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    Quote Originally Posted by lesfunk View Post
    Question for DJ or somebody who knows Mac. How to up load from My Itunes?
    I am a moron when it comes to that shit. Well, not really, I just never bothered to learn.
    You can't upload directly from iTunes, but here's what you do to prep: Fire up iTunes...
    Find the track and right click, or control click, the track and scroll down a little to 'Show in Finder'.
    This takes you to the track... now you know where it lives. This is where you will point to when uploading. Typically, it's in a folder called 'iTunes Music'. It's usually something like your HD > Users > YOU > Music > iTunes

    If you need to convert them to MP3, go to your iTunes preferences, click 'import settings' under the 'general' tab and select MP3. With your track selected, go Advanced > convert to MP3. The MP3 version will live with the original file...

    If this sounds confusing, there's help here too: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1550
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    Quote Originally Posted by VAiN View Post
    You can't upload directly from iTunes, but here's what you do to prep...
    Outstanding, and thank you so much. This info just made the process much less like trying to remove a tooth with a hole punch and a hammer (don't ask).

    This is another early track recorded for our second album. We rerecorded a handful of these tunes for the third release, but this one was discarded. I'm really not altogether certain why, perhaps we felt it a bit primitive and red-necky. The track features the by now patented dirty bass sound I preferred then, and still do. Essentially, we ran a chord from the control room that split into two other rooms, each containing an amp. One was set to a clean, buoyant tone, the other to either an overdriven guitar amp or my bass amp with a distortion pedal. Rather than running direct to the board, we'd mic the cabinets from a few feet away, giving a fuller "room" sound. When mixing, I could then fade between the two tracks to get the proper level a tune required: a cleaner tone for the ballads, a much more harsher tone for the rockers. I initially got the idea from an interview in a guitar rag with Sting, who would do pretty much the same thing using both an upright bass and his electric.

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    Lol Sorry my music does not suffice. Rock On The Mighty VH. No Punk Rock. Enjoy.
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    Quote Originally Posted by SunisinuS View Post
    i got it to play on myspace

    great job, SunisinuS

    the beat, the feel.....good music
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    i did not do this..
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    now Pete's Brother.....that belongs in the Community Theatre on a Monday evening!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by fifth element View Post
    now Pete's Brother.....that belongs in the Community Theatre on a Monday evening!!
    i'll never remember that

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    Quote Originally Posted by PETE'S BROTHER View Post
    i'll never remember that
    I remembered to post MY cartoon....lol...
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    Outstanding, and thank you so much. This info just made the process much less like trying to remove a tooth with a hole punch and a hammer (don't ask).

    This is another early track recorded for our second album. We rerecorded a handful of these tunes for the third release, but this one was discarded. I'm really not altogether certain why, perhaps we felt it a bit primitive and red-necky. The track features the by now patented dirty bass sound I preferred then, and still do. Essentially, we ran a chord from the control room that split into two other rooms, each containing an amp. One was set to a clean, buoyant tone, the other to either an overdriven guitar amp or my bass amp with a distortion pedal. Rather than running direct to the board, we'd mic the cabinets from a few feet away, giving a fuller "room" sound. When mixing, I could then fade between the two tracks to get the proper level a tune required: a cleaner tone for the ballads, a much more harsher tone for the rockers. I initially got the idea from an interview in a guitar rag with Sting, who would do pretty much the same thing using both an upright bass and his electric.

    Liner notes? Sorry did not get that far.
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    LOL! I just record a clean track direct on it's own channel while running a plugin for playback only to get some kinda Marshally sound, and the harmonic feedback I dig.

    Then, on mixdown, I can re-amp the clean track to sound however I want it.

    My best friend had a mid-50s 50-watt Fender Twin for a few years back in the 80s.

    Man, crank that bitch up with a distortion box at high volume and that amp sounded so evil, if it was a person, it would be coming after you with a knife!
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    Quote Originally Posted by SunisinuS View Post
    Liner notes? Sorry did not get that far.
    You really should come up with some, as I'm digging the hell out of "Rocket Download". Nicely done.

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    Rocket Download had that David Bowie "Golden Years" Vibe
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    Awaiting the epic posting of Elvis J. Palmstain's work.......

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    Downloaded a buncha you guys' work the other week. Just now sat down and checked it out.

    Jay, great job on Whole Lotta Love.

    Goddam, Vain. That song Humid just kicks fucking ass! My fave out of the lot you uploaded.

    Chef, the instrumental side of these tunes reminds me of Rush: Fantasy reminds me of Bastille Day in it's opening riff. Feed Me reminds me of Rush during the Vapor Trails era. Medicated just reminds me of Rush in general, lol. Good stuff!

    Ashtralia that little .aiff clip was fucking cool.

    We got some grate musicians around here.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hardrock69 View Post
    Downloaded a buncha you guys' work the other week. Just now sat down and checked it out.

    Jay, great job on Whole Lotta Love.

    Goddam, Vain. That song Humid just kicks fucking ass! My fave out of the lot you uploaded.

