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progkidjoel 
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Joined: March 02 2009 Location: Australia Status: Offline Points: 19643 |
 Topic: Certif1ed - The "Band"Posted: June 27 2009 at 06:05 |
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Thanks haha... Downloading it now.... *2.5 minutes later* Starting it now... Lovely stereophonics and sonic reproduction quality - And I don't generally notice that sort of Audiophile-ish stuff... 4:14(-ish) Very nice from here on in - Like the heavyness and Porcupine Tree-ness... Very good 
5:05(-ish) Also very much like this part - Really good stereo quality, only thing I may suggest is a slightly cleaner guitar noise. It sounds a little cliche to me - Not a big problem, still great. 6:41(-ish) The guitar noise here is much better, very good. Vocals are a little too low down in the mix. Great guitar work here aswell. 9/10 for this track - Very good, and also very very enjoyable. Thanks for posting it, I'd love to order an album sometime in the future if you ever release one... Will shipping be possible to Australia? 
-Joel |
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Certif1ed
Special Collaborator 
Honorary Collaborator Joined: April 08 2004 Location: England Status: Offline Points: 7559 |
Posted: June 27 2009 at 03:35 |
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I posted it earlier in this thread - it's Pr0gArchives
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progkidjoel
Prog Reviewer
Joined: March 02 2009 Location: Australia Status: Offline Points: 19643 |
Posted: June 26 2009 at 21:56 |
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Certif1ed
I've just attempted to download your MP3, but I've been prompted for a password before I can download. Could you please supply me with this password, or give me another option to download this track? Thankyou, -Joel |
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Certif1ed
Special Collaborator
Honorary Collaborator Joined: April 08 2004 Location: England Status: Offline Points: 7559 |
Posted: May 15 2009 at 16:18 |
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Heh - thanks again for your support, Cobb.
Mixing is very much a joint effort between myself and Andy. He does the technical stuff while I criticise the hell out of it... no change there. I also steal ideas voraciously from sites like Homerecording.com, and submit our mixes there for further criticism.
I've been a bit quiet recently because it looks like an actual band might be forming - no less than 3 additional musicians have been turning up to jam sessions.
The guy I mentioned earlier brought along a song he'd written, that I'll post when we've finally nailed the arrangement (he asked us to "grunge it up a bit", so it now sounds nothing like his original work) - and he's decided that he wants to be a drummer so much that he's gone out and bought a kit!
Have you produced anything recently?
Having heard your earlier material, I'd really like to hear what you can do with a "proper" guitar sound  Edited by Certif1ed - May 15 2009 at 16:24 |
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cobb2
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Joined: November 25 2007 Location: Australia Status: Offline Points: 415 |
Posted: April 30 2009 at 08:21 |
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Driven- nice!
Wait for the contract offers, shouldn't be long... addition shame none of the other 'music lovers' here will probably bother to listen, cause these are two outstanding demos.
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cobb2
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Joined: November 25 2007 Location: Australia Status: Offline Points: 415 |
Posted: April 30 2009 at 08:11 |
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Well done!
Just listened to 'Listen to me'. Excellent mix. I mean it- really good. Whoever does the mixing should be congratulated. This is very professional. Like the vocal harmonies. Thanks for the download, I think its a keeper.
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Certif1ed
Special Collaborator
Honorary Collaborator Joined: April 08 2004 Location: England Status: Offline Points: 7559 |
Posted: April 30 2009 at 06:03 |
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Hey - we're #1 and #5 on Sectionz, we've got track of the week, and some great reviews!
(although I'm not sure that I like our music being compared to Opeth - Rammstein yes, in places, but Opeth????)
 (if the site doesn't load, try again later - it's been a bit dodgy recently) Edited by Certif1ed - April 30 2009 at 06:04 |
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Certif1ed
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Honorary Collaborator Joined: April 08 2004 Location: England Status: Offline Points: 7559 |
Posted: April 18 2009 at 12:49 |
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Driven is our latest opus - we've been collaborating with a guy from work, hence the slower progress than normal. This song sprang from the jams we had around the ideas we had for his song... it's quite different to our usual style (if there is such a thing), and really picks up about half way through the guitar solo - so stick with it!
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Certif1ed
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Honorary Collaborator Joined: April 08 2004 Location: England Status: Offline Points: 7559 |
Posted: March 19 2009 at 13:33 |
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I always appreciate comments, and time spent actually listening to our stuff... thanks!
It's jam night tonight, and I've just bought 2 (yes, 2!) Westone Thunder IIAs - the bass and guitar version, so we definitely won't have any newly completed songs tonight.
So here's one from a couple of months ago; http://www.4shared.com/file/93819817/5a0a92ce/ListenToMe7a.html
We started out calling this the belly dance number, as it was a kind of mickey-take on some of the rubbish on the radio. But it soon evolved into this thing that's half Gabriel, half metal, half 1960s psych rock and half disco-pop or something. Not sure why - it just felt good to do it this way.
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cobb2
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Posted: March 11 2009 at 05:05 |
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Like the start, then like the rocky feel to the main part. Hope you don't mind, but I feel the fade out of the first part and then the thump into the dah-dah guitar could have been better with a gradual build up of the noodling section- overlay some guitars and keys and maybe some non-intrusive percussion (not drums). Gradual build up until you get to level of the dah-dah. Just a thought, cause I like it anyway.
