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| LIGHT RAIN by geoffuk | 2 years ago |
| wow! your mix is fantastic! such warmth and depth from the guitars. i am always striving to get as pro a mix as i can, and it seems like you have it dialed. thanks for posting this and setting the bar for me. AD10 |
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| Mine~ rough music mix by AllenDean | 2 years ago |
| Thank you for your comment... Yup, those are keyboard strings courtesy of apple's symphony jam pack. They seem to sound the most real to my ears. I was not sure how high to make the strings during that part, and I figured I would wait until the vocals were in before a final decision was made on that. I did like the guitar part there and did not want it drowned out. Thanks for the positive feedback. When it comes to something like another person's movie, I want to make sur ei get it as good as I can, you know? |
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| The Betrayer by RAVENS | 2 years ago |
| we really should do a duette some time... AD09 |
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| The Interpreter by pharmakeus | 2 years ago |
| nicely done.... i loved the soling. very oldschool, and tasty. your tone is like the way it used to sound, a jcm800 miced with an sm57.... mix is great, drum tones are awesome. really really live.. AD09 |
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| Carousel~ final mix by AllenDean | 2 years ago |
| thanks for the kindness! Ravens, right now, i am making demos of the stuff that comes out of my head. as far as an album is concerned, that might not happen until 2010. when i get each song to be a great song. i want to make an "appetite for destruction"-style album, where every song is amazing. that takes alot of trial and error. every comment helps here and on other sites. it gives me an idea of what people like and what they dont. then when i am ready, i will get a real drummer, and maybe a whole band to play the LP/MP3/CD shadow, as usual, thanks for the props. tell your friends, now, cause i dont have much of a following here. i am too busy with school to hang online and pimp my stuff.... i wish there were 34 hours a day... it would be much more productive, and then i could sleep.....! |
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| It's Over by RAVENS | 3 years ago |
| very nice. i have not been around these parts much, with school and life, but i am glad i came by this song. reminiscent of the smooth jazz sonds of the late 60's and early 70's. you have a very smooth and soulfull delivery. great song. i wish you all the best in your aspirations. i feel you will go far in any area you enter. Allen Dean |
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| WHY--Final mix by AllenDean | 3 years ago |
| thanks, ittmnc. oddly enough, the kick sounds totally intense in the aiff version, but gets somewhat lost in the mp3. they say there is only file compression, and the loss of tones the human ear really cannot hear anyways, but the creators of the mp3 format are liars. i totally agree with your assessment, yet to do more would make the higher quality track funky, and so we sit and wait for the album........ if you want the aiff, i can pando it to you, send me an email addy.... AD |
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| So Contagious by herrsolera | 3 years ago |
| i am late to this party, and for that i apologize. great heavy song. i loved how all the various influences of the many players seemlessly shoen through. well produced, infectios, melodic metal. i am hooked.. AD |
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| In Lieu of Flowers v2 by NorthPoint | 3 years ago |
| i hope you like michael sweet, cause i hear a ton of vocal influences there. i mean no disrespect there, either. while not a christian metal fan per se, i loved what stryper did, and dug sweet's vox. love this tune, and it is more a jazz fusion than a rock, to me, but great tune anyhow... AD |
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| Ex Astra Cuniculus -8- Deliver Me by Surak | 3 years ago |
| good guitar tone | |
| 12-String Jam by Eidolonia | 3 years ago |
| it is extremely difficult to find a proper pickup for 12 string recording. usually, alot of things i try to do end up with a thin weak finish. i get the 12 tone, but lose the overall warmth and resonance of the instrument. i did a song once called Legacy, in which my 12 string was mic'ed with my vocal mic, and MXL990, as well as an SM57. i placed the 57 at the neck of the guitar, around the 7th fret, and the vocal mic at the soundhole. it got a pretty well balanced tone. i only wished i had had logic express then, to get a better recording, but the thing worked out ok in Garageband. it is nice to hear a 12-er... i need to get mine down now and noodle around with it. on my latest song, WHY?, i tried a track of 12 string, but chose not to use it in the final mix, as i felt it brightened a dark song too much. nice tune, eido, btw, what brand of 12 was it? |
