grantcooper2
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Hello! This is my first song post here so please be kind 
I have been working on some songs with a friend of mine, a drummer, for the past year or so and we are working on putting together a small collection of songs to make a sort of...online EP, or something of that nature. He does the drumming/precussion and some synth stuff, I do guitar/bass/some synth stuff as well...and we kind of both are into the recording/mixing/mastering...which is fairly new to us, but we are trying our best!
This is the first song, entitled 'Mummy Trouble', that we have (almost) completed and have any sort of recording of. I must warn you, the mix is...well, not mixed. Most tracks are straight off the Tascam 2488mkI recorder and then there are many guitar tracks/synth tracks over dubbed via direct recording...so this doesn't really show how it will sound in completion as nothing is mixed properly and nothing has been eq'd or anything...and a lot is unbalanced (especially the bass, it is weighted to the right). There is a mix of 2 amps, a Hughes and Kettner Duotone, and a Mesa Roadster. There is also some direct in recording. The mesa can be heard at the one clean "lead" around 2:45, the distorted lead around 4:50, and a lot of the heavy section has the roadster layered with the duotone...which all needs to be mixed properly, as previously mentioned.
NEVERTHELESS...I felt like posting this to give a sample of what is to come from me and hopefully get some constructive criticism back from a community of musicians which have helped me a lot over the years (from before I was even a member).
I hope someone can dig some of the grooves in here, but if not, oh well! Anyways here it is:
http://soundclick.com/share?songid=8349672
I have a tough time classifying my own music but I would say it ranges from metal, to rock, to funk, to jazz, to psychedelic, to ambient to whatever we feel like I suppose. There are no boundaries in our writing, though this song probably has the most funk aspects to it...the rest are more...prog rock/metal I suppose. This one also has a sort of non existent song structure where its just sort of constantly evolving...nothing really comes back to anything and there isn't really much of a motif.
my influences include, but are not limited to:
-Opeth
-Gentle Giant
-Meshuggah
-Sigur Ros
-Bulb
-Porcupine Tree
-BTBAM
-King Crimson
-Tool
I have a 6 string baritone song tuned down to F coming up pretty soon so if this doesn't float your boat, that might. We are planning on recording the rest of our songs over Christmas break...then mixing everything, including Mummy Trouble, properly!
peace!
-grant
I have been working on some songs with a friend of mine, a drummer, for the past year or so and we are working on putting together a small collection of songs to make a sort of...online EP, or something of that nature. He does the drumming/precussion and some synth stuff, I do guitar/bass/some synth stuff as well...and we kind of both are into the recording/mixing/mastering...which is fairly new to us, but we are trying our best!
This is the first song, entitled 'Mummy Trouble', that we have (almost) completed and have any sort of recording of. I must warn you, the mix is...well, not mixed. Most tracks are straight off the Tascam 2488mkI recorder and then there are many guitar tracks/synth tracks over dubbed via direct recording...so this doesn't really show how it will sound in completion as nothing is mixed properly and nothing has been eq'd or anything...and a lot is unbalanced (especially the bass, it is weighted to the right). There is a mix of 2 amps, a Hughes and Kettner Duotone, and a Mesa Roadster. There is also some direct in recording. The mesa can be heard at the one clean "lead" around 2:45, the distorted lead around 4:50, and a lot of the heavy section has the roadster layered with the duotone...which all needs to be mixed properly, as previously mentioned.
NEVERTHELESS...I felt like posting this to give a sample of what is to come from me and hopefully get some constructive criticism back from a community of musicians which have helped me a lot over the years (from before I was even a member).
I hope someone can dig some of the grooves in here, but if not, oh well! Anyways here it is:
http://soundclick.com/share?songid=8349672
I have a tough time classifying my own music but I would say it ranges from metal, to rock, to funk, to jazz, to psychedelic, to ambient to whatever we feel like I suppose. There are no boundaries in our writing, though this song probably has the most funk aspects to it...the rest are more...prog rock/metal I suppose. This one also has a sort of non existent song structure where its just sort of constantly evolving...nothing really comes back to anything and there isn't really much of a motif.
my influences include, but are not limited to:
-Opeth
-Gentle Giant
-Meshuggah
-Sigur Ros
-Bulb
-Porcupine Tree
-BTBAM
-King Crimson
-Tool
I have a 6 string baritone song tuned down to F coming up pretty soon so if this doesn't float your boat, that might. We are planning on recording the rest of our songs over Christmas break...then mixing everything, including Mummy Trouble, properly!
peace!
-grant
