'll do it So I now have recorded all the backing guitar & bass DI tracks (12 songs) in one day And next up I'll construct the songs + make all the electronic stuff. Not too shabby

Here's the planned setlist:

01. The Prodigy - Voodoo People
02. Clawfinger - Nothing Going On
03. The Cult - Rise
04. Pain - Zombie Slam
05. Clawfinger - Two Steps Away
06. The Sin.Decay - We Are All Slaves
07. Front Line Assembly - Internal Combustion
08. Steril - Egoist
09. Rob Zombie - Superbeast
10. Grendel - Harsh Generation
11. The Prodigy - Breathe
12. Front Line Assembly - Liquid Separation

Quite varied, as you can see But I guess since it's May Day, most of the folks will be happily drunk and not notice if I have to improvise something on the fly

Wow I'm honoured!

When you're done with the backing tracks, can I borrow those "Two steps.." samples? We're supposed to rehearse, and I couldn't find them, and they're sort of essential for the song .

 

[ahjteam]

I found Jockes post somewhat ironic

 

[Erkan]

Haha awesome dude Good luck with it and have fun!

 

[SocialNumb]

Think it's cool myself. Enjoy bro!

 

[Torniojaws]

When you're done with the backing tracks, can I borrow those "Two steps.." samples? We're supposed to rehearse, and I couldn't find them, and they're sort of essential for the song .

Sure

This is a lot more work than I anticipated. I've been fiddling with Voodoo People all day and soon I'm finished 11 more to go And later today I'm off to Oulu to see Satyricon It's tricky to try to make the sounds close to the originals, or trying to sample things from the songs without too much background stuff.

 

[Torniojaws]

6 songs done! 5 left (I dropped one more song out, Steril - Egoist). Oh and Jocke has the tracks in his PM inbox.

 

[TheDude]

And I thank you for them! They're not exactly the same, of course, but I like the flavor. I still haven't found the originals yet.

 

[Torniojaws]

Oh yeah, all 11 tracks are done! Breathe became a drum & bass weird fun groove thing Gotta play some 70's porn groove wah guitar on it, too

Three days to go, I guess it's enough for rehearsing

 

[Torniojaws]

Here's a taster of what the backing stuff sounds like:

http://personal.inet.fi/musiikki/ogre/liquid.mp3

It's basically the entire backing track + one guitar track through SoloC + impulse.

 

[Torniojaws]

Yeah, that was fun and technically everything went nicely. I would have preferred a proper vocalist, but I did my best The audience (all 8 of them ) seemed to like it.

 

[Chryst Krispies]

Damn killer list.

Should've done Spookshow Baby though instead of Superbeast.

Ha

 

[korpse pop]

Here's a taster of what the backing stuff sounds like:

http://personal.inet.fi/musiikki/ogre/liquid.mp3

It's basically the entire backing track + one guitar track through SoloC + impulse.

Sounds cool, which synths did you use?

 

[Torniojaws]

Sounds cool, which synths did you use?

HALion 3 and Superior Drummer 2.0 (intro toms) for the drums
Nexus for the intro synth
Bass-Station for the bassline (with separate fx plugins)
Nexus for the chorus strings
Vanguard for the chorus arpeggios + C-part arpeggios
z3ta+ for C-part arpeggios

And the intro background is sampled from the original song. Since I was so short of time, I hadn't the time to take the samples from Hellraiser 3 myself.