And, now I am thinking that the mixes are quite a bit too blown out. Opinions?

Definitely crunchy. It is certainly a forward element in the mix. Does the band want a bit of dirt, or did they leave that up to you to choose?

I don't think it sounds bad at all. But this is coming from someone who recoards everything through a telephone attached to a distortion vst these days. So, a pair of compromised ears.

Musically, it is like the band is a little more like The Morning Benders or something, and they are recording more like they were Animal Collective. It could work as a thing.

I.e. they don't seem overtly aggressive; i would only wonder if they might not respond 100% positively to this much edge on the sound. If they like it though, i would consider it good to go, personally.

Aside from the chorus pedals.

I would also like to add that the drums on this sound fantastic. Wha Happened, in particular, i think sounds amazing for the snare sound.

Interesting, this is what came up first:



Which is, quite a different flavour, eh?

Also, i would suggest that everyone here should at least watch Riki-Oh: The Story Of Ricky. Fucking amazing fists punched through people effects.

I don't even think that they meant it to be as funny as it is. Which, of course, is why it is so.

The dirt was definitely a part of their desired aesthetic. I've just listened to it on some other speakers, including the shittiest of shitty ones, next to other records I think sound good and I feel they are suffering on lesser systems because of how loud they are. But I don't know. I think I've concluded I don't care.

However, thank you for the kind words. I mean, in reality, I am very happy with how this came out. There's some things I would like to fix, but really that is because I am going insane, I think.

Oh yeah they have changed a tiny bit of the years ...

They had some pretty doap tracks on that newer album. I wish they would of just made a whole song out of the heavier riffing parts of this track:



That is their newer stuff. Definitely a bit more theatrical and less straight up hardcore. Evidently they just got back together and are getting ready to go back to the more hardcore sounds (because the kids stopped listening to the theatrical stuff and went back to good ol' punk roots stuff) which is good. I like both sides of the coin so it would be dope if they just brought back some of the high-energy craziness and mixed it with their currrent sound.

Just tracked guits for a cover of this:

https://sorrystaterecords.bandcamp.com/track/the-clot

It's gonna be really fun.

Apparently it's quite difficult to legally import a walrus skull into the United States. You learn something new every day.

Played a show in Niagara, no one really cared.

There seems to be a pretty sick hardcore sludge scene going on though, kinda of planting its roots. Seemingly everyone but us and the headliner (so basically anyone who wasn't from Toronto) was more or less hardcore, and not in the lame way, and yeah it was pretty sick.

The vodka kicked in during this band's set, I was feeling it: https://ism0.bandcamp.com/

A bunch of hype I read yesterday has me wanting to listen to Pet Sounds to see how mind blown I am. Chances are though, I'll be disappoint, because I'm a young dumbass. Cam, what say?

My work is paying me to take a weekly course in AutoCAD. This makes my Wednesday really long. I feel I am being moulded into the technician my job description says I am.

Pet Sounds is definitely a finely made recoard. Personally, i prefer the way this one plays: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18hkADhlELE as far as a favorite Beach Boys record goes. I prefer my recoards and songs to be a little bit broken. (as i listen to it now, this is a different version than the one i actually like the most, which i think is just a bootleg of the unfinished demos of it)

But the craft of Pet Sounds is 100% class. Listening to the vocal stems is always a blast too. Some OCD perfectionist shit there well in advance of the autotune. Probably a part of the reason that autotune exists now, actually.

I found an old notebook that i thought i had lost. Innit i rediscovered my plans for an insane delay pedal that i did way more work on back then than i even remember. I have actually just been spending the last few days trying to relearn what the fuck all my notes mean. (Sometimes i think i am a genius, but never until long after the fact, when i have moved onto something else.) I guess i just have the capacity to intensely focus on a task some times. I probably should be making a living designing electronics. But i don't have any desire to do digital stuff. Or, like, any of the stuff that making a living designing electronics really entails either, i guess.

Anyhow, now i think i have to build this thing. It has the better part of $100 just in switches though. Which, coupled with my distaste for digital means, is actually why i will never make a living doing electronics.

I would say for one to enjoy the Beach Boys, one has to be willing to enjoy the Beach Boys. Their brand of pop is one that I could imagine might be obnoxious to people without much of a taste for (occasionally) fairly bubblegummy pop music. The compositions are pretty fucking whacky, but that doesn't become particularly apparent until one actually sits down and really listens in, which takes some amount of accepted interest. I would suggest maybe checking out a couple of these videos to see if the vibe of the record resonates with you:






Most of my favorite music stems in some way from Brian Wilson's work, and I love it, but I know plenty of people that I respect as musicians who couldn't give less of a fuck about this band. They are most definitely an "old flavor" at this point, but I would argue that there are some incredibly advanced things going on with the later material (of the original lineup) for it's time, if not till this day.

Also, as Chris posted, check The SMiLE sessions if you want to really get your head flipped on it's end. Maybe not the best first listen though? Either way, absolutely bonkers that some of that was going on in 1966.

I have to say, not a Beach Boys fan for their popness but the recording/vocal work is amazing. Having done the analog recording thing, and realizing that they either had to bounce tracks or just GET IT THE FUCK RIGHT to make it sound like that, is completely a lost art.

I spent countless hours in the studio back in the days of tape recording, getting the take right, with no undo. I think that's what I love so much about pre 1990 songs is all the shit that was "fuck it close enough, we're running out of money" Even unlimited budgets like the Stones have so many problems in the recordings but it breathes so much life into them.

Hearing a recording like Pet Sounds, man they had fucking chops.

I think that i will be cursed eternally then, to randomly remember how to play small parts of megadeth solos, completely out of the fucking blue.

I just got a job offer that will quadruple my income from last year. So yeah, kinda stoked right now.

Also about to order an FGN of some sort. Maybe this one:

OMG i want to see. What sort of chips are you using in it?

What started this whole thing was buying a couple dozen tayda PT2399s. Word on the street is that they are not quite properly 2399s, but some kind of workalike/clone chinese biz, so maybe don't work/sound 100% like the real thing. BUT, they are also only $0.50 USD a piece.

This delay started as "i want a binson echorec" and became "four binson echorecs in parallel might be interesting".

In the end, it is not really very echorec at all; that idea of multiple tape heads in series was just sort of a jumping off point. Essentially as currently drawn it is four delays, each individually usable, or usable in a couple different ways in conjunction with the others.

Most of what makes this one interesting to me, is that it has a lot of switching options for doing interesting things like running each delay in series with the next, or in parallel with the first(for cascading echorec like effects, or for goofballs pingpong ones), and having the ability to send any of the delays to left, right, or center, outputs. I also wound up doing some sketchy shit with the PT2399s, that i have never seen anywhere, but that worked awesome on the breadboard(but who knows, might make the chips light on fire if i run the pedal long enough. here's hoping.).

The valvewizard has done some cool stuff with the PT2399
http://valvewizard.co.uk/smalltime.html
http://valvewizard.co.uk/equinox.html