Dear Fellow Canadians... (Hockey Night in Canada theme entry)

[caseynbenson]

I finally got around to putting together an entry for the Hockey Night in Canada theme contest and I thought I would share it with yas. I request assistance from my fellow 7 stringing canadians; If you dig it, it would be badass if you could log in and rate it well!

Canada's Hockey Anthem Challenge - Hockey - Sports - CBCSports.ca

I really tried my best to not over-do it in the heavy department, (as if there is such a thing! Hah!) I tried to toss in some hooks and such, while keeping it rockin' and up-beat. Hope you dig it.

Because I know that I appreciate specific gear info that people post on here:
I used Cubase sx3 and a some vst plugins like ezdrummer (didn't use dkfh though), and there is the slightest touch of a b4 organ plug-in, but i mixed it to a near inaudible low haha- yikes. I had never used any of this software before EVER- and I was even using different hardware... I used to use Cakewalk Sonar, and also my old soundcard crapped out- so boourns to that. needless to say it was quite the learning experience.

guitar: recorded with sm57 off center, a couple inches off the heritage model celestion in my avatar 2x12.The main rhythm guitar tracks are done with my schecter hellraiser 7 with a JB bridge p-up nearly fully panned right, and a buddy's ibanez s classic with an evo panned left. The lead and harmony are my RG550 (AN/TZ) -I'm not much of a lead player, but it does the job i hope.

well thanks for checking this out. rock on-

Casey Benson

 

[darren]

Nice! Most of the entries i've heard thus far haven't had a melodic hook to them at all, which the old theme had in spades. It has to be "hummable" for it to stick. And most of them are pretty generic horns-and-strings kind of theme songs... nice to hear a guitar-based one!

I've got some ideas for an anthem that i'm going to try and record in the next couple of weeks.

 

[caseynbenson]

Thanks for checking it out Darren

ya the obvious midi sounds on a lot of them I have checked out hurt my feelings.

let me know when you get one up and I'll certainly rate you well!

 

[WarriorOfMetal]

here's one a friend of mine did: Canada's Hockey Anthem Challenge - Hockey - Sports - CBCSports.ca

 

[Stealthdjentstic]

Well done, if i had an account CBC i would rate it.

 

[70Seven]

Awesome job, well done. Its got memorable parts I could see a bunch of friends signing along to it like the current hockey night in Canada anthem song.

 

[caseynbenson]

Stealthtastic, 70Seven thanks for giving it a whirl -much appreciated!

 

[darren]

I've had the backing riff and main melody rattling around in my brain for a few weeks now. I wrote out some ideas last weekend, and the arrangement, tones and recording came together today.

Red Line, Blue Line - Canada's Hockey Anthem Challenge - Hockey - Sports - CBCSports.ca

Everything was recorded with the neck pickup of my Ibanez 442R, plugged into my Line6 TonePort DI running into GarageBand via GearBox.

The backing riff is an AC-30 patch with a Tube Screamer and a ping-pong delay. The chord washes are a Blackface Deluxe with some reverb and chorus. The main lead line is a Mark I (i think?) with some slight effects on it.

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