    Chef, the instrumental side of these tunes reminds me of Rush: Fantasy reminds me of Bastille Day in it's opening riff. Feed Me reminds me of Rush during the Vapor Trails era. Medicated just reminds me of Rush in general, lol. Good stuff!

    Ashtralia that little .aiff clip was fucking cool.

    We got some grate musicians around here.
    Hey brother, thank you for the kind words! And you're totally right, there are some seriously talented motherfuckers on this board! Thanks to everyone who had the balls to share. I know for me personally it's a bit tough. Bravo to everyone!

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    Hey what the fuck. Keep rockin'!

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    This track was my attempt at writing tv theme music for the opening credits of an action/adventure/cop show. It was meant to be accompanied by footage of foot chases, car chases, fist fights, shit blowing up, ect, ect. and end up with the hero and his cronies drinking someplace amidst beautiful women. I named it 203 for what amounts to roughly it's running time and because the title "Theme from a Non-Existent TV Series" was already used on an Elton John album in 1976.

    Initially recorded for our third album (but left off because only three of the band members played on it), the track starts with my usual distorted bass and questionable sense of time keeping. That's my friend Craig on the leads that ultimately make the tune worthwhile by providing some much needed melody, with my bro Robbie on drums and me on some snatches of rhythm guitar.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hardrock69 View Post
    Chef, the instrumental side of these tunes reminds me of Rush: Fantasy reminds me of Bastille Day in it's opening riff.
    Oddly enough, it reminded me of Minor Threat's "In My Eyes".
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    Oddly enough, it reminded me of Minor Threat's "In My Eyes".
    Oh, my...
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    Quote Originally Posted by chefcraig View Post
    You really should come up with some, as I'm digging the hell out of "Rocket Download". Nicely done.
    Just a silly Jingle.


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    Recorded on:

    http://www.rolandus.com/products/pro...?ProductId=481 But used the EX model

    Liner Notes:

    Back when MP3.com was actually a functional and great website, it would allow anyone to upload music, and then package and sell that music for the Artist and actually ship a CD to the consumer. So you could upload an album, upload the cover art, and price the CD at $8.00. Then someone who visited the site could order the album and MP3.com would split the money with you (artist got $4.00) and then would produce a CD complete with your artwork on the cover, and ship it to the purchaser. They also allowed people to download the songs one at a time and the artist would get a nickel for each download.

    Where I was living at the time, I had a friend that worked at RocketDownload which was a local Shareware company start up. Knowing that there site got big hit numbers, I told my friend to ask the owner of the company to let me make him a jingle/theme song and if he liked it to post it on his site, only caveat was that they had to link to MP3.com (so I could get paid). Well he agreed, and at $.05 a play I made like $134.60 or close to that (enough to put a full set of tires on my car).

    The song samples the Apollo 13 mission with myself answering their radio calls.

    All Guitars: Me
    Bass: Me
    All Vocals: Me
    Drums: Electronic off Roland Keyboard

    The lead guitar is purposefully loud tinny and frantic, meant to grab attention and be noticed (this is a commercial/jingle).
    The breakdown and outro to the song was my "Journey/Steve Perry" impression just giving the listener a soft "space" feel and to pound the website into their head.

    Thanks for listening.







    Audio of Apollo 13's first call help (Houston we got a problem...) answer....Software Costs too much!


    As an Electronaut in Cyberspace.
    I must a traveled most everyplace.
    Now I'm looking for...
    Someplace that's free....

    Now I have found a site to shareware with you
    It's got the Downlow and the Downloads too....

    Rocket Download.

    Rocket Down.
    Rocket Down
    Rockit Down.

    In the Vacuum of Cyberspace...
    You can get your Downloads from one place.

    Rocket Download.


    Navigating Cyberspace....Software was meant to be free....

    Rocket Download

    When your feeling low down....

    Rocket Download.
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    that's the new sound dude. i'm totally borgnining your concept.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ashstralia View Post
    that's the new sound dude. i'm totally borgnining your concept.
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    Thumbs up Here's one (and a snippet of another)...

    Been busy, struggling with an over-taxed CPU but got Pro Tools working again after a few weeks down and still getting a few things done... Guitar tracks to a new tune... This is a PODfarm Vox AC30, Marshall Plexi and my really-real Mesa-Boogie MK III's dirt channel tripled.... it needs a John Paul Jones - meets- Robert Deleo-in Geezer Butler's basement bass line and drums, but I like where it's going...

    http://soundclick.com/share.cfm?id=10475860

    and here's another I did a total cab emulation mic-switch-out on the existing tracks that sounds way bigger now: also AC30/Marshall + a Soldano Mod and the Boogie...This needs a McCartney-meets-Entwistle "The Real Me" vibe...the flange effect is still intentionally heavy at the end, yes...

    http://soundclick.com/share.cfm?id=10029542
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    Quote Originally Posted by jhale667 View Post
    ...and here's another I did a total cab emulation mic-switch-out on the existing tracks that sounds way bigger now: also AC30/Marshall + a Soldano Mod and the Boogie...This needs a McCartney-meets-Entwistle "The Real Me" vibe...the flange effect is still intentionally heavy at the end, yes...

    http://soundclick.com/share.cfm?id=10029542
    Being the guy that usually forces a distorted yet melodic bass line over just about anything, this might come as a surprise, but I really do not believe such a treatment would work on this, jay. The melody is already present from the guitars themselves, so to even add a counter-melody would be just too busy sounding, at least to my ears. I honestly think some sort of simple scale or an almost walking bass line would be more effective, and would not overpower the arrangement. In the outro, you could even get away with the bass repeating a 3 note octave figure (think low E, B, High E), essentially marking time by modulating, rather than moving the beat forward with accompaniment. And for this to work, a tone similar to a very clean and undistorted sound would be needed to cut through the guitar, and also to highlight the upper bass notes.

