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FastRedPonyCar
06-30-2005, 10:32 PM
I finally got a chance to play around with Adobe Audition tonight and laid down a semi decent recording of one of our band's original songs.

I didn't have any drum loops that I liked so I screwed up with the tempo on a few parts so bear with it. I also didn't get a chance to play around with the volume levels of the different tracks for rythem and lead.

http://www.streamload.com/drewlankford/EL/TTX56IR377/Cometome.mp3

Here's a video of our band playing it...well, 3 minutes of it. I didn't know my digital camera would quit recording after 3 minutes. :o

http://www.streamload.com/drewlankford/EL/ESZ5K17YYM/MVI_5067.AVI
crimsonedge36
06-30-2005, 11:37 PM
I love it.

How did you get those moans and such? I've been wondering how to immitate that ever since I heard Fall to Pieces.

Awesome job.
FastRedPonyCar
07-01-2005, 07:54 AM
That lead part that goes in and out though the song used the same tone patch on the korg only I put in delay and just picked notes and rolled the volume in and out with the expression pedal set to fucnction as a volume pedal.

One thing I like about it that my ernie ball volume pedal doesn't do is that the korg will let the delay/reverb/echo slowly trail off after you roll the volume pedal all the way down where as the EB just completely cuts off the sound.

Most of the time I actually play it live with my kramer so I can do big dive bombs on the notes before they fade for a more dramatic effect.
crimsonedge36
07-01-2005, 08:26 AM
Yeah, after some simple thinking I started messing with the volume knob on my guitar and eventually realized "Hey, my BOSS GT-8 has an exp. pedal... I should use that."

I got close but couldn't get exactly what I wanted. Maybe some delay.

Awesome job though =P.
Tonkie
07-01-2005, 08:47 AM
Hehe cool. I do like those swells, I'm going to have to go out and buy a volume pedal... like today. That's a sound I think could really come in handy to add a little more expression to long connected notes... and plus, with delay it just sounds so cool. :D

Do you have any gear to record your drummer? If you got some drums in there that'd be totally killer. What do you use to record into Audition by the way? Sounds good, no clipping or stuttering.
FastRedPonyCar
07-01-2005, 10:03 AM
Sure SM57 was used and it plugs into the front of my PC. I've got a soundblaster audigy 2 ZS Platinum that comes with the little box that goes into an empty CD drive bay that has midi in/out, rca in/out, digital optical in/out, headphones and instrument input that are both standard 1/4" jacks (instrument cable plugs straight in). And it's all remote controllable. Pretty nifty and wasn't too expensive.

I haven't played around with audition enough to use any sound tweaks/enhancements. There are a lot of drum tracks that came with it but I don't know how to put them togther so that they go with the song. I'd need to record just our drummer playing to just get a full isolated drum track or something.
Tonkie
07-01-2005, 10:08 AM
Very cool indeed. As for the drum tracks, it's been my experience that they're just a couple measures long right? Couldn't you just line one up behind the other so it creates a loop? Friend of mine has Audition... I'll have to ask him.
FastRedPonyCar
07-01-2005, 10:09 AM
Very cool indeed. As for the drum tracks, it's been my experience that they're just a couple measures long right? Couldn't you just line one up behind the other so it creates a loop? Friend of mine has Audition... I'll have to ask him.

In theory yeah that's how it's done but finding the right BPM, style etc is the hard part. There's just so many of them it'd take forever for me to find one I like. I'm really picky about that stuff.