General Music Chat

Sorry it took me so long to get something up here. I'm kind of a spoiled guitarist that always had other people to do this stuff for me. I like to record very dry so other musicians can hear every pick and know that I mean what I'm playing. This is just something that I thought up this weekend and figured would go good here for review. I really need to learn how to get good recordings soon because what comes out of the amp is not what is heard on the recording. My bud said that he'll come over to straighten things out though which is really cool cause I really have no idea about it. Until then: I hope you guys enjoy my twisted mentality...

Sounds good man.

That loft looks big enought for a practice space too. LOL

Piano since 3 and a guitarist too huh?

Love seeing the multi-instrumentalists on here!

Nice noodlin' shred! You remind me of my old guitar teacher in your tone & speed.

Pssst! Got any Paganini?

Hey thanks for the responses guys! I'll be putting more ideas up as time permits. Yeah the pic was taken in my studio that's above my outside garage and it's 21 ft. by 32 ft. so there's plenty of room to jam out. My piano is at the bottom of the stairs right now because I forgot how damn heavy it was until I was looking up 16 stairs. Oops! Oh well I guess I'll just have to run a mic down there eventually.

Now Paganini...I believe that I still have some of his sheet music laying around that I used to transpose onto guitar. I'll have to dig it up. Maybe the next piece that I'll put up will be a neo-classical piece that I wrote several years ago and have since added to it, but never recorded it as of yet.

Anyhow thanks again for the feedback and like I say everyday..."Keep Shreddin!"

Nice job though my cheap assed speakers on the puter dont do much justice to METAL, YEA!! oops got carried away.

O.K. Philbymon: Here's what I just recorded tonight on a borrowed amp. I call it "GMinor Lost It's Mind". You wanted to hear the classical side, so here it is. I must appologize though for the few mistakes towards the end when the 6-finger tapping is going on. My ring-finger on my right hand got lazy, but oh well it's just an idea. 25% concrete and the other 75% was improvised on the spot with 1 take. No effects and straight through the amp as always bro! Welcome to SHRED9...Unfortunately though you must have good speakers to get it all because there's way too much octave speed going on & 20 watt practice amps kind of blow anyway.

Don't know why, but I'm having trouble with uploads and when they do finally upload, they don't even sound anything like the actual recording. So last night I messed with it and decided to make them downloadable because that seems to be the only way to get the sound out of them. Really weird. I upped one then downloaded it and played it through my monitors and it sounded correct. So this is what I'd recommend for anyone interested. Sorry for the inconvience, but that's the only thing that I can come up with...

I appologize to anyone that was looking for the new upload last night, but everything came through soooo corrupted that I had to try something else. I uploaded them to Mediafire and re-downloaded them and played them on Musicmatch Jukebox through my monitors and everything sounded correct and uncorrupted. I don't know what's causing it, but the player here only plays half the notes and sounds like crap, it doesn't even sound anything like what I recorded at all. So to fix it I re-upped them as download only meant to be played through a different player and good speakers. Hopefully this works like it did for me. I still haven't tried to re-download them from here, but it shouldn't be any different than Mediafire I wouldn't think. I'm no recording engineer, rather just a dumb guitar player that just knows how to play the damn thing and not much else. Sorry once again... The only mistakes in "G Minor Lost It's Mind" were at the end when I messed up the 6-finger two hand tapping when my right ring finger got lazy so other than that everything was spot on. If it sounds any different than that, then something is going on with this site because it came back from Mediafire perfect.

Found it downloaded it liked it, kinda G minor in full auto mode

Interesting. Dunno if I'd call it "classical," but I can see the influence.

Must be a helluva thing to play, though.

Nice speedy felanges, there, Shred9!

You're right, too, it doesn't need any processors muddyin' it up.

I noticed that I've had to mix specifically for this sites player... and either for the computers speakers or for headphones.
I thought one time that it was a decent mix, but then listened to it through headphones after it had been up for awhile and it sounded crummy.
I thought I was just crazy, and maybe I am crazy... but it looks like Im not the only one to notice something weird about the site playback.
Am I crazy?

Yes, you are crazy. And you are right about the whole mix / sound thing.
Some times it drags so bad you can hardly make out the vocals. I have had to take down play around and repost on several attempts.

Actually I'm the stupid crazy one here , but in all seriousness...Even though I recorded that last night on a 20 watt Crate (which blows) it still came through perfect with absolutely no imperfections as a Cubase project as well as the first one that was done on my now extinct amp. Then I converted them into mp3 with Switch and they got worse from there by kind of missing alot of mids and adding some latency somehow. I replayed them both tonight as a Cubase project through my monitors and they sound flawless as usual. Then I replayed them as the wav file that I exported from Cubase and they still sounded perfect. Then I replayed them as the mp3 that Switch produced and problems and things that were never there to start with started to show up like latency and background noise that is non-existent in my studio.

I'm no recording dude so all I know how to do is start Cubase and go from there because I'm used to having pros do the recording for me and when stuff comes out like this, it's really embarrasing for me as a musician because what is heard is not what I played at all. I'm glad that I'm not the only one to notice this brothers! When even my recording come out perfect and then the conversion process messes them up and then a player messes them up even more, then that REALLY BLOWS!

All I want to do is share some idaes with you AWESOME DUDES and have the actual quality of the original recording come through. Man that's frustrating!!! Anyhow I got a loaner amp from World Of Music today to use until my new stuff arrives so I'm going to get at it and write something with some groove to share tonight (obviously metal duh). This tune is in my head and needs to get out, happens all the time.

Well here we go bros and Keep Shreddin'!!!!!!!!!

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but if you put it up on myspace
ill listen


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O.K. Philbymon, here you go bro...Just thought of this like 2 hours ago while I was playing piano, then I had to go upstairs and get it out. Here's a better idea of Metalized Classical. This is emcompasses the Phrygian and Aeolian modes all at one time, but with a classical root. I'll probably polish this turd and keep this one. I even put it up on the player cause it comes through "fairly" clear, but still with some notes missing and a lack of the clarity of the "real" recording, but what the hell right? Sans would probably dig it too..."When Phrygian Meets Aeolian" All alternate speed picking with no sweeps. BTW I took the others down cause they've been up long enough & I'm starting to get the recording thing a little better especially with my Caparison. The alternate speed quads and triplets may remind you of your favorite composer?

I didn't get to hear the first ones but the new one sounds pretty damn good.