    In any event, that's my take on it. Best of luck finishing up, as it sounds great at this stage!

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    Quote Originally Posted by chefcraig View Post
    Being the guy that usually forces a distorted yet melodic bass line over just about anything, this might come as a surprise, but I really do not believe such a treatment would work on this, jay. The melody is already present from the guitars themselves, so to even add a counter-melody would be just too busy sounding, at least to my ears. I honestly think some sort of simple scale or an almost walking bass line would be more effective, and would not overpower the arrangement. In the outro, you could even get away with the bass repeating a 3 note octave figure (think low E, B, High E), essentially marking time by modulating, rather than moving the beat forward with accompaniment. And for this to work, a tone similar to a very clean and undistorted sound would be needed to cut through the guitar, and also to highlight the upper bass notes.

    In any event, that's my take on it. Best of luck finishing up, as it sounds great at this stage!
    Thanks!
    Interesting, and totally see what you're saying....maybe waaaaay more McCartney than Entwistle, yes...



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    On the first track J I would say resist that temptation to give it that one extra "dumb deya dumb deya" skip on the strumming. What was nice from the start was the "non-folk" (if that can be a word) vibe.

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    Quote Originally Posted by SunisinuS View Post
    On the first track J I would say resist that temptation to give it that one extra "dumb deya dumb deya" skip on the strumming. What was nice from the start was the "non-folk" (if that can be a word) vibe.
    Cool, thanks....I see what you're saying, but I think, or at least the intent is, the strumming will (hopefully) mesh with what I'm trying to imply rhythmically for the eventual bass and drum tracks...it's more percussive, definitely non folk.

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    Quote Originally Posted by jhale667 View Post
    Cool, thanks....I see what you're saying, but I think, or at least the intent is, the strumming will (hopefully) mesh with what I'm trying to imply rhythmically for the eventual bass and drum tracks...it's more percussive, definitely non folk.

    Yea but you then have to go beyond the riff and make a shot to the head. I just said it feels lazy that extra strum....like you are trying to say "uhm" when you are speaking "you know" ? So the fun of the recording process is to get beyond that and give yourself some time to think. Think where YOU want to go with this.

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    Quote Originally Posted by jhale667 View Post
    Interesting, and totally see what you're saying....maybe waaaaay more McCartney than Entwistle, yes...
    Ya know, it's just plain strange where inspiration will come from at times. I was thinking about your tune while flipping between the Marlins game (we lost) to the Shell Huston Open (Mickelson has the lead at 16) when I ran across a commercial for some new "shoot 'em up" video game. The soundtrack had the usual space-opera theme to it (yet another variation on the themes used in Holst's The Planets), and I thought of the problems with coming up with a bass pattern for your song. I was still wrestling with the idea of a repeating figure when I remembered that sometimes, the best course of action is to do...nothing. So here is the pitch:

    That's right, forget about a bass line. Instead, you could use a bass level drone from a keyboard (or even a seven string, for that matter), pretty much based upon the three note separation I mentioned earlier (low E, B, High E). This would eliminate the need for coming up with a suitable repeating figure, and could be used throughout the entire tune beneath the various chord changes. It would also change the entire focus and scope of the piece, suddenly making it far more dramatic as well as cinematic in nature.

    Let me know what ya think, I'm going to get back and see if Phil can win the tournament.

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    All taken under advisement, thanks guys. Reeeeally got lucky today and was able to record (system hasn't been cooperating in that respect at all lately) some new Boogie tracks for this tune that I'd already put down a bop-kinda bass line for a few months ago when I'd borrowed a bass guitar but never got around to re-doing the guitar tracks for called "Faux Jazz". I didn't mix the track very high, but you can tell it sounds LARGE....



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    (That's the 121/SM57/D6 Recabinet "Green 4x12 set-up on the Boogie + a PODfarm Plexi and a Bassman doing the cleans...)

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    Dude, firstly I dig that Calvin & Hobbes image.

    Secondly, you ought to try Reaper. It is lean, mean, and unlike PT, it is very efficient, stable and trustworthy. It can do anything PT can do, and only 40 bucks for a license.

    Just a suggestion. Will download your stuff at work tomorrow and check it out over the next few days.

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    i did this version of the racing car ad mimicking a racing car... love the bass at the start.


    http://www.supload.com/listen?s=JSFe9M

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    mate, it gets funnier... i live above a funeral home.. the downstairs neighbours are cool..literally about 4 degrees c. true.

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