July 12 2006 : Apocalypse in 4/4. See below.
July 22 2006 : 'Jakob's Revenge version 8', which is further down the thread (http://clockworkmansion.com/forum/index.php?topic=548.msg12753#msg12753)
Aug 12 2006 : Tape flanging (http://clockworkmansion.com/forum/index.php?topic=548.msg20581#msg20581)
Sep 1 2006 : Shadow over Merthyr (http://clockworkmansion.com/forum/index.php?topic=548.msg29056#msg29056)
Sep 25 2006 : What did Daniel think he was? (http://clockworkmansion.com/forum/index.php?topic=548.msg42006#msg42006)
Dec 6 2006 : 'Sheeps' (http://clockworkmansion.com/forum/index.php?topic=548.msg69200#msg69200)
Dec 31/Jan 1 : 'Operation Wendigo' - from the Foxfire Chronicles (http://clockworkmansion.com/forum/index.php?topic=548.msg76940#msg76940)
Jan 28 2007 : 'The musings of Jakob Pettersohn upon the time when he was once known as Johan Cross' - first draft (http://clockworkmansion.com/forum/index.php?topic=548.msg85150#msg85150)
Mar 6 2007 : 'The musings of Jakob Pettersohn upon the time when he was once known as Johan Cross' - first complete version (http://clockworkmansion.com/forum/index.php?topic=548.msg97609#msg97609)
Apr 14 2007 : 'Abel's Theme - Gothic version' (http://clockworkmansion.com/forum/index.php?topic=548.msg106974#msg106974)
May 6 2007 : 'Mr. Apocalypse' initial draft (http://clockworkmansion.com/forum/index.php?topic=548.msg112424#msg112424)
May 28 2007 : 'The death of a thousand splices, or "The authentic sound of sawdust"' (http://clockworkmansion.com/forum/index.php?topic=548.msg118669#msg118669)
Aug 19 2007 : 'Kidnap 3' (http://clockworkmansion.com/forum/index.php?topic=548.msg139350#msg139350)
Sep 13 2007 : 'The Dark Price of Eternal Youth' (http://clockworkmansion.com/forum/index.php?topic=548.msg144413#msg144413)
Nov 12 2007 : 'Three Little Pigs, part II (http://clockworkmansion.com/forum/index.php/topic,548.msg157937.html#msg157937)
Jan 12 2008 : 'Three Little Pigs, Part IV - The Next, A Pig On Fire (http://clockworkmansion.com/forum/index.php/topic,548.msg171287.html#msg171287)
Mar 11 2008 : 'Three Little Pigs, Part V - The Third Pig's Watery Grave (http://clockworkmansion.com/forum/index.php/topic,548.msg181175.html#msg181175)
Apr 07 2008 : 'Three Little Pigs, Part III - The First Pig's Laid In Clay (http://clockworkmansion.com/forum/index.php/topic,548.msg185919.html#msg185919)
Aug 03 2008 : 'The Incubus Song' (http://clockworkmansion.com/forum/index.php/topic,548.msg213466.html#msg213466)
Sep 04 2008 : 'I'm All Machine' (http://clockworkmansion.com/forum/index.php/topic,548.msg223941.html#msg223941)
Oct 08 2008 : 'Professional Suicide' (http://clockworkmansion.com/forum/index.php/topic,548.msg234385.html#msg234385)
Nov 19 2008 : 'Fish Sticks', take 3 follows (http://clockworkmansion.com/forum/index.php/topic,548.msg247373.html#msg247373)
Jan 19 2009 : 'Tome of Demonography' (http://clockworkmansion.com/forum/index.php/topic,548.msg257033.html#msg257033)
April 05 2009 : '...And Daryil Answered' (http://clockworkmansion.com/forum/index.php/topic,548.msg273369.html#msg273369)
Sept 01 2009 : 'Super Funk Time' (http://clockworkmansion.com/forum/index.php/topic,548.msg295034.html#msg295034)
Nov 09 2009 : 'The Ballad of Daniel LaGrange' (http://clockworkmansion.com/forum/index.php/topic,548.msg303430.html#msg303430)
Mar 05 2010 : 'Niall's Song' (http://clockworkmansion.com/forum/index.php/topic,548.msg315200.html#msg315200)
Sep 05 2010 : 'Demon Hunter' (http://clockworkmansion.com/forum/index.php/topic,548.msg338088.html#msg338088)
Mar 09 2011 : 'Heaven's Army' (http://clockworkmansion.com/forum/index.php/topic,548.msg348554.html#msg348554)
Jul 31 2011 : 'Song of Keaton, take 1' (http://clockworkmansion.com/forum/index.php/topic,548.msg354458.html#msg354458)
Dec 30 2011 : 'Baklawa Doom, Part 3 - The End of the World' (http://clockworkmansion.com/forum/index.php/topic,548.msg358813.html#msg358813)
Apr 15 2012 : 'Sacred Jaguar 2012' (http://clockworkmansion.com/forum/index.php/topic,548.msg361567.html#msg361567)
May 13 2012 : 'The New War' (http://clockworkmansion.com/forum/index.php/topic,548.msg362483.html#msg362483)
Jul 8 2012: 'The Age of Daryil' (http://clockworkmansion.com/forum/index.php/topic,548.msg363874.html#msg363874)
Jul 15 2012: 'Born With Wings' (http://clockworkmansion.com/forum/index.php/topic,548.msg364169.html#msg364169)
Aug 29 2012: 'A Fae Story' (http://clockworkmansion.com/forum/index.php/topic,548.msg365428.html#msg365428)
Oct 12 2012: 'The Murder Game' (http://clockworkmansion.com/forum/index.php/topic,548.msg366441.html#msg366441)
Mar 24 2013: 'Monty on the Run' (http://clockworkmansion.com/forum/index.php/topic,548.msg370261.html#msg370261)
May 19 2013 : 'The Man Who Should Be King' (http://clockworkmansion.com/forum/index.php/topic,548.msg371434.html#msg371434)
Jun 30 2013 : 'Young Human (2013)' (http://clockworkmansion.com/forum/index.php/topic,548.msg372146.html#msg372146)
Aug 26 2013 : 'A Song about Clan Daryil - take 1 (http://clockworkmansion.com/forum/index.php/topic,548.msg373044.html#msg373044)
Apr 06 2014 : 'A Hundred Years' or, 'The SAIA Song' - take 1 (http://clockworkmansion.com/forum/index.php/topic,548.msg376770.html#msg376770)
Feb 21 2017 : 'Saludora' - take 1 (http://clockworkmansion.com/forum/index.php/topic,548.msg384966.html#msg384966)
Apr 16 2017 : 'Numerology' - take 1 (http://clockworkmansion.com/forum/index.php/topic,548.msg385392.html#msg385392)
..these are links to the thread, not direct links to the music, by the way :)
Here's some of my weird music - 'Apocalypse in 4/4':
http://www.dougtheeagle.com/stuff/apoc5v.mp3
..it's kind of big, 13MB. The distortion on the vocals was actually an accident, but I liked the effect and kept it rather than find out which bit was overloading (probably the compressor).
This is a proof-of-concept and thus done on the computer rather than multitrack tape. Because of this, the mix is god-awful and the vocals are basically done to the minimum acceptable standard.
One final word of warning, dyed-in-the-wool fundies might not like the subject matter. Personally I don't think it's much more blasphemous than The Prophecy. Except it's about some evil genius who's amassed an army of Jesus clones. Whatever.
I like the lyrics a lot, that's a great concept... Wierdly enough, I was pondering something along those lines the other day. The Aztecs thought Cortes was their god who had returned to them, and this asissted the Spaniards in conquering the unwitting Aztecs. I thought, what if... aliens or such came to Earth in the form of Jesus as a military tactic? 'Twoud be interesting.
Nice surprise ending. ^^ Plot twist in life!
Yeah, I really like this. Great music, great lyrics. Even though I don't like the distortion, I still couldn't turn it off before it finished. Good stuff.
Off to Meggido, to challenge the armies of the one who used to be known as the Son of the Morning. :januscat
This is version 8 of Jakob's Revenge - a song based on the backstory I wrote for Furrae Chronicles.
The last version I posted on The Nice was like version 5 or something, with a few clips from the end of v7.
http://www.jpmorris.force9.co.uk/music/test/jakob8.mp3
I'm still not completely happy with the vocals, and it loses it near the end - the Revox has taken to changing speed at the end of 5" reels. If it's not something simple like the pinch roller or backtension, or simply that it's too damn hot, I'll have to get it serviced.
Jackob's revenge is not bad! :)
the melody sounds like it should be a battle theme for an epic RPG. thus with the lyrics its sounds like thats what it is and you remixed it :D
someone should make a flash of this with jesus clones fighting everything :]
Quote from: Moekii on July 22, 2006, 11:02:13 AM
the melody sounds like it should be a battle theme for an epic RPG. thus with the lyrics its sounds like thats what it is and you remixed it :D
someone should make a flash of this with jesus clones fighting everything :]
That really confused me before I realised your were talking about the first song and not the new one :) I've edited the first post, it should be clearer now.
And yeah, the horns are the same ones Bal-Sagoth use, from the Roland Orchestral ROM. A lot of ideas on this song came from Bal-Sagoth (musically - not lyrically).
The new version of Jacob's Revenge definitely sounds much better than the last full version I've heard. The "I'm coming you get you!" sounds much more threatening than before, very nice. Don't really like how you would sing "thugs to do my will" and "before my knighted throan" but that's just me. :januscat
wow the new one sounds like the Evil Dude's themesong for some Disney movie :D gj
I agree with Lysander about the "I'm coming to get you!" They seem better timed, making them more intimidating. I actually like the 'will' and 'throne,' it sounds more determined and ticked off, IMHO. The "If I don't get them, no one will" startled me, since I was wearing headphones, it was right at my ear and made me jump. That was really cool.
Crime lords, woot!
Ah yeah. That's what I get for not thinking and tring to listen to something carefully in a hurry. :januscat
Ah yes, the timing is excellent in the latest Jakob's Revenge!
Not so much a song as an experiment. After listening to 'Valentyne Suite' by Colosseum, I decided it was time to try my hand at some good old-fashioned tape phasing or 'flanging' as it is sometimes known.
http://www.jpmorris.force9.co.uk/music/flanging.wav.mp3
..it's not quite up-to-scratch but hopefully you can hear the effect. It is achieved by running two tape recorders with the same recording, and by varying the speed on one machine, bringing them in and out of sync (which results in signal cancellation).
One of the most famous songs to do this is 'Itchycoo Park' by the Small Faces.
meh sounds cool...
you should use less bass though....
I'm going to try and start watching this thread now, too. I needed to get into the art subforum more, I've never been sure I have that much to add though beyond support.
Anyway, I like the latest Jakob, mostly because the track makes me feel nostalgic, I'm not sure what that is but it reminds me of certain British bands I used to listen to long ago. That might just be because of your voice and accent though, Tape. I'd say they're definitely a keen asset to your creative works, it helps to give the music a slightly more rough, thrashy feel to it.
I'm not sure if that's what you had intended, though.
Anyway, I'll be listening to new pieces as they arrive in the thread.
Got it!
http://www.jpmorris.force9.co.uk/music/flanging2.wav.mp3
There is something bad going on at the zero crossing point though, but it only seems to be especially audible if both channels are present. In mono it doesn't seem to be such a problem.
This one is using a slightly different technique where you set both machines up as tape delays and vary the speed until they match and cause phase cancellation. It's a lot easier than trying to match up two prerecorded bits.
Quote from: Rowne on August 12, 2006, 08:05:38 PM
I'm going to try and start watching this thread now, too. I needed to get into the art subforum more, I've never been sure I have that much to add though beyond support.
Oh, that's always welcome - it helps you know if you're on the right track. I wasn't sure about the carnival music in the SAIA#3 demo for example, but people seemed to like it so it stayed. Otherwise I would have tried to write something else.
QuoteAnyway, I like the latest Jakob, mostly because the track makes me feel nostalgic, I'm not sure what that is but it reminds me of certain British bands I used to listen to long ago.
I think the tape delay on the lead vocals worked nicely - I feel it gives an early 1970s touch to it. (Possibly because the delay unit is older than me.) One of the other vintage effects I was trying to replicate in that song was the weird organ bassline from 'Killer' by Van Der Graaf Generator. I applied (guitar pedal) phasing, an enormous amount of delay and actually bounced it back onto the master at half-speed (which proved almost impossible to sync), but it doesn't come close. Hugh must have modified the tone generator or something. If you're curious, listen to the bass around the point where James comes in. It might be more prominent it some of the earlier mixes, though.
This is when I am frustrated with not being more knowledgeable about all this stuff (I am young. Give me time). :)
Pretty much all I can say is that I like the way it sounds very much and that it sent me into a state of semi-hypnosis (though I think that has to do with the fact that I have not slept in a very, very long time. Yeah, that's probably it).
*feels useless, not being able to offer constructive criticism or even intelligent comments* ><
I like how the voice is on flanging. I know I've heard that kind of voice alteration before, but I don't know if it was in a song. The tune that plays through is good too. It's subtle and soothing like stuff on a certain radio station I listen to. :januscat
Quote from: Lysander on August 13, 2006, 12:19:03 PM
I like how the voice is on flanging. I know I've heard that kind of voice alteration before, but I don't know if it was in a song. The tune that plays through is good too. It's subtle and soothing like stuff on a certain radio station I listen to. :januscat
Yes. This song has two choruses, the first one of which is not given because it has digital phasing on it - the same effect I use for the warp-aci, in fact, I originally designed it for use in this song.
Now that I've managed to achieve true electromechanical flanging, I will probably rerecord that chorus and use this effect on it instead.
This song (vampires in reverse) was originally intended for my first album, but I caught a cold and couldn't record the vocals in time.
Then it was going to go on the second album, but I came up with 'One Less Hero' at the last minute so it got kicked off that one too. Fingers cross, it should be going on the third one.
Sounds good to me. I remember seeing a few DOUG the Eagle songs in BillBuckner's list of recently played songs that I haven't seen before.
When I get back I'm going to want to know how I can get a hold of the albums. :januscat
Quote from: Lysander on August 14, 2006, 11:15:15 AM
Sounds good to me. I remember seeing a few DOUG the Eagle songs in BillBuckner's list of recently played songs that I haven't seen before.
When I get back I'm going to want to know how I can get a hold of the albums. :januscat
It's rather funny, actually. I've got three albums worth of material and none of them are totally complete.
The first album (A Day At The People Factory) is all there except for the new cover which James was designing - you may remember the thread on The Nice where it got panned by the critics after I fed him a collection of apparently deformed jaguars as the reference pics. He's working on a new cover with the Aztec temple that Tezkat suggested but I haven't seen anything of it yet.
So the first album is all done but has no cover.
For the second album I was going to do this : http://www.dougtheeagle.com/lodt/lodt.pdf - After three months I managed to get Amber to reply, and she said 'No' :rolleyes
So I renamed it 'Songs for the Wild at Heart' and commissioned Zina to do a new cover (they say she's one of the best, you see) and she has almost finished (http://clockworkmansion.com/forum/index.php?topic=523.msg19218#msg19218) - but the recording itself hasn't come back from the mastering engineer yet :P (I've got a draft, but I'd like a few things changed for the final version.)
