Thank you, you beautiful bastard!!!

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I'm hearing lots of influences and elements that I love, Slayer, Machinehead, Mastodon, even a little Prong if I dare to say so. I especially love that little Jerry style pentatonics in that one lick you tastefully tucked away in the solo parts.

Once you've gotten more familiar with tracking it gets quicker and easier. I would also suggest creating templates in Reaper for your specific setup so that you can just launch a new project and hit record without much fuss.

Bravo sirs, you're certainly on the path to reaping great rewards in music production. You guys are really good.

Dammit @Yargnad,

I've never listened to Prong in my life.
The other day, whilst standing around the smokers, LRT and I were listening to some tunes as we bbq'd. Suddenly, I heard something rather familiar that wasn't us....so I rushed to my phone to check and see what was playing.....

Guess what? It was Prong. It was this:

.....I've never, not once, heard that song in my entire life! But it sure does sound like we straight up ripped them off. I did rip off Mastodon. I did rip off Jerry. I did rip off Lamb of God, Gojira, Slipknot and Slayer....But I've never heard that song and still managed to rip them off to a greater extent than all the bands that I intentionally drew from...

I'm disgusted with myself.

 

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I love Prong dude!!! I think you blended all those influences together really well. Didnt feel like a ripoff at all. I really like that whole track. Y'all killed it.

I have to admit, I've been listening to Prong for the last week, and I'm digging them too!

Just so odd that the main riff of our song and the main riff of Prong's song are just almost exactly the same....I suppose this will happen sometimes, all the notes have been used in all the ways they can by now, it's likely impossible not to recycle stuff in one way or another, and even maybe unaware at that.

 

[Mitch Pearrow SJMP]

That’s crazy, Sky Monkey pointed out that the intro to my piece call R2V4 is so similar to a Pink Floyd tune that I had never heard before, another one was a slow break in White Noise, reminded one guy on the MF of Tesla ..
It is bound to happen brother !!

 

[Jimi Some Moore]

@Thatbastarddon and @Ramo recently helped out @LRT and I with our recording setup...
It's been awhile, but here is tonight's fruit, flubs and all, but I think we are beginning to understand the basics

We're (tentatively) calling this one "The Mask"

Sounds great !! , I am no expert - far from it but I think Ramo's suggestions were good. If you didn't harmonise, you could double track the Solo which would make it sound awesome. Also slot in the Batman Theme in the end for a smile . It would be great to have some visuals no doubt those will come later.

 

[Jimi Some Moore]

I'm not knocking your technique at all. Just giving you another way to approach it. A lot of things will sound good until you AB compare it to a different way of doing it. The hard left and right pan has become popular again but without a lot of people realizing the crossover effect involved in the classic recordings which they're trying to emulate. I'm always looking for better ways to do things.

For example, even though I've been doing this for over 20 years now, I've just come around to mixing my electronic tracks down using mid-side (M/S) encoding, also known as joint stereo. Basically the left track has all the mono information, and the right track has only the difference data between the left and right on the stereo bus. This has the benefit of sounding much better when listening to a track on a phone or Alexa or Google speaker which are usually only mono. These devices will default to the Left channel which is a mono mixdown without phase issues. If you were listening to a recording that was hard panned left and right, you may be missing everything in the right channel depending on the source encoding and how that particular device collapses audio down to mono. This technique was invented to handle the transition from mono to stereo recordings on records, so it's been around a very long time.

Those engineers were incredibly smart for being able to come up with this to handle being able to play stereo records on mono turntables and vice versa; the side to side motion of the needle is the left channel and the up and down motion is the right channel. Since mono record player needles only move side to side they only played the left (mono) channel. Stereo record player needles also move up and down to receive the right (difference) channel data and all of this is fed through a RIAA preamp which does the M/S decoding back into normal stereo.

This technique is also the basis of Dolby's Prologic encoding, except it's being done with five channels instead of two. I am only just now coming around to this and I wish I had known it since the beginning. That's basically the reason for me explaining how I do things. Just a different flavor for you to savor.

Very interesting information Yargnad. Many people listen to music on their phones which are moving towards stereo. I believe the more recent iPhone's have a pair of stereo speakers. There is one speaker at the bottom and another one inside the screen notch, which also doubles as an earpiece. The output is quite balanced even if the top speaker is a bit bass-less.