Successor of Fate
Basically I want to combine all the bands I know and love and smush them into one. Not an easy thing people.
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Wrath of Shur Wrath of Shur
First well recorded song I've ever mde. It's also in the Krank Ninteen 80 video :P
A side project of a 19 year old tired of hearing crappy hardcore, punk, and deathcore plaguing the city in which he resides in.Band/artist history
None reallyHave you performed in front of an audience?Haven't yet sadly but I will if I can get decent members. With decent gear. Or I'll bust a one man band. Maybe.
Your musical influences
A whole lot of death metal (The Black Dahlia Murder, Necrophagist, Aborted, You get the idea I hope) instrumental stuff (Joe Satriani and Steve Vai come to mind) freeform jazz (88.1 fm) and basically anything that catches my attention.What equipment do you use?
Man oh man this is really embarrassing but right now due to my self funding of my Audio Engineering classes, I have a Line 6 Spider 3 150 watt head and a 75 watt Line 6 Spider 3 combo amp. For those of you who are starting to get decent experience in gear, Line 6 is digital doodoo. I highly don't recommend you buy it for recording or live.
Anyways, I'm planning on getting either the Axe Fx Ultra or something ENGL, Krank, Peavey, or Soldano. Probably ENGL or Krank more though. Just need my friend Benjamin to help out. Guitars I have a 7 string Schecter Hellraiser with EMG 707's and a Floyd Rose tremolo, an LTD EC-1000 Deluxe with an EMG 81 on the bridge and a 60 on the neck, an Ibanez EX5 something? It's an RG (the only one of like three models available because I'm a lefty. Hooray for recessive alleles and really low probability rates and some luck), a Peavey Predator Plus (my first guitar), and my Fender Acoustic/Electric.Anything else?
TIPS ON HOW TO MAKE BETTER RECORDINGS:
Bands you guys gotta understand that if you wanna get noticed, you gotta record songs decently. That means NO HANDHELD RECORDERS, CELLPHONES, OR VIDEO CAMERAS FROM WALMART. Trust me I used to do the handheld recorder recording and it is TERRIBLE. Nobody wants to hear good riffs in INAUDIBLE quality. I'm pretty sure that if some of the bands that we know and love did that, they wouldn't be where they are now. Because they put some money and effort into it. You also gotta try to get some decent tone out of whatever gear you got. I don't care if you have a 150 dollar 100 watt crate halfstack (which is a piece of crap by the way). You gotta try to make that sorry excuse of an amp make something acceptable to human ears. Or if it's really that bad after you've given it the good ol' college try (which is probable with cheap gear), you may need to invest into some decent gear. It doesn't have to be an ENGL Powerball or an Axe Fx Ultra or a Peavey 6505+ or a modded Soldano, but it just has to be able to be workable. It also applies to instruments. You gotta change the strings on them puppies man. You can't expect to have INFINITE amounts of awesome sustain and clarity with strings that haven't been changed since your mom found the thing lying in the garage under the pile of rubble. Drummers you can't expect to have the crackle of that snare if the poor china labored makeshift plywood object hasn't had its skin changed since your uncle quit his band back in the 80's and still has a hole punched in it because of some drunk manhandling of the equipment. Sometimes the instrument is also just not good enough to work with. It happens. Especially with music stores flooded with Brownsville's, Squires, and other equally unplayable pieces of firewood. Again, it doesn't have to be a 6000+ custom handmade Suhr by the man himself (although those guitars are rather beastly and he deserves every penny for his creations) but it has to tailor to your need and genre. You're not gonna pick a Grestch to play some heavily detuned brown note djenty metal (unless you get that thing modded up the bum somehow) or an 8 string Ibanez for pop music that involves three chords and little melody. Use your head. Do some research. In today's world of technology and oh so loving economy, YOU, the musician can also do your own recording with a computer, an interface of some sort (Mbox, M-Audio, random DI Box brand), recording software (Pro Tools, Nuendo, Reaper, Hell even Garageband), two mics (one being a condenser mic which will be used for vocals, and the other a dynamic mic which will be used for everything else. Except bass. Bass is best used Directly into the Interface if you are on budget if you ask me.) and a mic cable and guitar cable. All in all, it shouldn't be that expensive. I'd say if you pick wisely I'd say 400. All the softwares do the same essentially. Some just work better for certain people (I'm a Pro Tools LE 8 user but I've also used Reaper). You just gotta put some learning into it. If you can do that, you can record as much stuff as you want! But you also gotta learn micing placement, tone dialing, eqing, compressing, and a whole other load of stuff worth learning, but if that's not what you want, you may want to just invest your time and money in being a player. So then you'd have to invest time into going to a studio and recording. It may seem expensive, but if you have your act together and practiced your parts (ALL OF YOUR BAND MEMBERS), you can lay down everything with ease and you save time which in turn, saves you money. It also makes the engineer's job more easier, pleasant, and not seem like a job. You'll have a good time and it'll probably come out good with those tips. These are just some tips to help everyone out that should be shared with EVERYONE for the consumer/listener's sake and the musician's also. It will save you from a WHOLE LOT OF HEADACHES that many people like myself have gone through.Contact
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