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| WHY? by AllenDean | 3 years ago |
| oh, i know... i thought the same thing. here i am writing a three act opera, and i hear strains of mindcrime, and scenes from a memory... i guess it is par for the course. after 1992, i gave up singing, and AWAKE brought me back into it. DT are a big part of my current sound, and Queensryche are the reason i became a vocalist in the first place. i appreciate all your support, always, and thanks for listening AD |
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| WHY? by AllenDean | 3 years ago |
| too true. thank you. no sitar, for sure. i did do some volume pedal stuff in the background.. hope you liked the song. i can assume so, so thanks for stopping by. AD |
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| WHY? by AllenDean | 3 years ago |
| i realized that part was reminiscent of that song, now i wonder if i am infringing on thier turf, musically. this is the main issue i have with music in general. it has all been done. even the new NIN sounds like other NIN albums. like he is copying hisself. |
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| WHY? by AllenDean | 3 years ago |
| well. you two aren't very helpful at all. just kidding. thanks for coming by. i know it has been a day and a half since i posted a new tune, but life has been like a roadblock at a mexican border town for me lately..... i have another new one in the works, and will post it just as soon as i feel i am done with this one... Allen |
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| fiddle while it burns by sonsofhypnos | 3 years ago |
| wanted to sing praise here as well... great tune, again.. i heard the version at macjams. love the song. Allen |
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| Giants by AllenDean | 3 years ago |
| who's Dave? |
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| Come Monday by MickD | 3 years ago |
| fantastic tones going on everywhere. a pleasure to listen to with headphones. fantastic production. i was kinda hoping for a wicked shredding solo in the middle section, but as far as a great sound bed, this one is top shelf! great song! Allen |
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| Concussion by Rusticalia | 4 years ago |
| you could go a couple of ways with this one; you could go old school, and get that maggie may rod stewart tone, trap snare, really live sounding, add mandolins and tamborines, or you could go full blown orchestral. in my head i hear it both ways. i favor the solo cello section, with a basso continuo in the main key throughout, holding down the low end. then throw a high, solo violin, or viola as an opposing melody to compliment the vocal melody. great sound bed.. allen |
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| Saying Goodbye, new mix by KPTools | 4 years ago |
| great use of tremolo. no one seems to dip into that well anymore. i love a good trem with a nice delay backing it up. this is a moody little piece, reminscent of something petty would do, or perhaps radiohead in thier early days. meloncholy yet accessable. i liked the back and foth in the vocals. like a row row row your boat thing....great song. thank you for posting this one Allen |
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| Dispossession (finished) by tetsuya | 4 years ago |
| while not a big fan of the vocal style, in this context, it works out ok. guitars are stellar. good harmony and great amount of tone with enough grit to sand floors. no bass, though. it leaves the song a little flat. great tune, in need of a little tweak or two. Allen Dean |
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| Feohtan by tetsuya | 4 years ago |
| that picking is no small feat, and i am seriously impressed. i cannot pick that fast........ i thought i could pick pretty fast.... wow... fast.... tell me you were actually doing this and it was not a simple effect or trick ...solo was killer. i must bow my head in honor of your mad skills. wow.. solo after solo... amazing. | |
| Managed by AllenDean | 4 years ago |
| line 6 podxt live for all my guitars. the best tool for recording, in my book. and for the bass, two tracks, duplicated, one with a high end tone, and one with a deep almost boomy tone, feathered together via the volume sliders. thanks for listening and commenting, Allen |
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| Confession by AllenDean | 4 years ago |
