Cert's Music

Modern Man is really good. It sounds like a cross between Up The Downstair and FOABP era Porcupine Tree!

I love the intro, very clever.

I can see that last one was really popular... 6 downloads and no comment...

Is it Prog?????????????????

Certif1ed wrote: OK, lets go with this mix...   It's not perfect, but I think the 4 sections are a bit more polished: I'm still not completely happy with the bass in the verses, but at least it's tight.   There are some "smudges" between sections that you might notice - they're worse near the start of the piece, as we seemed to concentrate all our attention on the atmospherics in the 2nd and 4th sections, which have turned out better than we imagined.   The guitar atmospherics were the biggest surprise - I just experimented with different settings on the Pod, combining these with odd playing techniques and feedback control in real time - so it's completely unreproducible live in terms of note-for-note interpretation - and they really make it hard to distinguish between what is synth and what is guitar, which is a border I've been trying to smudge for ages.   The guitar solo is still the original single take - so is subject to change - but I think it's got a kind of 1970s charm the way it is, hence I'm not too embarrassed to let people hear it.   There's no vocal harmonies yet either - so this piece is far from finished, and will sound very different when it hits our MySpace page - but it's our epic, and our one and only Prog Rock track... or is it?   Anyway, I've published this folder for the exclusive enjoyment of my friends - and the derision of my enemies - here at ProgArchives; http://www.4shared.com/dir/2520511/c9583a45/In_Progress.html   (The password is the name of your favourite site, with the P and the A capitalised).

I've listened to this song once, and my first impression is that it is very nice! Can't put my finger on many things I don't enjoy, except for this one drum pattern that I feel gets a bit overused throughout the song... But that's just my opinion! Great work anyway

OK, lets go with this mix...

um... sorry... I'll have to pull it (although I see someone's downloaded the lot - when we get famous, those'll be worth at least a bag of crisps!).

Edited by Certif1ed - April 20 2007 at 18:25

I like to think of it as creating an air of enigma...

I've already emailled the guys at Soundcheck about the usability.

Sometimes the link seems to take you to a page with 4 large blue icons, one of which reads "Media". Clicking on this takes you to a "Gallery", which contains two icons, one of which is marked "Music". This icon takes you to the fully playable set - if you find it, please skip to You Really Don't Get It, Disturbed and/or Goldfish, as they're the tracks we've worked on most recently.

Getting to this page is a bit hit and miss - sometimes the link above takes you to a completely different page, which only allows two or three pieces to be played.

I found a solution was to click on Soundcheck in the menu, then Profile. This took me to the page with 4 large icons that I described above.

You can also do a band search for Certif1ed, and the large icons page should appear.

I don't know why it works this way - but it's another free way of getting my music on the web, which can't be a bad thing.

I'll keep looking for more...
    

Edited by Certif1ed - November 17 2006 at 06:21

    I don't know why, but I could only get two tracks to play. Anyway, good work Cert. Very cool stuff.

Here's a couple more, both with severe mixing issues, but more or less complete as pieces.

This time they're in a friendly zip file;

Tracks on YouSendIt.com for 7 days from the date of this post ONLY


GOLDFISH is completely unmixed, but we kinda like the rawness of it. Obviously we will be twiddling the knobs in due course, because it clips like crazy - just about all channels were recorded in the red, just like Blue Cheer's "Outside Inside", but there's only so far you can push it before it just sounds naff.

Maybe I'll re-record some of the noodling - but it's so full of "happy accidents" that I'm tempted to keep all of it.


You Really Don't Get It is 2 years old now, and mostly re-written. I really tried to do something a bit different in the guitar solo - but was probably only 50% successful. More re-writing needed, but the direction of this song has changed so completely that it's probably worth an airing. Spot the bit I "stole" from "Modern Man" (available on our MySpace site).


As usual, all comments will be shot down in flames... I mean, warmly appreciated


...and I still haven't heard any of Kevin Moore's stuff yet - well, he never listens to mine...
    
    

Edited by Certif1ed - October 23 2006 at 05:54

Nope, sounds fine apart from that. Keep it up