Hey nostr:npub14hq5lgadtyy9dhvtszq46dnl0s0xwdddqr7e32rdqqhma8a4xhsspxjjzu the single “Kingdom of Ruin” is a legit hit. I had that shit on repeat today. The chorus had the hair on my arms standing up. I think A&R people would be all over this.
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I dig this.
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Just released this one since the Nostr audience isn’t too keen to some metal/rock
https://wavlake.com/track/c55b1488-e5b0-432f-8177-0685239acb40
I’ll give it a listen. Man I’ve been a metalhead since the early 80’s. Still dreaming of catching a big festival in the states one of these days. And Parkway Drive in particular. Jeff Ling’s guitar sound and unique approach to solos is amazing.
It’s good! Tunes to listen to in the Blackhawk enroute
I'm gonna have to take some time to listen to it all. Kinda reminded me of some of the metalcore bands I got into in the early 2010s (which is still one of my favorite eras)
Did you track all the guitars and do all the vocals yourself? I really like the sound you got
No sir. I create all of these with the assistance of Logic Pro and Suno.
You could totally shop a lot of these tracks to live progressive metal bands’ management for writing credit and a share of royalties. I’m not sure how licensing works with the tool creators though. My knowledge on music licensing is a couple decades old now.
🤔 I’d have to do some homework but I like where you’re going with this.
Yeah if you find a couple of bands that have similar vocal style and give them copies of the copyrighted demos, and transcriptions of the instrument parts so they can play them true, that’d be cool. Do those tools have automatic transcription ability to sheet music? So cool.
This way of writing is especially interesting to me after playing guitar for 30 years of my life but realizing I’m never going to be an Yngwie Malmsteen, but still having so many song concepts in my head that I was never able to get onto the fretboard.
Interesting. Thank you for this. I have all the lyrics and can create the music sheets with them on Logic Pro.
You have any concepts in mind? I’d love to try the out and see what I can do with them
I’ll see what I can dig up of some really rough recordings that I kept so as not to lose the ideas. I suffered a data loss last year when I was flashing Linux onto a drive and had it pointed at the wrong volume 🤦‍♂️ I wasn’t too upset at the time cause I had backed up really critical life stuff and basically just inadvertently housecleaned 20 years and hundreds of GB of crap down to what I can put on a small thumb drive. My backups aren’t multi day affairs now lol.
I just used a Boss GT10 for endless effects combinations, and to digitize my guitar signal so I could go in to the PC sound card via USB. Before that it was straight LR line input from an overdriven peavey practice amp
Damn. Let me know what you dig up and let’s go after it.
This is one really rough concept recording I did in 2004 with direct line input from an overdriven Peavey practice amp into the single line input on the sound card on my Pentium 2 PC. The chorus parts are very repetitive and skippable, but I liked the way the solo that starts at 1:59 worked out. I used free click track and drum-on-keyboard software. Free mixdown software. The only hitch was that all three guitar parts had to be played in a single take from the beginning of the song to the end, playing in sync by ear in real time. I couldn’t splice anything with the software I was using so I had to do it all long hand including the small drum fills. Took quite a few takes. I wish I had some more source audio of the solo.
Nice. I was playing with Suno the other week trying to get some midi music I wrote years ago to sound somewhat realistic.
Did it work?
Kinda mixed results. I'm only using the free version of suno
Oh ya. You’re gonna be limited then. Very robotic
My prompts were basically to preserve the drums and guitar parts, just make the instruments sound real. A couple results were kinda close, but it mostly did its own thing
https://suno.com/s/LJYkq99uUAVR9PUI the first minute is fairly close to the source material. It filled in the rest of the song. I think the free version only allows a 1 minute upload and the original full song is over 5 minutes.
Sounds solid. I like it.
Def mid 2000s metalcore vibes
That’s awesome man. Love the solo. On some of the choruses I instantly felt like running downstairs and loading up DOOM II. Totally my vibe from those days
https://suno.com/s/4BrOIFwOiWoeMPfu this is the midi I started with. The reading I did suggested using clean guitar tones and letting suno add the distortion, but the clean tones blended a little too much I think, so it had a hard time interpreting some of the muddled parts.
One day I'll probably invest in a more up to date DAW and some better VST packs, maybe a better version of the AI can do a final polish or something. I've probably got 20-30 decent compositions sitting on old computers.
I’d like to know when you’re completed and know what you did.
To be honest, it's one of those things I'd like to play with, but it's very low on my to do list right now. My wife and I are expecting our 4th child in March, we're working to transition our house into a homestead, I'm writing and illustrating kids books and working full time in telecom. It will probably be a few years before the time and money line up to make musical endeavors more feasible.
But since we're on the topic of music and metal, this is an album I did vocals on almost a decade ago. I wrote a good bit of the music for the songs "Fury" and "Inner War" as well as the majority of the lyrics on the album https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLaf42reShFFvIf8jfHy_B1LuvL7tWKfGV&si=DGMCCphCdp3pe7bf
Badass.