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fairy godmilf
Joined: 05 Dec 2006
Location: oakland, california
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 Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2007 11:02 am Post subject: my own personal final boss theme |
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Yesterday I went to a rock and roll studio in the afternoon with my friend's band's drummer. We were fucking around on some crazy noise-adelic shit that was helped by the overbearing presence of a GIBSON SG in the room. So me and him had a session for a couple of hours, and at one point, I start fucking around playing some metal shit. He was like, fuck yeah, that sounds pretty good. And I was like, you know, most metal is just one scale -- you could probably make a pretty decent metal song using just one string on the guitar. He was like, fuck yeah. So I started copping some metal attitude and playing this really terrible metal song on one string.
Then he starts pounding the drums and it started sounding like a final boss battle in the greatest RPG ever.
I got home around ten PM that night after staring at some Gibson SGs in the guitar shops nearby. I didn't buy one yet. I will, soon! Though when I got home I cranked up the reverb on my amp and tried to match the Fender Twin Reverb in the studio in Akihabara, and it just didn't work out. Without the drums, it really wasn't much. I played it precisely once, put the guitar down, and got back to work. I just listened to it now.
So here it is.
In the studio I was kind of singing, too. Basically, where the little pinch harmonic tricks pop up, I was screaming "Ohhhh!" really loud into a microphone soaked with reverb sauce. Still, you kind of get the idea here.
I'll try to record a video of this next time me and dude are in the studio. If we remember it by then.
Edit: guhh, listening to this is kind of like . . . . . there are a couple really big hiccups in it. Oh well. Also, my Telecaster sounds like wet shit half the time. I had to tone the distortion down because of my ferocious feedback problem. Also, the low, low action of the SG in the studio made it just buttery smooth to slide around on.
Also, it bugs me pretty bad that I can hear the pick hitting the strings so clearly in this recording.
Anyway.
Hey!
What would your final boss theme be, yeah?
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eretsua
Joined: 07 Apr 2007
Location: bordering on reality
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| Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2007 12:48 pm Post subject: Re: my own personal final boss theme |
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i can hear a final boss song in this when i imagine some driving percussion and reverb drowned and slightly distorted vocals. it'd be fun to hear & see you sing with this some time. :)
| 108 wrote: |
| my Telecaster sounds like wet shit |
that's what telecasters do, they sound like wet shit in a tin can. :/
not to be a nag...but...your digital recording is clipping/brickwalling and digital clipping is not cool!
| 108 wrote: |
Anyway.
Hey!
What would your final boss theme be, yeah? |
this would be my boss theme.
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108
fairy godmilf
Joined: 05 Dec 2006
Location: oakland, california
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| Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2007 3:17 pm Post subject: Re: my own personal final boss theme |
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| eretsua wrote: |
| i can hear a final boss song in this when i imagine some driving percussion and reverb drowned and slightly distorted vocals. it'd be fun to hear & see you sing with this some time. :) |
I'll see what I can do!
I actually just took a break from this weird little "job" of mine to beat this song out on the guitar a little bit more. It made me remember why I bothered to record it -- I didn't want to lose the rhythm. The rhythm of it is complicated -- there's a tempo change in it, which the drummer really loved. In the little recording up there, I don't do the part with the tempo change. I kind of remembered it just now, though. In the studio, we played this for about fifteen minutes, and the reverb and overdrive sounded perfect, so I would just keep changing the tempo back and forth. I think I've found the way to incorporate the tempo trick into last two verses. It's hard to explain. I'll bang out another recording tomorrow, when my upstairs neighbor isn't home and I'm free to blast a bit of feedback. He got home early today. :(
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| 108 wrote: |
| my Telecaster sounds like wet shit |
that's what telecasters do, they sound like wet shit in a tin can. :/
not to be a nag...[;]...your digital recording is clipping/brickwalling and digital clipping is not cool! |
Yeah, I'm well aware of the limitations of my Telecaster don't make me cry okay :(
Also, actually, I just recorded this with my digital camera microphone! I had a Big Muff Pi and some digital reverb, though. Normally I use the Double Muff as well, though uhhhh . . . yeah, the sound has some atrocious clipping. In the studio, however, coming out of a Fender Twin Reverb and played with an SG, the same level of fierce distortion sounded great. Here, though, it just sounds . . . wet. And vaguely . . . foamy.
I'll rein in the reverb a bit and use only the Double Muff tomorrow.
Also I've added a little lick to the harmonics part.
