The 'record-an-Opeth-riff' thread.

[Ermz]

Malice: I finally heard your cover of Deliverance.

I think its great...really well put together and recorded, there are only 3 problems I can see. First the low end on the guitars is way too boosted.. you really need to cut it down a bit and let the drums and bass take care of that spectrum of sound. Second, you need to boost the general guitar volume after taking down the lows, so the guitar can be heard clearly... it sounds like its not very much in its element on your cover because its covering the wrong range. Third, that chugga riff that Mikael does his solo over... you guys played wrong. I think I know what tab you used for that, as I used a similar one, but in any case its wrong. Take a listen to the actual recording and see that you're just a little bit off.

Anyway, really great work though. Props to the band and yourself.

 

[greatapoc]

First post

Chose to record a bit of solo. Will add some riffs later.

www.slayer.ozfast.com/~sla-freddy/opethsolo.wav

 

[estimate]

First post

Chose to record a bit of solo. Will add some riffs later.

www.slayer.ozfast.com/~sla-freddy/opethsolo.wav

Solo #1 at the funeral portrait. You guys should start playing worse, this is getting fairly easy

 

[sands of the seas]

Unless is this is just a bit of fun for people to show others how they can play opeth riffs, maybe people should start posting only sections of riffs or licks, because it isn't going to be very hard to pick out what a whole riff is for the those of us who have heard everything. Just an idea if people wanted to make it a bit harder. Even that probably won't be hard anyway

 

[Ermz]

http://www.geocities.com/cyanidix/storage/opeth_9.mp3

Hoping that should work. If it doesnt link, copy and paste into ur browser.

Oh, Niel, thanks for the AMp Farm suggestion.. however it only works on Pro Tools, so right now im leeching that (400 meg, hefty) and hopefully it agrees with my comptuer and is easy to use. Also the version of Amp Farm I got is shareware... runs out after a few days, so im either gonna need to get a crack or look harder for the whole thing.

 

[Ermz]

As I said guys, feel free to do other bands' songs if you want it to be more challenging.

 

[estimate]

It works Moonlapse. . And yes, it IS Moonlapse as well

 

[Ermz]

The one and only

 

[Ermz]

Oh here's a pretty easy non-Opeth one

http://www.geocities.com/cyanidix/storage/non_opeth_1.mp3

Please excuse the tone.

 

[Tauredil]

Oh here's a pretty easy non-Opeth one

http://www.geocities.com/cyanidix/storage/non_opeth_1.mp3

Please excuse the tone.

ANGEL OF DEEEEEEEEEEEEATH

 

[Evil Ernie]

I got two for you all.
First one is Opeth, second is non Opeth, pretty hard.

http://www.soundclick.com/util/streamM3U.m3u?ID=928063&q=Hi
http://www.soundclick.com/util/streamM3U.m3u?ID=928814&q=Hi

Then comes my technical questions : I can't get a good distortion sound.
I line out my Triple XXX in a TASCAM cassette recorder (as a preamp) then in my soundcard mic input. I use cool edit. This setting kicks ass for my clean sound (witness by my acoustic thing), but I can't get rid of this god damn razor sound, even if my amp gain is cut down to 1/4. Any advice?

 

[Evil Ernie]

Damn those links doesnt work.

I'm new to soundclick, how the hell you get it working?

Anyways, you just have to click "music" and select the songs.

Good luck.

 

[Tauredil]

For the non opeth riff :
Quo Vadis - On The Shores Of Ithaka

This song is great. Not too far from Dark Tranquillity (The gallery period)

 

[Evil Ernie]

Nice job Tauredil, I didn't knew Quo Vadis were known in France (however that's nice!)
Pretty intense material, nice product from Montreal

 

[Lethal01]

finally got time for this.. sounds like fun.. I'll begin with a REALLY easy one, for warming up

was about as much distortion I could pull out of a worn mexican strat

http://Lethal01.shackspace.com/riff1.mp3

edit: oh, and the id3 for the song is completely off as you might notice *cough*.. Cubase retained the id3 setting from my last export.

edit2: and your trippy intro to advent was great Niel

 

[Kung Keno]

some of these sound really crappy. sorry. but, sure, some of 'em are good.
I would like to own you guys with some bass-riffs but I aint got no equipment to record it with

 

[Ermz]

Good old MA, haha. That riff is probably going to become as widely recknowned as 'Where the Slime Live' before it.

Keno: It's a different thing with recording guitar. It's really hard just to plug right in and expect a good tone... alot of us have to fiddle for hours just to get playable tone. I'm sure if we were to listen to some of these played by the authors in person, it would come off alot better.

 

[Protected Witness]

To anybody that said something nice about anything I posted in this thread:


Thank you very much for listening. It is really cool that people take the time to listen to something, even if it is just clips.

 

[iseesmurfs420]

^^BUMP I would post but Im retarded with Sound Click.com I signed up but saw nowhere to put my recordings. If someone could point me in the right direction it would be appreciated.

 

[Evil Ernie]

iseemurfs420 : sign up as a band, then follow the instructions.