jeffrey
Well-known member
I met a lot of great people today at the "Main Event" at the EB factory. I had a chance to let a few guys (who's screen names I either didn't get or am too stupid to remember! Probably the latter....) hear some bits of a few MP3's from my band, Thirteen Muses (www.13muses.com : no content yet, we just registered the domain; site will be completed and posted soon, however *edit* hosting company is down for maintenance anyway right now).
I quick history of us:
We've been together for just over one year and are 100% original. We've gone through the whole writing phase like everyone else (write new stuff, end up liking it more than the old stuff so some old stuff gets dropped). We have not as of yet played out (but are October 8th and 29th) but have gotten an amazing amount of press and requests to play (a club offered us every national coming through if they had an opening spot for local bands) already. We've even gotten an article written about us in the local music rag.
We're also going to get some local radio airplay during normal hours (not late night local shows).
Not bad for never playing a gig!
Also makes me nervous, it creates a lot of expectations!
Our business model is simple: write music that's complex and varied enough to keep us interested as musicians, but presented in a straightforward enough fashion that you don't havce to be a musician to appreciate it, but musician's will dig it too.
We recorded 100% of this ourselves. The drums, guitar and bass were done in our bandroom. The vocals were done in a huge walk-through closet at my house (makes a great vocal booth). It was all recorded on a Roland VS2000CD.
Here's the important part: NONE of this is MIXED or MASTERED. These are one notch above track dumps. The drums have been slightly fiddled with (as the drummer is doing the final edits), but all my guitars are raw to track. No post-processing or EQ'ing and all my effects went to track; I like to control them in realtime (yes I know it's cardinal sin!). I tracked all of my parts twice: there is one track left, and one track right. I just prefer the truer stereo imaging of actually playing it all twice as opposed to copying the track twice.
All of the songs have a different thing going on (at least I hope so). The genre is definately more in the heavy area, but it's got groove and melody and a few tracks have solos (which I also doubled).
Anyway, I'm not a very in your face "hey listen to my music!" kind of person when it comes to this sorta thing on forums. But some of the guys that heard it really dug it, so I'm hoping other people will too!
I just know I want all the mixing and mastering done so we can package it and move on to gigs and new material!
Let me know what you think, and thanks for reading all this crap, I just felt some backround was in order first.
MP3 links:
*NOTE*
This is sitting on my webserver at work, I have it capped at 150k/sec so it won't throttle my connection there. if it's slower than that other people may be downloading as well.
Victim - Radio Song
Peeling Skin - pretty heavy, I break strings in this song ALL the time!
Breathe - double-picked string-skipped octaves are fun!
Mindset - solo in the middle is completely double-tracked
No Halo - first part of solo is one track, second part is doubled
Holy Lies - kinda Sabbath / Soundgarden but heavier thing going on; I do the dirty/clean switching live, makes me nervous!
Falling Down - neat song, hard to do the backups and play as it's got a 10 fret jump right there
Thanks again and I hope anyone that takes the time to read all this crap and download the MP3's enjoys it. We're just trying to do something different and have a good time as well.
Thanks!
I quick history of us:
We've been together for just over one year and are 100% original. We've gone through the whole writing phase like everyone else (write new stuff, end up liking it more than the old stuff so some old stuff gets dropped). We have not as of yet played out (but are October 8th and 29th) but have gotten an amazing amount of press and requests to play (a club offered us every national coming through if they had an opening spot for local bands) already. We've even gotten an article written about us in the local music rag.
We're also going to get some local radio airplay during normal hours (not late night local shows).
Not bad for never playing a gig!
Also makes me nervous, it creates a lot of expectations!Our business model is simple: write music that's complex and varied enough to keep us interested as musicians, but presented in a straightforward enough fashion that you don't havce to be a musician to appreciate it, but musician's will dig it too.
We recorded 100% of this ourselves. The drums, guitar and bass were done in our bandroom. The vocals were done in a huge walk-through closet at my house (makes a great vocal booth
). It was all recorded on a Roland VS2000CD.Here's the important part: NONE of this is MIXED or MASTERED. These are one notch above track dumps. The drums have been slightly fiddled with (as the drummer is doing the final edits), but all my guitars are raw to track. No post-processing or EQ'ing and all my effects went to track; I like to control them in realtime (yes I know it's cardinal sin!). I tracked all of my parts twice: there is one track left, and one track right. I just prefer the truer stereo imaging of actually playing it all twice as opposed to copying the track twice.
All of the songs have a different thing going on (at least I hope so). The genre is definately more in the heavy area, but it's got groove and melody and a few tracks have solos (which I also doubled).
Anyway, I'm not a very in your face "hey listen to my music!" kind of person when it comes to this sorta thing on forums. But some of the guys that heard it really dug it, so I'm hoping other people will too!
I just know I want all the mixing and mastering done so we can package it and move on to gigs and new material!
Let me know what you think, and thanks for reading all this crap, I just felt some backround was in order first.
MP3 links:
*NOTE*
This is sitting on my webserver at work, I have it capped at 150k/sec so it won't throttle my connection there. if it's slower than that other people may be downloading as well.
Victim - Radio Song
Peeling Skin - pretty heavy, I break strings in this song ALL the time!
Breathe - double-picked string-skipped octaves are fun!
Mindset - solo in the middle is completely double-tracked
No Halo - first part of solo is one track, second part is doubled
Holy Lies - kinda Sabbath / Soundgarden but heavier thing going on; I do the dirty/clean switching live, makes me nervous!
Falling Down - neat song, hard to do the backups and play as it's got a 10 fret jump right there
Thanks again and I hope anyone that takes the time to read all this crap and download the MP3's enjoys it. We're just trying to do something different and have a good time as well.
Thanks!
