my new song - "Night Of The Ice Weasels"

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sometimes jamming with a drum loop will take you to some unexpected places - and I certainly wasn't expecting to wind up with this! Atmospheric AND crunchy, together at last! :lol:

Like the last two songs, "Night Of The Ice Weasels" started life as a jam with GarageBand on my Mac - but halfway through the recording process I wound up bouncing this to a stereo track and importing it into Cubase, adding some more tracks and going to town with some effects.

The guitars on this are all Peavey Falcon - the main guitars and solos were pumped through the POD 2, then given some judicious tweezing with stuff like the Karlette multi-delay VST plug-in. The Dreibelbass was also tweezed in this one - run first through the POD, and then re-amped through one of GarageBand's modeled bass amp settings for a ripsaw sound!

The drums are some free Appleloops I found via MacJams.com . The synths come from the wonderful NI FM7 plug-in, with the solos triggered with my Falcon/Roland GM-70 setup. The loop fit the tone of the basic track nicely, the sort of thing you'd expect on one of Joe Walsh's weirder synth stuff.

That title? It comes from a musing from Matt Groening's "Life In Hell" comic strip about how love is like a snowmobile racing across the tundra until it flips over, pinning you underneath - and then you meet these. I've had my fair share of accidents in that regard :/

As usual, feel free to download and tell me what you think!

http://fileserv4.soundclick.com/fastg6\ ... easels.mp3
"Ooo, look at me, I'm making people HAPPY! I'm the Magical Man from Happyland! In a gumdrop house on Lollypop Laaaaaaane!" - Homer Simpson

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No hope in hell downloading it here, but a sodding excellent title.... :)

I'll grab it in a week and a bit when I get back to work if thats okay...
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this is great
reminds me of camel that sort of thing 8)
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Yup this is greatness indeed. Even though I felt the mix could be improved quite a lot, the idea and content allready is good.

I loved that gurgly ever-present drone in the back a lot. Pretty darn good guitar-play on here. I didn't care much for the drums though, especially the hats do not sit well in the mix.

About the lead; strangely it starts in the right channel and then suddenly moves to the left. I think it should have stayed on the right, as it worked much better there.

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you wouldn't be a fan of the 'life is hell' comics would you?
the title brought that back to me 8)
something about getting pinned under a snowmobile and at night the ice weasels come..
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Yeah, the track itself's great but I agree with Mystahr on the mix thing.
The panning in some parts seems out of control - a bit too extreme one way or the other - it seems to throw over to the left quite a lot.

Great axe-work tho! :D

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