Man, natural harmonics sound fuckin' awesome coming out of an SG, a Twin Reverb, a Big Muff, and a Double Muff. It's this instant, fat, satanic noise. It's there and then it's gone. I was just thrumming the seventh and seventeenth frets on this little tune in the studio and it was godly.
Now that I've had the time to sit down with this song and play it for a good half hour at home, I think maybe we could do something like this live. It's working out a structure that's a problem.
I need to think of some portentous / pretentious Japanese lyrics now.
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| 108 wrote: |
Anyway.
Hey!
What would your final boss theme be, yeah? |
this would be my boss theme. |
Sounds like it would be good final "boss" and then ESCAPE FROM THE OCEAN theme music for an upcoming next-gen ECCO THE DOLPHIN game.
. . . For some reason it really reminded me of the second Ecco the Dolphin. Hmmm.
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inmatarian
wisecracking robot
Joined: 04 Dec 2006
Location: Bronx Industries
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| Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2007 8:29 pm |
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I defy anyone to say that Epic by Faith No More wouldn't at least be the theme for the first form of their own personal final boss.
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another god
Joined: 04 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2007 9:27 pm |
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If this is your final boss theme who's the boss? Or are you the boss for someone else?
Or!!!
Is it a mirror match?
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endgame
Joined: 13 Jun 2007
Location: Your sister's room.
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| Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2007 9:28 pm |
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A little cheesy, but I'd like one of those Dimmu Borgir song intros, like The Serpentine Offering.
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Martial Loh
Joined: 12 Jan 2007
Location: London, UK
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| Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2007 10:19 pm |
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108 I think your theme would benefit from a build up segment/phase like Eretsua's chosen song.. As it stands, its all too instantaneous..which could be good...but what about your second-more-powerful form?!
I always liked Geese's theme. If I survive Glastonbury, I'll try recording some random electroplankton loop for my theme. |
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inmatarian
wisecracking robot
Joined: 04 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2007 11:23 pm |
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| endgame wrote: |
| A little cheesy, but I'd like one of those Dimmu Borgir song intros, like The Serpentine Offering. |
Progenies.
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Mr. Apol
king of zembla
Joined: 04 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2007 11:29 pm |
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i think the peanuts theme would work great for mine
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inmatarian
wisecracking robot
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| Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2007 11:33 pm |
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| Mr. Apol wrote: |
| i think the peanuts theme would work great for mine |
That wins so hard.
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eretsua
Joined: 07 Apr 2007
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| Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 12:28 pm Post subject: Re: my own personal final boss theme |
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| 108 wrote: |
| eretsua wrote: |
| 108 wrote: |
| my Telecaster sounds like wet shit |
that's what telecasters do, they sound like wet shit in a tin can. :/
not to be a nag...[;]...your digital recording is clipping/brickwalling and digital clipping is not cool! |
Yeah, I'm well aware of the limitations of my Telecaster don't make me cry okay :( |
i'm sorry, i didn't mean to make you cry!
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| Also, actually, I just recorded this with my digital camera microphone! I had a Big Muff Pi and some digital reverb, though. Normally I use the Double Muff as well, though uhhhh . . . yeah, the sound has some atrocious clipping. |
well, that explains a lot! :) virtually all consumer digital camera's apply a massive amount of compression to the incoming audio signal. more often than already causing distortion due to overcompression. :(
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| In the studio, however, coming out of a Fender Twin Reverb and played with an SG, the same level of fierce distortion sounded great. |
i believe you!
| 108 wrote: |
Also I've added a little lick to the harmonics part.
Man, natural harmonics sound fuckin' awesome coming out of an SG, a Twin Reverb, a Big Muff, and a Double Muff. It's this instant, fat, satanic noise. It's there and then it's gone. I was just thrumming the seventh and seventeenth frets on this little tune in the studio and it was godly. |
i believe you still! :)
| 108 wrote: |
Now that I've had the time to sit down with this song and play it for a good half hour at home, I think maybe we could do something like this live. It's working out a structure that's a problem.
I need to think of some portentous / pretentious Japanese lyrics now. |
lyrics will get you a long way! also, if you have a decent drummer playing fancy, tension inducing fills under it it could quite sparkle to life. :)
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| eretsua wrote: |
| 108 wrote: |
Anyway.
Hey!
What would your final boss theme be, yeah? |
this would be my boss theme. |
Sounds like it would be good final "boss" and then ESCAPE FROM THE OCEAN theme music for an upcoming next-gen ECCO THE DOLPHIN game.
