james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > On Thu, 14 Jul, 2005 at 10:51AM +1000, Shayne O'Connor spake thus: > >>james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: >> >>>On Wed, 13 Jul, 2005 at 10:25AM +0200, Christian Schumann spake thus: >>> >>> >>>>On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 01:17:42PM +0100, james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>>On Tue, 12 Jul, 2005 at 11:33AM +0200, Christian Schumann spake thus: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>>I'll take the track home tonight and see with what I can come up. I >>>>>>think I can post that tomorrow. >>>>> >>>>>That's great. I very nearly wrote about what kind of thing I'm >>>>>looking for in the original mail, but then decided not to. If I >>>>>specified the kind of sound I'm after, it would influence people and >>>>>give us less room to explore. >>>>> >>>>>I'll share later, of course and maybe what I'm expecting and what you >>>>>intend to do will match up. Either way, it should be fun. >>>> >>>>Ok, see what I came up with on >>>> >>>>http://maitre.physik.uni-kl.de/~schumann/sv_WIP_guitar.ogg >>>> >>>>I have to apologize first for the bad timing, but it's been late at >>>>night, after a hard work in the lab. >>>>This is just some ideas I had, I don't know if this is what you >>>>expected. Now that Shayne wrote that he might have some lyrics for that, >>>>I would give it another try after I have something with vocals. >>>> >>>>I was kind of unsure whether to do some more clean comping with delay, >>>>or more of a full-on distorted rock guitar. So tell me what you think. >>>> >>>>Christian >>> >>> >>>Bloody hell! >>> >>>That sounds amazing! It's not what I was expecting at all, but I'm >>>very very excited about it. >>> >>>Do you have the guitar parts recorded separately? I'll put them in >>>with the rest of the stuff, get the levels right and shufty things >>>around so that they get the space they need in places. >>> >>>I love where this is going. >>> >>>I wonder what Shayne's been up to? >>> >> >> >>http://blog.machinehasnoagenda.com/files/sv_WIP_vocals.ogg >> >>this is just a *very* rough copy of what i hear for this track ... >>haven't had *any* time to polish it or learn how to sing it properly: >>hence, some of the more, er, "intense' parts may sound a little >>strained, etc ... but i wanted to throw this up so others could give me >>feedback, or if they wanted to do backing tracks, or even sing it >>themselves ... > > > Nice lyrics! I know you say this is just a rough cut, but could I > have the vocal track as it is anyway? I can start piecing things > together maybe at the weekend and get something sorted with guitars > and vocals in the mix from the original - which should sound better > than just everlaying them because I can make room for them properly. > > Good job! I think these will fit well with the Christian's guitar > part. > > I wish I had time to do this today, but I really don't. ok, i redid the vocals - sound a *bit* better - but seeing as you wanted the first ones, i've included both in a tarball: http://blog.machinehasnoagenda.com/files/sv_wip_vocals.tgz there's two .flac files in there, vocal_1 is the first vocals i did, vocal_2 ... you guessed it ... these are totally dry and have only had some normalising in the way of processing - please, at least put some reverb on them :D i'd gotten my inspiration for the lyrics and melody before hearing christian's guitar, and i didn't want to listen to it that much in case it put me off what i'd come up with - in any case, between my contribution, christian's, james' and yours should be able to mix up something pretty damn good (most of james' stuff comes before or after what i sing, i think, so it could work well ... i don't know). also, i've always liked my voice doubled-up ... here's a quick mix with my two vocal versions and some reverb: http://blog.machinehasnoagenda.com/files/sv_WIP_vocals.ogg have fun shayne btw - the .tgz file is 11mb ... let me know if there's any problems, or anything else you need.