Comments on: Building Fences (updated)

By: choppp

choppp — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 09:59:13 +0000

So when do we get more recordings? How is music overall going? I’ve had Building Fences stuck in my head all week and i end up catching myself sing it all the time haha.

By: Radjago

Radjago — Thu, 29 May 2008 17:52:47 +0000

There is an application that will allow you to use the drums from Rock Band as a drum machine on any Windows PC.

http://andrewrudson.com/drummachine/main.php

It doesn’t give you the full versatility of a drum kit, but it’s nice for making demos and whatnot.

By: HappyNoodle

HappyNoodle — Thu, 29 May 2008 03:46:19 +0000

The lyrics and music go really well together. Good stuff.

Are you ever going to accept my challenge for a Pikmin 2 duel you cowardly hippy?

By: Amlash

Amlash — Fri, 23 May 2008 03:28:26 +0000

Chris, It was an 11 MB zip file, probably 6 songs? I sent it on March 6th.

By: Chris Remo

Chris Remo — Thu, 22 May 2008 08:13:15 +0000

Amlash:
How big were the files? They may not have gotten to my inbox.

Firefreak:
Thanks! I used Acid Pro 6.0 to record everything; I’ve been using Acid for about eight years now, and I still know hardly anything about recording or mixing, haha. I basically just treat it as a multi-track recorder: plug in the mic, record the track.
The only real mixing was adjusting track volumes. I added some reverb in post here and there and did some eq’ing on the drums because I didn’t set the mics up very well. Honestly my production skills are nonexistent. I wish I knew more!

By: Firefreak

Firefreak — Thu, 22 May 2008 05:09:21 +0000

Heya — sounds good! How did you process all the different recording tracks (what software) and how much post-processing (mixing) did you do (apart from what you wrote in the update)?
As a learning sound engineer I’m curious about others work.

By: Amlash

Amlash — Mon, 19 May 2008 02:19:32 +0000

Hey Chris, I emailed you some music of mine a few months ago just to see what you thought after one of your music postings, but I never heard anything. Should I assume you didn’t ever get it, or interpret your silence as cold hard rejection?

By: Chris Remo

Chris Remo — Sun, 18 May 2008 08:06:58 +0000

Thanks! What I meant though is that the original recording (sans drums) was made without a metronome, so it wasn’t really perfectly in tempo–it’s weird to play drums against something like that, rather than behind something, if you know what I mean.

By: choppp

choppp — Sun, 18 May 2008 08:03:33 +0000

holy shit chris, this sounds really great! I was recording with drum tracks recently too, and getting used to playing with a metronome took a while for me to get used to too. but keep up the good work, i can’t wait to hear more