Instrumental (Metal) - Warmoth Tele/Bare Knucks

[fdesalvo]

OK, I don't consider myself a metal guy - in fact, I don't even listen to it these days.  I am no longer angry at my parents! 

Same rig as before, but exploring concept music these days- the theme of this instrumental is depicted below.  I really feel the tone of this song speaks to the image.  I have been really inspired by the work of Gustave Dore lately.  I'll be adding bass guitar tonight.

https://soundcloud.com/frankdesalvo/the-burning-hill

 

[stratamania]

:icon_thumright:

Also like The Dirt Road.

 

[fdesalvo]

Thanks, dude!  I wrote that one while I was reminiscing about life back in Louisiana.  Man, I miss home! 

That song was up and running in a couple hours - normally takes me much longer haha.  It was one of those rare times when everything just clicked.  The verses are a two tracks of the BK 63 veneer singlecoil and two with the Abraxas bridge.  The Choruses and solo are straight Abraxas.

 

[stratamania]

Your welcome. Thanks for sharing.

 

[fdesalvo]

Thanks for listening!

I was laughing at your avatar - I dig giraffes and had a stuffed one sitting on top of my studio reference monitors.  Once my GF found out it was given to my ex (way back in the day), I caught unholy hell about it.  Ask me where it is now :/.  Ha!

 

[stratamania]

Yea, the giraffes were a gift, but I can kind of guess where yours went... 

 

[MikeW]

Thanks, dude!  I wrote that one while I was reminiscing about life back in Louisiana.  Man, I miss home! 

What part of LA? I spent about 5 1/2 years in Baton Rouge during grad school. Geaux Tigers!

 

[fdesalvo]

Thanks, dude!  I wrote that one while I was reminiscing about life back in Louisiana.  Man, I miss home! 

What part of LA? I spent about 5 1/2 years in Baton Rouge during grad school. Geaux Tigers!

AyyyeeeeeeeEEEEEE!!

Haha, I grew up on the westbank of the miss river across from nola.  My fam just moved up to denham springs (BR area) a few months ago. 

 

[stubhead]

I don't consider myself a metal guy - in fact, I don't even listen to it these days.  I am no longer angry at my parents!

Thet thar's funny... every generation has a genre or at least an "artiste" who's primary function is to anger, and scare, the parents. I always thought Alice Cooper to be way beyond silly - it's a CLOWN ACT but there were 'rental units who really, really worried about him! Granted, crucifying women onstage then chopping off your own head was a bit adrift from Elvis's wiggly hips. But if you took Marilyn Manson and subtracted everything Cooper, you end up with Uncle Walt singing the "Girl from Ipanema" at the Holiday Inn lounge... but Alice Cooper couldn't do it for the new tots, cause he already did their parents! The bobbysoxer-era Frank Sinatra, famous for never leaving a dry seat in the theater... your GRANDMA was a dirty little girl?!?

No, mommy, your boy didn't really want to drink a fou'ty while Mary Beth licks his ass till her tongue turn doodoo brown. Your boy HATES beer, but if you really don't want to hear it again, you have to stop "requesting" it!  :toothy12:

I like "Ocean" the best. If I had any suggestion, I'd say MIS-match tones more. Radically-more... Drastically different amounts of reverb stacks tracks near-to-far, not just "imitates a room." ChugChuggin' on rhythm sounds like crap - so the reverb goes on long slow melodies OVER the chug. The convention is clean rhythm/overdrive lead, but backwards may work better. Speaking of Jimmy Page ( :icon_biggrin, the four basic guitar tones in "What Is and What Should Never Be" sound like they "shouldn't" belong on the same planet, much less in the same song! but oo-ooh... has there been a solo on any country radio hit in the last 20 years that wasn't MORE distorted than Stairwell to Heave In? Hendrix's last album with his direct supervision was also (IMO) his best - "The Cry of Love." 80%, maybe 90% is Stratocaster->Twin Reverb->... nothing. Right into the board.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvd54w0vGJg
3 - 5 interlocked melodies throughout, not a chord (or fuzztone!) in sight.*
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-x1ocJPwag

I'm very close to having my looping/recording stuff working together, hot dog. I have to conquer a basically age-related problem (57), actually era-related is more accurate. I don't like staring at a computer while recording, my eyeballs make me deaf? (I also can't READ long, multi-thousand word stuff on a screen and retain it.) Meanwhile I have little punk guitar students who NEVER TURN IT OFF, like it was a refrigerator!

