Twisted Dave

Dunno if anyone cares ... but here's my band's latest song I play all guitars and sequenced drums, and mixed the whole thing. My brother sings

http://www.spiritofthestate.com/music/thebesticould.mp3

For any music geeks out there ... here's how it was done ...

I write and record as I write, riffs and ideas etc ... with the following:

Gibson Les Paul Standard, with Seymour Duncan Alnico II Pro pickups.
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Line 6 POD v2 using my own settings
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Soundblaster Live 1024 (£5 on ebay) using custom KX Project drivers, giving me 5ms latency
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Cubase SX3
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Various plugins, for delay, reverb etc. Most are Waves plugins. For drums I use EZ Drummer as the instrument, but sequence them by hand, including varying velocities etc for the extra human touch.


I record scratch tracks for the whole thing and often end up with a ton of tracks. .. maybe 20 or more. When I'm happy with the song as a peice of music... I send a low res MP3 to my brother, who comes up with lyrics and a melody to work with the song.

Once he's done that, he throws together a rough track. Sends that back to me.

When I have that done, we decide if the song is any good, and move on.

I re-record almost all my guitar parts, getting them down to about 10 tracks in total. I like to keep rhythm tracks for verses and choruses etc seperate. Easier to manage. Plus, I always boost the volume of the chourus guitars

I then finalise drums. Now, up til now, my drums have mostly sucked, but I'm really pleased with these ones. I put time in

Then I send back to my brother, who then re-records his vocals. And then he sends them back to me, and I mix the final track.


This whole track was written from scratch and recorded yesterday. The re-records happened today. In total, all in all, about 10 hours work.

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