RCVN Stunned! I never thought i'd hear such a rendition. Originafantasticalus!
The Guitar Talk SUPER Challenge
OK guys, here we go:
I really wanted to play every instrument, but in the end I ran out of time and sampled the original track.
guidothepimmp Yeap, attempted singing and ended up chucking reverb and compression at it.
klaasvakie This melted my cheese.
klaasvakie Joh! Head bumping, butt thumping and air pumping. You had everything bopping in my man cave! Simply awesome and yeah, sometimes less is more.
This comp with this level of entries is going to make voting extremely difficult ??
Wow, just gave all the entries (so far) a good listen and I'm super impressed. There is so much to love in every track and I'm jealous of all your guys playing, singing as well as your recording chops. Some serious effort went into these, well done all.
Stoffeltoo my thoughts exactly
The quality of this challenge's entries are absolutely superb! You guys put in a lot of effort with these! WELL DONE!!
I’ve put together a short review of the various entries… although I do feel little foolish giving a crit on such fantastic work.
@Stoffeltoo
Love the instrumental version. Particularly enjoy the chord melodies and the guitar tone in general. If I have a criticism it’s that the drums are a little bubbly as if they’ve been exported at low quality at some point in the process. Overall love it.
@morph
Fantastic rendition. Love the tone and balance overall and the use of panning. Particularly enjoyed the acoustic on the left channel, is that a bit of tremelo? Nothing wrong with those vocals at all. Only complaint… and I’m stretching is that the end is a little abrupt. (My vote for what it’s worth)
@studmissile
Great track as always, love the drums, love the synth build up in the beginning and the overall structure. I love how you’ve incorporated your normal vibe and given it a more poppy flavour. The only thing that I would work on is your position of your vocals in the mix… I don’t think it’s the level though. I reckon it just needs a tweak with the graphic EQ to bring out the sweet spots. Should help them to cut a little more and let us hear more of your words.
@guidothepimmp
Congrats on your first DAW experience. Hope the bug has bitten! You’ve got some great tones in there and the ‘misinterpretation’ is really funny. Enjoyed the cameos and whistle verse. Vocals are great although straining a little on the low note, may have been worth shifting it up a tone or so to make it more comfortable.
@RCVN
Cool groove and nice sound. Mix is really solid with each part clearly distinct. Vocals give a cool swagger and attitude. Really like the multi-guitar instrumental parts. Only criticism is that the rhythm loop seems a little tight. If you lengthen it a little then it won’t stand out as much.
@klaasvakie
Love the mashup idea. You’ve managed to blend the live guitar and samples to really create an enormous sound. Timing on the portion where the guitars follow the unlimited theme could be a bit tighter but otherwise really cool.
@guidothepimmp and @RCVN definitely roping you guys into vocals at the next garage days!
Thank you for the feedback Yeti?. I believe you pinned it spot on with regards to the drums. Noted and will pay more attention to that detail in future.
The sound cloud 'social' community really is a mess.
When I uploaded this song it got 2 likes before it got any plays
Within 12 hours it got a comment with a link to a site selling sound cloud plays, likes and shares (comment was removed an hour later)
* I've just received the below message through the soundcloud messenger. Message is from a profile with 2 followers and a bunch of activity 4 months ago. Profile picture has a link that resolves to a fiverr profile essentially selling online views on any platform.
"Its niсe tо meet you
І am goіng to reshаrе уоur trаck Show Must Go On Cover
to our Famous sоundСlоud aссounts (with thousаnds lіstеnеrs аnd fоllwers).
Hеrе іs whаt you'll gеt оr evеn more:
➤ 209 іnvolvеd fоllowers, 3170 interеsted lіstenеrs, 338 shаres and lіkes, EХTRA Vіdео fоr уоur trаck.
Fоllow thе lіnk in my avаtar ріcturе"
Now I'm not exactly using soundcloud to promote my 'work' or seriously trying to be involved in it as a community... but if that is the only unsolicited reaction to tiny tracks like mine, what must it be like on the popular channels?
