Post your (own) HM demos here!

Fred- The password is at the top of the page.

And Mark, I will indeed start writing thrash songs, but right now, being able to consistently get down to writing songs, recording and production etc etc, is not something I can be sure I can do on a regular basis anymore, because I've got a lot of other music projects happening with friends right now, and that's my priority. Maybe Mike can join you on a thrash challenge, but I really just kinda wanted to do it more for the fun of it when I find the time, but yet still get feedback on my work, although I didn't mean for the fun of it in terms of just throwing together poorly written/ recorded songs, just not really up for 3 month challenge.

For me, I love pretty much all the 80s thrash period, from the early eighties right up to the early 90s stuff really (and of course, as some of you guys may know by now, Rust In Peace is my favorite thrash album of all time).
While making some attempts at the NWOBHM, i felt a bit limited by the soloing style, but thrash opens up the doors to more techniques to be incorporated.
Obviously the earlier 80s stuff was not so technical, mainly a lot of fast pentatonic licks, with more alternate picking than a lot of NWoBHM stuff, but obviously after a while, we had guys going for something more technical than the standard fare Hammett/Mustaine soloing style, to the more technicallly astute Marty Friedman, Alex Skolnick etc, you know the drill and personally I am to play the more technical lead style.
I must really work on my rhythm chops again, not as tight as it was about 6-7 months ago.

For once, I'm speechless...

Edited by Certif1ed - July 25 2008 at 04:11

They are a pretty pathetic lot here when it comes to getting feedback. Is everybody afraid of offending? Anyway, I'll give you some feedback.

Walk the Walk- This is the best one you have put up, and no, I'm not going to comment about the production- that is not you are trying to do or what it is about. This song could easily be put into full production by any band. Even the mumbles could be kept, but replaced with some news, documentary dialog. The lead was particularly well constructed, especially the 2 breaks- loved em. And you did it in a couple of hours- sh!t phenomenal!!! Had to listen to it again. This one should be done again as a studio production (even if it is a home production- I'm sure you know what I mean) and mastered out. It would make an excellent demo.

Thanks for listening to the music instead of the production

Certif1ed wrote: Bludgeoning Spawn of Hell's Cesspits   http://www.myspace.com/bludgeoningspawn     Rock On.

You metal heads are all the same




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No - I can't scream or growl (convincingly!), as I mentioned earlier, and I don't have time to work on my vocals to make them better, more's the pity. I don't think my falsetto's any more annoying than, say, King Diamond...

Edited by Certif1ed - July 21 2008 at 03:53

You should be able to click the links and enter the password NWoBHM - I just tried (after completely singing out of 4Shared and deleting all temporary files and cookies, so it didn't recognise me), and they all worked.

Edited by Certif1ed - July 21 2008 at 02:47

Certif1ed wrote: and also the links to my demos.

Cert,
no matter how hard I try i cannot access this file...sorry.
can you upload it to your myspace and/or garageband pages ?

also, do you have your own personal web site ?





Edited by Utah Man - July 19 2008 at 12:02

Certif1ed wrote: What do you think about the overall production? Does kinda mind me of the old 80s stuff, if that's what you're aiming for (And I'm listening to some old Judas Priest right now anyway). I spent about an hour re-EQing all the tracks, concentrating mainly on getting a good rhythm guitar tone; I rolled off the bass and treble on every track, although I was a bit light-handed when it came to the bass, as I hate spoiling the thunderous sound of my Thunder 1A. I may have pulled it back too much, though... Just realised we had one one of those basses at school but think it a lower end version of what you have. I couldn't hear a lot of bass, turn it up a little in the mix I also removed compression from everything except the bass (all bass players worth their salt use a compressor!), which means that the "acousticy" bit in the intro is a bit rough - but maybe that adds atmosphere? Getting rid of  the compression was nice actually, it just sounds better now and the sound isn't trying to slam itself in my face like over compressed pop, so good job there   Once I'd done that, I balanced the tracks through monitors (my HiFi speakers...), and finished off by adding a light hall reverb to the entire mix, then bringing the volume up to -0.3db. I completed the mastering using Wavepad (a freely donwloadable program), Normalising the entire waveform, before using Wavepad to render the Wav down to mp3. Hopefully there's enough volume and detail in the mix now.   I'm still using entirely free software (in the tight budget spirit of this project) - but I reckon I could get an even better mix out of it - it's just that my ears are a bit tired of that track now (I'm not a Pro engineer, and never have been!). Any thoughts would be helpful, as they may spark off ideas.   What about the mix sucks?   What about the mix rocks (so's I can keep it!)? The mix is fairly good, but not great, work on it a little.     If I get some time alone in the house before 28th July (which is unlikely), I'll redo the vocals, but otherwise, that's pretty much it, short of going through the 6-7 takes I made and copying and pasting shorter sections (cheating, in other words!).   I'd like to hear Rob Halford improvise something better at 2:30 in the afternoon on a Sunday, in the space of an hour, including all the harmonies - and vox and harmonies for 2 other songs at the same time, none of which have pre-written lyrics or melodies.   I don't doubt he could do it, I'd just like to hear it, so I can nick some ideas Haha, don't worry, you have the advantage of perfect pitch so even if your voice isn't 'great' at least it's in tune. Since I don't have perfect pitch and have never had singing lessons, I couldn't ever expect to be in key I usually laugh at my own attempts to sing Track 3 will be forthcoming shortly (track 2 needs a lot of work!). Looking forward to it

Downloaded 19f.mp3.
Not bad Mark, good song structure and playing But as expected, the vocals weren't exactly Rob Halford or Bruce Dickinson
I'm gonna upload some sorta improvised stuff soon, mainly a riff I've written out, with some silly lead improvisation thrown in too