Evil Genius

So my roommate, Jon, and I mess around with recording our own music sometimes. Jon's a guitar player, and I'm a synth player and knob twiddler (a guy who mixes everything together, sets up effects, etc.). We're still learning the basics of how to put together popular music, but I think our songs are starting to sound halfway decent.

Lately, a lot of the projects tend toward the silly - songs memorializing peoples birthdays or fictional childhoods. Well, we played the latest song, 'die Apocalypse,' for Psi, and now we're taking the next step and submitting ourselves to ridicule on his forum! Jon is a big metalhead and wanted to write a Swedish metal song, but none of us knew Swedish. We settled on German, because at least Google knows German.

If you speak German, I apologize for this song in it's entirety.

I'd encourage you to listen to the song first, and only read the lyrics the second time through. Any comments, good, or bad, are greatly appreciated.

It's the first song here: http://podcasts.anjero.com/html/afabian/pcloadletter

Thanks!

OH MAN!!!!


at first i did exactly what you said, just listen then read the lyrics, and so i did.


FUCKING HILARIOUS!!!


best fucking first post goes to you sir. However i do have to say though, that the guitar is nowhere near being metal.





/edit (btw if you highlight edit is says "Oh Shit!") but were you a memeber before or am I just tripping?

halfnhalf wrote:OH MAN!!!!

best fucking first post goes to you sir. However i do have to say though, that the guitar is nowhere near being metal.

/edit (btw if you highlight edit is says "Oh Shit!") but were you a member before or am I just tripping?

Thanks! I don't recall ever being a member here before, but I've been friends with Psi for a while, and it's possible I got a mention in here at some point.

I agree about the guitar part - it's more like classic hair band rock than metal. I'm glad for some useful feedback though. It's really hard to get people to say anything more specific than "awesome" or "that blows"

Some other trivia about the song:

• We tuned a 6-string bass down a half-step to get a nice rumbly bottom end. In the slow part of the song the bottom note is the low B-flat, which has a frequency of 29 hertz - almost subsonic
• The gunshots and screaming Germans (hard to hear) are from Call of Duty 2
• The song is a completely "synthetic" recording, like everything in my apartment - there's no band that can play the song straight though, in fact there was no concept of what the song was actually supposed to sound like until it was finished. One person at a time would mess around and play lots of different guitar, keyboard, bass, or vocal parts, and then after the fact we mix-and-match them until we find something that sounds good
• Antares AutoTune is amazing. You can "play" a persons actual singing voice by pressing notes on a keyboard
• All of the drums are MIDI, and were drawn on the screen one note at a time. Also: if you're a drummer near Blacksburg and wouldn't mind being recorded once in a while, we'd love to come over and put your drum parts into our music.
• We spent a lot of time trying to get the song to be loud. It's easy to normalize a song so that it's full-scale in terms of using all 16 bits of audio output, but it still won't necessarily sound any where near as loud as commercial metal recordings. We trying using multi-band compressors on the whole thing, playing with EQs a lot, turning the bass down (so that everything else can come up). The final recording ended up being much louder than it was originally, but it still sounds wimpy when played back-to-back with other metal songs.