Oh yeah - if anyone is good at drawing feathers, let me know. I need some for the inside to replace Dan.
The third album is down in rough form, but I'm not happy with 'Project Dragonsong' - I'm going to try and lock a pair of a TSR-8s together and record it 14-track since the song is too complicated to do properly in only 7 tracks.
I have designed the cover conceptually, although since I was hoping to feature Kitome Feathertail on the cover - as an A-1 example of a 'taur - that's going to be a little tricky, especially since he's disappeared. Anyone got a contact for him?
Now as for getting them - I haven't found a distributor so far. I was hoping to sell them on Magnatune, but they appear to have rejected ADATPF.
I have actually uploaded ADATPF to LastFM now, with the pre-James cover, and I'll do the same for SFTWAH when that is finished. I'd like to keep the rights to the music so my choice of potential labels is rather limited.
The 'band' homepage is at http://www.dougtheeagle.com
..but isn't very complete. I feel like a charlatan when I try to write a description of it :(
I really like that flanging effect, I can't exactly pin stuff because my memory isn't that good but back in the early 90's, I used to listen to a lot of radio and that effect (or roughly thereabouts) seemed to be banded about a lot, then. The actual air of the music though seems to come across as older than that, as I'd said before. This makes it all a bit anachronistic and it fascinates me.
This is why I like listening to your stuff, Tape. I'll snag the file, listen and think "Now there's something I haven't heard in a while."
Quote from: Rowne on August 14, 2006, 12:14:43 PM
I really like that flanging effect, I can't exactly pin stuff because my memory isn't that good but back in the early 90's, I used to listen to a lot of radio and that effect (or roughly thereabouts) seemed to be banded about a lot, then. The actual air of the music though seems to come across as older than that, as I'd said before. This makes it all a bit anachronistic and it fascinates me.
It was all the rage in the late 60's. I actually got the idea to finally try it after listening to the 'Valentyne Suite' by Colosseum (1969), but this kind of studio effect has always fascinated me. 'Itchycoo Park' is the classic one, though - apparently it's the first song where anyone applied the effect to vocals instead of drums.
'Pictures of Matchstick Men' by Status Quo is another good one. (And curses, I almost got a compilation master tape of that one, but some b***** outbid me on e-bay :evil Too bad I was skint at the time. )
Now, sometime in the early '90s my Dad got a 60s compilation CD which (to our disgust) had a number of remakes on it instead of the original recordings. At the time we assumed they'd done the phasing digitally, but apparently people
still haven't managed to replicate it properly, so it must have been done with two tape recorders :)
Although I'm not a very big fan of the flanging effect, the one you've got there is pretty cool. Perhaps it's just that I'm mostly accustomed to the Fruity Loops one, which I assume isn't much to speak of, heh...
By the way, I noticed those pics of your studio at you know where (http://www.it-he.org/lab.htm) - pretty decent stuff, to say the least... must've cost a fortune or two, I guess :)
Quote from: Tapewolf on August 14, 2006, 11:40:30 AM
It's rather funny, actually. I've got three albums worth of material and none of them are totally complete.
The first album (A Day At The People Factory) is all there except for the new cover which James was designing - you may remember the thread on The Nice where it got panned by the critics after I fed him a collection of apparently deformed jaguars as the reference pics. He's working on a new cover with the Aztec temple that Tezkat suggested but I haven't seen anything of it yet.
So the first album is all done but has no cover.
That's a lot of music for just one or or few guys to make. Also much more than I knew there was in the making.
I'm now downloading the 1st cd. Seems like it may be a good idea to leave the one available for download even after it and the others are ready for sale. Gives people outside of this place a chance to get to know your music...or something. :januscat
Quote from: TKG on August 15, 2006, 12:27:52 AM
By the way, I noticed those pics of your studio at you know where (http://www.it-he.org/lab.htm) - pretty decent stuff, to say the least... must've cost a fortune or two, I guess :)
The more recent ones are here: http://www.dougtheeagle.com/equip.htm
..they have the Revox and a photo taken during the mixdown of 'Legend of Daniel Ti'Fiona'. The flanging was done by taking the Tascam 32 back out of the cupboard and running it alongside the Revox. Virtually all the equipment was got on ebay - the most expensive item so far was the Hammond module (£450 plus £150 for the Rotosphere pedal).
The multitrack was only £175, and let that be a lesson to you - never, ever sell valuable equipment on ebay as a 1-day auction on a Sunday with no reserve price, and I'm probably going to end up spending twice that to get its twin. (Maybe I should actually sell the autotune.)
Quote from: Lysander on August 16, 2006, 10:12:52 AM
That's a lot of music for just one or or few guys to make. Also much more than I knew there was in the making.
I'm now downloading the 1st cd. Seems like it may be a good idea to leave the one available for download even after it and the others are ready for sale. Gives people outside of this place a chance to get to know your music...or something. :januscat
As I say, I still haven't decided what to do with it. CDs would be nice, but selling them myself would be a pain in the butt. After the Magnatune rejection I'm a little nervous about submitting it to anyone else, truth be told. I'm going to watch Moekii though and see if he has much success by himself.
Having said all that, I have been tooling up for short CD runs - primarily the Laserjet 2605 which I'm using for CD cover proofing, short runs for family & friends, and printing out DMFA strips :twisted
**EDIT**
Eep! I forgot the
most important piece of equipment (http://www.jpmorris.force9.co.uk/stuff/librarian1.jpg) in the studio!
Hmm. You mean a multitrack like this (http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/TASCAM-8-TRK-REEL-TO-REEL-TAPE-MACHINE_W0QQitemZ180018828191QQihZ008QQcategoryZ109002QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem) or this (http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/TASCAM-TSR-8-TSR8-reel-to-reel-recorder-MINT_W0QQitemZ280016698577QQihZ018QQcategoryZ15199QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem) ?
Yeah. Those look likely to go up significantly. :-/
Nice kit, though. :-)
Quote from: llearch n'n'daCorna on August 16, 2006, 12:27:57 PM
Hmm. You mean a multitrack like this (http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/TASCAM-TSR-8-TSR8-reel-to-reel-recorder-MINT_W0QQitemZ280016698577QQihZ018QQcategoryZ15199QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem) ?
Yeah. Those look likely to go up significantly. :-/
Yup, the TSR-8. Something went wrong [with the sale] the first time he sold it, I'm hoping not to have it slip through my fingers this time >:3
'Course I'd really like this one (http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Studer-A-827-Reel-to-Reel-Multitrack-24-channels_W0QQitemZ320017381537QQihZ011QQcategoryZ116868QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem), but it would be amazingly expensive to run and I'm also looking for a house as well. Maybe it will have shed a few more grand after I've moved. Who needs a car? :twisted
**EDIT**
If it really is a 1984-vintage machine, that's quite clever. They were introduced in 1990.
Perhaps you should keep the car to carry the tapedeck in?
Maybe that's just me thinking wrongly again... :)
Quote from: llearch n'n'daCorna on August 16, 2006, 01:12:09 PM
Perhaps you should keep the car to carry the tapedeck in?
Maybe that's just me thinking wrongly again... :)
The logic is sound, but the premise is wrong.
I can't actually drive, because after three years of learning I was still appallingly bad at it, having traded driving skills for computer excellence. In part, not having to care for and feed a car is what's allowed me to buy most of this stuff, although it limits my choices in acquisition to things which the seller will post (which they most assuredly will NOT do on the A827)
After the move is done, I'm hoping to have enough money left over to get a car and start learning again. Although it would be rather useful, I truly hate the idea and it's pretty clear by now that I'll never be a very confident driver.
Given the roads around about here, I can hardly blame you.
Maniacs, the lot of em. Not that the underground or the trains are much better. *sigh*
I've loved Bal-Sagoth ever since I first heard them, and now the time has come for me to do a spoof Bal-Sagoth song, copying their manic drum-machine style, Roland XP50 orchestration and H.P. Lovecraft-inspired voiceovers.
The other target of my spoof is the town of Merthyr Tydfil, notorious for its crime-ridden housing estates where, for example, children light fires to attract the fire brigade so that they can throw rocks at them. As soon as I described it to my brother, he immediately made a mental connection with Innsmouth, and thus got me reading Lovecraft.
This weird and hopefully amusing song is the unholy spawn of these ideas.
http://www.jpmorris.force9.co.uk/music/test/merthyr4.mp3
http://dougtheeagle.com/ferret/ferret3.mp3
The death-metal voice was the hardest. I can barely speak now. :S
Okay, here's another DMFA song. It's called "What did Daniel think he was?", and it's about Dan's reaction to discovering he was an incubus - one of my favourite parts of the comic strip.
http://www.jpmorris.force9.co.uk/music/daniel6.mp3
http://www.jpmorris.force9.co.uk/music/daniel7a.wav.mp3
Comments and complaints are welcome as always.
Hmm, isn't he technically mortal? (I don't think it was part of a rhyme...)
"...he's an incubi." Now, that was a rhyme (that I predicted rather easily), but the grammar just makes my eye twitch...
Ooh, I wish I could put percussion to it. I think it needs it quite badly.
Alternatively, go for a rave remix... nah. xD
Mmmm, needs to be faster, IMO... Just, it's all slow an' stuff...
(Hope I'm not being overly critical here. I don't know much about the technicalities of how to actually go about making music like this...
... I overuse ellipses...)
Quote from: Supercheese on September 25, 2006, 08:23:10 PM
Hmm, isn't he technically mortal? (I don't think it was part of a rhyme...)
Originally it ran "But now he knows that he's a Being" - but I changed it to 'not mortal' to make it more accessable to non-DMFA people. I
did say 'not mortal' rather than 'immortal', mark you :P
Quote
"...he's an incubi." Now, that was a rhyme (that I predicted rather easily), but the grammar just makes my eye twitch...
Oh, I know, it really hurt to do that. At one point it just said "'cubi" but it had to be stretched unnaturally so I went with the plural and damn the grammar.
Quote
Ooh, I wish I could put percussion to it. I think it needs it quite badly.
Mmmm, needs to be faster, IMO... Just, it's all slow an' stuff...
It's a moody ballad, it's not supposed to be fast :twisted
As for the percussion, there is a click track (which I faded in on the first gap) but that's not what you meant. I suck at drum programming and couldn't come up with a suitable drum track.
**EDIT**
Lyrics, reformatted to save space:
His name is Daniel Ti'Fiona, his mother was a succubus
And when he found her genes had carried, he didn't view that as a plus.
His parents never got to tell him, they left him when he was a child,
And when he found he was a demon, that was the last day that he smiled.
What did Daniel think he was?
He should have worked it out because
He lost the need to sleep and eat
The price of power is rarely sweet
He didn't know he was a Creature, he thought his wings were just for show
And now he knows that he's not mortal, it left him really feeling low.
He's got the power to read your feelings, he's got the power to steal your soul
But powers come with heavy burdens, he's frightened he might lose control.
And now his life will change because
He's just discovered what he was
He thought he was a normal guy
But really he's an incubi
| Dan: | ..why of course not. I just LOVE the idea that I'm now destined to become a part of the demon race! |
| Alexsi: | I think you're overreacting a bit. |
| Dan: | There are freaking wings coming out of my head! I get every right to overreact! |
| Mab: | Aw, Dan, Cheer up! I'm sure things will turn out okay. After all, you now have hundreds of years to come to terms with the change! |
| Dan: | No!!!! |
| Mab: | Alexsi, was Dan aware that incubi live for a couple of thousand years? |
| Dan: | This definitely is a big change in my life...
I guess I'll have to live with it... And outlive everyone I've ever cared about...
Added to the fact that I'll likely start hunting others, and be hunted down by other adventurers..
Or does it actually change who I am? |
Perhaps he thought he was an Angel, his wings are feathered as should be
He didn't have a 'cubi clan mark, on any place that he could see
His name is Daniel Ti'Fiona, his mother was a succubus
And now he knows that he's a 'cubi, no point in kicking up a fuss.
And now his life has changed because
He's come to terms with what he was
Of all the things we can't escape
We have no fate but what we make.
Suggestion: say "normal gus" and you can use proper grammar. I know calling someone a gus may be a bit goofy, but.... grammarz!
Artistic licence, perhaps? Songs tend to be allowed to mess with the "normal rules" of grammar...
Nooooooooooooo!
If I can recreate the levels and amount of slapback I used on Monday, I might change it to say "'cubiiiiii" instead. But this is the best performance of the song I've done so far, so I'm a bit reluctant to mess with it.
Save it and make a new copy?
... just a thought....
No sense in making a new one if you can't match up to the old one, so llearch probably has the right idea.
Quote from: llearch n'n'daCorna on September 26, 2006, 10:36:11 AM
Save it and make a new copy?
... just a thought....
Tricky. It's all in the analogue domain, remember. I _could_ digitize that chorus and try to drop it back in if I can't improve it, but personally I'm thinking more along the lines of including an apology in the liner notes :P
**EDIT**
Actually I could back it up on the flute track since it is isn't being used at that point. The TSR-8 is pretty good with track bouncing.
Apart from the fact that the click track has been left on, is that better or worse?
http://www.jpmorris.force9.co.uk/music/dan6_cubiiii.wav.mp3
Tough to say, actually. Sounds stranger.
Maybe you could say, "but in reality, he's a cubi," with the 'but in' as eighth notes?
EDIT-- And I think the lastest version sounds good enough to use in place of mangling grammar.
"but the truth is, he's cubi"? That could kill two birds with one stone.
Awesome, awesome song. Gonna look through the rest of your stuff now. Again, awesome!
i like it as well. oh man i need more time. that and more money
Quote from: Boogeyman on September 27, 2006, 08:21:01 PM
Awesome, awesome song. Gonna look through the rest of your stuff now. Again, awesome!
Thanks. In case anyone's interested, this is the 'band' page:
http://www.dougtheeagle.com
..the second album is in a funny state between finished and logjammed, owing to the fact that my Mastering Engineer is prone to Tezkat-like hiatuses. It's very nearly ready, although there's a bit of inside cover artwork still outstanding.
The third album is all planned and mostly ready to go - most of the tracks on it, ZooCity, Jakob's Revenge etc, have already been mentioned here or on The Nice.
As for the grammar, I think I'll probably go with the 'cubiiii' solution.
Now I just need some kind of distribution chain :P
Talk to Moekii about the distribution?
But the one I just recently gave you fits the song's intended syllables D: *dies*
Quote from: Aridas Soulfire on September 28, 2006, 02:28:38 PM
But the one I just recently gave you fits the song's intended syllables D: *dies*
Not when I play it back in my head it doesn't. Think you could provide an example recording?
Possibly not at the moment, since the jet engines in my computer would drown it out, and I can't afford to turn them down before winter. You just have to say it a bit differently, after the original but. I had a whole other more complicated thing here, but I realized you don't really need to change the style of that line to make it work. You just need to start the new "but" where "really" is, I think. Then it would fit. Lemme tweak it a bit more actually...
But rea lly he's an in cubi
but the truth is, he is cubi
I decided to kill my contraction to fit that note which I was trying to fit in the first place... Terrible sight at first, I guess.
