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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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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.
| 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.
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