| basically, this is the mirror to hate the day. as an opera, i try and take elements from the previous act, and string the commonalities throughout the entire concept. whereas in hate the day, she speaks of all the things in her life and in the world that brought her to be taken in by the blackness, confession goes to the heart of his servitude to the blackness as a result of his love for her. in the song circumference, in act one, he states that the blackness was the only thing he held onto after she died( the liar and the knife). as a result, he makes an unwitting pact with the blackness, and now must steal souls for it in eternal slavery to it. in act three she must find a way to sever the hold the blakc has on him, and do it even though she is very much dead. act two is all about the curse the blackness holds in everyone's soul, and act three is about redemption. thank you for listening, and taking the time to comment. Allen |
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| Giants by AllenDean | 4 years ago |
| thanks, dude. everything is pretty much up the middle... i plan on having a guest soloist, but if that falls out, i will do a solo, and i had considered doing it non wah. this whole song was written around that auto wah setting on the pod... i was tinkering with tones, and set that one up using a couple of tweaked presets, and went off with the riff.... after that, magic!!! thanks for listening! Allen |
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| Half Mast Girl/You Won't Break Me by PinkFreud | 4 years ago |
| take a listen to psychotic on my page. ( shameless self promotion... ) i used linda's voice on that little rocker as well... | |
| Half Mast Girl/You Won't Break Me by PinkFreud | 4 years ago |
| very good mix. clean and clear. it would be cool if we could all get linda to resing the tunes we have all put her voice to.... i know myself, i would love to have her sing psychotic for me. great use of the music and melody. i liked this one the first time i heard it. and thank you for inviting me to lend my meager guitar talents to your song. Allen |
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| Buried Alive by AllenDean | 4 years ago |
| king diamond was a big influence for me in the early years of my singing career. as far as the solo goes, i hear ya. i had a friend of mine fomr chicago send me thins solo, and he tends to over effect his tone prior to recording, rather than in post, so i got a solo that was a touch too wet. it was a great solo, so i kept it, but i assure you, on my end it is completely dry... so, i understand completely. he can shred far faster than i can and it was great to have him onm this song. i am working with him on his tone, so maybe in future recordings i can get the solos to blend better. check out liar and the knife, a bit better example of ihs playing and my mixing his guitars with the music. | |
| One Woman Man (Remix) by Up211 | 4 years ago |
| thank you for your review of my music. i can see youre more of a blues purist than myself. i am more of a metalhead who likes to toy with some blues once in a while.... this is a great song. i wished the vocals were 'wetter', but overall, nice tone, and overall vibe. i see what you mean about tone, but really what i was going for was a different tone on my tune, more jazzy, with a hint of gary moore, satriani metal sound. this is a great song, tho, and i am suprised it has not gotten a ton of comments and listens. Allen |
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| [Shadows] Escape by Eidolonia | 4 years ago |
| dear eido. i usually hesitate to give constructive criticsms to songs, because i feel it is always subjective to the vision of the artist. your music is very well thought out and finely orchestrated. they seem to have a soundtrack quality to them. being a guitarist, i have always been a fan of heavier agressive music. being a left handed player, toni iommi was a huge influence in how i play, and hopefully how i write. i can hear some sabbath sensibilities in your music as well as the synth heavy prog of the later 80's and early 90's. that said, for me, the keys are a touch to loud in the mix during the heavier parts. i would like to hear more tracks of massive guitar sound, rather than letting the keys fill the soundscape. but, as you know, i am a huge guitar advocate. your drum programming is fantastic, albiet at times unorthodox. the biggest hurdles we as non-drummers face is to try and bridge the gap between what sounds like good drumming and what sounds like real drumming. mix-wise, they are eq'ed nicely, and are in a good place in the mix. but, they lack the human factor. and short of having a real drummer, i dont know how to resolve that. i have similar issues with my songs. i have heard EZdrummer has a humanize function, but i think the EZdrummer kit sounds are too midi and not real enough. look, this is a great song, and i am talking personal preferences here.... so keep going, and keep the metal faith alive, brother, and if you ever get to california, look me up, and we will tip some pints and make mayhem-- Allen |
