The Song Fight Bulletin Board

UPDATE: Front cover is finished and up on the site right now. When the back cover and booklet are ready, I'll start distributing print copies (with a Songfighter discount) and submit the news for the front page.

That front cover is extremely awesome.

Hey! I see London!

I see France!

dude, that's awesome! that's some excellent artwork. did you come up with the concept, or did your friend?

Reïst wrote:dude, that's awesome! that's some excellent artwork. did you come up with the concept, or did your friend?

I suggested something about a tuxedo. He subtracted the pants. History was made.

He just let me know that the rest will be a bit late, but only because he's illustrating the whole booklet. Should be worth the wait.

That's a nice package, jon.

irwin wrote:That's a nice package, jon.

I would hate to draw any attention away from jon's album (it is excellent), but I just finished a new tune for an upcoming album, and I'm pretty pumped to share it with the world. It's an instrumental, but I tried to keep it fresh by changing up the lead guitar throughout. Let me know what you think!

nice, it does stay interesting throughout. is there bass in it? not sure if it's my headphones or what, but i didn't hear any.
-bill

HeuristicsInc wrote:is there bass in it? not sure if it's my headphones or what, but i didn't hear any.

Yeah, there's bass. Now that you mention it though, I think you're right - it might be a little low in the mix. I'll work on that before the album's officially released.

thanks for the feedback.

Awesome, Reïst! I especially love the juxtaposition of the very informally-staged video of you at the drums and the beautiful-sounding drums in the song, especially the snare drum. What's your drum recording setup?

AGray wrote:Awesome, Reïst! I especially love the juxtaposition of the very informally-staged video of you at the drums and the beautiful-sounding drums in the song, especially the snare drum. What's your drum recording setup?

Thanks, AGray. The crappy style video may end at Christmas though - I'm asking my parents for one of these guys, so hopefully quality will skyrocket soon. Here's my mic setup:



CAD KBM 412 (1) - kick
Shure SM57 (1) - snare
CAD ICM 417 (2) - overheads
CAD TSM 411 (3) - toms

Mind you, I do some pretty serious EQ to get this sounding decent. I crank the high end on the kick and toms, since the CADs tend to pick up nothing but mid and bass frequencies. The overhead mics are too close to the cymbals, so I compress the hell out of those tracks. Compression-wise, I pretty much leave the rest of the tracks alone. I used to use a cheap little APEX on my snare, but I got fed up with the quality so I picked up an SM57 at the beginning of the summer. I still have to do some minor EQing on that guy, but it picks up the snare punch in a way that the APEX never could.

ps - if you liked the juxtaposition between decent sound and a crappy recording space, you should see the other half of my recording room.



Yeah, all my guitar sounds come out of that Traynor. Mind you, I don't record bass from the little practice amp in the back - I do line out. That seems to be the way to go on a low(ish) budget.

Holy crap, this post turned into a beast. Hope it's helpful (in some way or another).

Wow, nice job Reist. I actually started improvising lyrics and belting it out as you played. "When I tried, looking down. My fears were insi-ee-ya-ide. When I looked, at them all..."

bla bla bla. Well, I'm sure you'll come up with something much better than this, but you sure had me going there for a minute.

This song rocks. I hope you come up with some cool lyrics and some rocking vocals.

Cheers and best of luck.

2dogs wrote:This song rocks. I hope you come up with some cool lyrics and some rocking vocals.

Thanks 2dogs. Sorry to disappoint, but this one's staying an instrumental. That's just how I've always envisioned it (I've had it written for about a year now, and I've been tweaking it to a point where I really enjoy it). Have no fear though, this and several vocal-centric tunes will be out within the next month or so on an EP.

Reïst wrote:[quote="this one's staying an instrumental. That's just how I've always envisioned it

Gotta stick to the vision mate. I downloaded your album. You've done some nice work with those tunes. The mixing is very good and you take advantage of all your strong points. You've obviously learned a lot along the way. Keep living the dream man, keep living the dream

Cheers

2dogs wrote:I downloaded your album.

Which one?

I didn't know there was more than one. I got the TOWN album.

2dogs wrote:I didn't know there was more than one. I got the TOWN album.

Nice choice - it's the best one (in my opinion). But there are others.
umm... what?
umm... fanks.
Not to mention the "foot in mouth disease" albums. You can get to all of the albums by clicking on the pictures in the center image at ummband.com.

no you can't

??? Really? It all works pretty smoothly in my browser. It's ugly, I'll admit - but it all seems functional.

Ah, you mean by clicking on the individual albums in the center image, not just anywhere. I didn't realize there was more than one clickable there. Might want to rethink that. Or at least make a note somewhere.

I've got a few free days in the next week, so I might give the front page a facelift.