Attempt to sound similar 80's Hard Rock in venue.



Fl Studio
BFD - Drums massive - Bass

Amplitube 3 - Guitar Amp

Effects
Wave Arts

Hardware
Hamer Guitar Yamaha Midi Keyboard


Any comments appreciated. Very interested in listening to anyone writing Rock/metal with their DAW.

Thanks - Greg

http://compusouth.net/music/hagard.mp3

Woah, this brings me way back. I remember when almost every metal band hand there own distinct "sound". The baseline here reminds me of old Iron Maiden, or Cliff Burton type bass from "Kill em all." The rhythm guitar is also very reminiscent of that same album... Overall I would say you pulled this of very well. It is convincing and sounds like the real thing to me. Good work.

The emulation thing works great !
It really gives the idea of a live sound

Cheers

I appreciate the comments. After listening to it, it does have a Iron Madden sounding parts, can't place it though. Must be early stuff.

Very Metallica "Kill 'Em All" sounding. It wasn't until a few moths ago that I re-listened to some songs from that album and realized that almost all the guitar sounds are drenched in room reverb, or ambient room mics mixed in heavily.

I seemed to always be into something else when Metallica would come out with something. Master of Puppets was the only recording that took 1st place in the car cassette deck at one point while in Germany. But recently I have studied the talents of James Hetfield more and have come to the conclusion that he is the irreplaceable member, and it the most talented individual of the genre imo. No way he and Mustaine could have coexisted mentally, with or without drugs. It took a very passive, basically play the leads, guitarist to make it work. The band could have very easily been called Hetfield.

Thanks for the comments. I noticed a lot of red line in my track and am correcting that for my next one.

Yeah, Master of Puppets or Ride The Lightning, I could probably play back to back on repeat for a while if all I had was a cassette player and those two tapes. Although I have not listened to Metallica by choice in quite some years. They are practically the only band I listened to in my formative guitar learning/get better/advancing years in late middle school through to almost the end of high school. I got kind of burnt out from them, while discovering there were also "other" metal bands (enter Dream Theater). And now I can't listen to them either. Then a hippy friend introduced me to pot and jam bands (Phish etc.), and then a whole lot of varied eclectic bands came into my foray (prog rock/death metal/jazz/electronic/ambient/reggae), as well as a general open mindedness to new and different music of all kinds, and wanting to learn all those genre styles/techniques on guitar as well

You just become a better guitar player, musician and producer when that happens. Sometimes a little force in wanting to appreciate and learn those things helps as well. Also doesn't hurt when you are surrounded by talented musician friends as well. It's infectious.

So yeah I am metal/rock influenced and that style always ends up in recorded DAW songs, but I am not strictly that. Progressive in a an eclectic sense would be my style, always throwing melodic and genre curve balls in the same song. I don't sing or write lyrics, so I try to keep it interesting in that regard.