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Gordo said:
I think I'd posted this before but this is a clip recorded on my phone of the gear I moved out to California and recorded while waiting for the other furniture to show up. This is an oddball combo of a Traynor TS-25 with a WGS speaker and a hollowbody Harmony copy of a Gretsch Cats-Eye. To my knowledge the model was never actually made and the ex-president of the company gave it to me to finish. The Chinese company that made it typo'd the logo to "Hamony". Killer little guitar. Counter to building pedals this is the guitar and a cord and the amp. Go figure...

https://soundcloud.com/gordoamps%2Ffriday-at-5-09-pm
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Great tones! Similar sounds out of my 5e3. You turn the knob until the volume is gone, then barely inch it up till you get sound and it's that sweet spot where soft picking is clean and hard picking is grind!!!! I'm using a Fane M65 for that, really great Gilmour-ish tones....
 
comradehoser said:
I know this is a month down, but I hope you finish this song. Even instrumental, it's pretty great (and I agree on the pcbgm Sunn Beta)

I think the drumming was one of the most interesting parts of the song.

Definitely hear the metal x shoegaze connection, and I think I like it
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Thanks! It'll get finished! I'll share when it's done. My big stumbling block has been lyrics. I tried to sit down and write but it was not great. Almost all the writing I do is technical for my job or stupid for the d&d game I run. It's been extremely hard to get into the right headspace and write something I'm happy with. I asked a friend to give it a shot. I guess I'll see what they come back with. I'd really like this to be done before the end of the year. I've got new music I want to get recorded.
 
joeyd said:
Thanks! It'll get finished! I'll share when it's done. My big stumbling block has been lyrics. I tried to sit down and write but it was not great. Almost all the writing I do is technical for my job or stupid for the d&d game I run. It's been extremely hard to get into the right headspace and write something I'm happy with. I asked a friend to give it a shot. I guess I'll see what they come back with. I'd really like this to be done before the end of the year. I've got new music I want to get recorded.
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I find it takes me up to a year or so to come up with lyrics. Takes that long for the song to set in. Many times I'll be in the middle of doing something else and have to frantically get it down before it disappears. I've woken up at 3am and written some great lyrics....

And then other times the lyrics will come first, and then it's the opposite!!!!!

Creativity to me is spontaneous, and not at all something I can intentionally do.
 
RetiredUnit1 said:
I find it takes me up to a year or so to come up with lyrics. Takes that long for the song to set in. Many times I'll be in the middle of doing something else and have to frantically get it down before it disappears. I've woken up at 3am and written some great lyrics....

And then other times the lyrics will come first, and then it's the opposite!!!!!

Creativity to me is spontaneous, and not at all something I can intentionally do.
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I like to brute-force my way through the creative process. I think the results vary. I can usually do it to build a workable structure of riffs that I tune over a few months into something I'm happy with. Usually it involves writing something I can't play that I'm forced to practice until I can, with the kinks getting ironed out in that time.

Apparently I have to completely throw that process out for lyrics. I figured it was because it's not something I practice or pay attention to. Maybe I'll start reading poetry and writing haikus or something.
 
I was going to say, for me, the sounds and textures come first and everything serves the music as a part of the whole. But I know other people who write poems and then derive the music. As somebody with mostly drummer skillsets, I'm much more texturally oriented than virtuosity/formally oriented (Kurt Cobain or Kevin Shields or Sunn O))) vs. Yngwie Malmsteen or Eddie Van Halen or Muse) because I don't have the capacity to be Mr. Arpeggiator Fingers or calculate chordal transects of the 18th fractional enumeration of the key of A sharp minor sus 22. I just eff around with my big ham hands until it sounds okay.

Interestingly enough, I really like to listen to guitarists play drums, because they tend to approach them more texturally than formally/virtuosically and can innovate because they haven't fallen into the rote or "accepted" patterns of drumming.
 
gonzo said:
For the past year I've been working on this. Took a lot of work because I'm not a natural keyboard player, but it ended up being very rewarding. Hope you all like funk/disco/and soul. I had the honor of having legendary bassist Mike Watt on 3 tracks, along with a bunch of old bandmates
https://lumband.bandcamp.com/album/extraterrestrial-wet-dream
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Wow, great work! I gave it a quick listen although it's definitely not my genre. I have a lot of respect for anyone who finishes a full album worth of stuff, the composing the songs is fun, but all the recording, polishing and mixing is a ton of work. I'm now starting to move to singing and writing lyrics too, and it just adds to the workload, but I'm definitely sticking to just EP's or singles myself. So massive respect to you!
 
Thanks man. It is a ton of work doing everything, but rewarding, because you slowly learn. Also I've learned when to be creative and when to be technical. I have my studio setup now so I just flip a switch and go. Keeps the juices flowing and keeps me from being lazy.
 
Here's a RATM cover I played bass and guitars on, some years ago. It was a soundalike project of a Sound Recording student. This is my mix because the bastage ended up replacing my bass and guitars in his. :mad:
Funny detail, I never met the drummer or the singer. Everything was recorded separately and we never crossed paths. Singer has a French accent :)

Blast from the past:

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JTEX said:
Here's a RATM cover I played bass and guitars on, some years ago.
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Sounds Great, great playing. So many aspects are spot-on.

Funny story- my brother covered this song at the high school battle of the bands. They didn’t appreciate the “fuck you” part. But it was the band with a giant satanic backdrop that shut down the show, which I would consider messed up because they didn’t get their underwear all twisted over the overtly christian songs.
 
Started a YouTube channel a couple of years back, just doing instrumental covers of some of my favorite death metal songs. Check it out if you like death metal and/or over-compressed mixes with too much reverb (I swear, it always sounds "right" when I upload it). Anyway, here's the latest one:


Would like to get back to it and upload more regularly again, but the whole process of recording the videos kind of puts me off. I just want to play my guitar, man 🥲
 
comradehoser said:
I know this is a month down, but I hope you finish this song. Even instrumental, it's pretty great (and I agree on the pcbgm Sunn Beta)

I think the drumming was one of the most interesting parts of the song.

Definitely hear the metal x shoegaze connection, and I think I like it
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I know this is 11 months and six days later but I did finish it (3rd track)!

adistantmirror.bandcamp.com

S/T, by Distant Mirror

4 track album
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Paradox916 said:
Very cool man, I definitely dig the black gaze feel of it. It’s sad to me that this thread always sinks like a rock.
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Thanks! This has been a weird experience. The last time I released something it was with a band so I'd had months of feedback from friends. This time I did almost everything myself and I'm not playing live. So your comment is the first piece of tangible, positive feedback I've gotten (which I really appreciate).

Related: promoting new music has gotten HARD. I mainly want to just contribute something to the genre (not trying to sell anything) but man it's tough to cut through all the noise.
 
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