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| Closed Off by mikericketts | 4 years ago |
| great acoustic tone, brother. nothing is better than a great sounding acoustic....my only nit is the vocal eq and the guitar eq are very similar, almost competing for the same place in the song. maybe it is my headphones... the effecting is spot on, tho, and i like the performance. thank you for posting this for all of us to hear Allen |
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| Pharaoh Redeux by MontgomeryCalifornia | 4 years ago |
| thanks eido..... we are definately pushing GB4 as far as we can... i had to fight frequencies on this one a little, but for the most part i think i got a decent mix... one of these days, i will save my money and but logic studio, but till that day, i will continue to explore all that GB has to offer.. | |
| November by AllenDean | 4 years ago |
| thanks for all the nice words.. i was conciously going for a zep feel on this tune. i just now listened to this again. a good little song. i wrote this originally one day while my wife slept after a night shift at the hospital. i was just jamming along in an open key, and this one came out. the lyrics were two completely different songs i mashed together. this version with the drums was kind of a way of cleaning out the closet... i had done this one originally with no drums, just me beating on the guitar for percussion...this version has better production, but the other one is more raw... i might post it here someday... | |
| Buried Alive by AllenDean | 4 years ago |
| i wish... i am merely a pawn of the machine who only wants metal guys who grunt and screech like monkeys.......but at least i got you... ) one of these songs, i am gonna try and talk you into a spoken part....soon |
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| Real_Strat by Merlin | 4 years ago |
| killer, killer, killer... we need to work together sometime....... | |
| Hillbilly Satellite Removal by five_extra_arms | 4 years ago |
| an instant classic...............nicely mixed, and good use of uncommon loops | |
| From the Moors by Braisenman | 4 years ago |
| always like it when you get to the metal.................!! Allen |
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| Unbroken by AllenDean | 4 years ago |
| thank you shadow. my only contribution to this tune was vocally. surakk had asked me if i would be interested in doing vocals for this tune, then it never saw the light of a post, so i took the original tracks, a couple of mp3's of his music, and mixed them together..thank you for coming by my site Allen |
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| Longing by RAVENS | 4 years ago |
| ran into this by accident.. always been a fan of the spoken stlye.....i see alot of guys like it here...heh heh heh... if i find something worth saying, i will definately ask you to say it for me... oh yeah, and nice production, perfect track length, and great vocal recording.... Allen |
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| Snowfall by Mjothvitnir | 4 years ago |
| the synths are great. i want those tones! i would love to hear what you had in mind for vocals on this one...i liked your guitar tone, but i felt it could be a little less distorted and a touch middier. it would still make it plenty heavy, but add the clarity i think it lacks. overall, a good heavy tune... Allen |
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| Heavy Metal Final Mix by eddyhate | 4 years ago |
| this has a nice foundation. my only suggestion would be to invest in either a drummer you could chain to a kit in your basement, or, for legal reasons, drums on demand, or EZdrummer loops. they are really structured for the hard rock/metal genre. i use the DoD's on all my tunes, and they really make things huge! good song, tho, and i hope to hear it with vocals Allen |
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| no claim by sefs | 4 years ago |
| nice interplay, and interesting tempo variety. good use of the entire guitar. | |
| Pharaoh Redeux by MontgomeryCalifornia | 4 years ago |
