My band

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Originally Posted by gore

I'm just making one post instead of adding a sig

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Oh dear, perhaps my recent sig change wasn't too good an idea!

The band doesn't look too much like my cup of tea though.

Sorry Gore, but good luck and all the best anyway.

Steve

Hey Allen,

Have you signed up with the RIAA yet?

I hope not, cos I have just been downloading your stuff whilst I set up one of my 7 speaker 5.2 systems.... a bit dated I know, but my day to day crap costs between 3 and 10 bucks :D I think the card is a Turtle Beach?

Cheers,

Johnno

Those are NICE cards!

Yes,

I remember when I set it up properly (before we moved last)........... it was awesome in that you felt you were in the middle of the band rather in the bongpit or whatever :D

I wanted to use computer tech to listen first.............. I have an open mind, but I prefer a like on like test first?

:)

Yea I heard nothing but good about those Sound Cards. I'd have one but I think a mid-grade Sound Blaster is still cheaper and works fine for me, but if I find one decent priced I'll grab one.

By the way, I finished the album on Halloween day. I thought that was right to do. I burned an initial 10 copies, and it has 17 tracks.

I already have some remixes in mind which I could release as well and can make more music but I need to sell at least 3 more so I can buy some more CD-Rs.

not bad stuff man!!!

gore core: good song, needs a melody, something simple to tie the whole thing together.

the night he came...: too electronic. The piano sounds too generic.

monster bash tranz: I liked this one.

digital fear: really liker this one, i dig the guitar.

in general: 7 out of 10 (would be lower if it were made with all the best stuff). I think you need more bass as well as the above mentioned tips.

p.s. I used to d.j. and I could imagine blue hair moving to your beats.

Thanks.

The Gore Kore one was hard to come up with a melody for with what I have right now, but I figured out how to finally set up things so I can add more pitches, which you can tell from the Halloween one. The Piano sound was one of two options I had, so I had to use that one. Could do better if I had my keyboard or access to a Piano and a way to record it to the laptop, as I can actually play that theme on all of them.

The bass part was low on some I know, because through laptop speakers it was sounding like crap when any deep bas would hit, so I took it out at first, but then I hooked up some head phones and it sounded a lot better, so the later songs have more bass. The album has 18 songs like I said and a lot of the improvements are on it because I figured out how to line things up better and come up with more stuff, and a lot more bass.

I use one song to test the speakers in the car now as it's mainly bass with a little melody. So yea I did have improvements ready for when I had better speakers so I added them in.

The Monster Bash Tanz one I did with head phones on the whole time which is why it actually has bass that sounds like it should be there more so, and then went back and redid some tracks but put both versions on the CD in case anyone wondered how it sounded before.

Tonight I started working on a Rock-A-Billy song just to see if I could pull that off with synth, and oddly enough, I did. I used a picked violin sound and took a bass slap sound and shortened the length down and added a snare drum and a shaker sound to make the stand up bass song, and then added a steel guitar. Sounds pretty neat so far.

Anyway, thanks again. Once I'm back in Michigan and have my instruments and stuff I can make more styles of music.

Hell just today I got a mic to work so I can do my own samples and vocals with the app I use.

I just finished a song I was working on earlier called "Digital Horror Punk".

The song starts out with an intro I made, and it's kind of quiet because it's like 2:30 in the morning and my Wife is asleep so I couldn't really talk in a normal tone of voice when I recorded it, so just a heads up, when you listen to it, after the intro, you may want to turn the speakers down a bit because the song itself is recorded at a normal level.

I may change it later on though when loudness isn't an issue and I can talk normal, so I might re-record the intro, and re-upload it, but listen to it first and see if it sounds better with the intro being quiter than the rest of the song. I duno, it gives it a more creepy feel to it I think, so I may not change anything, but if enough people say to change it to make the song better overall I might.

Anyway, go check it out, and give feed back.

-gore

I couldn't even hear the intro. I had it turned up loud enough to where it scared the crap out of me when the actual song started... and I still can't find my cat... she took off running with her ears tucked back... so I would definitely recommend making the intro a little louder... as for now, I have to go study for my drug test. :D

OK, I redid the intro, I still don't think it's loud enough but I'll deal with that later, had a long day already but I took the 10 minutes to redo that part, so now the intro is there and a little more clear but I'll probably do it again to make it louder. But at least now it's something you can actually hear.