General Music Discussion

[_Star_Wolf_]

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Ideoteque wrote:

now there's at least three threads. That is honestly a pretty stupid way of thinking. It's a public forum. There's no rule book on making threads of this sort. Who are you to tell me I am doing it wrong? Don't worry, man. No band needs a fan like you.

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I'll listen to it later, but dude he's just sayin there are already two threads for this. It's just clutter

[40_feet_below]

Not this fucking guy again. 

[Ideoteque]

Bump. 

Idk if any of the influx of likes and twitter follows is from here, but thanks anyway! 

[-TheUltamiteSwimGod-]

I actually enjoyed it. 

It's not my style of music, but that doesn't mean anything. 

The instruments sounded really good. 

i liked the drumming. although the cymbals we're kind of loud. (but i think that's just production )

[Ideoteque]

I'm glad you enjoyed it! Overall, we need to take a lot more time with recording and mixing. So in future releases, issues with imbalance should be fixed. At the same time, the sound were going for lends itself to louder cymbals. I am playing a Zildjian 21" A Sweet Ride for my right crash. It's a monster cymbal... very reactive. I also need to develop a more dynamic style especially when it comes to recording. Recording is a difficult process, there's a lot to focus on at the same time. Your dynamics, your timing (staying in sync with the click track), and remembering your parts while accurately performing them. It's a heavy and exhausting process, but it definitely builds a better musician to be able to pull that off well.

Thanks again for the listen... we're glad you enjoyed it, and if you know anyone you think might like our music, send it their way for us!  

[-TheUltamiteSwimGod-]

I'm a drummer too. I haven't gotten in a very serious band. But I'm in one with two friends. We take it seriously. And we want to do some shows soon. But we're deffineately not out their yet.

Recording is tough. We use one mic for it all. Nothing fancy.

But, hell, we're young, and not prodigies.

[Ideoteque]

I just got a full set of AKG drum mics for Christmas. Our next recording is going to sound phenominal.

[-TheUltamiteSwimGod-]

aren't they at least a grand?

my biggest problem is recording the bass drum. :/

it always just sounds "clicky" in the recording. where in our ears, it's deeper and much louder.

i also have a cheap kit. but great cymbals.

[Ideoteque]

It depends on the set, but my Dad is a sound technician, and works for a company that gets amazing deals from the dealers. He can get all kinds of **noel** A/V wise for really good prices. 

when recording drums, it is essential to have a mic that is rated to pick up those lower frequencies. If you were to buy one microhpone to improve your recordings, I would suggest a kick mic. Especially if you're only using one overhead mic. That overhead might be able to pick up the dynamics of the entire kit, sans the kick pretty well, but you really do need a mic rated for a kick drum to get those dynamics. I say the kick drum is easy the most dynamic as well. Depending on the sound you're going for, you want a certain level of that clicky sound to come through to really accentuate the attack on the kick, but you also want to capture the low end well. Then you have all kinds of different low ends... springy and wide, or deep and throaty. It's such a great instrument. I digress, you need to have a kick drum mic to record drums minimally well. Your ears are picking up on all the dynamics of the room, whereas mics have various frequency responses. So certain mics will only pick up certain frequencies. 

I bought my kit for $300 used, and it came with Sabian B8s. I literally played those cymbals into the grave. There's no telling how much money I've put into the kit since I first got it. From heads to hardware, probably thousands of dollars, not including the mics I got for Christmas. The cymbals I'm playing now are 13" Zildjian A Custom hats, 21" Zildjian A Sweet Ride for my right crash, and a 18" Paiste PST5 Medium Crash for my left crash. I'm looking at replacing the Paiste with the sweet ride and replacing the sweet ride with a 22" Zildjian A Medium Ride. The snare drum I'm playing now is a 13x5.5" Mapex Black Panther Cherry Bomb. I love it, but I'm still figuring out how to get the exact sound I'm going for out of it.  

[-TheUltamiteSwimGod-]

If only i had that good of a source of income. but it can't be that much money. and if you want serious recordings then it's probably worth it.

My kick drum is somewhat small too. so it's like compact. Which i think naturally makes the tone higher?

But yea, some day i'll upgrade my kit to a new one. and maybe get some mics.

[Ideoteque]

Well a lot of things come in to play when considering the tone of a drum... not only its width, but its depth, the wood it's made of, the bearing edge, the heads you're using, and how you tune them. Drums are a great instrument in that aspect. Lot's of fun to experiment with them.

[-TheUltamiteSwimGod-]

and lots of time. wholy jebus. it took me 7 hours once to set up and tune my entire kit.

i should do more research. you seem to know a lot.

[Ideoteque]

Bump.

[Dark_Lord_Khrima]

Can you please stop bumping your thread. There's no need to do that when the music forum is as slow as it is. If discussion dies then let it die.

[BackupAlt]

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Ideoteque wrote:

Bump.

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You know, I'm gonna go ahead and bump this as well.

This thread needs more attention.

[-TheUltamiteSwimGod-]

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BackupAlt wrote:

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Ideoteque wrote:

Bump.

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You know, I'm gonna go ahead and bump this as well.

This thread needs more attention.

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your bump wasn't bumpy enough.

let me help.

[BackupAlt]

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-TheUltamiteSwimGod- wrote:

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BackupAlt wrote:

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Ideoteque wrote:

Bump.

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You know, I'm gonna go ahead and bump this as well.

This thread needs more attention.

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your bump wasn't bumpy enough.

let me help.

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I see your bump.

And raise you by a bump.

[-TheUltamiteSwimGod-]

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BackupAlt wrote:

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-TheUltamiteSwimGod- wrote:

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BackupAlt wrote:

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Ideoteque wrote:

Bump.

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You know, I'm gonna go ahead and bump this as well.

This thread needs more attention.

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your bump wasn't bumpy enough.

let me help.

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I see your bump.

And raise you by a bump.

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I call your bump with a pair of queens.

you loose, take of that top.

[BackupAlt]

I bumped this thread because it's Thursday.

[Wonderstatement]

Hey.

Did you guys check this band out yet?

From Fragile Seeds.

Be sure to Like them on Facebook.

[Ideoteque]

Just a quick update. Things are going smashingly! We're at over 300 likes on fb which, while still very humble, it pretty awesome from our perspective. Idk if all the chatter about us here has spawned any interest anywhere, but thanks for all the attention. It seems to be working! 

We have another video from our last show that's going to be ready soon.

It looks like a small Summer tour might be in the works. If you're on the East Coast and would like to see us live give us a shout on thr fb page and let us know! Thanks again friends! 

[HonorableCloud]

Well, we made sure everybody liked From Fragile Seeds on facebook.

[the_raytownian]

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Ideoteque wrote:

Bump. 

Idk if any of the influx of likes and twitter follows is from here, but thanks anyway! 

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Why? Are "likes" and followers on Twitter really any more than completely worthless?

Can I buy a sandwich with likes and Twitter followers now?

[the_raytownian]

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Ideoteque wrote:

Idk if all the chatter about us here has spawned any interest anywhere, but thanks for all the attention. It seems to be working!

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Not likely. I still haven't heard your band.

[XXxXXTremerTXXxxXX]

ITS GOOD BUT IT COULD USE MORE BREAKDOWNS IN MY OPINION U GOTTA MAKE SOMETHING I CAN DOUBLE STEP HXC TO IM JUST NOT FEELING THE ENERGY ALL THAT MUCH EXTREME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!