Wil Posted May 12, 2013 Share Posted May 12, 2013 (edited) My band and I have been recording our debut album over the last year and it's finally done, bar choosing running order and packaging it etc - here's the title track: [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrhYKuocjMg[/media] Edited May 14, 2013 by Wil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oggy Posted May 14, 2013 Share Posted May 14, 2013 Hi Wil I really liked it. For some reason, probably the synth sounding whatever in the background, it reminded me of the Cars - In my book that's a compliment, I hope you feel the same. Can you tell me / us a bit more about your band lineup, the recording process and songs - who, what, where, when? Do you guys have a web site? Nice one. Oggy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wil Posted May 14, 2013 Author Share Posted May 14, 2013 (edited) [quote name='Oggy' timestamp='1368559031' post='2078602'] Hi Wil I really liked it. For some reason, probably the synth sounding whatever in the background, it reminded me of the Cars - In my book that's a compliment, I hope you feel the same. Can you tell me / us a bit more about your band lineup, the recording process and songs - who, what, where, when? Do you guys have a web site? Nice one. Oggy [/quote] Thanks mate. We self financed it and recorded at a local studio in Bristol called Bink Bonk, tracked the drums for the album first with the intention of recording the rest at home but then decided to go back and track the rest there. In advance of even going near the studio we made proper demos of all the tracks at home so we knew what we wanted to record, although things turned out different on a few tracks and a few were abandoned. As for the lineup, we're a typical four piece with 2 guitars, bass and drums. I play "lead" guitar, I suppose, more like auxillery though IMO Yes, I know, this is a bass forum, but I still play bass at home and might do in bands in future As far as the actual recording went, here goes... The synth sound is actually me playing with an e-bow (I play guitar these days, my brother plays bass) with a bit of delay from my Deluxe Memory Boy. I couldn't really tell you what the engineer used in terms of mics but he close mic'd every part of the drum kit and also used a couple of overheads, and ran into Logic via an old 70s desk of some description and a whole ton of outboard kit. For guitar sounds for most of the record I ran my Strat through a pair of AC30s (a modern CC2 and a 60s model) at the same time and our singer's guitar was run through a JCM800 and JCM900 again at the same time - we double tracked them also. Bass was originally recorded with my old parts P bass but we werent happy with the sound so my brother went back and retracked the whole record with his lovely G&L Asat, recorded with a mix of Sansamp VT bass and re-amped through a big old SWR solid state rig and also a Fender Bassman. The lovely cello was recorded by our drummer's girlfriend who is exceptionally good - she plays on a few tracks on the record, I wish she'd played on more in hindsight as it really sounds great I think! Plenty of pics of our studio time here: [url="http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.242422249212213.54301.166836263437479&type=3"]http://www.facebook....63437479&type=3[/url] And our band page is here: [url="http://www.facebook.com/ShogunMusicUK"]http://www.facebook.com/ShogunMusicUK[/url] - we've got about 11 tracks finished and a few videos planned so more stuff will be posted up soon, thanks for listening Edited May 14, 2013 by Wil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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