WH Tribute Album? Need Volunteers to Coordinate

[richyboy1981]

...im sure you realise it was Willie, not CJ, who does the backing on all of PHUQ!!

[nuno75]

...im sure you realise it was Willie, not CJ, who does the backing on all of PHUQ!!

Nope. Didn't know that. I thought CJ was there for the majority of those sessions.

[richyboy1981]

i think he did some of the guitar parts, but the backing from the PHUQ era was all from Mr Dowling and Danny.

[nuno75]

Vanilla Radio (Rough instrumental mix)

[colzo666]

I'll do vocals when / if required.

[shockingcandy]

Vanilla Radio (Rough instrumental mix)

Rockin'

Look forward to hearing it with vocals on it.

I'm planning on re-recording some older material of mine in the not too distant future and toying with including Give The Girl A Gun in the sessions as I did for the original Wildhearts online tribute way back in 2000 (shit, I suddenly feel old!)

[nuno75]

I'll do vocals when / if required.

What kind of setup do you have? Would you be able to record vocals against this track and then send me the vocal track alone to mix?

[antipode101]

Did these a while ago. Sky chaser high and an acoustic version of regret.com

http://www.mediafire.com/?ixiiyxpja2d

http://www.mediafire.com/?wzzyxtf95sp

[nuno75]

Did these a while ago. Sky chaser high and an acoustic version of regret.com

http://www.mediafire.com/?ixiiyxpja2d

http://www.mediafire.com/?wzzyxtf95sp

In the interest of making sure this, if it ever comes to fruition, is a collection of quality recordings that can be taken seriously, I hope you don't mind if I offer an honest opinion:

I think you did a good job on both of these, however, the vocals are mixed very low on both tracks... and the drums in Sky Chaser High sound very artificial, making it sound kind of like a midi song or something.

I'd love to get my hands on the individual tracks of both of these, to maybe have a try at remixing and putting down a new drum-track for SCH.

[colzo666]

I'll do vocals when / if required.

What kind of setup do you have? Would you be able to record vocals against this track and then send me the vocal track alone to mix?

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A mic on the laptop...

[nuno75]

I'll do vocals when / if required.

What kind of setup do you have? Would you be able to record vocals against this track and then send me the vocal track alone to mix?

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A mic on the laptop...

Is it a reasonably decent microphone? Do you have software to record yourself? If you have some sort of multitrack recording software, that would be best, but if not... we can do it another, more complicated, way... with you listening to a CD of my instrumental track through a standard stereo or iPod with headphones on while you record yourself singing with the microphone and laptop.

The goal is to get a crisp and clean recording of just the vocals with no background music, but at the right tempo and in the right key, which is why you need to hear the background music as you sing along to it... without your vocal mic hearing it.

Do you understand?

Also... do you have any examples of yourself singing anywhere that you can link me to? It would suck to go through all of this only to find you're not particularly good. No offense.

I intend to record my own vocal tracks for this either way for my own personal version. If someone here can provide vocals, however, and they're reasonably good, I'll use that one to include on the tribute, in the name of diversity.

[nuno75]

I got a little bit of alone time with my "studio" tonight and managed to record some vocals I'm pretty happy with. So far I've only got the verses and pre-choruses done, but no harmonies on the latter yet.

I like the way this sounding with the stripped-down (compared to the original) feel.

Vanilla Radio (w/partial vocals)

[nuno75]

Well, all the tracks are done and, for the most part, mixed. It'll take a couple more remixes, I'm sure... but this is pretty much what I've got.

Vanilla Radio (mix 1)

Edit: and here's the second mix:

Vanilla Radio (mix 2)

I think I'm actually gonna call this one done and move on to the next one now. I really wanna tackle Caffeine Bomb but I just can't get the drums right in the intro.

[spoon_of_grimbo]

Well, all the tracks are done and, for the most part, mixed. It'll take a couple more remixes, I'm sure... but this is pretty much what I've got.

Vanilla Radio (mix 1)

Edit: and here's the second mix:

Vanilla Radio (mix 2)

I think I'm actually gonna call this one done and move on to the next one now. I really wanna tackle Caffeine Bomb but I just can't get the drums right in the intro.

i clicked that, thinking "this better be fucking good to warrant me pausing the new night marchers album..." and it is!!! those vocal harmonies are impressive, you got them bang on! the only bit i'd say is lacking is the "where's my elvis" bits, i think it'd sound a bit better with gang vocals, maybe get a bunch of people to all sing in a room with a coupla overhead mics and mix it in. still, round of applause is due there mate!

[nuno75]

Well, all the tracks are done and, for the most part, mixed. It'll take a couple more remixes, I'm sure... but this is pretty much what I've got.

Vanilla Radio (mix 1)

Edit: and here's the second mix:

Vanilla Radio (mix 2)

I think I'm actually gonna call this one done and move on to the next one now. I really wanna tackle Caffeine Bomb but I just can't get the drums right in the intro.

i clicked that, thinking "this better be fucking good to warrant me pausing the new night marchers album..." and it is!!! those vocal harmonies are impressive, you got them bang on! the only bit i'd say is lacking is the "where's my elvis" bits, i think it'd sound a bit better with gang vocals, maybe get a bunch of people to all sing in a room with a coupla overhead mics and mix it in. still, round of applause is due there mate!

When I went into this I was determined to make it my own. It would've been so easy to just re-record what they did, but I wanted to do it the way I would have done it if I had written it. Sadly that was more of a chore than I thought it would be... and I can now understand why the Wildhearts themselves did so many "carbon copy" covers on their own covers albums. When a song is that good, it's really hard to go in and make any significant changes. The chorus was one of the only spots where I was able to do something more or less of my own without hating it strictly because it was different. I feel like my change kind of "Americanizes" it a little... bringing a little New York punk into it. I think it feels a little Ramone-sy... but more importantly, it wouldn't sound terribly out of place on an album of my own music.