| thanks, feenixx.... while some might see Garageband as more a child's plaything than an actual recording app, it can be quite powerful, if used in a certain way. and while i would love to have logic studio to work with, GB came with my computer, and for Jason and myself, financially, it was a great way to write and record. we do all our songs via filesharew and ichat. never having met face to face can pose some challenges, but overall, i think we throw donw some nice heavy songs nonetheless....one thing i do when i mix in GB is to allow the music to get as hot as possible... i leave the master volume at 0.0, bring the tracks up till they just distort a little, then take it all back just a touch. while technically in the red, you cannot tell. a song like this is realy hard to do because of so many elements... there were 4 acoustic tracks, 4 electric rhythm tracks, 5 lead tracks, 2 bass tracks, and 5 vocal tracks. alot of work. work, that paid off, i think. thanks for taking the time to take a listen, and please check out our personal music sites here, under allendean, and Faelin Allen |
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| Berries N Cream (Re-Load) by RayLaVeau | 4 years ago |
| nice tuneage, brother..... my only tiny nit would be the bass... not the playing, mind you, but where it sits in the mix. try making one track two via copy and paste. give one track a deep bottom end via EQ, and give the other a slightly harder edge, with a touch of distortion, and a higher eq frequency. this will bring out the actual pluck of the notes. then feather the volume of the two tracks together. this will simulate a korn-esque slap sound, and will give the bottom end of your song more dimension. other than that, alot of lifeson influence to my ears... nicely done. Allen |
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| The LIAR and The KNIFE by AllenDean | 4 years ago |
| thanks, eido... alot of it is in the tools. i use garageband 4 for my recording app, and line 6 gear to record with. my tone is all in the pickups, duncan jeff beck in the lead position, and a duncan jazz in the neck slot. my drum loops of choice for this session were drums on demand loops. they are good loops, and only slightly limiting mix-wise. i am interested in going to EZdrummer as soon as cash allows. they seem to be a bit more versitile. again, thenks for the kind words.. Allen |
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| Overdrive (Live Version) by MontgomeryCalifornia | 4 years ago |
| this song indeed took many shapes before it ended up this one, but i know it was worth it, and a testament to the power of the internet. for two guys who are a couple of thousand miles away, we make fairly decent noise.... ha! great mix, jason, and great playing all around. your singer is so damned versitile.... Allen |
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| Get Up In The Morning by psexnyc | 4 years ago |
| Hey! i did not know you were on icomp as well!! excellent! | |
| Slasher II by AllenDean | 4 years ago |
| yeah, me'sa lefty.. must be why alot of my wah solos have such a huge tony iommi influence | |
| Slasher II by AllenDean | 4 years ago |
| the opening clip is from the original halloween. the others are, respectively, night of the living dead-2x, halloween, and the exorcist at the end. thanks for your nice review. i had alot of fun, doing this all over again, and i think my mixing and playing skills have indeed improved over the last few months. look for more. i might do a metal x-mas tune... thinking about it... Allen |
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| A Morning On The Edge Of Time by NormanGoodman | 4 years ago |
| your mix, as usual is spellbinding. again, another great tune, norman. keep writing these classics,and i will keep on listening! Allen |
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| Buried Alive by AllenDean | 4 years ago |
| of the songs i have postedon icomp, the three here that are on Razor's Kiss I are, Hate the Day, The Liar and the Knife, and Where Are You Now? the beginning part to Where are you now? is actually the intro to this tune, Buried alive, albiet in a twisted fashion. if you would like to hear the full length version, i encourage you to visit my macjams site and listen to the song there. here is the link; http://www.macjams.com/song/37105 thanks for taking the time to listen to my stuff, and keep real metal alive on the interweb!! |
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| Buried Alive by AllenDean | 4 years ago |
| to answer your question, i play all the guitars on this track, with the exception of the solo. a good friend of mine, chris cihon supplied more shred than i was able to. i sing, play the bass, keyboards, and program all the drums using drums on demand loops. usually, i will use the loops as a template, then program all fills, cymbal hits, and in this case the double kick parts.. thanks for taking the time to listen, and please spread the word that metal is alive here at icomp!! |
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| [Shadows] Struggle Without End by Eidolonia | 4 years ago |
