Post your (own) HM demos here!

Since my original NWoBHM "War" thread is currently borked, I'm going to stick my updates in here, until it's fixed - and also the links to my demos.

Edited by Certif1ed - July 07 2008 at 08:27

Mark, unfortunately since my download limit per month is restricted to a measly 2 gigabytes before I get my connection speed cut back to 64bkps, I've been trying to conserve what I've got left to perhaps upload some of my recordings onto here.
if your files are individual, I might at the very least download one and listen to that.

Obviously wavs sound better...

Edited by Certif1ed - July 10 2008 at 09:35

I'll sort out EQ'ing and stuff when I come to do the fine-tune stuff in the mix.

Come on people, am I seriously the only other person that is going to respond to Mark?

Thanks for uploading it to MP3, I'll download it soon and comment on it
Honestly, the difference between a 320kbps mp3 and a Wave file is not enough to have any real negative impact on the listening experience, at least for me anyway, so I'm certainly not bothered by that.

EDIT: Very odd, can't find the mp3 version
My download limit per month is only 2 gigabytes, so you can see why downloading wav format is a problem.
By the time I would have downloaded not only your stuff, but other stuff I need, I wouldn't have enough download limit left to upload my own stuff to be listened to.

I clicked on the original link on the first post again, and mp3 file still not showing Try uploading it again if you can.



Edited by HughesJB4 - July 12 2008 at 03:58

The 64 bit drivers are in, nice I'm eagerly awaiting something good from you Mike

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

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

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