Quote from: Aridas Soulfire on September 28, 2006, 03:05:58 PM
But rea lly he's an in cubi
but the truth is, he is cubi
Ah, got it. To be frank, I'm not sure it's a great advantage over "he's a 'cubi", but I'll give it a go at some point.
Well either way I guess, if something fills that extra note it should solve the problem.
Hmm, quite a gap since I recorded something I thought was worth putting up. I'll assume no-one minds...
Sometimes when I go for a walk in the hills I come up with some rather strange ideas. Jakob was one of those ideas, and this song is another. I'm wondering whether to add a drum track or strings or something, but it seems to be okay as it stands.
http://www.jpmorris.force9.co.uk/music/test/sheeps3.mp3
http://dougtheeagle.com/ferret/ferret7.mp3
It doesn't really have a name yet, so I'm just calling it 'sheeps' until I can come up with a proper title.
I'll probably re-record the vocals again, since my voice has only just recovered enough to be able to do it and sounds a little off here and there. I'm not entirely happy with the mix either.
Not shure if this was your aim but I find this song to be pretty funny :lol
a few things bug me though, the eco/reverb on "Rise up and fight!" seems to carry on just a little too long, and theres one word i can't make out:
"Yes it's real no it's not a dream the ??? rebellion is in full steam" I think it's at 2:15 ish.
Quote from: Drake Manaweilder on December 06, 2006, 04:29:37 PM
Not shure if this was your aim but I find this song to be pretty funny :lol
Like I'm actually going to do an serious song about how sheep are really working for Satan >:3
Quotea few things bug me though, the eco/reverb on "Rise up and fight!" seems to carry on just a little too long
It's definitely too long in that I can't fit the other line in and it obscures the deliberately off-key part on the organ, but after trying several different approaches, delay times and so on, I decided that was the one which worked the best. IMHO the copicat sounds better than the digital delay, even though all the repeats are distorted because it's knackered. The snag is you don't get much choice of delay length.
Thanks for the comments, though.
Quoteand theres one word i can't make out:
Something happened in the fields of green
Where the sheep and the rabbits can oft be seen
Men were murdered, their bones picked clean
There's something afoot that should not have been
Any sheep can be a wolf in the fold
With the power of darkness as a hand to hold
Such a force could never be controlled
When your woolly soul has just been sold
Rise up and fight
That's all we ask of you
Rise up and fight
Like the Master told you to
They just finish drinking from the stream
When they suddenly face you with their eyes agleam
Yes, it's real - No, it's not a dream
The ovine rebellion is in full steam
Every sheep can be a wolf in the fold
With the power of darkness as a hand to hold
Such a force can never be controlled
When your woolly soul has just been sold
Rise up and fight
That's all we ask of you
Rise up and fight
Like the Master told you to
Heh... now I have the strange compulsion to draw a sheep looking up from a stream with demonic eyes. *scuttles off into the shadows to do so*
Quote from: Tapewolf on December 06, 2006, 04:57:15 PM
Like I'm actually going to do an serious song about how sheep are really working for Satan >:3
just making shure.. we all have our own conspiracys. :smile
This time it's Turnsky's comic The Foxfire Chronicles (http://foxfire.comicgenesis.com/) which has given me the emotional kick to write a new song, and so without further ado, I give you "Operation Wendigo" (a.k.a. "Foxified"):
http://www.dougtheeagle.com/stuff/wendigo2.mp3
http://www.jpmorris.force9.co.uk/music/wendigo3.mp3
I gave Turnsky a sneak preview of this, but that version was recorded 24 hours ago and this one contains numerous changes including a better ending and drums (I suck at drums)
I may rerecord the vocals at some stage, and I flubbed the mix at the end again.
Lyrics follow:
Once I was just a normal man
'till I was spirited away
But now I'm not sure what I am
Or if I'll see the light of day
I didn't ask to be a freak
I didn't ask to have a tail
They changed me into what you see
And locked me in their private jail
THEY FOXIFIED ME
Five canids once were humankind
We never really found out why
We never really had a choice
Obey our masters or we die
As months of training took their toll
Just as our hopes began to fade
We're given plans for our escape
Or have we all just been betrayed?
THEY FOXIFIED ME
We learned of others such as us
Disguised as humans such as you
Our allies sent us off to meet
The council of the Manitou
The council told me many things
Of distant pasts and foreign lands
They said that we are wendigo
And I hold the future in my hands
THEY FOXIFIED ME
May the Wendigo decide just from unjust
May the Wendigo realise their light
And endure the coming darkness
For the End Times are near!
this has the turnsky seal of approval.. :3
Quote from: Turnsky on January 01, 2007, 07:36:12 PM
this has the turnsky seal of approval.. :3
[Does a passable impression of Fa'Lina-thinking-about-Pyroduck's-babies]
I've fixed the popping problem on the 'prophecy' bit, but I'm not going to mix it all again until I get some more 1/4" tapestock, although I can make a clip of the fixed part available if anyone is curious.
Those of you with varispeed MP3 players may also want to try running that section about 12% fast to hear the voice in its original form...
**EDIT**
http://www.jpmorris.force9.co.uk/music/wendigo3.mp3
I did a new mix last night, since the v2 mix was lacking in bass and had problems with the 'prophecy' section at the end.
"The musings of Jakob Pettersohn upon the time when he was once known as Johan Cross (initial draft)" - but that wouldn't fit in the thread title very well.
This is a very rough draft. There's a rather grating chord change around 2:00 to be fixed, the cello at the start sounds too artificial and I'll probably try to make it longer. There aren't any vocals yet either.
The reason I'm uploading this in its unfinished state is because I'm dismantling my studio. With luck it should be operating again sometime after the 16th, but we'll have to see how the move goes.
As a matter of fact I should really have been packing things up and not doing this at all, but you know how it is.. the best ideas come when you should be doing something else >:3
http://www.jpmorris.force9.co.uk/music/jakobcross1.mp3
http://dougtheeagle.com/ferret/ferret5.mp3
Quote from: Tapewolf on January 28, 2007, 01:43:02 PMthe best ideas come when you should be doing something else >:3
Too true. Good luck with the move!
This is the second take of 'The musings of Jakob Pettersohn upon the time when he was once known as Johan Cross', now with vocals - the first recording I've made in my new house.
http://www.jpmorris.force9.co.uk/music/jakobcross2a.mp3
http://dougtheeagle.com/ferret/ferret5.mp3
...and if anyone can peg that to a particular genre, I'd like to know what style it is myself. >:3
This is actually the score from the current Radio Project episode:
http://www.jpmorris.force9.co.uk/music/abel_organ.mp3
It kind of loops after that, since I don't know how long it's going to have to last yet. I can probably fill in some more noodling to keep it going, if need be.
And damn, that machine is the single most expensive piece of kit I've bought but it's worth every penny...
The sound of Organs gives chills down my red back
hmm...maybe if the pipe organ was playing Jerry Lee Lewis "Great balls of fire" the theme would be more appropriate.
Quote from: Tapewolf on August 12, 2006, 06:38:02 PM
http://www.jpmorris.force9.co.uk/music/flanging.wav.mp3
..it's not quite up-to-scratch but hopefully you can hear the effect. It is achieved by running two tape recorders with the same recording, and by varying the speed on one machine, bringing them in and out of sync (which results in signal cancellation).
One of the most famous songs to do this is 'Itchycoo Park' by the Small Faces.
I usually produce a flanging-like effect doubling my vocals. Sometimes I sing very precise and therefore the two vocal tracks sound like one - a flanged one.
(check out "Hamster" on my myspace www.myspace.com/mardukh (http://www.myspace.com/mardukh))
Of course, mostly I flange guitars with the Boss Gf-2.
I consider the flanger the sound effect that fits my soul the most, whatever that means.
Quote from: Tapewolf on March 06, 2007, 06:04:04 AM
http://www.jpmorris.force9.co.uk/music/jakobcross2a.mp3
...and if anyone can peg that to a particular genre, I'd like to know what style it is myself. >:3
Pretty much in the vain of Arcade Fire's new album "Neon Bible", which is hyped very heftily over here. Their songs, however, are not soooo well-arranged. Perhabs one could name the genre "Ecclectic Prog" or someting like that.
-soorry for double-posting-
Quote from: Angantyr on April 18, 2007, 03:18:10 PM
I usually produce a flanging-like effect doubling my vocals. Sometimes I sing very precise and therefore the two vocal tracks sound like one - a flanged one.
Of course, mostly I flange guitars with the Boss Gf-2.
I consider the flanger the sound effect that fits my soul the most, whatever that means.
I don't usually have enough tracks to double-track, although hopefully the new synchroniser should solve that problem. And yes, I have a Danelectro phaser myself which works nicely on the Oberheim strings (e.g. 'Journey To The Kingdom Of Hollyann' and 'My Wicked Life With The Hattifatteners'). The Zoom can do this as well, but the main point of that particular recording was to see if I could do it the 1960s way :P
two thumbs up.
I gave some of your recordings to "my" synthi architect player/violinist, he pretty much liked the synth sounds; but for the recording/mixing effects and skills, I guess he has no ear for that. :kirby
http://www.jpmorris.force9.co.uk/music/mrapoc2.mp3
I did not take drugs to make this song.
Quote from: Tapewolf on May 05, 2007, 08:54:47 PM
http://www.jpmorris.force9.co.uk/music/mrapoc2.mp3
I did not take drugs to make this song.
Does caffine count? *hides in broom closet*
Quote from: Zedd on May 05, 2007, 09:43:17 PM
Quote from: Tapewolf on May 05, 2007, 08:54:47 PM
I did not take drugs to make this song.
Does caffine count? *hides in broom closet*
I didn't take any of that either.
I've tried to restrict this one to sounds that would have been available in the 60s. The organ twirl at the start is inspired by the opening lines from "My Mirage" by Iron Butterfly which used a Vox Continental. The voicing Korg provide isn't the same as the one they used, so although it is allegedly sampled from the same model it's evidently done with different drawbar settings.
The echo unit is actually
from the 60s.
The only thing standing out is the synthesizer bassline (not impossible in the late 60s anyway) which isn't even very prominent in the mix.
I like it though..Has a wonderful class to it
Forty years ago next month, Sergeant Pepper was released. On For the benefit of Mr. Kite, John Lennon supposedly decided that he wanted to be able to hear "the sound of sawdust" but left before explaining what he meant. In response, engineer Geoff Emerick took about eight bars of steam-organ tape, cut it into little bits with scissors, threw them in the air and spliced them back together randomly.
I have always wanted to do this, and now I have. Only it wasn't steam-organ tapes. I hope James likes it.
This song is titled "The death of a thousand splices, or 'The Authentic Sound of Sawdust'". The tape loop at around 3:00 is edited from the words 'monopoly' and 'bugger'. And yes, I do like Bach. And Keith Emerson.
http://www.jpmorris.force9.co.uk/music/1000splices.mp3
Oh yeah, I guess you got the PM already. I'm having a great time listening to this song! What are you saying at the end though in the evil slowed down voice?
Quote from: James StarRunner on May 28, 2007, 11:00:35 AM
Oh yeah, I guess you got the PM already. I'm having a great time listening to this song! What are you saying at the end though in the evil slowed down voice?
The evil voice says "There is no valid reason these people should be alive", a horrible comment I read on Slashdot about the same time the idea for the song was forming in my head. And yes, the start was inspired by me loading up the DMFA 392 episode and then quickly switching to another song instead...
This was originally written for the scene in DMFA #501, where Dan has been kidnapped and Aary is surveying the room, but I've adapted it to cover the later parts of 'Recipe for Disasters'.
The woodwinds at the end are coming in a little too loud, I think. Any other comments are welcome.
http://www.jpmorris.force9.co.uk/music/kidnap3.mp3
I started writing this a few days before the big discussion on soul-eating, but I wasn't happy with it until last night. I'm still not entirely happy with the vocals and the drums could be better, but drum tracks are such a fiddle to write. I hate them. The first version had none, but it really needs them as a guidepost for the time signature (which changes frequently).
http://www.jpmorris.force9.co.uk/music/darkprice.mp3
I am currently working on a series of songs based on a reinterpretation of the tale of the three little pigs and the big, bad wolf.
This is what will probably be the second track (after the intro):
http://www.jpmorris.force9.co.uk/music/pigs2.mp3
I'll probably regret this in the morning, the mixing at the end was a bit shoddy, but hey, this is basically a draft version anyway.
Here's the latest in my 'Three Little Pigs' series. This extremely vicious song is about the fiery death of the second pig.
http://www.jpmorris.force9.co.uk/music/2ndpig.wav.mp3
This is the first complete mix and is a bit slipshod. The sample will have to be replaced, and I'm open to offers if anyone wants to guest on the song.
P.S. Karma for the first person to identify who the sample is of - offer not valid for people I've already told >:3
There is also an outtake where the sequencer controlling the sampler crashed in mid-session:
http://www.jpmorris.force9.co.uk/music/pigs4_crash.wav.mp3
**EDIT**
And a short video of the tape loops I used. I'll probably replace the full "I'm going to sacrifice you" loops with digital samples as it's very difficult to keep them aligned.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=bBr0SzLYZN0
Mildly repetitive, but not bad, TW. I suspect it'd sound better as part of the full set, though.
Quote from: llearch n'n'daCorna on January 12, 2008, 08:07:31 PM
Mildly repetitive, but not bad, TW. I suspect it'd sound better as part of the full set, though.
Yeah. I'll probably fade it earlier in the final mix - it runs to 8 minutes to ensure there's enough to fade with. I'm thinking it might be an idea to lose one of the intro sections, but barring some very tricky editing, or simply cutting into one of the later bars, it would require a re-recording to achieve.
After some rerecording and various problems involving recorders, tapes and computers, here is the watery fate of the third little pig:
http://www.jpmorris.force9.co.uk/music/test/3rdpig2.wav.mp3
This is the first song I've done which uses the cello tapes from the mellotron.
I still need to write some decent lyrics for the first pig, although I've got the basic song down.
hey, if there was a way to mash that with the Mighty Max Intro, it would sound incredible.
Here at last is the first little pig. I have spent a lot of time engineering the vocals and applying a boatload of effects, including double-tracking, chorus, distortion and way too much tape echo.
I also applied true reverse reverb, which I hadn't done for a while - this is the trick where you take the tape off the machine, put it back on upside-down and bounce from one track to another through a reverberation unit. The short burst of reverb on the last lap was actually an accident, but I kept it because it sounded good.
The guitar effect is an overdriven clavinet, the same kind of trick was done throughout Nursery Cryme by Genesis, and I'm 99% sure that's what Cockney Rebel did for the solo on Mr. Soft.
http://www.jpmorris.force9.co.uk/music/1stpig.wav.mp3
I liked the second piggy song, better than the others, your voice kinda reminds me of that guy from the dead man on campus movie, you know the cheerleader/goth prince.
Quote from: GabrielsThoughts on April 07, 2008, 05:53:47 PM
I liked the second piggy song, better than the others, your voice kinda reminds me of that guy from the dead man on campus movie, you know the cheerleader/goth prince.