| drums sound very nice, and the overall mix is good through my monitors. i personally wanted more rhythm guitars, in the form of more tracks, to make it sound huge, but that's just me. i likes me some huge guitars. overall a nice tune. fine job! |
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| This Guitar & Candlelight by 8MonthMalfunction | 4 years ago |
| great singing, and excellent pro-duction. and a message! who could ask for more? |
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| Final Sunset by Paul777 | 4 years ago |
| graceful soloing, and excellent pro-duction. nice to have another shredster around these parts.....looking forward to more tunes | |
| My Shameless Insanity by Ignoramus | 4 years ago |
| i keep hearing a lead vocal track over the top of the choir... kind of a tate, dio thing...great tune. very orchestrated | |
| Hate the Day by AllenDean | 4 years ago |
| thank you for your support. now will somebody get me a contract and some hired guns to play this stuff!?!?!?!? | |
| Back On Track (Take 2) by SimonPetersen | 4 years ago |
| very nice sloing. your tone reminded me of the guitarists in the band "free." good instrumental mix. |
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| Steal Me Blind by AllenDean | 4 years ago |
| thank you, trip. i had alot of fun with this song. it was bluesy, but heavy frikkin metal. after all was said and done, it really reminded me how much of an early king's x fan i used to be. | |
| Race Against Time by NormanGoodman | 4 years ago |
| i get to rate it first!!! really like this one. i think this site is better tailored to our strenghts as rockers than the other site i know you from... your harmonies are spot on, and that strat weeps liquid metal.... that riff you rip toward the middle, descending down the neck is simply massive. nice to see you around here, norman! Allen |
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| From The Ashes by NormanGoodman | 4 years ago |
| i should have known it was you.... howz it going, norman? great tuneage, as always........... |
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| Imperfect (full band mix) by PinkFreud | 4 years ago |
| i felt it needed to change up and have some singing on it. i liked the end, but wished it was just regularly mixed, and more in the song. i could have heard that vocal line 3-4 times throughout, but kinda back in the mix, you know what i mean? great production, and great playing. your stuff is really cool, dude Allen |
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| Shattered by PinkFreud | 4 years ago |
| this is a good little rock tune, dude. it has all the elements. might be mixed a touch hot, as i get a little distortion off the back end of the kick and bass.. all in all it needs vox for sure.... i wish i wasn't so busy.. send me a note anyways. Allen |
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| Steal Me Blind by AllenDean | 4 years ago |
| i kid, bro... i kid, cause i care.....i liked everything about that band except don dokken.. they wrote infectiously cool rock tunes, but dokken always seemed to ruin them with his whining and weak *** falsetto.... i was only joking with ya, tho... glad you liked my song, and glad you had a listen Allen |
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| Steal Me Blind by AllenDean | 4 years ago |
| i like the AIC comparisons, having lived in WA during thier rise to glory, but dokken? don ****ing dokken? that one hurt, brother... i would rather you just squirt lemon juice in my eyes and violate me with something sharp..........heh... violate... that's metal for ya! |
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| Steal Me Blind by AllenDean | 4 years ago |
| thanks for your kind words. i took my time with this one, and it paid off for me. on another note, i was reading these ads by google to the right of my page, and there is one for a 3d emo chat. make you own avatar and meet some more emo friends. this is extremely funny... first off, i thought they were emos because they didn't HAVE friends...and if they did have friends, what would they talk about, the best way to cut themselves? how daddy didn't love them? WTF??? funny stuff... sorry, had to get that out. thanks again for listening! Allen~ emos....who was the one that thought THAT was a good idea? hahahahahahahahaha.... |
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| Long way home by apb | 4 years ago |
| thanks for posting this one, alan... i find it really cool that we can make a great song from oceans apart. and, hopefully i am HUGE in Sweden!!!!! Allen Dean |
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| Psychotic by AllenDean | 4 years ago |
| thanx for the love, kids.... it was fun seeing what i could do with someone else's vocals for a change... i know it might not be the best mix around, but for me, mixing is a song by song learning process... | |
