this is an old song from 1995 or so that i played guitar and sang on. i remixed it just for fun. it was originally recorded on an 8 track reel-to-reel. all drums were recorded in stereo down to 2 tracks.....talk about committing to a mix!

the guitars were tracked direct through a rocktron chameleon that i tweaked a bunch. you can probably tell that i have had pretty much the same tone for many years, no matter what gear i played through.

the vocal was mic'd with a Shure sm57, no special outboard gear.

the whole song was done live in our practice room. i added an extra guitar track and background vocal track later. we were fairly tight as a three piece band. my lead was off the top of my head (in one take) which means it was sloppy. oh well, that was then, and i don't know what i was thinking back then. i was all about what we could pull off live without anybody extra or any tracks running in the background. boy was i wrong about where the future was going.

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Sounds good! Man, 19 years. I hate what I mixed 19 weeks ago. I can't imagine 19 years' worth of "I should have done...." type of thoughts when listening.

good stuff man, love the mix and tune. I recently did the same thing with a song idea from about12 or 13 years ago. I originally used a Fostex analog 4 track! I like digging old things up and working on them with today's technology.

saxon j

this band was christian metal. it was a hard road. clubs didn't want us because we didn't pimp alcohol, and churches thought we were too loud and God wasn't in metal music.

So Analog, so warm sounding, your vocals are really good

recording on a reel to reel at hot levels really fattens things up.

thanks, i never really thought of myself as a good singer, just a guitar player that got tired of flaky singers.

Dude that song was awesome you sing really good you remind me of a fellow named Jimie Bennett who is the lead singer for the Christian band "King James" with the guitar player from WhiteCross Rex Carol. I so would have bought this about this if it had been for sale back then.




Yes the reel to reel does kind of fat and things up there is a band you may have heard of called "Eternal Decision" and they used a real to real to master their three CDs they put out and it has great mastered sound.


You will think these guys are Metallica or sepulture or both together:

Nice stuff Singtall! I did not know about christian metal.
I have old tapes of what I used to do 20 years ago, but I cannot read it any more (my Yamaha 4 tracks died 10 years ago). But to be honest, I am not sure I really want to hear that

Cool stuff, singtall.

Clearly your ear for creating guitar tones has been an asset of yours for quite some time. In that regard, I'm curious - I think your tones here are very good, but with modern technology, would you change it if you recorded this song today? As you stated, your tone is still similar.

Also I was curious about your comment saying you were wrong about where the future was going. Were you referring to gear and tone production, or music in general?

On the latter, I think it's awesome today there are countless bands like Flyleaf, Skillet, etc. that are Christian yet do appeal outside that demographic.

lol - I wish my leads were that 'sloppy'.