Never seen it :3
Unfortunately there are two possible matches for 'second piggy song' - did you mean Part 2 ("Well the first little piggy made his fortune out of spam" etc) or Part 4, which is about the second pig ("They said to me, Two wrongs never make a right, so now I'll try with three..." etc) with the sample of Bill Clinton saying "I have sinned"?
Part 4 and Part 3 (The first pig) are quite similar in the way the vocals were processed (aka having-too-much-fun-with-my-new-chorus-pedal).
Dead man on campus, more intellectual than van wilder... it uses the perfect combination of dry humor and crazy, like Arrested Development. here are some clips from the movie.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5On1BcWkAOc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqGT3Quz7Jc
and still there is no way to describe the awsomeness of this classic.
I got the idea for this just as Anthrocon was winding down, but technical problems prevented me from being able to complete it. Nonetheless, here we are:
http://dougtheeagle.com/stuff/incubus_song.mp3
Not a happy, jolly song, you understand. While I love to champion the 'Cubi race as misunderstood and so forth, the incubus in this song is unapologetically evil.
This is also the first full song I've mixed down to my A807 recorder. It still has a few teething problems and I believe the stereo image is off-balance. I'm also still in love with the chorus pedal on vocals, so you'll have to put up with it, I'm afraid.
Nonetheless, comments are very welcome. Thanks also to llearch for unlocking this thread.
Very nice track
Love the music on the Incubus Song, though I do think you overplayed the vocals a little bit. Not only would it be nicer to listen to, but I think it'd be creepier if the incubus sounded a bit more pleasant. Well, or if you just didn't put quite so much emphasis on the harshness of the voice. :)
I intend to listen to some of the other stuff here soon... EDIT: A lot of your links are broken...
Quote from: Cameron on August 05, 2008, 10:21:25 PM
Love the music on the Incubus Song, though I do think you overplayed the vocals a little bit. Not only would it be nicer to listen to, but I think it'd be creepier if the incubus sounded a bit more pleasant. Well, or if you just didn't put quite so much emphasis on the harshness of the voice. :)
It was worse in the first draft. But no, it wasn't supposed to be happy and jolly. Revelling in evil was the effect I was going for, really...
QuoteI intend to listen to some of the other stuff here soon... EDIT: A lot of your links are broken...
Due to space constraints, I've removed a lot of songs that later appeared on my albums.
Everything except the fifth album stuff should be available here: http://dougtheeagle.com/
**EDIT**
I've gone through and fixed most of the links. Some of the early drafts are unavailable, in which case I've linked to the final song.
Quote from: Tapewolf on August 06, 2008, 04:19:02 AM
Revelling in evil was the effect I was going for, really...
This song seems to fit Aniz rather well because of it.. :3
Right, now an important plot point has happened in Project Future, I guess it's okay to post this:
http://www.jpmorris.force9.co.uk/music/test/all_machine.mp3
It's a little different to my usual style, I was gunning for a definite early '80s sound. I made a point of using only 808 and 606 drum sounds.
I'll probably have to print the lyrics later as they have been put through a lot of distortion. Don't expect it to be a marvel of poetry, though.
Nice one, Tape. :3 While it's kinda hard to make out the words sometimes, I really like the music.
Quote from: Ren Gaulen on September 04, 2008, 07:06:15 PM
Nice one, Tape. :3 While it's kinda hard to make out the words sometimes, I really like the music.
Thanks. I've been doing my head in trying to work out what Greg Lake is singing in
Pictures at an Exhibition. I'd like to think mine is easier to understand.
Anyway, if anyone else is interested, the lyrics to this song are:
I remember my death
It wasn't good, it wasn't fun
I remember the flash
Just as he fired the gun
They brought me back to life
The way I'd been
But all machine
I remember my death
It wasn't good, it wasn't fun
I remember the pain
I felt when I was hung
They brought me back to life
Just how I'd been
But all machine
I remember my death
It wasn't good, it wasn't fun
I remember the crash
And how my neck was wrung
They brought me back to life
Just like a dream
I'm all machine
Oh. Oh yeah. I've been wondering about the increase of music and what it has to offer. *downloads much in anticipation.* :januscat
Quote from: Lysander on September 06, 2008, 08:50:35 PM
Oh. Oh yeah. I've been wondering about the increase of music and what it has to offer. *downloads much in anticipation.* :januscat
Thanks. Since you'll have missed the last two albums, you might want to check this out:
http://www.jamendo.com/en/artist/dougtheeagle
...though they don't have a system to include the inlay PDFs. Those will have to be downloaded from the main site in my signature.
I haven't gotten the chance to listen to this yet, but the name is reminding me of that old Command and Conquer track - "Mechanical Man", I think it was called.
I'll have to take a listen when I get home.
Quote from: Tapewolf on September 07, 2008, 07:12:35 AM
Quote from: Lysander on September 06, 2008, 08:50:35 PM
Oh. Oh yeah. I've been wondering about the increase of music and what it has to offer. *downloads much in anticipation.* :januscat
Thanks. Since you'll have missed the last two albums, you might want to check this out:
http://www.jamendo.com/en/artist/dougtheeagle
...though they don't have a system to include the inlay PDFs. Those will have to be downloaded from the main site in my signature.
Thanks for the link, I like the majority of what lies within. Many have melodies that could be in movies. Probably my favorite of the new albums (with no specific order) would be "The Dark Revenge of Jacob Petterson", "Apocalypse in 4:4", "The Shadow over Merthyr", "Princes of the Dreams", and "My Wicked life with the Hattifatteners".
So for the newest songs:
All Machine - The music itself is very nice. Sounds like it could be in a platform shooter like R-Type, and I like music to those games. I don't normally enjoy this kind of voice alteration, but it does go well with the melody.
The Incubus Song - Think it's recent enough to comment on... 1st, the lyrics make me giggle. Another with nice music, I like the percussion rhythm.
:januscat
Here's another very strange song, 'Professional Suicide'. I started to write this one about three weeks ago, so it should not be taken as an indication of my mental state or recent employment worries. :P
Ren and Keaton have heard draft versions, this is a far more polished version.
http://www.jpmorris.force9.co.uk/music/professional_suicide_take2.mp3
You won't believe me
But I have found a way
To come back tomorrow
When I have died today
Why it works I cannot say
I get more business every day
Suicide
Professional suicide
He'll kill himself
To save your soul
Dies for money
That's his goal
Dying is something
That anyone can do
If lying and cheating
Are not the goods for you
And if you think that it's not true
Then die for me, I'll die for you
Dying in your name
The only way to win
My death will redeem you
Of your whole life of sin
Why it works I cannot tell
My death will save your soul from hell
Suicide
Professional suicide
He'll kill himself
To save your soul
Dies for money
That's his goal
Nice song.. :] Makes me want to sing "Don't Try Suicide" by Queen for some reason.. :> I have to say that I liked the previous song more both in terms of music and lyrics, though.
The music goes well with the lyrics which I like. I'm not fond of the way the vocals are distorted, but that's just personal preference.
The lines: And if you think that it's not true
Then die for me, I'll die for you
remind me of a Superman joke where he's drunk and tries to convince a guy that it's safe to jump out a window by doing so, and the guy jumps himself unable to return. :januscat
Quote from: Lysander on October 09, 2008, 11:45:25 AM
The music goes well with the lyrics which I like. I'm not fond of the way the vocals are distorted, but that's just personal preference.
Yes. The distorted parts were a bit too distorted. A slight fuzz effect would have been better. I think the chorusing works well, though there is a bit of clipping in that too.
QuoteThe lines: And if you think that it's not true
Then die for me, I'll die for you
Actually, those lines were a spur-of-the-moment addition when I came to record the first draft and realised I didn't have anything for them. I don't like them very much myself, but Keaton did so I kept them.
Here is some late 60s psychedelia. Four tape decks were used simultaneously to create the flanging which I kind of overdid it on. I will revise this in the morning when I'm awake, but I'll probably hate the recording by then. Never sounds as good in the morning.
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/1727166/
For those who are someplace FA is frowned on, there's another link here:
http://dougtheeagle.com/stuff/fishsticks_v1a.wav.mp3
...but it will probably be moved later on.
Yes, I did mix it in mono.
**EDIT*
I was very deliberately setting out to do this 1960s-style. Only four tracks were used, one for drums, one for vocals, one for the horns and one for everything else. No noise reduction was done whatsoever.
The vocals were fed through one of the tape decks which I'd reconfigured as a delay unit, giving it a slapback effect of the type that the Beatles used. All in all, I had rather a lot of fun making it.
Woo! Fish Sticks! :boogie
Quote from: Cogidubnus on November 19, 2008, 10:18:03 PM
Woo! Fish Sticks! :boogie
Thanks. Listening to it with fresh ears, there's too much bus compression, maybe not enough reverb. Other than that, I think it turned out reasonably well.
He's a slightly clearer and more sensibly-mixed version:
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/1729487/
Here is some weird 70's-type music, "The Tome of Demonography".
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/1907692
Note... I forgot what I was doing and digitized it at 48khz (DAT quality) instead of 44Khz. This may upset some soundcards - if so, try downloading it instead of playing it through the flash player.
I should write a more concise description but it's nearly 1AM and my brain is melting. I still have to clean the decks and shut everything down, so I'll just shut up and see if people enjoy it.
As a whole it's pretty good. I especially like the interesting instrumental and the way the final stanza is sung. My only real dislike would be that the words of the longest stanza sound somewhat pressed into each other making them strange to hear compared rest of the song. :januscat
Quote from: Lysander on January 20, 2009, 12:11:07 PM
My only real dislike would be that the words of the longest stanza sound somewhat pressed into each other making them strange to hear compared rest of the song. :januscat
Thanks. That bit didn't quite work as well in performance as it did in my head - I guess I was using a slower tempo in my imagination.
However, that bit is all done on the same track - some songs use two tracks, one for each alternate verse. I've done that myself too - but usually I set it up in stereo. Moonspell and the like stitch them together which can sound really weird.
(http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k216/tapewolf/scraps/daryil_answered33.png)
http://tapewolf.wildernessguardians.com/audio/and_daryil_answered_v5.mp3 (14MB!)
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/2160323
Clocking in at just under 12 minutes, this song has taken a lot of effort to pull together. Among other things, it was recorded across 12 tracks, spread across two synchronized TSR-8 machines and mixed onto a somewhat temperamental Studer A807. I had to make at least two repairs to it before I was confident that it would be suitable for mixing down (and a third 'repair' which turned out to be the TLA compressor and not the deck at all) but the effort of lying on my back underneath the thing and probing it and the burns I got replacing the capacitors in the playback circuit seem to have paid off.
This is not the final version of the song, but it's pretty close. I seem to have flubbed part of the narration again, so that will have to be fixed and the demon voice will be replaced, one way or another. I'm hoping to have someone play the role of Daryil himself as well, but we shall have to see.
Lyrics are as follows. People who read Project Future, please stop sniggering.
Passing similarities to the current DMFA arc are purely intentional (the working title was "And Cyra Answered")
And Daryil Answered
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They say that in the caves of Izenkar
Resides the 'Fallen Star'
A tome that legend says holds secrets of our race
I'm one of few who knows the ancient tongue
And though I am yet young
I journeyed forth to seek this long-forgotten place
I am a child of Daryil
Clan of fear and mystery
I am a child of Daryil
And I seek my destiny
I am a child of Daryil
And you can't take that from me
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I am a child of Daryil
Clan of great nobility
I am a child of Daryil
No-one else I'd rather be
I am a child of Daryil
And you can't take that from me
I hope to learn the ancient mystery
Of our past history
Of how the 'Cubi came to roam our planet's face
It must hold secrets of such use to me
Like immortality
That I'll transcend into a perfect state of grace
Wings ruffling in the cool breeze, I approached a cavern that had been hollowed out as if into some sort of shrine. Everburning braziers lit the room and there, upon a pedestal suffused with light, was the tome of the Fallen Star.
If only my clan leader could see me now! Lord Daryil... I'd never met him, but they say he is as ancient and as wise as the hills, ruling his domain with a just, but firm hand. If the rumours of what this book contained were true, I might at last gain his respect.
As my hand reached to take the book from its pedestal, I realised I was not alone.
"And so, another incubus comes in search of the book of the Fallen Star. Surely you did not think you were the first! The book makes such tempting bait... it is almost too easy. I shall crush your body, torment your soul and take your head-wings as a trophy!"
My sword cast aside in the struggle, I lay helpless, pinned in the Demon's cruel embrace. As the last of my strength ebbed, I looked into the very core of my being, and I uttered a prayer. I prayed that someone, anyone, Being, Creature or God... hear me now and bring salvation.
...and Daryil Answered.
Well first off the main background riff is great, very catchy. I haven't read far enough in Project Future yet, but the story of the song sounds good.
I'm not to fond of the way you sing the the lines of being a child of Daryl, sounds like your trying too hard to reach the high notes when you usually sound more comfortable than that. But this is also only a draft so that may have been one of the things you planned to change.
Quote from: Lysander on April 06, 2009, 11:16:36 AM
Well first off the main background riff is great, very catchy. I haven't read far enough in Project Future yet, but the story of the song sounds good.
It doesn't really tie in with Project Future as such, it's just that "wise" and "noble" are not attributes most people would
generally associate with Lord Daryil (http://www.project-future.org/strips/guest/IRegretNotheeeng2.jpg) (not entirely SFW).
QuoteI'm not to fond of the way you sing the the lines of being a child of Daryl, sounds like your trying too hard to reach the high notes when you usually sound more comfortable than that. But this is also only a draft so that may have been one of the things you planned to change.
I get what you're saying. There are a couple of things in that segment which were a bit off-key (I think it was done late at night). I guess I was afraid of making it worse >:3
Maybe the answer is to drop it an octave, though to be honest, I've come to associate the higher pitch with my better works somehow. The decision to use a lower octave in the verses was one I wasn't entirely sure about, though it seems to have worked.
Quote from: Tapewolf on April 06, 2009, 12:05:25 PM
It doesn't really tie in with Project Future as such, it's just that "wise" and "noble" are not attributes most people would generally associate with Lord Daryil (http://www.project-future.org/strips/guest/IRegretNotheeeng2.jpg) (not entirely SFW).
Oh, heh, I get it now. And thanks for sharing, that was great.
Quote from: Tapewolf on April 06, 2009, 12:05:25 PM
I get what you're saying. There are a couple of things in that segment which were a bit off-key (I think it was done late at night). I guess I was afraid of making it worse >:3
Maybe the answer is to drop it an octave, though to be honest, I've come to associate the higher pitch with my better works somehow. The decision to use a lower octave in the verses was one I wasn't entirely sure about, though it seems to have worked.
I remember you doing very well in "Beings and Creatures" with the verses a lower octave than the chorus. It adds a nice effect. You could try just the first two stanzas both in the lower or higher octave just to see what you like more. :januscat
Okay, so I had a few problems with composer's block, and the fact that the studio was tied up with the Radio Project and so on and so forth.
This was originally a throwaway piece of music for the Radio Project, but people seem to think it's okay so I decided to publish it anyway. It was written for the scene in DMFA where Dan meets Biggstania.
