SO SORRY i've been so busy. I'll record my vocals tonight and i guess send it to Killer's email!

Alright tracks are done!
Verse and Bridge tracks:
http://www.mediafire.com/?982ke8l74ji2kc1

Just backing vocals for chorus:
http://www.mediafire.com/?baopb9kycjjb1mn

Vocal tracks + backing MIDI track:
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?zdq2dca39w11w69

Verse 1 Video:
http://www.mediafire.com/?5612576c127it9h

Verse 2 Video:
http://www.mediafire.com/?ypr6hwxbv9h6cbi

Bridge Video:
http://www.mediafire.com/?p5m3u9zkecq1ykp

This post has been edited by nabzblitz: Dec 23 2011, 04:00 AM

great quality!

Hope the bpm's okay! I'm spending my weekend in JB/Singapore so i won't be able to re-record till probably after new year. D:

Merry Christmas To All!!

lets just get this arrange over with...

and about the band name, I like the 'potato' related name idea.
how's " Potato Stereo" for a name?

Although I'm not in the band but I'd like to give a suggestion for the name...

It is...

i know this is stupid but...

"want four egg(s)"

^
Combine them all into "Blinking Potatoes Wanting Four Eggs"...?

BPW4E

To this i reply the best cover of this song that exists:


Your argument is invalid.

This post has been edited by nabzblitz: Dec 25 2011, 08:55 PM

OK so I've put the tracks together, it should be synched better than before. Note, it still does not have the vocal parts from Kaoru and my guitar (been occupied with so many things).
Hope I can finish before New Year LOL.

So here ya g0, the draft version of Secwets:

http://soundcloud.com/marksherman/secwets-draft-by-smashing




Happy Holidays!

wow,thats nice.i think somebody need to contact kaoru.maybe shes not following this thread often.

love it!

Hope you're listening in headphones when you're mixing

are we all in sync..? i'm still kind of concerned about the lack of unity in the tempo
Near the end is pretty weird!

Yup I'm using headphones during mixing, that's why I've noticed some hum on 0:15 on the first verse.

Well, it synch better than before. I'll do some fine tuning later on when all tracks are complete. I'm still experimenting with alot of things in Ableton haha.

How weird? Is it a bad or a good thing? After all, this is a cover, we're not supposed to follow exactly like the original haha

This post has been edited by killerkamote7: Dec 27 2011, 11:02 AM

download reaper from http://www.reaper.fm , then try to import all the audio files to check if they're in sync.

it's simply too weird to be off sync if you simply import the audio files and do nothing.

also, remember to set the tempo first before you import anything, you may not realize some DAW will stretch or shrink the audio file when you adjust the tempo. great feature for "beat making" geared DAW like Ableton but a disaster for mixing.

by the way, i can probably record my violin for some bass notes by pitch shifting them down so the intro won't sound so "floating" due to lack of bass notes. or you can do something with the guitar?

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Added on December 27, 2011, 1:52 pmok, i try to download individual tracks available current to see what's happening between the tracks...

This post has been edited by little ice: Dec 27 2011, 01:52 PM

Will check on Reaper later.

Actually here's what I did. I make sure when I select the audio track, the 'warp' function is always turned off. In Ableton, if you turn off this feature, it will always follow the general tempo that you keyed-in at upper right corner near the menu. After I've done that, I mark where the first beat should be and i zo0m to that area and drag the entire audio track to where it should be. For example, the violin track and bass track I know exactly where the first bass note should hit, so I drag the bass track to coincide or synch with the violin track.

If there were out of synch portions later in the track do you think it's probably because of human error during playing/recording? If so, then I may need to cut portions of the track to compensate on the general tempo.

No need to re-record the violin track. It's supposed to sound like that anyway, unless you have a cello to record with.

there seems to be no problem with what you did. i believe you're well aware of the warp setting or beat detecting or something like that and keep it off so i try to look into the problems on other area. like you said, it could be human playing error. i'm trying to download the tracks just to double confirm though it'll take a while since those are big files.

by the way, another common practice is to align the beginning of the audio track so that it starts precisely from zero. in other words, when bouncing the track, leave exactly one bar at the beginning so no need to drag the audio track and re-sync by aligning to the graph/grid, much like what you did with the midi mockup track - i just import it, set grid "snap" on, and snap it right on the 2nd bar, then i start record. the midi mockup followed tightly with the metronome.

i think our pianist died

Then we need to bury our dead. How about a Viking funeral (insert touh0u background music here)


Actually you can immediately notice that all tracks were not in their proper tempo setting when imported to Ableton. You can see the native tempo right below the Warp button were different for all tracks. I'm not sure why, but probably its a wild guess from Ableton. Read something about Reaper that you can put beat markers and convert it to tempo markers

This post has been edited by killerkamote7: Dec 27 2011, 02:34 PM