The best thing about these things is that you are coerced to constantly improve both playing and the rest like using your DAW, improving your recordings. To me this is a great motivator, and it helps when you have forums like this where you can soundboard your creations and get sensible advice from fellow players.
@Stoffeltoo I love this version of the song, like I said earlier it is nice and moody
@studmissile good voice - love the trumpet section, nice arrangement
@guidothepimmp Excellent super Cheesy and now I need a grilled cheese sandwich. When I was a kid Uncle Charley's roadhouse used to make a brilliant toasted cheese and ham. Nice and bluesy. My vote because of the super cheesiness
@Yeti excellent rendition, great voice real epic arrangement
@RCVN gravelly blues, lay back and cool. I imagine sitting on a stoep in the French Quarter in New Orleans, drinking Tequila chilling
@klaasvakie at the start I though what has this got do with the challange and then the Money for nothing riff hit, good stuff
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Pay for review scam is on most sites.. Like Amazon,YouTube, sound-cloud etc.. if positive reviews help sell your item, and the more positive reviews and likes you can get the better market share you can grab.. the temptation to pay for review is great, and most of these sites also have terms that prohibit it, as its basically fraud. I can only Imagine little bands trying to get exposure would be most tempted.
the best thing you can do is block and report said user... they pop up again with a new account but it slows them down abit
Tuckstir Yeah, I've bumped into them before... thing is with sound cloud they are so much more overt than other platforms I have used for various things. Generally I've been low enough under the radar for them not to bother but on sound cloud it seems that just uploading a song is enough to get their attention... it may simply be that sound cloud gives them the tools to do it without consuming the content and so it is a lot easier for them.
@ yeti.. thanks for the feedback. I wss thinking next time to use a different pitch.. curiously though i found i struggled more on the high. Interesting you picked up on the low. I am going to mess about with D, Dshaap and Eshaap and see how it feels
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Thanks Morph, appreciate it. I will summarise a review of the clips when i get to a pc. Doing this on a phone is painful
Yeti @klaasvakie
Love the mashup idea. You’ve managed to blend the live guitar and samples to really create an enormous sound. Timing on the portion where the guitars follow the unlimited theme could be a bit tighter but otherwise really cool.
Yeah that's pretty accurate. I actually wasn't planning to play the unlimited bit (with the off timing) on guitar -- I had the "no no limits, just reach for the sky, no valley too deep, no mountain too high" bit planned as a solo played high on the neck, but after recording it it sounded really thin and didn't fit well with the thicker sound of rest.
I ran out of ideas (and time) to try and thicken it up, so I decided to play the pew-pew-pewpewpewpew-pew-pew bit lower down the neck instead, but since I hadn't played it before, I struggled to play it fast enough and thus the timing is poor.
If I have to add more self-criticism:
- The first time the "no no, nono, no, no" theme gets played on guitar, it starts a fraction too early.
- The first two times the money theme gets played on top of the synths+drums, I copied and pasted the wrong part of the unlimited song, so the synths don't have quite the right bassline. Somehow I got it right for the last ones.
- I think I would like the guitar softer in the mix, but I hesitated dropping it since this is a guitar-themed competition.
- The one time where I play the "there's no limits" bit higher up the neck I misfretted a note badly (looking at you pinky-finger)
I stumbled on the mashup idea by accident --- I was playing money for my son and he interrupted me at exactly the right moment for my fingers to mumble into something that sounded like no-limits. The two actually go together pretty well on their own, and it didn't take much to figure out way to blend them together. I still think it would've been nice to work the "no no limits, just reach for the sky, no valley too deep, no mountain too high" bit in there somehow, but couldn't figure it out a way to make it sound good.
Reading everybody else's process, I think I spent way less time on the final mix and levels, and I think it shows -- I have some learning to do there.