To cut a long story short, it can be found here:
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/2732403
http://tapewolf.wildernessguardians.com/audio/SuperFunkTime.mp3
This piece was written as background music for the DMFA Radio Project, an audio adaptation of Amber's webcomic. The piece was written specifically for strips 865-873, where Dan meets Biggs (or does he?). The music may perhaps be a little repetitive as a result of it being stretched to cover a 4:30 scene, but I still think it turned out quite nicely. Even if I suck at doing 1970s funk.
Technical details/Equipment Porn
Sounds used:
Hohner D6 clavinet (Korg Triton)
Rhodes Suitcase (Korg Triton)
Electric bass (Roland JV1010)
Wurlitzer 200 (Korg again)
Organ (Hammond XM-1 w/H&K Rotosphere)
Drums (Korg Triton)
Synth lead (Waldorf Pulse)
...proving once again that the Triton was well worth the horrifying cost of purchasing it.
Recording was done on my trusty TSR-8 and mixed to a Studer A807.
4'33" ? I know a piece of music that would cover that scene perfectly...
Quote from: llearch n'n'daCorna on September 01, 2009, 03:02:17 PM
4'33" ? I know a piece of music that would cover that scene perfectly...
Yeah. We were using that one before, but I had to replace it for copyright reasons.
Oh-ho, I bow to someone with considerably better talent for lyrical writing than mine! Very interesting. Wish I'd known about this sooner, but still. My commendations, as it were-now, if my sound card were working I'd give the MP3's a listen too....
Quote from: Myr on September 01, 2009, 07:20:28 PM
Oh-ho, I bow to someone with considerably better talent for lyrical writing than mine!
Heh, I can't honestly say that the lyrics are my strongest point. I think of them as being 'good enough'.
Very nice as usual, Tape! I do wonder about the sound quality, though; it may be intentional, but the whole recording sounds somewhat "muffled" to me and is much quieter than other songs including your albums. I'm not sure what the scale is, but on my system I had to set the volume to about 25/100 instead of 12/100 to get a normal volume, and it still sounded muffled then...
Also, this seems like a good place to ask, are higher quality files of your music available somewhere? I vaguely recall reading somewhere that you may not have wanted to make them freely downloadable, but I would be happy to pay for them of course.
I probably sholudn't be writing this now, should be in bed. Apologies if it comes across cranky or something.
Quote from: Fibre on September 02, 2009, 07:59:49 PM
Very nice as usual, Tape! I do wonder about the sound quality, though; it may be intentional, but the whole recording sounds somewhat "muffled" to me and is much quieter than other songs including your albums. I'm not sure what the scale is, but on my system I had to set the volume to about 25/100 instead of 12/100 to get a normal volume, and it still sounded muffled then...
I can't remember what I did. You're right, it's rather quieter, though I swear it was amplified to 0db. Probably a transient peak in that case.
As for muffled, not that I've noticed. I don't know about that. I'd have to compare it against 'Daryil Answered' or something.
Thing to remember is that the final albums are mastered, the WIP files are not since it is expensive. The music as it goes into the radio project will not be mastered, nor will the project itself - unless anyone is willing to stump up for it. Hence, comparing this to, say, any of the tracks from 'Three Little Pigs' isn't a fair test as it's been mastered and the deck was in a funny state as well.
'Daryil answered' or the 'Hannah's Problem' songs in the Project thread are probably your best bet as they were both unmastered and mixed with the deck in the same state (i.e. after its repair).
QuoteAlso, this seems like a good place to ask, are higher quality files of your music available somewhere? I vaguely recall reading somewhere that you may not have wanted to make them freely downloadable, but I would be happy to pay for them of course.
At the end of the day it all comes down to disk space. I'd love to be able to put them up in 16/44 FLAC format, but hosting it will be a problem, let alone the 24/96 versions.
What I do usually is bring a stack of the latest album to AC, and if I know someone is there who wants copies I'll bring a few of the older CDs as well. It is a balancing act as what I can bring into the US is limited and depends also on the temperament of the customs official on duty :B
Quote from: Tapewolf on September 02, 2009, 08:32:35 PM
I can't remember what I did. You're right, it's rather quieter, though I swear it was amplified to 0db. Probably a transient peak in that case.
As for muffled, not that I've noticed. I don't know about that. I'd have to compare it against 'Daryil Answered' or something.
Thing to remember is that the final albums are mastered, the WIP files are not since it is expensive. The music as it goes into the radio project will not be mastered, nor will the project itself - unless anyone is willing to stump up for it. Hence, comparing this to, say, any of the tracks from 'Three Little Pigs' isn't a fair test as it's been mastered and the deck was in a funny state as well.
'Daryil answered' or the 'Hannah's Problem' songs in the Project thread are probably your best bet as they were both unmastered and mixed with the deck in the same state (i.e. after its repair).
I couldn't find which thread that you were referring to, but I got "... And Daryil Answered" from your FA and it sounded fine. I might just be imagining it, or maybe it's just an artifact of the style of music (which is, I will admit, not something I have much of if any besides yours, although I do quite like it)...
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At the end of the day it all comes down to disk space. I'd love to be able to put them up in 16/44 FLAC format, but hosting it will be a problem, let alone the 24/96 versions.
Oh, if you didn't mind hosting it on someone else's system, I have a horribly underutilized VPS and would be happy to host them if you wanted. It has ~180GB/mo transfer and ~4GB space free, and I wouldn't mind upgrading that if it were needed. Or archive.org would probably host them.
Quote from: Fibre on September 02, 2009, 09:12:45 PM
I couldn't find which thread that you were referring to, but I got "... And Daryil Answered" from your FA and it sounded fine. I might just be imagining it, or maybe it's just an artifact of the style of music (which is, I will admit, not something I have much of if any besides yours, although I do quite like it)...
I accidentally deleted the copy of 'Daryil Answered' I was referencing on this thread, but the link should work again now. It's 14MB. The Furaffinity version was compressed a lot more to fit it into the 10MB limit, so for critical listening and comparison you probably want to download the one from Wilderness Guardians.
As for the other Radio Project songs, they can be found here:
http://tapewolf.wildernessguardians.com/audio/radioproject/hannah_3violins.mp3
http://tapewolf.wildernessguardians.com/audio/radioproject/hannah_flutes.mp3
http://tapewolf.wildernessguardians.com/audio/radioproject/193dmfa_3.mp3
The Hannah songs have a bit of a noise floor problem, I think that happened in tracking (must track on headphones in future!). I was afraid it was the mix deck, but Daryil didn't have the same issue. 'Song 193' had a hum problem on one track, again because I was monitoring on speakers during tracking.
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Oh, if you didn't mind hosting it on someone else's system, I have a horribly underutilized VPS and would be happy to host them if you wanted. It has ~180GB/mo transfer and ~4GB space free, and I wouldn't mind upgrading that if it were needed. Or archive.org would probably host them.
Archive.org sounds like a plan. I'll think about that. For all my 'information wants to be free!' stance, I must admit I am nervous about the idea of releasing the full-quality versions, possibly because it's something I can't undo later if the impossible happens and they become commercially successful somehow.
Nice music! :) I wish I could say more, but I don't know how to comment on these things.
Quote from: Tapewolf on September 03, 2009, 04:27:54 AM
I accidentally deleted the copy of 'Daryil Answered' I was referencing on this thread, but the link should work again now. It's 14MB. The Furaffinity version was compressed a lot more to fit it into the 10MB limit, so for critical listening and comparison you probably want to download the one from Wilderness Guardians.
As for the other Radio Project songs, they can be found here:
http://tapewolf.wildernessguardians.com/audio/radioproject/hannah_3violins.mp3
http://tapewolf.wildernessguardians.com/audio/radioproject/hannah_flutes.mp3
http://tapewolf.wildernessguardians.com/audio/radioproject/193dmfa_3.mp3
The Hannah songs have a bit of a noise floor problem, I think that happened in tracking (must track on headphones in future!). I was afraid it was the mix deck, but Daryil didn't have the same issue. 'Song 193' had a hum problem on one track, again because I was monitoring on speakers during tracking.
Cool, thanks. Regarding "Super Funk Time", with further listening and thought, I think I've concluded that I was being too conservative with the volume adjustment, imagining the problem, and/or that I was very tired or such at the time.
I'm also getting a bit worried that my onboard sound interface (or drivers) is doing "bad" things as well, though I think that has different symptoms... probably should just try find a good USB audio interface.
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Archive.org sounds like a plan. I'll think about that. For all my 'information wants to be free!' stance, I must admit I am nervous about the idea of releasing the full-quality versions, possibly because it's something I can't undo later if the impossible happens and they become commercially successful somehow.
I cannot, unfortunately, imagine that they wouldn't be "available" anyway after being commercially released. :/ I don't know if archive.org allows artists to remove their content after uploading it, but it seems like the effect would be the same if you did remove it from legitimate download. If you do commercially release, though, you certainly have at least one customer. :)
Quote from: Fibre on September 08, 2009, 01:34:17 AM
I'm also getting a bit worried that my onboard sound interface (or drivers) is doing "bad" things as well, though I think that has different symptoms... probably should just try find a good USB audio interface.
Yes. I don't know if this is a desktop machine or not, but onboard sound is usually rather questionable. I had great problems with 'Three Little Pigs' where the soundcard appeared to be adding its own dynamics compression which made it impossible to verify that the mastered versions were any good. That is something I will have to try and avoid next time. I'm thinking of getting a decent PCI or PCI/e soundcard, but we'll see how that goes. If you're using a laptop, a USB interface is probably your only option. What kind of machine is it and what OS are you running?
QuoteI cannot, unfortunately, imagine that they wouldn't be "available" anyway after being commercially released. :/ I don't know if archive.org allows artists to remove their content after uploading it, but it seems like the effect would be the same if you did remove it from legitimate download. If you do commercially release, though, you certainly have at least one customer. :)
I think I might give Archive.org a miss for now, but if you want to host them yourself, send me a PM and I'll see if I can't upload some FLAC versions to you. If you're making it to next AC, remind me and I'll try to bring you a set of CDs.
Quote from: Tapewolf on September 08, 2009, 06:50:44 AM
Yes. I don't know if this is a desktop machine or not, but onboard sound is usually rather questionable. I had great problems with 'Three Little Pigs' where the soundcard appeared to be adding its own dynamics compression which made it impossible to verify that the mastered versions were any good. That is something I will have to try and avoid next time. I'm thinking of getting a decent PCI or PCI/e soundcard, but we'll see how that goes. If you're using a laptop, a USB interface is probably your only option. What kind of machine is it and what OS are you running?
It is desktop hardware (but pretty much just a diskless X terminal), with an Intel DG35EC motherboard, which seems to have a Realtek ALC888S (Intel HDA). Currently it is running Linux 2.6.30/amd64 (Arch), though I have a FreeBSD 7 install for it as well which I was using until recently.
Was the card that you had problems with the Roland UA25 listed on your equipment page, or something else? I was thinking about just getting one of those, except I don't need the input capability, and something a bit more portable would be better, but I guess not if it was. Unfortunately it seems difficult to find decent reviews of sound interfaces...
I find an Edirol UA-1ex works fine for me, although the USB bus has an unpleasant hum on it that requires earthing the card to resolve...
Quote from: Fibre on September 09, 2009, 07:49:41 PM
Was the card that you had problems with the Roland UA25 listed on your equipment page, or something else? I was thinking about just getting one of those, except I don't need the input capability, and something a bit more portable would be better, but I guess not if it was. Unfortunately it seems difficult to find decent reviews of sound interfaces...
The UA25 was the one that had a problem. Other people reported similar problems, but it might have been a bad batch or something. I do notice that they seem to have replaced it with a newer revision:
http://www.roland.com/products/en/UA-25EX/index.html
You are really quite talented. I've not listened to much of your work before today, I'm glad it occurred to me to do so :]
Do you play everything into the recording or do you control it all via midi?
Quote from: Moekii on October 30, 2009, 10:42:45 PM
You are really quite talented. I've not listened to much of your work before today, I'm glad it occurred to me to do so :]
Do you play everything into the recording or do you control it all via midi?
Thanks. I'm afraid it is all MIDI sequenced, there are only two songs which have any live overdubs, both on the second album. "Borderline" has a synth line at the very end, and "One less hero" has a solo on spoons which took about a dozen takes to get right.
BTW, strictly only the author is supposed to wake up a thread like that, but I'll let that slide >:3
Here's my current piece of music, mixed down over the weekend. It's more 1970s-style progressive rock, clocking in around 6:30.
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/3012959
...and for those not able or willing to use FA:
http://tapewolf.wildernessguardians.com/audio/ballad_of_daniel_lagrange.mp3
This is actually based around the same incubus character featuring in 'Daryil Answered'. And like that song, there is a certain debt to Daniel Ti'Fiona in the way things are turning out for him. It is set prior to the earlier song, if that makes sense.
As is often the case, this song was recorded on a pair of synchronized TSR-8 machines and mixed down to a Studer A807. For more specific details on how it was put together, ask - my mind has had a complete mental block right now and I can't think what to put about it proactively.
I owe thanks to Ren, Wuffnpuff and Keaton for their comments and suggestions, which have definitely shaped the way this song has turned out.
My name is Daniel and I spent my whole life hunting and destroying evil
That's what I do
One day I saw that what I did was also evil
From a different point of view
Judge not, lest ye be judged
[Things are not as simple could be
Everything is different now for me]
The realisation that my life and been spent poorly left my thoughts all tangled
Left me confused
I sought a way to make amends and life my life more wisely
This I pursued.
[Things I'd done were never as they'd seem
Everything before was like a dream]
Judge not, lest ye be judged
I thought that I could find the truth
But all I found was twisted blasphemy
The hymns of praise I thought I'd sung
Were only songs of lies and larceny
My name is Daniel and I spent my whole life hunting and destroying evil
But I was wrong
Since then I've found a little evil helps bring balance
To an over-righteous throng
[Even good is bad if took too far
Neutral shades of grey is all we are]
Judge not, lest ye be judged
Nice! So is this Daniel a new character only featured in your music, or is he from some of your writing that I have missed?
Are this and/or "And Daryil Answered" previews from your next album? Also, mind if I watch you on FA?
Quote from: Fibre on November 11, 2009, 01:18:14 PM
Nice! So is this Daniel a new character only featured in your music, or is he from some of your writing that I have missed?
I'm planning to write about him (specifically I'm thinking of doing a full write-up of "Daryil Answered"), but there aren't any stories about him yet.
QuoteAre this and/or "And Daryil Answered" previews from your next album? Also, mind if I watch you on FA?
Yes, and feel free. I think most people consider it a privilege to have someone want to watch them...
As for the album, I think I have it all down now. I will rerecord the vocals on "Daryil Answered" at some point and I would very much like someone to voice the demon, but either way I'm going to be looking at mixing it at some point over the next couple of months. It's unlikely to be ready for January, though.
Quote from: Tapewolf on November 11, 2009, 01:45:44 PM
Quote from: Fibre on November 11, 2009, 01:18:14 PM
Nice! So is this Daniel a new character only featured in your music, or is he from some of your writing that I have missed?
I'm planning to write about him (specifically I'm thinking of doing a full write-up of "Daryil Answered"), but there aren't any stories about him yet.
