Opeth Riff Thread - Part 3

[yoldz]

synergy, excuse me while i try to find a napkin quick so i can clean up the blood gushing from my ears. wtf @ that attempt at recording

pretty harsh considering u havent posted riff on here for us to judge

 

[synergy]

it dusnt matter cuz hes got photoshop skiLLz

 

[suislidE]

guys seriously, if you need hosting just email it to me. it takes more time for me to download it from my email and upload to my ftp than it takes to do everything in between. maybe a min at the most... its no problem.

 

[suislidE]

Oh yea.. heres a cover i started for song. I showed it to a couple people to see what needed to be done because i dont have real good mastering/mixing skills. Turns out ive been real busy lately with college work and i dont think ill finish it any time soon.

http://webpages.acs.ttu.edu/wdenman/rday.mp3

its not opeth, but oh well. figured you guys might care to listen.

edit- taken down temporarily.

 

[synergy]

Oh yea.. heres a cover i started for song. I showed it to a couple people to see what needed to be done because i dont have real good mastering/mixing skills. Turns out ive been real busy lately with college work and i dont think ill finish it any time soon.

http://webpages.acs.ttu.edu/wdenman/rday.mp3

its not opeth, but oh well. figured you guys might care to listen.

that was good...what band is that

 

[synergy]

I was googling for a snappy owned picture and this came up...what a coincidence. Is he the official photoshop retard or something?

 

[suislidE]

rofl... thats great. btw, my clip is of megadeth.

 

[Ermz]

Ah yeah, that cover. There's definately potential there, I'm really looking forward to hearing the finished thing if you ever get the time to do it. Right now I've been put off recording, because I've heard a guy with the exact same setup as me totally destroy the sound I get out of recordings. So I'm just gonna hang back and work with EQing and mastering for a while.

Still looking forward to hearing other people's covers though.

 

[yoldz]

i've posted in the other riff threads. damn, i just owned you

big deal

 

[deliverance]

fuckkk hahha, i feel so bad laughing at that poor kid..but i just can't help it. that original "retarded kid running through the forest" is fucking pure gold. i want to hang it on my fridge.

 

[Ermz]

suislide has graciously offered to host some files on his own space, so I've been able to get up another recording - not Opeth this time.

http://webpages.acs.ttu.edu/wdenman/enemy_progress.mp3

The drum track there is a dummy track I'm using as refference for recording (beats the monotonous click of a metronome). If I ever complete the song, I'll rework the drums and make them more lifelike. So far I think this is shaping up to be my best recording so far.

 

[Moonstruck]

Hmm, Arch Enemy if I'm not mistaken? Sounds cool! Nice keyboards too. Which reminds me, I also have some keyboard recordings, some are ok.

Copy & Paste & Hope that it works:

http://www.geocities.com/arjensdump/sound/nw1.mp3

Yeah it's Nightwish, but listen it anyway.

 

[FUBAR]

Keep em coming these are quality

 

[Ermz]

hehe, I don't mind Nightwish, it's cool to hear that again actually.

 

[synergy]

nice one moonlapse...how long have you been playing guitar?

 

[suislidE]

yea that does sound pretty good moonlapse, you going to add a bass track or something? seems like alot of the lows are cut out. I still need to figure out how to do that notch cutting thing with the eqs... did you do that with the guitars or do they just sound that clean?

 

[deliverance]

suislide has graciously offered to host some files on his own space, so I've been able to get up another recording - not Opeth this time.

http://webpages.acs.ttu.edu/wdenman/enemy_progress.mp3

The drum track there is a dummy track I'm using as refference for recording (beats the monotonous click of a metronome). If I ever complete the song, I'll rework the drums and make them more lifelike. So far I think this is shaping up to be my best recording so far.

i love that track man, good job. that whole intro gives me a boner. their first 3 albums are superior to last 2 though. so fucking good.

 

[Ermz]

Thanks guys, I think this one was just a fluke. Just alot of experimentation until I finally hit a decent recording sound for the guitars.

@synergy: About 3 and a half years, I think. I'm learning the track as I'm recording it though, because it's pretty easy.

@suislide: I'm not sure about bass. I don't have one handy, and I'm not really a fan of synth bass, but you never know.

I didn't do any notch cutting - I don't even know what it is, haha. The guitars are just 'spaced out' on the panning. The rhythm track is played twice and panned hard left and right. The lead tracks are both panned slightly left and right.

The bass issue I've always had a problem with. I honestly don't know how to add decent low end to the recordings. I think to do it properly, you need to take apart whatever MIDI file and make the bass drums one track, the snare another track... the toms another track, same with cymbals etc. So that you can EQ each individually, and add whatever range they need. I'm still learning though, so we'll see.

Cheers dudes.

 

[suislidE]

yea i figured you read that article on the andy sneap forum, you posted in a thread that had a link to an article teaching you how to cut 'notches' in the spectrum to give other instruments space in the mix. That article told me alot.. but how to do it seems tricky.

 

[Ermz]

ohh, that. yeah, well I haven't been able to find any spectral analyser in Cubase which lets me see the average spectrum over the entire tracks. those articles are definately helpful, but it takes alot of time and effort to work out how to apply that stuff in practice.

anyhow, I'm up to the solo part now. in order to do it, I'm gonna need a better guitar than the piece of crap I'm using right now. so I'll probably wait for my Jackson to get fixed, then play the solo in E and go from there.