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Certif1ed
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Honorary Collaborator Joined: April 08 2004 Location: England Status: Offline Points: 7559 |
Posted: March 11 2009 at 04:17 |
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Thanks - I got one of my solo project tracks mastered by a guy on Brandon Drury's Home Recording website and realised that this is the main difference between our stuff as it stands and something we can actually feel OK about trying to sell to people. Here's another demo from the now bottomless pit; http://www.4shared.com/file/83874019/221c392/01_FaliingDown5.html
This one is a bit more proggy, in that it has a 4-minute floaty intro with a filter-sweep keyboard sound and a demonstration by of just how much sustain you can get out of a Westone, especially when you keep it on the edge of feeding back. I really like the intro, despite the fact that it's obviously just us mucking about in the studio.
The song that follows is a two-part thing (we're going to drop the key change at the end), and seems to improve with frequent listens - it feels a bit stodgy to start, but it does feel right contextually, even if I could improve the performance considerably.
Anyway, enjoy "Falling Down".
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cobb2
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Posted: March 10 2009 at 17:39 |
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Excellent choice of mastering effects- you have given the song that "shine"- vague way to put it, but that's what I feel mastering does to the final mix.
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Certif1ed
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Honorary Collaborator Joined: April 08 2004 Location: England Status: Offline Points: 7559 |
Posted: March 09 2009 at 05:12 |
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4 months later, and we've been honing our mixing skillz - and I've been getting my teeth into mastering, the final stage on the voyage to getting a real product out there
So this is what I did to Watching "simply" by adding a multi-band compressor, 7-band equaliser, stereo enhancer and limiter to the final (re)mix;
We've got some more tracks to come, since we never stop writing - but by the time I post the newer stuff, I'll have had a chance to rework some of it (songs are never "finished" - they're ALWAYS "In Progress"  ).Edited by Certif1ed - March 09 2009 at 05:13 |
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cobb2
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Joined: November 25 2007 Location: Australia Status: Offline Points: 415 |
Posted: October 31 2008 at 22:19 |
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Much better mix. Everything clearly defined in its pan. Drums, guitar and bass much better balance- it rocks. Vocals finally at a good level. Keyboards coming through like Uriah Heap in their fantasy period- nothing bad about that, I loved Heap. Well done- something to be proud of. |
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Certif1ed
Special Collaborator
Honorary Collaborator Joined: April 08 2004 Location: England Status: Offline Points: 7559 |
Posted: October 31 2008 at 11:29 |
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Watcher remixed - with missing verse and a few tweaks. I think the rhythm guitar still needs to go down a bit in places, and maybe we could trim a bit more fat - but it's getting closer to a finished piece - and just in time for Halloween
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Certif1ed
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Honorary Collaborator Joined: April 08 2004 Location: England Status: Offline Points: 7559 |
Posted: October 27 2008 at 08:43 |
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Hmm - interesting about the tones - Rhythm 1 is using the "Master of Puppets" preset, and Rhythm 2 is using the "Satch Boogie" preset on the Pod XT - we were rather hoping for a modern guitar sound.
That said, I did find the "Master" preset a bit too bottom-oriented, so I cut some of that, to kill the boom, and removed the reverb and cut the presence on the Satch Boogie so it didn't cut through too much or muck up the "thrashy" riffs.
I really don't know when we can release anything beyond prototype, as we simply don't seem to have enough time (we get 3 hours most Thursday nights, and that's it) - and there are about 20 songs which we reckon are good enough to let people hear.
With positive feedback like this, though, I think we'll be concentrating on getting a good mix/arrangement (and redoing vox and solos) in the new year, and maybe release a 4-track EP in the first quarter. The other song I mentioned will probably be the 4th - I'll stick it up here after our next 3-hour session, provided we can come up with some lyrics...
We don't know any drummers though, and the production is going to have to be a hand-rolled job... we're getting better, but neither of us will make George Martin look over his shoulder...
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cobb2
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Joined: November 25 2007 Location: Australia Status: Offline Points: 415 |
Posted: October 24 2008 at 17:37 |
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Thoughts as I listen:
For a first take this has loads of potential. The song structure is interesting and appealing, but not in a popular, commercial sense, I think. Again good hooks in the melody. The tone on the heavy, crunchy guitars give it a dated feel (hence the hawkwind- I think). Given full production and real drums, this observance would probably disappear. An excellent mix for (as you call them) 'prototype'. When are we going to hear something that is beyond the prototype stage? |
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Certif1ed
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Honorary Collaborator Joined: April 08 2004 Location: England Status: Offline Points: 7559 |
Posted: October 24 2008 at 17:20 |
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Hmm - I just tried it (on my laptop instead of my desktop), and got the file OK - and I see there have been 4 downloads...
Try again - and if you still can't get it, there's some more of our stuff on http://www.myspace.com/Certif1ed - I've put Liar, Liar and Getting Away With It up there, and I'll stick this song up there once we've worked on the arrangement a bit - I agree that there are way too many chorus iterations, and the rhythm guitars are too loud - and everything Negoba said.
The solo guitar is low for a reason - it's just noodle. I do try to make my solos have a logical flow that fits the song, but in this case, I just wanted something to give an idea of what the song would sound like with a solo in there.
We've got another session booked for Thursday - so hopefully we'll work on this some more, but we've got yet another song in the pipeline, which is a metal/trance/techno fusion...
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Alberto Muņoz
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Joined: July 26 2006 Location: Mexico Status: Offline Points: 3577 |
Posted: October 24 2008 at 12:49 |
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Cert this error appear:
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Alberto Muņoz
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Joined: July 26 2006 Location: Mexico Status: Offline Points: 3577 |
Posted: October 24 2008 at 12:31 |
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I will download and listen your music.
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