I had assumed that "And Daryil Answered" was from Jakob's point of view. I guess it makes more sense to be from someone else. :)
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QuoteAre this and/or "And Daryil Answered" previews from your next album? Also, mind if I watch you on FA?
Yes, and feel free. I think most people consider it a privilege to have someone want to watch them...
Heh, I'm kind of unsure about "FA etiquette". I think there was at least one artist who was blocking anyone who tried to watch them that didn't get permission, or something like that...
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As for the album, I think I have it all down now. I will rerecord the vocals on "Daryil Answered" at some point and I would very much like someone to voice the demon, but either way I'm going to be looking at mixing it at some point over the next couple of months. It's unlikely to be ready for January, though.
Cool, you must have a lot more unreleased material for it (or I've managed to miss it). I can't wait to hear it when you finish it.
Quote from: Fibre on November 11, 2009, 02:23:00 PM
I had assumed that "And Daryil Answered" was from Jakob's point of view. I guess it makes more sense to be from someone else. :)
Yes. It was inspired by the Daniel Tifiona->DP fight as you can probably tell. I started writing it when it seemed improbable that Cyra would come to his aid and sort of forked it off from there. Then Cyra did come to his aid, albeit afterwards.
The original title of the song was "...and Cyra answered."
QuoteHeh, I'm kind of unsure about "FA etiquette". I think there was at least one artist who was blocking anyone who tried to watch them that didn't get permission, or something like that...
I suppose you'll always have assholes...
QuoteCool, you must have a lot more unreleased material for it (or I've managed to miss it). I can't wait to hear it when you finish it.
Sadly most of it has already been made public, there is one song I'm keeping under wraps though. I'm not convinced it's one of the better ones, mind...
I don't have the track listing to hand but it's something like this (I'll fix it when I boot back into Linux etc):
Hippie Music Volume 6 - Songs of Lies and Larceny
Side A
Mr. Apocalypse
SAIA blues
Fishsticks
The Last Days of the Black Hand
The ballad of Daniel LaGrange
Side B
All Machine
The Incubus Song
Professional Suicide
Tome of Demonography
...and Daryil Answered
Quote from: Tapewolf on November 11, 2009, 04:21:21 PM
Yes. It was inspired by the Daniel Tifiona->DP fight as you can probably tell. I started writing it when it seemed improbable that Cyra would come to his aid and sort of forked it off from there. Then Cyra did come to his aid, albeit afterwards.
The original title of the song was "...and Cyra answered."
It seems that if there is a reference to spot, I will find a way to miss it. Despite the almost explicit reference in your original post for it, and having read that post several times. :erk Everything makes much more sense with that context. :)
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Sadly most of it has already been made public, there is one song I'm keeping under wraps though. I'm not convinced it's one of the better ones, mind...
I don't have the track listing to hand but it's something like this (I'll fix it when I boot back into Linux etc):
Cool, thanks. I did find a few that I had missed. Hearing an entire new album full of music for the first time is always fun, but it's kind of neat to get a preview as well. I just enjoy listening to the individual preview songs a few times, but don't actually put them into my regular rotation until the full album is available (where I always listen to the whole thing at once)...
This is my latest piece of work for anyone who's interested:
http://tapewolf.wildernessguardians.com/audio/nialls_song.wav.mp3 (9:34)
...it was inspired by This picture (http://mewgal.deviantart.com/art/COMMISSION-Niall-154721761) by Mewgal (or Toast). I can post the lyrics later if required.
There are two known issues with this mix, firstly I left the final verse too quiet, and secondly there's a dropout in the tape right at the end. Other than that, I'm quite pleased with it.
I'm less pleased with the name, but I guess it's better than "Song 209".
I rather like the song. Good work, Tape! :3
Here's a demo mix of my current project:
http://tapewolf.wildernessguardians.com/audio/stuff/demonhunter-analog.mp3 (12MB)
I'm going to stick in on FA as well when I can find a compression setting that fits their 10MB maximum file size.
EDIT: Here: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/4412076/
This has been under development for some time, and uses new equipment, specifically the MS20 filter in the Korg Monotron, and the ring modulator I built to help with Chicki's voice in the radio project.
I think I came in late in a couple of verses. I'm tempted to redo the first couple.
Keaton requested an instrumental version of this, but it wouldn't fit on the tape. I will get around to it, though.
Awesome as usual...
my only regret is this wasn't around yesterday when i was colouring for CCC :mowtongue J/K
For fact i especially liked the melody played in the middle or what (i use mpg123 so i can't exactly say when it starts or ends, but you probably know anyways)
Quote from: danman on September 05, 2010, 11:30:30 AM
For fact i especially liked the melody played in the middle or what (i use mpg123 so i can't exactly say when it starts or ends, but you probably know anyways)
Have you considered using mocp?
The fast-paced little harpsichord piece in the middle, which became "Sparring with Demons", actually popped into my head unbidden during a game of Doom. I immediately quit the game and threw it into the sequencer before I could forget it...
EDIT:
Apart from earlier today when I tried to put a 0.5" tape into a 0.25" box - twice in succession, complete with "Why isn't it closing...?" - the most memorable facepalm moment in recording this was when I accidentally read the demon as something like "Why do you fight us, when I'm your son...? ...Oh--"
Quote from: .zshrcalias mp='mpg123 -Ccvvvvv'
I'm actually compiling versions with additional debug readouts, being crazy like that... But one or two -v's should give you a frame/time readout, and the more you put in, the more often it's updated (five v's should be every frame). -C activates keyboard controls.
I use mocp (well, moc - binary has that 'p' at end because /usr/bin/moc is already claimed by Qt MetaObject Compiler) for all other formats, but it's using the old semi-abandoned libmad as the MP[1-3] decoder. And laugh or not, mpg123's output
sounds seems to sound better for me.
$EDT:
Okay, having listened the whole... good "as usual"... quite a lot of what I already seem to be calling in my head "the usual DTE style", and a few unexpected parts, like the little fast paced moment around 4:30 and the string harp(?) two minutes later...
Also, this song's spectral looks really cool at times. ;)
*claps*
Oops, apparently I forgot to post Anathema here when it was recorded around Christmas. That's going to be sent in for mastering soon so I guess it's too late to get critique on it now. It is on FA, though.
Anyway, my current song project has been this rather dark number:
http://tapewolf.wildernessguardians.com/audio/HeavensArmy-v2.mp3
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/5372292
...sometimes I need a bit of an emotional kick to spur me into writing. This one certainly seems to have worked.
Lyrics
I found me in another world
When my mortal life was done
I'd earned the right to live up here
And I am not the only one
But heaven's not just clouds and singing
And so I joined the peacetime guard
Sent off to fight some vampire cult
Should training be this hard...?
"Oh and by the way," they said,
"Once an angel dies, he's dead."
We found us on a forest world
Where the vampire threat existed
If I knew it would be like this
I'd never have enlisted
Heaven's army falls apart
Raw recruits are slaughtered by the dozen
See Hell's minions...
Find a place to hide away...
I saw so many comrades die,
Enough to make an angel cry
Again I ask myself if I've been fooled
Or is this really Heaven?
Again I have to ask if I've been fooled
And it was all a scam...
A band of angels wishing they had guns
Instead of sword and spear
If I get out of this alive
I'm going to choose a new career
...and Heaven's army falls apart
Raw recruits are picked off by the dozen
See Hell's minions...
Find a place to hide away...
....
Heaven's army falls apart
Raw recruits are slaughtered by the dozen
See Hell's minions...
Find a place to hide away...
Again I ask myself if I've been fooled
Or is this really Heaven?
Again I ask myself if I've been fooled
And it was all a scam?
This is my current project, aside from the A-side of 'Baklawa Doom', which I am a little reluctant to share at the present moment. This is intended for the B-side of the album, along with 'Heaven's Army' and whatever else I can think up.
http://tapewolf.wildernessguardians.com/audio/Song_of_Keaton_take1.mp3
...unsurprisingly, it is a summary of the early life of Sunblink's character, Keaton.
I believe it's the first track I've posted here recorded on my 24-track machine.
I'm not happy with the performance of the first couple of verses, I will redo those, and probably the last two as well. The mix is a bit full and difficult to understand in parts. I'll probably hate it in the morning.
The drum track
Thanks to Lonewhitefly of 'Magic Hero vs Rock People' for giving me the idea of using the sick-sounding tape organ, a'la the Genesis song Seven Stones.
And yes, it is long.
EDIT:
See also 'take 2' which is on Youtube here, with a quick and nasty video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSJjymCNjMA
Well, no idea whether *you* will hate it in the morning ,but in my opinion, this is an awesomesauce song with a side order of cool beans.
Well, given that it both has electric organ, and is long enough, it kinda is set to meeting my requirements XD
Will probably say more once i can get a few better hearings of it.
Quote from: VAE on August 01, 2011, 04:03:55 PM
Well, no idea whether *you* will hate it in the morning ,but in my opinion, this is an awesomesauce song with a side order of cool beans.
Well, given that it both has electric organ, and is long enough, it kinda is set to meeting my requirements XD
Will probably say more once i can get a few better hearings of it.
Thanks. The opening sound is the 'Tape organ', that and the more traditional Hammond are used throughout the song.
One of the things I found interesting to play with was increasing the echo length on the more gritty parts of the song. Feedback on whether that was a good idea would be nice, since those are the lines I'm going to have to rerecord anyway.
For the curious, lyrics are as follows (the simplistic rhyming scheme will probably kill Whitefox):
Young Keaton, she was born into a once-grand city state
Ruled by an immortal Queen whose love had turned to hate
Her father was a blacksmith and he dreamed of making art
Her mother hunted heretics and tore their souls apart
Her mother lived ten thousand years by feasting on the souls
Of those who would profane the Queen or mock the sacred scrolls
Her father was a younger man who forged the tools of war
To make the Red Queen's prophecies come true on every shore
Little Keaton, as the years went along
Little Keaton, such a shame it went so wrong
Little Keaton, it was such a shame that you,
Little Keaton, have become a monster too
The Queen believed she acted as the mouthpiece for her god
As nonbelievers lost their souls, her men would smile and nod
Queen Jyraneth proclaimed that Creatures were the chosen few
All wingless mortals must be slain, their sacred task to do
Each month or so her Raiders would set forth upon the land
To harvest souls and smite the cities with the Red Queen's brand
They fought and slew and captured slaves and only spared the young
"Each child is pure and holy!" was the mantra that they sung
(Little Keaton...)
Now Keaton was a young girl and she knew not what to say
When once she saw the wingless slaves the Raiders caught that day
And pity stole upon her for these frightened mortal things
She shivered and she thanked the queen that she'd been born with wings
Her brother Noah told her of a creature of the night
The story left young Keaton in a nervous state of fright
She placed her dolls like sentries on the watchtower of a keep
But stuffed toys cannot keep away the nightmare moths of sleep
(Little Keaton...)
One night when she was out alone she ran into the Queen
Who asked her what she'd like to do when she had turned nineteen
She tried hard not to think about the slaves she'd pitied so
Since Jyraneth could see her thoughts and things she didn't know
Her mother ran between the two for she was paranoid
The Queen might call out "HERESY!" and have her child destroyed
But Jyraneth ignored these quirks since Keaton was just small
She'd grow to be a warrior and cause their foes to fall
[Bridge, synth solo etc]
When Keaton was a teenager, her brother took her out
To burn away her pity for the foes of the devout
And Noah told her that their sisters had been squeamish too,
It was a rite of passage every Jyraneth goes through
They hid upon a mountain pass, 'till travellers came by
He shot them with a fireball and left them there to die
Then Noah turned to Keaton and he said the kindest thing
Would be for her to slay them both and end their suffering
(Little Keaton...)
When Keaton closed on seventy, she kept her youthful air
When you live several thousand years, it's harder to compare
She went in search of Noah who'd been missing several days
When she returned she found her father dead and house ablaze
It wasn't just her family who had been taken down,
Their city was invaded and the foes swept through the town
She fought and killed the warrior who'd claimed her father's head
But she was quickly overwhelmed and left behind for dead
(Little Keaton...)
She woke and found herself alive, but taken as a prize
Her captors healed her major wounds but took one of her eyes
It took about three hundred years and one attempted rape
Before she killed her owner and she managed to escape
She wanders now in search of any clan-mates who survive
Her dying captor hinted that her sister was alive
So now she is a drifter and she wears a mask of hate
But deep down she's just terrified she'll share her father's fate.
Little Keaton, as the years went along
Little Keaton, such a shame it went so wrong
Little Keaton, it was such a shame that you,
Little Keaton, have become a monster too
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How to deal with Noah talking to Keaton in the song has been a constant irritation, whether it should be 'her' or 'you'.
I went with 'you' until I recorded it and decided it sounded weird. Then I switched to 'her' instead. Quite how it should be written up in the liner notes is also unclear - it's paraphrasing what he said, so whether it should be quoted or not is a bit of a mystery to me.
In the lyric, if you copypasted it, i suspect he "forged" the tools of war, instead of forcing them.
Best to catch it before it's in PDF form
Quote from: VAE on August 03, 2011, 05:15:15 PM
In the lyric, if you copypasted it, i suspect he "forged" the tools of war, instead of forcing them.
Best to catch it before it's in PDF form
Quite so. For practical reasons too stupid to go into, I actually typed it up again instead of copy-pasting it
I thought I had posted this already, but apparently not.
There is a more recent mix of the song on youtube together with a quick and dirty video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSJjymCNjMA
Great song and clip- it felt like I was listening to a pitch for a new animated show and this was it's main score. Nice work! :kirby
Here's one of the tracks from the album which I'm hoping to have ready for AC. I've been holding this suite fairly close to my chest.
This is "Baklawa Doom, Part III - The End of the World" and is probably one of the most anticlimatic battles between good and evil ever.
http://tapewolf.wildernessguardians.com/audio/BaklawaDoom_pt3-1644.mp3
Technical detail and stuff:
Vocals were tracked to my old TSR-8, rerecorded and edited via punch-ins as necessary and then dropped in to the MSR-24 using sync. Instruments were recorded straight to the MSR-24.
Mixing was done on the 10th of December and was a rather stressful process, not least trying to line up the A807 with only crappy meters to hand and never being quite sure if it was biased right, but it seems to have turned out pretty well for all that, if I do say so myself.
Things I would have done differently:
* Getting guest voices for the news reporting at the start. I tried to arrange that but no-one I knew was able to record them in a timely manner so I resorted to manipulating my own take via Audacity (and also varying the tape speed while it was being bounced)
* More use of the Minimax on tracks 1 and 2 of the album.
The track lineup for the album and approximate running times (as scrawled on the master tapes) will be:
Side 1:
Baklawa Doom
Part 1 - The Old Man (5:45)
Part 2 - At the Chippy (6:00)
Part 3 - The End of the World (7:30)
Part 4 - After the End of the World (5:30)
Side 2:
Heaven's Army (5:40)
How to Build a Sundial (Instrumental - 10:30)
Song of Keaton (10:35)
Okay, I've been doing an album every year since 2004 and the muse has run a bit dry, so I decided it was time to look at rejigging some of the songs on the first four albums now I have all this wonderful technology and stuff that I didn't have at the time.
