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    Angel Arm EP

    in Post Your Original Music!

    Posted

    Why yes, I am starting another thread to pimp my shit.

    Lamda Ecks is staying up until the end of this week or so because I'm a lazy jerkoff and also because I just promoted it last night at my old college's Open Mic Night so maybe some people are gonna go download it. (Nobody is going to download it.)

    In the meantime, I finally finished an accompanying EP with a song that I planned to include on Lamda Ecks until it became a concept album. It's a conceptual piece highly inspired by the Protomen that focuses on the main characters of the anime/manga series Trigun. It's a dirty, grimy piece and my vocals aren't exactly the best I've ever done, but there's desperation in there (and I tried to rerecord it like fifty times but I'm terrible so it always sucked), maybe I could've worked on it more but I don't have the original mix file right now so it's moot. This is the final version. Sometimes you just put stuff out and hope you can do better next time.

    Included also is a better-mixed version of Mancubus Down (that I think you already all heard in the Zombie Soldiers soundtrack but I'm considering adding my original May 2009 demo to that at some point) and FEED's Transcribe remix of Future; the winner of my remix contest (which I think had a whole three entires. Sadface.) plus a fucking NEW cover of Fascination Street by The Cure. That and the title track are the selling points of this thing.

    So at least listen to it. Tell me if it sucks.

    http://onslaughtsix.bandcamp.com/album/angel-arm

    New OCR Project: Star Fox

    in Recruit & Collaborate!

    Posted

    For arrangements.

    I hate this "don't use the same sounds" crap. I fucking hate it. Why do people get bent out of shape for using the same sound?

    Are rock bands shitty for not changing their drum kit on every single track they record? What about the guitars? Does the guitar player have to change their guitar or guitar sound on every single song?

    Where is the logic here?

    Can an album not use the same Steinway Grand Piano on every song? Do you have to find a different Steinway Grand Piano for each piano recording?

    Yes, it's fine to change the sound a little bit, and guitar FX are nice, but asking to change the sound on every recording is, well, "crap if you ask me."

    But hey, what do I know? I "use the same crap in every song." (that's a direct quote from my girl - she didn't mean for it to sound that way, but I guess she's right. But she also listens to my music so whatever.)

    Sorry, just heard a lot of this lately and it bugs me.

    On a lighter note, this is awesome, except "boring, repetitive crap" because it uses the same snare on all four tracks:

    http://projectdolphin.bandcamp.com/album/silvergun

    Wasn't aware I was touching a nerve. But I like how everyone's all "Concept album means it's okay!" even though I just wrote a concept album and every song has its own individual feel. But hey.

    My point is that a lot of bands that don't change things up, stuff *does* start to get repetitive after a while. I love Arch Enemy but I usually can't listen to more than half of an album at a time because all the guitars sound exactly the same in every song. After a while, it just gives me a headache. What's even weirder is that this didn't bother me before, but it seems like ever since I started making music, it has. Weird.

    And actually I just gave those four tracks a brief skim, and yeah, I 'can' tell it's the same snare. And it wasn't even one I particularly liked.

    I'd rather not start a flamewar here, I voiced my opinion and now I'll respectfully bow out.

    New OCR Project: Star Fox

    in Recruit & Collaborate!

    Posted

    Yikes, gotta say I don't like how you've decided to go forth with this at all. Especially the bits about "You'll mostly only be working in MIDI," which begs the question of why the hell even get someone else to do that part? You'd be the one choosing the sounds, then, which, to me, reduces well over half the control I, as an artist or collaborator, have over my synth.

    The other part is "The same acoustic drumkit, same guitar, same bass," for every song. That's...well, boring, repetitive and crap if you ask me. I try to never use the same guitar sounds for another song without tweaking them 'somewhat.' The same with drums--if I can help it, I try to never use the same combinations of drums.

    I dunno, to me it seems like you're trying too hard to make it "cohesive" while in the same respect taking away the individuality of everybody working on it. As a control freak, I can understand why you'd want to do all that but it begs the question--with you doing so much of the parts yourself, why would you even need us?

    Industrial Metal Concept Album: Lamda Ecks Preview Week!

    in Post Your Original Music!

    Posted

    Well, I'm a lazy fuck and I need money to actually release Lamda Ecks for consumption.

    But I decided I've hyped it enough, and it's done anyway. There's no point in not letting people hear it...at least for a week, right?

    So, for the next week, listen to Lamda Ecks, streaming on Bandcamp. Come Sunday, it's going back to hidden until I get $500 to press 500 copies.

    http://onslaughtsix.bandcamp.com/album/x-enter-the-machine

    And in the mean time, here's some demos from the new album, Serious Songs For Serious Earth, which will probably be finished by the end of the year at this rate.

    http://onslaughtsix.bandcamp.com/album/serious-songs-for-serious-earth-demos

    If you enjoy what you're hearing, consider buying one of my older albums so I can get money to press Lamda Ecks?

    Automated panning?

    in Music Composition & Production

    Posted

    ...really?

    Yeah, I'm with you. :P

    Fruity Panomatic has a built in LFO setting, works great and it's included with FL.
    if your on ableton, then use the Auto pan in audio effects library, if in fl studio 9, use fruity panomatic plugin.

    Thanks a bunch, I'll give that a try at home over the weekend. There's so many of those included plugins, half the time I forget they're even there...

    Automated panning?

    in Music Composition & Production

    Posted

    I'm trying to find a VST plugin that will pan a channel between the right and left automatically and sync to the tempo of the song--right now I'm using mda RoundPan but it doesn't sync to the tempo, I have to do it manually.

    You can hear the effect I want in the hi-hats in the beginning of Devin Townsend's Things Beyond Things:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2j--lwDc0DY&fmt=18

    I wanna be able to do that but synched to the tempo. Kind of like how Fruity Delay works, I dig that plugin.

    New Demo: The Shredder

    in Post Your Original Music!

    Posted

    http://www.sendspace.com/file/qjvxz2

    While waiting for funding for my industrial metal album, I've decided to go forward with my other album idea: Basic thrash/classic metal stuff (Metallica crossed with Judas Priest basically) with an entirely non-serious tone. This song's about The Shredder, and the lyrics reflect this attitude towards seriousness. (One of the lines is "Tonight I dine on Turtle Soup; put you where you belong.")

    It's a rough demo mix obviously but give it a listen and throw me some feedback.

    Onslaught Six Remix Contest!

    in Post Your Original Music!

    Posted

    Actually, er, I can't, the best option it's giving me is FLAC, but for some reason when I try to download it, the resulting file is just silence.

    EDIT: Nevermind, I decided to try uploading it to Bandcamp anyway and it worked. You guys can't see it now, of course, because the single is (right now, anyway) scheduled to get released in October...maybe. I dunno!

    Also, I really like how you two guys' remixes work in entirely opposite ways. DJ Gram's is clearly electronic in nature while Fernito's is nice, quiet orchestral organic stuff. And they both play off my original melodies really well. I'm amazed to see this come from the basic riffy ideas I had in my bedroom. (And honestly--the music in a lot of my stuff feels more like a backing for my lyrical ideas, so to see this kind of attention paid to the music itself makes me happy.)

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