http://www.myspace.com/coldthewinter
http://www.soundclick.com/coldthewinter
http://www.soundclick.com/galan
I live in an apartment, so I do not have access to a drumset. Instead, I use programmed drums. I need to find a better snare sample to use. These have been recorded with a large number of guitars, amps, pedals, etc so there is no uniform sound. I'm working on fixing that, but I have to work around low volume recordings because of the apartment thing. It's hard to get a good tube amp sound with the volume knob at 2.
On MySpace, Zombies and the old recording of Give were recording using a cheap $10 mic. Strangely enough, these are the two songs on that page that actually have vocals recorded. I have an issue with singing above the volume level of the instruments around me from years of living with my grandfather, who didn't like the "noise" of an electric guitar. And, I'm still struggling with the recorded sound of my voice and working out how to pronounce words so that I sound less texan.
Edit: I goofed
The version of Sometime on soundclick.com/coldthewinter doesn't have vocals. After listening to this again, I realize that I made a pretty big jump in tempo at the end. An older version with vocals can be found at http://www.coldthewinter.com/music/sometime.mp3.
The versions of ALTG and Spin are the same between that profile and MySpace, as I'm currently moving my songs from MS to SC because I can host more songs there. The Galan profile is more about random samples of gear and are more just scratchpad song ideas...improvised for the sake of getting something recorded. Except for "Hearthing Back Home"...which was improvised because I missed a boat while playing WoW. I mentioned it in guild chat and they wanted to hear it, so I threw that together in a few minutes.
I've been hesitant to throw these up here...the HF crowd can be pretty cruel. These websites and versions of songs are bedroom/living room recordings to get an idea of how a completed song sounds. It's not something I'd put out on CD and sell to the public. I just like having full ideas out there. But, fuck it. It's pretty chickenshit of me to not post something because I might get some pretty nasty criticism. If I'm ever going to get out of this rut I'm in, that might just be what I need.
http://www.soundclick.com/coldthewinter
http://www.soundclick.com/galan
I live in an apartment, so I do not have access to a drumset. Instead, I use programmed drums. I need to find a better snare sample to use. These have been recorded with a large number of guitars, amps, pedals, etc so there is no uniform sound. I'm working on fixing that, but I have to work around low volume recordings because of the apartment thing. It's hard to get a good tube amp sound with the volume knob at 2.
On MySpace, Zombies and the old recording of Give were recording using a cheap $10 mic. Strangely enough, these are the two songs on that page that actually have vocals recorded. I have an issue with singing above the volume level of the instruments around me from years of living with my grandfather, who didn't like the "noise" of an electric guitar. And, I'm still struggling with the recorded sound of my voice and working out how to pronounce words so that I sound less texan.
Edit: I goofed
The version of Sometime on soundclick.com/coldthewinter doesn't have vocals. After listening to this again, I realize that I made a pretty big jump in tempo at the end. An older version with vocals can be found at http://www.coldthewinter.com/music/sometime.mp3.
The versions of ALTG and Spin are the same between that profile and MySpace, as I'm currently moving my songs from MS to SC because I can host more songs there. The Galan profile is more about random samples of gear and are more just scratchpad song ideas...improvised for the sake of getting something recorded. Except for "Hearthing Back Home"...which was improvised because I missed a boat while playing WoW. I mentioned it in guild chat and they wanted to hear it, so I threw that together in a few minutes.
I've been hesitant to throw these up here...the HF crowd can be pretty cruel. These websites and versions of songs are bedroom/living room recordings to get an idea of how a completed song sounds. It's not something I'd put out on CD and sell to the public. I just like having full ideas out there. But, fuck it. It's pretty chickenshit of me to not post something because I might get some pretty nasty criticism. If I'm ever going to get out of this rut I'm in, that might just be what I need.