This is one of my old favourites, The Quest for the Sacred Jaguar, freshly rerecorded on 24-track. I'm still amazed I managed to do it in only seven originally...
http://tapewolf.wildernessguardians.com/audio/jaguar_take1-1644.mp3
Comments about the mix and vocals are most welcome, things like "You should make the intro shorter" are somewhat welcome but not particularly helpful as they will mean rerecording the entire thing yet again from scratch. I should be able to make the finale a bit longer so it has more time to fade out, but it would still be a challenge...
The guitar power chords are kind of feeble - if anyone wants to guest on electric guitar, I would be interested.
EDIT: Also on FA here: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/7787918/
Technology- making things easy-er to do since the dawn of man (sadly this includes killing others, but hey, without it, we would still be in caves.
(http://tapewolf.wildernessguardians.com/audio/NewWar.png)
A song I've been writing about the ongoing DMFA plotline, i.e. the possibility of a new Dragon-Cubi war.
http://tapewolf.wildernessguardians.com/audio/thenewwar-take1.mp3
Also: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/7972298/
The mix could be better - the vocals clip in places and the volume level isn't consistent between verses. I need to look at normalising the levels (they were already tape-to-tape copied so doing it again with the levels tweaked shouldn't be a major problem ). Some of them seem a bit flat now, I might rerecord those.
The section 6:36 through to 'Who cares?' came to me in a dream. Fortunately I woke up at that point and was able to remember it long enough to put it into the song.
Logo cut up from bits of DMFA, naturally.
(http://tapewolf.wildernessguardians.com/audio/age_of_daryil.png)
This is a song I started writing about a year ago, following Daryil's ascension to tri-winged leader status in Project Future. Just within the last month or so did I manage to work out the verses and other stuff to convert the chorus and other scattered ideas into a proper song. Once again I got a harpsichord solo while playing Doom. I don't know why that sometimes happens but I'm glad it does.
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/8363246/
http://tapewolf.wildernessguardians.com/audio/age_of_daryil_take1-44.mp3
This song was the first where I tested out my new BBD chorus pedal, which I've used on the chorus and the bridge verses.
Some of the more experimental things involved the radiophonic choir at the end (varispeeded tape loops of me going 'aaaaaaaaa' ) and the chorus where I filtered the high end on the left and the bass on the right. I'm still not sure that was a good idea.
Flubs in the mix included not turning the wurtlizer up during the final parts of the song (it suddenly kicks in), not including the tape snatch at the start of the radiophonic choir, and some slight clipping on the last verse.
I actually can't help but notice how I interpret the song slightly differently when I'm reading the added script of whats being sung.
A song of great risk taken that should have ended in death. New things to learn while running his clan. An admittance of all people do something evil in there life tome, but they shouldn't be necessarily cruel about it. Then an stating how he achieved all it without having to sacrifice someone to fuel the transformation.
If you really get down to it, though some clans look down upon Daryil's clan. Daryil achieved something that have tried in a long time have ended in spectacular failure. In a way, Daryil has a right to brag.
I seem to be on a roll. Here's another song.
(http://tapewolf.wildernessguardians.com/audio/BornWithWings256.png)
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/8416255/
http://tapewolf.wildernessguardians.com/audio/born_with_wings_take1-44.mp3
This is a song I put together from nothing over the course of the week. The first verse suddenly came to me while I was leaving work and brooding over the rather dark storyline currently running in DMFA, wherein a group of adventurers is running around decapitating apparently innocent incubi and succubi for no obvious reason.
So, what would it be like to have to run and hide for your whole life to avoid summary execution just because you happened to be born with wings? This song attempts to tackle that question.
The song gradually built up during the week, and was basically finalised last night, after I had this little melody come into my head when I was lying in bed at 3am last night.
Today has been spent polishing it up, recording it, performing the vocals, and finally mixing it. I think it turned out rather well, but there are some things which could be improved. I am rather pleased with the lyrics, this time... usually they're almost an afterthought :-/
Tracking was done to a TASCAM MSR-24 and a TSR-8 for the vocals. Mixing was done on a Soundcraft MFX20 to a Studer A807. The string synth was a Cheetah MS6 fed through an Electroharmonix Small Clone chorus pedal.
Things which I'm not sure about:
The piano intro. I was trying hard to make it sound less mechanical... now I'm concerned it sounds too amateur.
I thought the metronome sounded good, other people might not.
I need someone to play Cale(?) for the final album version (and the Radio Project).
(http://tapewolf.wildernessguardians.com/audio/tapebox3a.png)
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/8749608/
http://tapewolf.wildernessguardians.com/audio/a_fae_story-take1.mp3
This song had a difficult birth, chiefly in terms of writing the lyrics. I had everything down pat until after the third verse, then it fell apart. I went through about three different basic plots, vacillated between having Dan, Daryil or someone else as the hero and about six rewrites of the verses before finishing this at about 2:30 in the morning and deciding that it would probably do.
I intend to use one of the offshoot ideas in Project Future or Epsilon Project. The music was less of a problem, though the style wavered somewhat - I was originally aimed at 1969 before I finally broke down and added a minimoog solo.
Recording was done on Sun 26th (during which time my sequencer laptop emitted a shrill wail and went dead) with the vocals added on Mon 27th.
Recording was done to a TASCAM MSR-24 multitrack, vocals were dubbed on a TASCAM TSR-8 and then transferred. Tape delay on the vocals was provided using a Revox B77 for that 1970 sound (the middle section in particular has the slapback effect I was gunning for, a'la 'Simon Zelotes' in original 1969 recording of Jesus Christ Superstar). What is probably a biasing issue added a strange distortion in the high end, but I kept it anyway - you get that on a number of reissued 1960s tracks too.
Mixing was done to a Studer A807 tape deck on SM900, the icon is of the actual tape box, slightly shopped to try and make it more readable.
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I was told a tale
About a princess from the Kingdom of Fail
She went to seek the Fae
A royal visit that went badly astray
Seduced by wolves, or eaten by witches
The Kingdom of Fail and the promise of riches
The Sky will fall, the Land will be broken
The wrath of the Fae is such a terrible token
There came a man in red
He had grey wings upon his back and his head
The stranger made it known
He was a hero who could help save the Throne
The King said 'This will never do
We hate your kind, be off with you
We have no need for 'cubi scum
Our hero must be a mortal one'
The hero's blood ran hot
"I'm going to help you if you like it or not"
He waved his mighty sword
And went to bring the Princess back to her Lord
Seduced by wolves, or eaten by witches
The Kingdom of Fail and the promise of riches
The sky will fall, the land will be broken
The wrath of the Fae is such a terrible token
* * *
It took him just two days to find the princess
But as they tried to leave
The Fae Lord held them by the sleeve
"The King will try to have the both of you killed
If you can bide your time
I'll make sure vengeance can be mine"
The hero and Princess
Returned in triumph and were under arrest
Before they could be hung
The Fae returned and killed the King and his son
The Fae Lord led them out of jail
And named the hero King of Fail
The wedding was a royal one
And soon the new queen bore a son
(That's me)
There's one thing left to do
I have to tell you that this story was true
But heroes love to roam
And so my Dad left and put me on the throne
The son of two, of princesses and kings
Benificent ruler with a new pair of headwings
I'll use my brain, my eyes and my ears
Rule wisely and justly for thousands of years
(http://tapewolf.wildernessguardians.com/audio/murder_game_original.png)
Those who follow DMFA may have noticed that the darker side of life in that particular world has reared its ugly head, and that has knocked my muse into overdrive, providing a clutch of songs I'm rather pleased with.
So, here is yet another 1970s-1980s progressive rock song about some Creature whinging about being hunted for no real reason beyond xenophobia.
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/9025130/
http://tapewolf.wildernessguardians.com/audio/the_murder_game-take1.mp3
This song is interesting in its own right because I have attempted to play electric bass for the first time. It's still a little shaky because I've only had the bass for one month and perhaps I tried to do this a little too soon. Even so, by virtue of the auto punch-in feature on the TSR-8 I have been able to muddle my way through by sheer brute force.
The mix may be a little iffy since I managed to break the Fostex TP20s I usually use and the other headphones were awful. Still, it sounds okay on speakers.
The icon is a photo of the tape loop used on the second chorus, it literally is "an endless loop of strife" as per the lyrics.
Instruments and recording info:
JV1010 and MVS-1 (bass synthesizers, polysynth)
Creamware ASB Minimax (bass and lead synth)
Mike Pinder mellotron samples (8-voice choir, flute, Chamberlin Female Choir)
MVS-1 'squashed organ' (see also the entire 'Clone' album by Threshold)
Hammond XM-1 organ module with Rotosphere leslie sim
Waldorf MicroWave ('phaseout' solo)
Korg Triton EX (drums, fender piano, gong)
Zoom RFX-2000 vocoder
Diode ring modulator (featuring dad's old function generator)
Encore E4 bass, DI'd into the mixer through a Reotube G2
Recording was done on a TASCAM TSR-8 for vocals and bass and transferred to a TASCAM MSR-24 which was also used for tracking the computer-controlled instruments. The gong was taped and modulated with the jog shuttle on a Studer A807. The Endless Loop of Strife was played on a Revox B77 as the Studer pitched a fit over playing a tape loop. Again.
Lyrics:
Some will call it 'murder'
Some will say they're hunting
And some say they're protecting their own kind
But in our vicious world you'll find you sometimes have to kill
Just to keep hold of your body, soul and mind.
Are we men, or are we monsters?
Careful how you choose
Are we men, or are we monsters?
What have we to lose?
No matter what the others do we always get the blame
But in the end, we're only pawns inside this Murder Game
A circle of violence
A life paid for a life
We suffer in silence
An endless loop of strife
Some live to a hundred
And some live to a thousand
And others have no limit to their span
But even with the elders just a single lucky stroke
Leaves you just as dead as any mortal man
Are we men, or are we monsters?
Careful how you choose
Are we men, or are we monsters?
What have we to lose?
No matter what the others do we 'Cubi get the blame
But in the end, we're only pawns inside this Murder Game
A circle of violence
(circle of violence)
A life paid for a life
(life paid for a life)
We suffer in silence
(suffer in silence)
An endless loop of strife
(An endless loop of strife) [tape loop of 'strife' to lead into instrumental]
The Angel hunts on tuesday
She'd like to make you her prey
A little bit here and a little bit there
No-one will notice, and no-one will care
Come one, come all, come old young and new...
You'll have to play the murder game too
You'll have to play the murder game too
Some will call it 'murder'
Some will say they're hunting
And some say they're protecting their own kind
But in our vicious world you'll find you sometimes have to kill
Just to keep hold of your body, soul and mind.
Are we men, or are we monsters?
Careful how you choose
Are we men, or are we monsters?
What have we to lose?
No matter what the others do we always get the blame
But in the end, we're only pawns inside this Murder Game
A circle of violence
A life paid for a life
We suffer in silence
An endless loop of strife
What can I say as a layman? The song sounds nice, and I like the lyrics too.
Also, I lol'd at the endless loop of strife.
Would have been even better with a moebius strip.
That said, I finally remembered to listen to a fae story.
Suffice to say it's promptly moved to one of my favourite songs of yers. I plain love the melody.
Quote from: VAE on October 13, 2012, 07:18:34 AM
What can I say as a layman? The song sounds nice, and I like the lyrics too.
Also, I lol'd at the endless loop of strife.
Would have been even better with a moebius strip.
Heh, thanks. As you can see, it needed a few edits to make it match the tempo of the song. I believe I got the idea from Pink Floyd - they did something like that late in their career - either on The Wall or the Final Cut. (I can't check because I don't have them - they're too depressing)
This was a prior attempt before I added the extra segments: http://tapewolf.wildernessguardians.com/audio/mg-tapeloop.mp3
Oh, and I still have one of the test recordings when I was checking out the bass part and deciding which bits need to be redone. I believe I re-did some parts of it subsequently anyway.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/60408280/mg-basstest4.mp3
...I am going to replace the strings and hope that the thing remains in better tune after that.
And no, the tape transport would be extremely upset if it played something with a twist in it. It might just squish it but it's very likely it would get tangled and jam.
There's also the fact that the tape is backcoated and the black side can't be recorded on (sometimes newbies load the tape backwards and think the machine is broken)
In case anyone's curious, this is the opening track 'The New War' being mixed this afternoon:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvEqd8I0DXQ
(http://tapewolf.wildernessguardians.com/audio/montyotr.png)
This is my arrangement of the classic C64 music for 'Monty on the Run' by Rob Hubbard. It's not perfect, there are a few things I did with my own additions that perhaps didn't work as well as I'd hoped, and if you were to play my version alongside the C64 version in sync (which I have done), you'd notice a couple of places where they don't quite line up. But overall I'm rather pleased with with results.
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/10208531/
https://www.weasyl.com/view/156669
http://tapewolf.wildernessguardians.com/audio/monty_on_the_run-take1-1644.mp3
(While uploading, I noticed a few DnB versions of this piece. Mine tries to stay faithful to the original, while expanding on it with a couple of extra backing tracks.)
Don't know the original, to be honest, but that's a very nice piece
(http://tapewolf.wildernessguardians.com/audio/exemplar.png)
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/10636368/
https://www.weasyl.com/submission/189157
http://tapewolf.wildernessguardians.com/audio/exemplar-take1-1644.mp3
After Merlin and I did the Werrew mini-arc in Project Future (see icon), and probably because I was reading the Ice and Fire books at the time, I found myself singing a silly ditty on the way home from work one day.
It wouldn't go away, and gradually evolved into this, a song based around the overthrow of a tyrant. It may or may not be about Werrew's adventures, I'm not wholly sure.
Instruments used:
Roland MVS-1, JV1010
Korg Triton Ex, Hammond XM-1 w/Rotosphere
Creamware Minimax ASB
TornadoTron
Epiphone Thunderbird Gothic
Other stuff: Watkins Copicat Mk4, Small Clone chorus
Synthesizers sequenced in Cakewalk and Rosegarden
Vocals and bass recorded to TASCAM TSR-8, then transferred to an MSR-24 for mixdown using an ATS-500 synchronizer, on SM911 tape.
Mixed to a Studer A807 on SM900 tape.
I got bored and added some production tricks like running some of the vocals through the Leslie simulator, and true flip-the-tape-over reverse reverb.
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Heads bow in line
Peaceful sun shine
Heads bow in tune
They'll be mine soon
The Kingdom of Exemplar is a terrible place
Its customs are archaic and its laws a disgrace
The one thing he can't handle if it's said to his face
Is that the King is quickly running out of time and space
And I'm the Man who Should be King
Think of the golden age I'll bring
And I shall turn things upside down
When I have seized the Kingdom's crown
Heads fall in time
High Treason crime
Heads fall in tune
He'll be mine soon
The Kingdom of Exemplar is a terrible place
Its customs are archaic and its laws a disgrace
The one thing he can'd handle if it's said to his face
Is that the King is quickly running out of time and space
And I'm the Man who Should be King
Another golden age I'll bring
And I shall make this kingdom sound
When I have claimed the Golden Round
When I am king I'm going to add protections to the law
So no-one may be killed without a trial anymore
'Cause that's not right
And I'm the Man who Should be King
And hear the bells of judgement ring
And I shall make this kingdom sound
When I have claimed the Golden Round
Skulls fall in time
High Treason crime
Skulls fall in tune
The Throne...
