July Collaborations Recordingfest Reveal!

all my guitar parts are a combination of my fender strat, american series, or my heavily modded epiphone SG. They were ran into my pod x3, then to computer.

Vocals were done with a shure sm7 mic into an apogee duet for Paralyzed, and No Other was a combination of a Neumann tlm103 into the apogee.
 
Hai guys! Nice to see some familiar faces.

Prages and markwein Round and Round

Chihlidog said:
It's only funny because of what it is. It sounds great, but Ratt is funny period, even while it rocks. You guys really killed it, it sounds awesome!
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+1

Suhnton:

1: With Mark (Leads) - Love Like Villains

2: With Chihli (Rhythm Guitars) and My Wife (BV's) - Auto-F

3: Clouds

You really, really, really nail that 80's synth-pop sound. Great job.


mosiddiqi SkullBonnet

I love this. Reminds me a little bit of The Darkness. Very cool and original.


Saturday Funk is based on the Red Ant backing track, so I thought that kind of worked for the Collaborations theme. I'm playing the scratchy lead guitar and Rhodes, and I also added the percussion track. I'd love to hear versions from mosiddiqi and whoever else has worked over this track.

Back for the rest tomorrow.
 
Thanks for all the nice feedback guys! :love:..I'm glad you enjoyed it..we tend to do either very straight ahead pop or really weird shit like "Skullbonnet"..no LSD involved Suhnton!...though I like my milk full fat. :embarrassed:
 
Suhnton said:
Prages/Mark – I was never the biggest Ratt fan, but damn, I like that a hell of a lot.
I’m really interested to know what you did in the mixing/mastering, it sounds fantastic.
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Thanks.

I recorded all my parts using a Presonus Firepod into Cubase SX.

For the drums, I mic'd up my acoustic kit using an SM57 on the snare, fake SM57s on the toms, an Audix D6 kick mic, and Audio Technica AT2020s for overheads. Went back and EQed and compressed each drum track, as well as putting a liberal amount of room reverb on the snare and overhead.

Bass was my MIA Jazz bass plugged straight into the Firepod. I added compression and a Tubescreamer plugin in post. The Tubescreamer was set more for compression than OD, though there is a hint of OD on the bass track.

The vocals were all done with a CAD Trion 8000 tube condensor mic. Then I compressed them and added a touch of reverb and delay. The lead vocals are all double tracked as well.

I think Mark used the Waves GTR plugin for his guitar parts. He'll have to get more specific as I don't know the details.

As for the mix, I just tried to EQ everything so it had it's own spot in the mix. Rhythm guitars are panned hard right and hard left, lead guitars are panned about 30% left (for the harmony part on solo 1) and 30% right. After doing a couple of pretty lackluster test mixes, the final mix ended up with the drums a litte on the loud side so they'd drive the song. The vocals are just loud enough to sit on top of the music, as are the lead guitar tracks.

Once the mix was where I wanted it, I used a Waves Ultramaximizer plugin on the master bus, mainly to tame the big peaks. Then I used T-Racks 24 Mastering Suite to do a tiny bit more EQ, compression, and multi-band limiting, bringing the volume of the overall mix way up and making it nice and punchy.
 
Suhnton said:
Gcord/MicWalt – This kind of reminds me of KingsX, especially the harmonies.
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That was the intent, glad you heard it. :)

I haven't been able to listen to anything yet, stuck in a Network+ class this week. I'll try to get them all checked out tonight.
 
Hobo Uncle Sam Front Porch

Very cool! My only suggestion is that you might want to work on getting your bends a little more in tune but I really like the vibe...did you write this? Good stuff! :thu:
 
Gents, "Round and Round" and "Clouds" by Suhnton are going on my iPod :embarrassed:....Mark, I really, really like the solo at the end..I intend to Learn and Return. :embarrassed:
 
mosiddiqi said:
Gents, "Round and Round" and "Clouds" by Suhnton are going on my iPod :embarrassed:....Mark, I really, really like the solo at the end..I intend to Learn and Return. :embarrassed:
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:grin:

Thanks!

I tried to do the 1st solo note for note since thats really more of a part of the song but at the end I figured I would just stretch out a little ...
 
markwein said:
Hobo Uncle Sam Front Porch

Very cool! My only suggestion is that you might want to work on getting your bends a little more in tune but I really like the vibe...did you write this? Good stuff! :thu:
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Thanks Mark, I did notice that the bends didn't hit the right tone, I think I was so nervous because my timing , which I have so much difficulty with was not where I felt good about it, but I just said to myself it's all about just having fun so just do your best. Yes, I wrote this it is all mine, sad to say but I can't play other peoples songs. again thanks for listening
 
hobo uncle sam said:
Thanks Mark, I did notice that the bends didn't hit the right tone, I think I was so nervous because my timing , which I have so much difficulty with was not where I felt good about it, but I just said to myself it's all about just having fun so just do your best. Yes, I wrote this it is all mine, sad to say but I can't play other peoples songs. again thanks for listening
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Its a nice little piece...the technique will come together, too...
 
I am spamming the hell out of these to all my work buddies.

There's really not a bad one in the lot, and not to diminish anyone's entry, but Round and Round fucking KILLS IT !

Hats off to everyone's arrangement.
 
What a great batch of songs! :)

Suhnton:
Great job on all 3. I really liked especially Auto-F and Love Like Villains.
Good stuff :)

CGord/micwalt:
Kickass!
Great riffs, and vocals are as always top notch.
Mike pisses me off sometimes by being so fucking good :embarrassed:

Hobo Uncle Sam:
Ditto on what Mark said. A bit of work on the bends, and it's all good :)
Nice work.

noquarter:
Good vocals again.
A bit of timing problems in the intro to No Other, but other than that it's all good :thu:
You seem to have found a distinct style, and it works.

Karma279:
I'd lose the fx (chorus/flanger) on the guitars, and add a tiny bit of dirt to it instead (just a suggestion). Sounds a bit too clean and polished together with the vocals imo.
Good song though, I detect an AIC vibe to it, not surprising :wink:

Mark/Prages:
Rawk! heavy-metal-044
Honestly I like it better than the original. Never was a big Ratt fan, to be honest :embarrassed:
Everything's well performed and sounds great.
Really good lead Mark. :)

Mosiddiqi:
Well that is definitely different.
Rawks verily!
Very good vocals by the wife btw.

rsadasiv:
Creative as always, and unpredictable.
I like that :)

Aahzz:
Cool story song.
Dig the use of the major 7th.
Nice work!
 
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