1st recording from a new acoustic project of mine!

[Fred]

Hey folks, just finished mixing a rough recording from a new project I've embarked upon with a friend of mine. He wrote the basis of the song and is the singer, I recorded all the instruments and re-orchestrated it a little. It's called "Slip Away":

http://www.crepusculum.co.uk/bellyburns.mp3
SoundClick artist: Crepusculum - page with MP3 music downloads

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Ignore the fact I've called it "Bellyburns" there - that's from when we tried recording a much faster version, but when Alex sings the line "now my belly burns when the night-time dies" it kept coming out as all one word, haha. The slightly less entertaining title is "Slip Away".

Let me know whatchoo think!

PS: Just listening through to it again now, I realise I might just have committed that rare sin of using too much reverb on the vocals, haha.

For the nerds amongst you, equipment used was:

Vocals - Rode NT1A > Edirol UA25
Acoustics - Garrison G50 > Rode NT1A > Edirol UA25
Electrics - Kramer Nightswan II or 8-string Interceptor > Pod XT Live > Edirol UA25
Bass - Aria Pro Integra II > Edirol UA25 > Ampeg SVX
Organ - Novation Remote 49 LE > Edirol UA25 > Miroslav Philharmonik
Keyboard - Novation Remote 49 LE > Edirol UA25 > MrRay22

DAW was Ableton Live 7.0.1, and I use lots of the Ableton FX!

 

[Romeomeo]

This is really awesome. wish I had some advice, but it's just so good.

 

[dexmix]

wow. nicely done.

 

[TimSE]

thats a fantastic sound uv got there! really well recorded
wicked tune too! i love acoustic stuff
really well done dude

 

[zackkynapalm]

reminds me of dredg a little bit.


This is awesome and a totally different change of pace than the metal stuff on here.

Mix is great as well! keep it up, yo.

 

[ToniS]

Awesome work dude!

 

[Fred]

Thanks very much, everyone! Wasn't actually expecting much of a response at all knowing the general orientation of folks on here (not saying that's a bad thing at all, chances are I wouldn't be here if I didn't love a spot of homebrewed brutality every now and then, haha), so it's seriously cool to get some positivity! Also, I haven't actually had a chance to show Alex what I've done to his poor, unsuspecting song yet, so hopefully his response will be similar, haha.

 

[Slampop]

wow dude, that's all i really have to say!