. . . For some reason it really reminded me of the second Ecco the Dolphin. Hmmm. |
hmm, i've never played ecco the dolphin. when i was a young kiddie i did stare myself blind at the pictures of that game wanting to play it. it seemed so cool to swim around as a dolphin, i was quite into dolphins back then, i think.
you're the first who compares it to ecco the dolphin. someone else compared it to a boss tune of BATTLE GAREGA. :) guess it are the low sample rates-ish sounds i've used for the drums that make people think it's old video game music. :)
anyway, i'd be curious to what you'll come up with for your full fledged, band played version of your perosnal boss theme.
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witness_sixdays
Joined: 07 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 6:13 pm |
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/p
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diplo
Joined: 18 Dec 2006
Location: Brandy Brendo's bungalow
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| Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 6:29 pm Post subject: Re: my own personal final boss theme |
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| 108 wrote: |
| What would your final boss theme be, yeah? |
probably debussy's fêtes for orchestra from nocturne no. 2
reason #1: the song is a STORY
reason #2: i am multifaceted and the song deals with many emotions
reason #3: holy shit |
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sawtooth
heh
Joined: 04 Dec 2006
Location: flashback
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| Posted: Sat Jun 23, 2007 10:47 pm |
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| The best part: to hear the whole song, you have to keep your characters alive. How rad would that be? One of your party members dies, so one part of the chorus drops out of the song, alto tenor bass or soprano depending on which character died. |
Dammit I'm almost sure that I've heard this sort of thing before (although not in the same context) but I'm not sure where. :(
as far as music I've made, this feels the most like a boss battle:
http://www.tindeck.com/audio/my/baez/Rock-2 (something massive rising out of the ground/sea at 1:03, battle starts at 1:39)
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internisus
shafer sephiroth
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| Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2007 4:27 am |
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| getting a great idea for a mix cd itt |
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chriservin22
Joined: 29 May 2007
Location: Portland, OR
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| Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 4:14 am |
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108 wrote:
What would your final boss theme be, yeah?
probably debussy's fêtes for orchestra from nocturne no. 2
reason #1: the song is a STORY
reason #2: i am multifaceted and the song deals with many emotions
reason #3: holy shit |
#1: Debussy is a motherfucking champ.
#2: I don't think of final boss music works if it is a nocturne -- unless of course we're talking about debussy's fêtes, which is crazy and not tranquil or even very much nocturne-y at all.
# 3: I would almost jack your final boss theme, but I'm still going with the 5th movement of Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony, because it's so triumphant and so empty at the same time. |
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Mr. Apol
king of zembla
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| Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 4:16 am |
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inmate bells of doomsday made a good closing theme for cans (i consider that whole last segment with the sidescrolling lamaliens the final boss. can't remember if that's 2 or 1 :(
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Mr. Apol
king of zembla
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| Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 4:17 am |
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regardless when i hear bells of doomsday in my mind i know SHIT'S WRAPPING UP
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inmatarian
wisecracking robot
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| Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 4:41 am |
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| Mr. Apol wrote: |
| inmate bells of doomsday made a good closing theme for cans (i consider that whole last segment with the sidescrolling lamaliens the final boss. can't remember if that's 2 or 1 :( |
I think that was _ALL_ of them.
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Mr. Apol
king of zembla
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| Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 7:25 am |
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| inmatarian wrote: |
| Mr. Apol wrote: |
| inmate bells of doomsday made a good closing theme for cans (i consider that whole last segment with the sidescrolling lamaliens the final boss. can't remember if that's 2 or 1 :( |
I think that was _ALL_ of them. |
oh yeah
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diplo
Joined: 18 Dec 2006
Location: Brandy Brendo's bungalow
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| Posted: Thu Jun 28, 2007 8:01 am |
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| chriservin22 wrote: |
| #2: I don't think of final boss music works if it is a nocturne -- unless of course we're talking about debussy's fêtes |
dude i said it was fêtes lol
also, good idea, guardian |
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chriservin22
Joined: 29 May 2007
Location: Portland, OR
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| Posted: Fri Jun 29, 2007 2:37 pm |
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| diplo wrote: |
| chriservin22 wrote: |
| #2: I don't think of final boss music works if it is a nocturne -- unless of course we're talking about debussy's fêtes |
dude i said it was fêtes lol |
The whole reason I wrote that was because I was listening to his Nocturne for solo piano when I started writing my post -- which is a fine composition itself -- but it wasn't screaming "final boss music" to me.
After I'd decided on the Shostakovich as final boss music, however, I went back and actually READ what you'd written. |
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Mary McMoePanties
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