The Throne will be mine soon...
I'm the Man who Should be King
Think of the golden age I'll bring
And I shall make this kingdom sound
When I have claimed the Golden Round
The Kingdom of Exemplar was a terrible place
Its customs were archaic and its laws a disgrace
The thing he couldn't handle when I showed him my face
Was that I'd come to kill the King and now I've taken his place.
(http://tapewolf.wildernessguardians.com/audio/yh2013-256.png)
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/10970102/
https://www.weasyl.com/submission/206956
http://tapewolf.wildernessguardians.com/audio/yh2013-take1-1644.mp3
Last year I had writer's block until 'Incubi and Succubi' suddenly happened, and in that time I decided to revisit some of my older songs using the upgraded studio. 'Young Human' was an early one from my second album, "Songs for the Wild-at-heart", and I decided to redo it with better mellotron, more minimax, better microphone, a real bass and 24 tracks instead of 8. Since I have writer's block again, I decided to pick up from where I left off and finish this one.
Some of the sound effects, copicat echo loops and such have been copied over from the master tape of the original song. I might have copied the vocals as well, but the new version is in a different key (I may have used the wrong version of the MIDI file...?).
I think I may have used the original WAV file of the 'life-feel-see' sample at the end, I'm not sure.
The phasing effect was going to be done using my trusty Revox/Tascam pair but the latter one blew it's drive belt and I didn't have time to order a replacement before AC. I attempted to rig something with a vacuum cleaner belt but there was too much wow.
So instead I did this thing where I copied the vocals from my 8-track machine onto the 24-track, but this time I did it twice and wiggled the speed control on the second copy. It didn't work as well as a more traditional phasing technique but it did kind-of work, except for that time when I hit the power button on the master deck instead of the varispeed control (they're next to each other).
The bass could be better played and I might revise that in a future take.
Thumbnail by Zina, who did the cover of my second album "Songs for the Wild-at-heart" which had the original version of this song.
Critique would be desirable.
(http://projectfuturecomic.com/stuff/things/clandaryil_take1_1644.png)
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/11460458/
https://www.weasyl.com/submission/226305
https://soundcloud.com/dougtheeagle/a-song-about-clan-daryil-take
A while back, Amber drew a picture of Shax, depicting him being introduced to his clan leader. In the DMFA universe, the leader of a 'cubi clan is a very large, exceptionally powerful individual with a link to all their descendants.
While trying to put these concepts into song, I ended up writing a song based around Shax' commission, but with Daryil as the singer, as if he was giving an introduction to someone who had recently matured and become part of the clan. Whether Daryil actually serenades new clan members remains to be seen.
The picture which inspired it all is here:
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/9911544/
https://www.weasyl.com/submission/203025
...and as for the title pic, Merlin drew that for me. Thanks! A larger version is here: http://project-future.org/stuff/things/clandaryil_take1_1024.png
The song was written in SONAR as all my songs are, then recorded on a TASCAM MSR-24 multitrack using Rosegarden. Bass and vocals were recorded on my TSR-8 and then copied to the multitrack when I was happy with them.
"Happy" being a relative word since some of the bass playing feels a bit shaky and will probably have to be revisited. If my crazy plan bears fruit I will probably revisit the minimoog and mellotron parts anyway since it's possible I'll have a gear overhaul in the coming months.
Equipment used:
Korg Triton EX - Drums
Roland MVS-1 - Synth bass
Roland JV1010 - additional percussion, distorted organ
Hammond XM-1 organ
Creamware Minimax ASB - minimoog leads and additional synth bass
Waldorf MicroWave - additional synth lead at end
Waldorf Pulse - additional synth bass
TornadoTron - for those choirs, flutes and strings
Epiphone Thunderbird Gothic - bass
Apex 460 valve microphone
I'm fairly pleased with the mix (done on a Studer A807 on SM900), I have made some signal chain improvements and lowered the overall levels to try and reduce the clipping problems that have been occurring recently, and I think I've got it.
And now the lyrics:
Come child, you've turned 23
Now you're a part of my dynasty
Come young one, you've grown all your wings
Now we must talk of many things
I'm Daryil - and I have the power
I'll be there for you in your darkest hour
I am so much, much more than a man
The great, immortal head of my clan
Don't be afraid, I'm not some evil madman
My laws are just and ought to make sense
You must not kill unless it's self-defence
And if you ever eat someone's soul
I'll stuff your corpse down a six-foot hole
I'm Daryil - and I have the power
I'll bring you comfort in your darkest hour
I am so much, much more than you know
My giant form is not just for show
But don't be scared, I'm not some evil psycho
Don't you see? Don't you see?
You're the youngest face in my family
Don't you see? Don't you see?
You're the youngest face in my family
And I know everything you've done and I know everywhere you've been
And I know everyone you've met and I know everything you've seen
And I know everything you love and I know everything you hate
And I know when you've played it false and I know when you've played it straight
I've seen your soul
I'm Daryil - and I have the power
I'll be there for you in your darkest hour
I am so much, much more than a man
The great, immortal head of my clan
Don't be afraid, I'm not some evil madman
Come child, hearken to me
I want what's best for my family
Our clan has status, power and such
I do not ask for very much
I'm Daryil - and I have the power
My own ascension was my finest hour
I guess a tri-wing is kind of odd
Fifty foot tall and almost a god
But don't be scared, I'm not some reckless hotrod
Don't you see? Don't you see?
You're the youngest face in my family
Don't you see? Don't you see?
You're the youngest face in my family
(https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/60408280/100Years.png)
This is a lyrical followup to "Born with Wings" ( http://www.furaffinity.net/view/9478181/ ), in which the Succubus And Incubus Academy from DMFA is explored in detail.
It started out as a short song, and grew, and grew, and grew until it was a full quarter of an hour long ('In A Gadda Da Vida' and 'A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers' are both longer).
Because FA still has its 10MB limit which makes it suck for epic progressive rock, I've uploaded two separate versions, a 'Single Edit' which contains just the tour of the academy, and the full version which is on Weasyl where it will fit without having to be split into pieces or the quality reduced to mobile phone levels.
Single edit: http://www.furaffinity.net/view/13146320/
Full, 15 minute version: https://www.weasyl.com/submission/557111/a-hundred-years-full-version-or-the-saia-song
The song was composed on Cakewalk SONAR, tracked using Rosegarden and the bass and vocals were recorded and rerecorded over the following few weeks.
Instruments used included:
Roland MVS-1 - bass synth
Roland JV1010 - metronome
Korg Triton - Drums, electric pianos, clavinet,
Hammond XM-1
Manikin Memotron - Choir, 3 Violins, tape organ, Genesis cello,
Minimoog voyager
Epiphone Thunderbird Gothic bass
Vocals and bass recorded on 1/2" 8-track tape and transferred to 1" 24-track. The pitch bend effect on Bela Santiago was done using an A807 1/4" machine and a lot of trial, error and patience. Worth it, though.
Vocals as bass recorded on RMGI SM900. 24-track was done on horrifically expensive ATR tape as an experiment. Stereo mix recorded on SM900.
And yes, I did like Karn Evil 9, thank you.
Lyrics are available on FA or Weasyl (and vary depending on which version you're looking at)
Just listening, and I really like this.
That said, I vaguely wish someone would teach me not to need sleep. Days are far too short these days, and the poor lynx far too tired.
Quote from: VAE on April 08, 2014, 08:27:12 PM
Just listening, and I really like this.
That said, I vaguely wish someone would teach me not to need sleep. Days are far too short these days, and the poor lynx far too tired.
Thanks. Was that the whole thing, or just the excerpt?
Whole thing - luckily didn't need a weasyl account to download it.
Quote from: VAE on April 09, 2014, 08:12:59 AM
Whole thing - luckily didn't need a weasyl account to download it.
Oh, cool - I figure most people just listened to the highlights, but personally I was rather pleased with the composition as a whole.
I can't even handle how old school your sound is. It's very impressive :) My uncle has some old tape recording stuff but even he hasn't used it in decades.
I exist purely in the digital world, but your doing good stuff with yours :D
Quote from: SeamlessR on April 29, 2014, 10:33:55 AM
I can't even handle how old school your sound is. It's very impressive :) My uncle has some old tape recording stuff but even he hasn't used it in decades.
I exist purely in the digital world, but your doing good stuff with yours :D
Thanks. If you're interested, I put a shot of the studio up here:
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/13330532/
If you really want to hear vintage done well, look up the Norwegian band D'Accord. Their "D'Accord III" album was recorded in London last year, all-analogue. No digital delays. Vintage keyboards and an EMT plate reverb, and the LP was cut straight from the master tapes. The song "Mr. Moonlight" is kicking around on Soundcloud.
(http://dougtheeagle.com/stuff/saludora66.png)
I kind of wanted to write a song about a medieval kingdom for a while, but got stuck with the lyrics. Some real-world politics ended up jading me, hence we have a political slant to the final lyrics. Sorry about that.
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/22668216/
https://www.weasyl.com/~tapewolf/submissions/1452531/saludora-take-1
I also decided I wanted to try messing around with odd time signatures and ended up channelling both Threshold and Van Der Graaf Generator, and ended up with a bassline I couldn't actually play. It was so far beyond my skill level that I slowed down the recorder during the takes, but even that wasn't enough to make it feasible so I ended up splitting it into two parts, recorded on two channels which simplified things a bit and also allowed me to play stereo tricks.
Conversely I speeded up the recorder slightly for the end of the song, allowing me to end the song on a note which is impossible to play on a 4-string bass with standard tuning.
I should go back and redo some of the bass, partly because the first tricky part is still kind of messy, and also because some of it is off-tune enough to produce a chorusing effect that I'm not sure I want to keep. This would be trivial to fix on a DAW, but that would be very boring. This way is more fun.
The random organ notes in the middle were originally a marker to say "tape collage to go here" but I kind of liked it, especially after I ran a screwdriver down the bass and got that to make some weird noises as well. For this demo I spliced in a section of backwards pipe organ music but I don't really like how that turned out to be honest so it might not be there in future takes of the song.
The song was recorded on my trust Otari MX80, with help from a TASCAM TSR-8, on which I recorded the vocals, bass and also the reverse cymbal before dubbing them onto the 24-track machine. Mixing was done to a Studer A807 which I also used to do things like the tape loops of the word 'Saludora' about halfway through, reverse pipe-organ and a clip of alternate ending from my 'Tears of Joy' song which I ended up not using anyway. Some tape editing was also used to fix fluffs in the mix.
Instruments used included an Epiphone Thunderbird Gothic, Hammond XM-1 and SK-1, Minimoog Voyager, Alesis DM10, Waldorf MicroWave, and Manikin Memotron. The medieval dance was done on a Roland JV1010 with Orchestral module.
Lyrics are available on FA and Weasyl
For the first take of the song it actually sounds pretty good, but this is coming from someone who isn't much of a music critic to begin with and will listen to pretty much anything and everything.
As for two of the UK bands you mentioned, I may check those out as well. :) I've heard of Van der Graaf Generator before, but I don't believe I'm familiar with any of their music. Threshold is a new one to me.
Quote from: Foxx Trotter on February 21, 2017, 10:14:39 PM
For the first take of the song it actually sounds pretty good, but this is coming from someone who isn't much of a music critic to begin with and will listen to pretty much anything and everything.
As for two of the UK bands you mentioned, I may check those out as well. :) I've heard of Van der Graaf Generator before, but I don't believe I'm familiar with any of their music. Threshold is a new one to me.
Thanks. VDGG classic albums are:
"The least we can do is wave to each other" - the first one where they got their classic sound down pat, especially the last track
"H to He who am the only one" - 'Killer' is a good introductory track
"Pawn Hearts" - three tracks. 'A plague of lighthouse keepers' takes the entire second side of the album, and it's some of the more chaotic stuff I was thinking of here
Threshold put out a lot of albums and it's difficult to pick some classic ones. My personal favourite was "Psychedelicatessen" but the stuff I was channelling is more like the solo in 'Sanity's End' off "Wounded Land", their first album. I'm rather fond of "Extinct Instinct" as well, but a lot of their output, especially before Jon Jeary left, is very good IMHO.
Yeah those organ notes in the middle do work really well, nice!
Quote from: Merlin on February 22, 2017, 05:19:24 AM
Yeah those organ notes in the middle do work really well, nice!
Which one, the backwards bit I was thinking of getting rid of, or the random tinkly ones?
Quote from: Tapewolf on February 22, 2017, 05:28:59 AM
Quote from: Merlin on February 22, 2017, 05:19:24 AM
Yeah those organ notes in the middle do work really well, nice!
Which one, the backwards bit I was thinking of getting rid of, or the random tinkly ones?
Both, actually. Them both being in there near each other contrasted well
(http://dougtheeagle.com/stuff/numerology66.png)
This is a song about numbers and their power to predict the future. Or something. It kind of took a detour when I ended up in the unfortunate position of having two verses inspired by the Gypsy in Ultima 6, failed to write any more in that vein and ended up with more 'cubi stuff for the last two verses. I am particularly pleased with the chorus though.
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/23229349/
https://www.weasyl.com/%7Etapewolf/submissions/1479724/numerology
Guest starring my talking clock, which goes really peculiar when the batteries run low. I have done some slight cleaning up in Audacity to remove the laughter on the original recording - easy enough since the samples are identical. However what it is saying now remains exactly what it said at the time.
I also remembered that when I was a child, learning the times table, the entire class would fall into a particular rhythm and intonation. I was also intrigued to find that my dad chanted the tables in the same exact way some 30 years earlier. So thanks to the wonders of multitracking and varispeed tape drives, I have preserved that here for posterity.
Things I've done differently here include using a TL Audio Indigo 2051 voice channel on bass, and reset the pickup levels to try and get that nice metallic growling I had on some of the earlier albums.
I also redesigned the vocal chain to use both a TLA 5051 voice channel and an ART Levelar as a limiter. So many valves. In addition I've added a 5021 bus compressor to the vocals sub-group on the mixing desk to smooth out the vocals a bit during mixdown. I was worried it would add too much noise to the mix but it seems to have worked pretty well in this instance.
Lyrics are available on FA and Weasyl.
Equipment used included:
Tascam TSR-8 multitrack
Otari MX80 24-track tape machine
Studer A807 stereo master recorder
Allen and Heath GL2400 mixing desk
Phonic Pro MM1002 submixer (for the chanting)
Strymon BlueSky reverb
Apex 460 valve microphone with TL Audio 5051 voice channel
TL Audio 5021 valve bus compressor for vocals
Epiphone Thunderbird Gothic bass with TL Audio 2051 voice channel and Donner noise gate
Watkins Copicat tape echo
EHX 4600 chorus pedal
Roland JV1010 synthesizer
Hammond XM-1 organ w/H&K Rotosphere
Hammond SK-1 (for the electric piano)
Waldorf MicroWave Mk1
Moog Voyager
Manikin Memotron
Alesis DM10 drum machine with LA Audio TCX2 valve compressor
Waldorf Streichfett string synthesizer
Ross RTC8 talking clock