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i was considering offering to run it but I just don’t have the time for the admin and you’d all end up finding where I lived just to through things at me.
long May it continue, shame there will be no more Uncle
Based on further behind the scenes discussions, the latest plan is for @flying_pie to take the lead on this. I'll help out where needed. Whatever happens it will be called Poopot's Cover Challenge.
Sorry for the initial confusion between me and @flying_pie. I guess Stu would have been calling us bellends for the mix up.
4 years ago, in casual conversation, @Bezzer mentioned that he and a bandmate used to challenge each other to cover the same song and see what they came up with. At the time we were also talking about how interest in the challenges was waning and how we could get more people involved.
Through stealing other people's ideas (as a musician should) I proposed that we start a Cover Challenge and that I was happy to run it as @stratman3142 was busy enough running everything else. Thus the cover challenge began.
Poopot got on board from the start as he somehow had special access to the email instead of me, and his energy and determinationi kept it going, especially when I had to take a break. He became a good friend and has done an amazing job, along with Bezzer, IMC1980, stratman and others in shaping it into what it is today.
It's only right that going forward it's Poopot's Cover Challenge
I often joke about it all being my idea, but in truth it's more important that we continue to have fun and share our ideas. I am happy to oversee the admin (I don't think "happy" is the right word as I'd rather Stu was still running this) but if anyone else wants to take it on or even to help out then let me know.
Stu always said he expected to be banned before it got much beyond G or H whenever we discussed future possibilities. Didn't expect it to be quite such a brutal permaban, though
1. Is if Jack White had written Fooled Around And Fell In Love instead of Elvin Bishop. Perhaps the only thing of interest is that I changed the III chord from F#m to the relative major A so it had more of a White Stripes vibe while still allowing the original melody (although I probably wandered from it as I much prefer the Winery Dogs take on it)
2. Is my attempt at what For Whom The Bell Tolls would sound like if it was written by Ghost instead of Metallica. Sorry about the long into (or īntrö as it would be on the track listing) but that would be needed for the dramatic staging with dry ice and lighting.
I decided not to go full on Tobias Forge with the vocals although it might have slipped through occasionally. Guitar is my amp preamp recorded through a Boss GT100 via 4 cable method into a cab sim. Its my own impulse response from my Blackstar HT50 power amp and 1x12. I don't know why I didn't do that before as it's finally given me the sound I expect (not sure if that necessarily good or not) instead of faffing around with loads of other IRs in frustration. It's a really easy process to do and would highly recommend it if anyone else does the same silent amp recording process. Can be done in Reaper with just the Reaverb plugin.
And the bass - both distorted and clean is a pitch shifted Telecaster! It's recorded dry and into bass amp and cab sim for the clean tone and into a Boss GT001 for the distortion. Poopot taught me that "hack" a few years back when I asked him how he got his bass tones for the early Uncle Slippyfist stuff.
"You don't know what you've got till the whole thing's gone. The days are dark and the road is long."
Yes.
Signal path is dry guitar into DAW. In this case it was bridge single coil. I use ReaPitch set 1 octave down then into amp and cab sims, EQ etc. Seems to work with none of the latency you get with pedals or multiFX. Any timing issues are down to poor technique on my part!
I wouldn't use that if I needed to sound like Jaco whatsisname but it does the job for rock/punk/metal and is more fun than midi bass on a keyboard.
And I think Boss COSM is fine for recording @Snags Have you tried turning off the cab sims by setting the output to combo or stack return and using IRs instead?
In fact, the whole area of recording is a voyage of incompetence and ignorance!
As always there are multiple ways of getting it done and neither is superior. There's nothing wrong with finding a simple workflow and just sticking to it
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I think as long as you do something original in it somewhere that makes it "yours" it doesn't matter.
I know that on E Stu used the original female vocal from another recording, but put the rest together, and tweaked it up. And I think he separated out the original bass/drums for Falling to Pieces, but did the rest himself.
I've always tried to do something ground-up, but that's more because I want to learn stuff, and it forces me to engage with things I would otherwise ignore. And it gives me more room to play to whatever strengths I have (or minimise the weaknesses ). And obviously I can't drum and I can't play sax, so I use VSTs for that, even if I program/play them.