Parkway Drive - Sleepwalker cover video

ruvann

Hey

Made a quick cover of "Sleepwalker" by Parkway Drive.
First cover video that I recorded like this and I was way too excited to upload it so I just made a rough mix to get it done ?
TOTALLY forgot to turn on the click track when recording this last guitar take from the video so excuse the mistakes ?
Hope you enjoy!
AWESOME band and a super fun song to play!

21Fretter

Nice job. I didn't really pick up on mistakes, makes me a bit worried actually ? How did you record this out of interest; 2 guitar tracks, a single take each and another take for the video? I've always wondered with good covers if they are all done single takes (like it would be if you saw someone perform it live) or if there is lots of studio magic involved.

ruvann

21Fretter wrote: Nice job. I didn't really pick up on mistakes, makes me a bit worried actually ? How did you record this out of interest; 2 guitar tracks, a single take each and another take for the video? I've always wondered with good covers if they are all done single takes (like it would be if you saw someone perform it live) or if there is lots of studio magic involved.

Thanks so much! ?

I'm still kinda figuring things out, especially trying to sync the audio and video ??? haha and iMovie.
But I started off by taking the drum midi track from guitar pro, and letting it trigger Superior Drummer and then recorded the first guitar rhythm track for the left side.
There I punched in and just fixed the obvious screw-ups a bit cause I was recording the parts as I was learning the song hahahaha I was WAY too excited to first practice it for a couple of days. ?
Towards the end of the song there are 3 guitars, so I recorded the the "3rd" guitar and after that I recorded the actually "second" guitar for the right side and that was one take. The same take that was recorded on video. ?
After that I just automated the panning for the lead part at the end.

And then came the bass which I also punched in a bit. hehe

I suppose that the tracks that are not recorded on video can be perfected a little bit, but it's maybe a good idea (I think ???) not to make it too perfect otherwise it will probably make any mistakes in the live performed stuff stand out more?

I've wanted to do this for so long now but never had a good enough camera and after I got my new iPhone 4S last saturday I was way too excited to just "take my time" ? haha

21Fretter

b1scu1t wrote:
I've wanted to do this for so long now but never had a good enough camera and after I got my new iPhone 4S last saturday I was way too excited to just "take my time" ? haha

That was Iphone video!? Amazing how far phone camera have come quality wise. I've been wanting to also create some covers for mixing and recording experience but I simply do not have a camera in any form ☹ I thought it would be fun a little challenge to play the entire of Enema of the State by Blink-182 in one take (obviously split the tracks once filmed).

ruvann

21Fretter wrote:
b1scu1t wrote:
I've wanted to do this for so long now but never had a good enough camera and after I got my new iPhone 4S last saturday I was way too excited to just "take my time" ? haha
That was Iphone video!? Amazing how far phone camera have come quality wise. I've been wanting to also create some covers for mixing and recording experience but I simply do not have a camera in any form ☹ I thought it would be fun a little challenge to play the entire of Enema of the State by Blink-182 in one take (obviously split the tracks once filmed).

Yeah ? loving this thing! I just need better lighting in the room. I did add a video effect in iMovie but it's still quite dark without it.
Not that I want a metal cover to look it was filmed in Dion Wired hahaha
I have no idea what other people use for their videos. Don't know if it's decent webcams or what ?
I will be a challenge indeed ? but lots of fun!