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I think that makes four of us. Tomorrow night I'll be first fire response at the Meredith Music Festival. There's a couple of bands I'm going to check out mostly the jazz stuff interest's me (not a single metal, prog or heavy punk band there from what I can tell).

Yeah. They should be aiming for their heads to stain the floor red.

A few lessons I've learned in my adventures: You can never be too anal with your takes, the magic happens in the recording phase (not the mixing). Make sure you're happy with your tone before you start (you don't want to find out it's too weak later). In some situations, your optimal live tone may be different than your optimal recording tone. You may require different guitar tones for different jobs, even if this would be impossible live. Mic placement matters. Recording space matters. You can tie a sock around the low end of the neck when string noise is really pissing you off. Use a click track. May different ones if you need them. Some if this stuff may seem obvious, but some of this stuff I learned the hard way (so clearly I was dumb enough to not know some of this stuff). I don't know exactly how much of this is likely to apply (if for instance, you're making murky black metal drenched in noise, I doubt you give much of a shit about string noise or subtle tone differences caused by mic placement). Why use a digital tape recorder, kvlt cred? Looking forward to hearing the product.

I'm dumb. I also said "they'll" when I should have said "there'll". I blame autocorrect.

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Are we thinking of the same band (https://1llum1nat1.bandcamp.com/album/the-core-2)? Is there wordplay I'm not seeing?

I've got it on pretty good authority that they'll likely be an Illuminati release next year. I'm pretty exited.

My sympathies.

FA's already weighed in here, but I'd just like to add a couple of things: Nobody plays anything absolutely perfectly live, even big bands (listen to live performances given as bonus tracks or home footage from performances without backing tracks rather than stuff that's been sold as live stuff. At the very least you should be able to hear some weak notes, sliding tempos, murkiness, etc.). Also, odds are most non-musicians didn't notice most of your screw-ups.

Happy belated birthday, Requiem.

I guess with that explanation it seems to make sense. Kinda weird that you can edit quotes on this sight.

Corey Taylor got that line from a crazy homeless man who repeatedly yelled that in California. It means nothing.

From the Daemon Pyre/Hollow World show: Hollow World: The Wrath Kept Within Hollow World: Exanimate Bandcamp: Crypt: Crypt 7" Illuminati: The Core Sutrah: Dunes Æpoch: Æpochalypse (had to copy and paste the bloody symbol)

I don't see it happening, sorry. I'm pretty busy with study for my final Cell Biology test and getting back from Collingwood at 12am on a Sunday is pretty difficult. No, you dirty traitor. Why don't you go to England if you hate it here so much?

Thanks for the advice. You're totally right about the flow, it was recorded in several takes and I was recording it in little chunks as I was writing it. In retrospect I should have made sure to always play the first note from the next phrase at the end of recording each phrase, rather then stopping dead as I hit the last note for some of the stuff (I think it's just me instinctively going "Good. Done." and pulling my hand away as I hit the last note). I had more reverb on the track earlier but thought it was too much so pussied out and made it more "sensible". That was pretty dumb.

I didn't really expect any takers from here other than myself (doesn't seem like most of you guys' style) but I didn't like the idea me posting my entry and someone going "if only I'd heard about it earlier". Anyway, here's what I've got so far if anyone is interested https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kWT4RhmkCGOQvHhNa2_AoOzECyttr5Ly/view?usp=sharing. I'll record the video component later when I've done a final version. I'd really appreciate any feedback as pretty much all of you know your shit.

Cool. What bands do you like?

I guess so. Have you ever had a band make you viscerally angry just from image and music? I suppose ranting on the internet is a better reaction then say, throwing stuff at the band.

You made an account just to say this? Weird. Welcome, I guess.

Good to hear.

Oh, yeah. Forgot about her. Sorry Vampyrique.

Except for maybe MacabreEternal and Requiem. Welcome to the forum. Bring holy water.

That's not good. Have you reported the charges and everything?

That's good. Did you lose much before they cancelled it?