*(in sight of the earballs.)

 

[fdesalvo]

Ha, thanks for listening to my schizo array of tracks, my friend.  "Ocean" is the first song I ever wrote or recorded, and boy, does it sound like it!  I may retrack/mix/master that sucker sometime soon, but I kinda dig it as a rough, little milestone.

I will attempt to digest the rest of what you've written.  ccasion14:

 

[Cagey]

Well, I like it. Don't know why. Not my kinda thing. It's just... fun? Good job, in any event.

Bass drum sounds kinda flubby, though. May be peaking out. I'd find a way to tighten that a bit if it were me.

 

[fdesalvo]

Cagey,

Thank you.  No flub here, bub, but the kick is mixed fat and as a whole, the song is still roughly mixed haha.  What are you listening on? 

 

[Cagey]

I'm playing back through an ASUS Essence sound card feeding a Presonus HP4 headphone amp into a set of Beyerdynamic DT880 Pro headphones. It's pretty clear.

 

[fdesalvo]

That's a nice rig. I'll post up when the song is done.

 

[Cagey]

Yeah, I wish I'd have had some of the gear I do now back when I was younger and more ambitious. But, it's still fun. The only downside is now I don't have any excuses for being a talent-free slug <grin>

 

[stubhead]

ChugChuggin' on rhythm sounds like crap - so the reverb goes on long slow melodies OVER the chug.

I messed that up, up there - I meant to say that chugchug on rhythm sound fine WITHOUT reverb, but you can't chug or play like a bangin' rhythm part with much reverb, because the reverb kind of stretches the time, and it loses all the punch. You got it straight up, it sounds great - but then you CAN pile the reverb onto the melodies. I just got this rack together and I gotta get started teaching myself the moves all over again My chops are up these days, but that recording stuff - I kinda dropped out there in the late 80's and did all this stupid, self-indulgent wasteful crap - you know, "career", a "wife" a "house" for pete's sake. The best, working musicians I know now are the guys who just REFUSED to work. Practice all day, dog bless girlfriends!  Recording is pretty cool, you certainly start to listen differently.

 

[fdesalvo]

Agreed about the reverb blurring chugs - a little goes a long way.  This song is still a rough mix.  I'll getter done this weekend when I have time to add the bass line.  :guitarplayer2:

 

[MikeW]

Thanks, dude!  I wrote that one while I was reminiscing about life back in Louisiana.  Man, I miss home! 

What part of LA? I spent about 5 1/2 years in Baton Rouge during grad school. Geaux Tigers!

AyyyeeeeeeeEEEEEE!!

Haha, I grew up on the westbank of the miss river across from nola.  My fam just moved up to denham springs (BR area) a few months ago.

Nice. One of my best friends lives in Denham and another recently moved to Gonzalez. Love that area south of Baton Rouge. Just enough country, just enough Cajun and just enough City. Great place.

I was just off Airline on Jefferson Hwy for the years I lived there. Up on the 'hill' (alt 53 ft). Am planning on taking the highschooler out that way later this year to tour the LSU campus in hopes of recruiting a new generation.

 

[fdesalvo]

Indeed!  I like the area for the same reasons.  Small world!

Thanks, dude!  I wrote that one while I was reminiscing about life back in Louisiana.  Man, I miss home! 

What part of LA? I spent about 5 1/2 years in Baton Rouge during grad school. Geaux Tigers!

AyyyeeeeeeeEEEEEE!!

Haha, I grew up on the westbank of the miss river across from nola.  My fam just moved up to denham springs (BR area) a few months ago.

Nice. One of my best friends lives in Denham and another recently moved to Gonzalez. Love that area south of Baton Rouge. Just enough country, just enough Cajun and just enough City. Great place.

I was just off Airline on Jefferson Hwy for the years I lived there. Up on the 'hill' (alt 53 ft). Am planning on taking the highschooler out that way later this year to tour the LSU campus in hopes of recruiting a new generation.

 

[fdesalvo]

Updated with bass