| Mr Jones by aaront | 4 years ago |
| king's x vibe.... very good rock. makes me jealous when guys can write and record/mix this effortlessly... you rule, dude. |
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| Say you don't love me (edit) by apb | 4 years ago |
| this is killer.a genuine pop classic. i had not heard this one before....i need to sit and listen to the music around here and the other site more often, i guess.. great mix, apb, great hook | |
| Cindycation by TripFandango | 4 years ago |
| nice... what else can i say? fun and finger snappy... | |
| Fault Lines by MontgomeryCalifornia | 4 years ago |
| i am glad you thought a.i.c. it was what i thought as well when i heard jason's music. i put in a triple harmony, ala cantrell/ staley, and i think it came out pretty tasty. thanks for listening, brother. Allen Dean |
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| Unbroken by AllenDean | 4 years ago |
| thank you for your fine comments... again, i don't know why surak did not post a version of this, or if he did, why he would delete it. this was a good musical bed for the vocal performance, and i think if i had more than a couple of takes i could have really worked some magic...again, thanks for all your support of a vocal style that constantly gets the 'dated' stamp put upon it... Allen |
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| My song 10 by irok | 4 years ago |
nice tones. the bass might need a touch more high mid to give it the cut it needs go seperate from the kick drum, but overall, a very nice tone. i already hear the vocal melody in my head...  |
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| Where are you now? by AllenDean | 4 years ago |
| thanks, bro! this was another line6 triumph..... i try and use the same settings for all my rhythm playing, so it is cohesive... the high stuff is the tonebender stomp i got via an update..everything is recorded and mixed in GB3, drums by drums on demand..the bass is a kind of signature sound for me. takes alot of time and track feathering to get a full, and rockish tone. but totally worth it... thanks for listening! Allen Dean |
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| Montgomery California by MontgomeryCalifornia | 4 years ago |
| i run a line6 podxt. my tone on this tune was a slightly tweaked scott ian anthrax tone i downloaded on the line6 free tonebank page. i have 4 tracks of my guitars and two of jason's in a higher register to fill out the blank spaces underneath the bass and drums. i think he said he was using a sabbath inspired tone from his yamaha tone rig. i think the key to a dirty dirty tone is mids, presence and slightly LESS distortion than all the way up... i was usuing heavy distortions in my earlier songs, and ended up sounding like a wild swarm of bees... more mids, more presence, and slightly less distorion got me this tone we tuned down to c on this tune to give it a menacing deep feel... it makes the pinched harmonics really jump out when you are low like that... i think the tuning was; C, G, C, F, A,D...pretty sure, anyways. i go off the c note on the fourth string, then just tune it myself, double checking with the keyboard. i doont like to use tuners. it makes you forget how to use your ears... i really wanted a BLS style on this one, for our title song. always felt mr. wylde is the king of dirty, mean hard rock. |
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| Waste of Me by MontgomeryCalifornia | 4 years ago |
| the way jason wrote the lyrics were such a way that i would have had to sacrifice meter in order to get all the words in. i opted for a different approach. i recorded several different tracks and overlapped them slightly. this gave it a slight 'sing-song' feel to them without sacrificing timing and meter. the last thing i wanted to do was walk all over some nicely written lyrics. it was my compromise. bocals are all i really want to do, and yet the hardest thing for me to record... come back often to see how i progress. thanks for all your advice on these songs, Allen |
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| Montgomery California by MontgomeryCalifornia | 4 years ago |
| thanks again, Eido. i am tacky. i feel if you love what you do, do it all day long. i am extremely proud of the songs i do with my counterpart, and it is simply that and nothing more.... |
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| Pharaoh by MontgomeryCalifornia | 4 years ago |
