Collaborations and Such

qwezirider · Post by **qwezirider** » Sat Jun 16, 2007 8:20 am

I'm still relatively new here, so reading about the forum CD has been fun to do. Thought I'd share a little bit of something that I work on each year similar to that (especially since it just got "released" today and it's like Christmas this morning).

I participate in an audio forum that roughly once per year does a collaboration thing. People sign up when it starts and the moderator combines the various people into teams of about 7 or so people, each assigned to one or a few of the task for which they signed up. This year we managed 19 teams worth of people. This morning, three months of work was released in that forum.

Much like here, the forum is wold wide in its participants. So it's an absolute blast to work with people one may not even know, few know by real name, and often with people in multiple countries. This year, through various levels of apathy and laziness, my team managed to lose three of seven people (drums, guitars, lead vocal) with only 11 days left and not a single track cut in the previous 2 1/2 months. So what is here was basically done in 11 days with whoever was left and a few new people brought on board to save us.

It was my first recording using my 4003 4-2-5. I had some tremendous growl going on that I'd never managed to get quite so perfectly. Not too much distortion to sound distorted, nice wet depth to the sound. Unfortunately, most of that got beat up in the mixer's ears and is barely audible in the second verse. but then again, that's the point of this whole collaboration: each to do what he/she hears in the song, including the mixer.

Here 'tis! The "download me" link in the first post of this thread:

http://womb.mixerman.net/showthread.php?t=3695

relayer · Post by **relayer** » Sat Jul 07, 2007 11:13 am

Up front, I'll state that this isn't just a pity post. ;P

*Really* interesting tune! I love unpredictable stuff, and that one part in the song (I'm sure you know the one) I did not telegraph at all. Loved it.

I do agree that your playing was buried, but then again, given this is a Rick forum, I think it's safe to say that we're used to the bass being a bit more in yer face than a lot of folks.