They're probably going to redo the vocals with a better mic, but they got it to sound pretty good for putting scratch vocals with a cheap mic. This is Hardcore Southern Metal, starts out kinda heavy, then has some interesting changes that I think are beautifully written for this kind of metal & vocal, anyway. My son's using my old Schecter with some custom pickups & I think maybe he used his TS9 to tighten up the 11R sounds. He still doesn't use impulses, or EQing on his rigs, helps that his guitar's a lot darker than mine & his ears are still freshly back from playing on real amps when he records.

https://soundcloud.com/colton-reid/monsters-alibi-with-vocals

That was cool! There were some areas where the vocals mix sounded a bit louder on my speakers, but the sound was there. Some cool playing on this tune too!


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Yeah, I really like this. His technique and style is evolving more & more each time and he has a lot of Vai meets Misha Mansoor type ideas he's working on. Never know what's happening next in his music & I love that. It took them so long to get the vocals right with that mic, he had to sing into his hands...which might be a cool technique when they get the SM58, who knows. They're really having fun & I'm glad they both channel their energy into music.

That's really cool. It's awesome that they got into music and have the drive to record their own material!


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I loved the music but I am not a fan of those type of vocals...
but for that type of metal it's spot on IMO.
I know the stuff I wrote 30 years ago is way different than what I write now. I think it's got to be great to see your kids doing this...
I look forward to my grandson getting into it, I got him a guitar on his 6th or 7th birthday and he has not really messed with it.. he wants to play drums and when I got a set of TD11's for the band and was going to give the old Alesis Dm5's to my church he said he wanted them in his room and he plays them a lot. I don't want to push him to hard to play guitar because I don't want him to resent it so I'll wait patiently until he wants to himself he's almost 11 and I will just keep encouraging him to play both, he does have some natural talent for the drums though.

How did you get your son interested and how old is he now and when he started?

He grew up around me playing and recording, and listening to a LOT of Dream Theater, and guitar heavy bands from Ozzy to Angra and all the instrumental side projects. He started playing piano and guitar around 7 years old. He utilized Youtube to learn songs and became more focused on music writing after a few years. I realized he had perfect pitch early on also, he has this note memory that's pretty astounding to me. He would always sit down and start playing songs he heard, from cartoon theme songs to Dream Theater songs. He would get real close, so I guided him through some of that stuff and gave him lessons once in a while and taught him to start teachig himself. I also have had him teach me songs because I DON'T have perfect pitch, so he's shown me some Satch & Vai stuff & given me a few lessons as I would give him tips on harmonics. I told him about a lot of the stuff I learned here and he just soaked it all up and polished his picking technique & things. He's always on web sites that teach songs and doing covers of Periphery and other bands, and records the songs completely with all the synth, bass, and time signatures. He knows what to do right away most of the time and hope he teaches more.

He's 17 right now, be 18 in July so he's getting ready to jump out into life and I'm excited for him and his projects. There is a band that hired him to make setups for when they record their album and they wanted him to play bass, but he couldn't get ready in time but they still have him go to the shows and watch and get involved. Getting a lot of experience.

He's good at performing live too, both his own songs at competitions and in jazz band and things, and has no fear & really enjoys it. He sings too, and has kind of a MJK from Tool type voice, and will probably get better when he has more time to focus on some vocal training, but he's more than ready to lead or join a band & just needs to learn to communicate & teach a bit better & he's learning that from hanging out with the other band. Their way of writing is thinking about moods and things and not quite as technical, so that's good to learn efficiency when collaborating too.