| my counterpart is not as aware as i am of the influence british metal had on the states. i, however am showing my age by saying i was here, in california for the birth of metal in NWOBHM's wake. being a singer by love and by trade, i am so very tired of the barking growing anselmo style of singing. in the late eighties and early nineties, it was relegated to mainly black metal. now it flourishes everywhere. i can site the seattle movement and the proliference of glam singers as the main reason this has flourished in modern metal people got tired of the high pitched singer and opted for a more subdued approach it is running it's course. i am here to tell you as guitarists shred more, singers will need to sing more in order to keep up. listgeners will want more from everyone in the band, not simply the guitarists... what i am trying to do in all my writing is to bring back the essence of heavy metal. the bit, fast hype, the grand scale of the words/ music. and, to be honest, it is really the only way i like to sing.....heh. |
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| Hate the Day by AllenDean | 4 years ago |
| thank you for listening, Eido... this vocal mix has never been one of my favorites, as i am in a small bedroom studio in california, and i cannot get enough headroom for the mxl mic to push itself. one of the main reasons i switched to the sm57. it can blast and cut without having to have alot of blank high tinned walls to bounce off.. so, i might have overcompensated on effects in order to get a brighter tone... the tones i use predominantly on the podxt are as follows; ~the eruption tone, stock, with a bit more presence, and the tube screamer distortion added ~a scott ian anthrax tone i downloaded from the tone lab online, with more presence, and less distortion ~an evh blackface tone i got from the tonelab online, with less distortion, and more chorus ~a clean dimebag tone i got off the tonelab online, with less highs, and less distortion ~the streets have no name tone from the pod tonebank, with full distortion and more mids that's about it, unless i am feeling experimental i try to keep my tones consistant, so i do not sound like 5 different players each song. i want to keep a consistant feel and sound with all my music. another thing to note; i record all of this on an intel imac, with no other programs for post production. i am not a professionl engineer, and i dont want to be. i simply love what i do, and if i get lucky , then i am pleased as punch. thanks for your tips and for listening come back often for more metal mayhem! |
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| Montgomery California by MontgomeryCalifornia | 4 years ago |
 now, even though i wrote this, played on it, mixed it, and sang the words, i give this a four star rating, cause the production is not the greatest, nor is it the loudest, but, you can hear the peaks and valleys in the mix as well as the headroom created by the mics... in this world of hyper normalization and over comperssion in order to be the loudest, i refuse to do that to my music, and i think my partner agrees the music is too important to become unlistenable by making everything hit the red..................i hope you enjoy this tune as well as all our montgomery california music, and i assure you, you will always have to turn it up, because that's what you do with metal.. Allen dean, montgomery california, the r.A.d. project |
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| Holes by AllenDean | 4 years ago |
| i should elaborate on my setup; i run garageband 4 on an intel imac. my interface is an m-audio firewire solo, processing at 24-bit. i play several guitars; an Ibanez lefty electric with a jeff beck duncan in the tail postion, and a duncan jazz in the neck spot. i run ibanez 6-string acoustics and an ovation 12 -string. my bass is a 100 dollar rogue lefty i got at musicians friend. my acoustics are either mic'd with a shure sm57, or direct through the solo all my electric sounds are courtesy of the line6 podxt, recorded in stereo through the 1/4" jacks in the back of the solo. i use alot of the stock tones, but have downloaded some great metal tones from the free tonelab at line6.com. my wah is an ibanez weeping demon. my drums are drums on demand, upbeat and agressive series. i run my vocals direct through the solo, and sing either with an mxl990 mic, or the shure sm57. this song was done with the 57, and am very pleased with the fullness of the shure mic. it took me back to my stage days, when all we used were 57's. i run my bass direct, and usually bounce it to two tracks, and using GB, i will set it to two tones, one deep and one more rockish, then feather the two tones to give it a full bright overall sound. i run about 5-6 guitar tracks, some doubled, some not, and always panned wide. i usually run two complete drum tracks, mixed and bounced to aiff, then pulled back into Gb to save processor speed.. i hope i answered a few of your questions, Eido, and thank you for taking an ear to my music Allen Dean, the r.A.d project |
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