Ruby Weapon - #1 (Animal Collective Cover)

[lilplowwow]

putting on repeat, busting out the typewriter

[keenanemd]

your voice here is like a beautifully wilted flower being gracefully yet violently flushed with life, only to slowly die and repeat the same cycle again and again. aside from that thought, this is a remarkable cover. really lovely. thanks.

[RubyWeaponMono]

@keenanemd perhaps the best compliment i've ever received. Gracias!

[saSkylark]

pretty

[mklrv]

final fantasy VII much

[RubyWeaponMono]

@mklrv sometimes



[mklrv]

@RubyWeaponMono got any covers? it's a great example of video game music right?

[superpuuuper]

If there's ever gonna be something like "Animal Collective" they should definitely take your arrangements.

[xfunkologyx]

I don't know why I'm awake so late, but maybe it's because I needed to find this video.

Seriously best thing I've heard all day,

Thank you, thank you, thank you!

[zomb3030]

WHAT!!! way awesome yo!

[daflips]

I'd love to know the chords you used, if its not too much to provide. Cheers ! Great rendition by the way.

[JohnnyFoxDarko]

dude what are your tabs for this? I must know!

[meowoofpig]

i listen to this a lot.

[haaa00a00a0a]

vet nice and lovely cover :): greatt!!

[5t4c3yx0x]

nice :)

[goradcore]

niceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

[masparasol]

soooooooooo goooooood

[schmitty3]

hahahaha squints paladoris

[lisax852]

i definitely expected this to be terrible, but you did a great job!!

[ticklechu]

Excellence.

[leadbelly39]

This is suspiciously good.

[cutelisha]

The link doesn't work to download this. Is there anywhere else I could download this awesome cover?

[Milt0nBradley]

cutelisha, download (google) "youtube downloader" you can dl the flv file and turn it into a video or mp3 or a few other file types. hope that helps :X

[RubyWeaponMono]

You can download all the files on my youtube profile page- theres a new link now. :)

[SleepingZombies]

respect the hive

[moopmoop9]

Really great take on the now classic AC song.

[spaceorgysyndicate]

i have major respect for you for covering this song, this honestly the last ac song i expected anyone to cover, much less do an awesome cover. props man.

[cutelisha]

This is so beautiful, you've turned an eccentric song back into the organic song it really is underneath all the distortion

[streetlightkid72422]

This is a really cool rendition of the song. However, I can't say it surpasses the original... that song is just a whole other element. No offense to you at all or anything, keep puttin shit out!

[musselshuffle]

This rendition blew me away. Your covers are starting to grow a lot on me and likely surpassing the original recordings.

[ondesmartenot3]

it's mind blowing how talented you are David! your voice always shocks me, this is really really really good, no great, no amazing

beautiful

[HelloSundayMorning]

this is golden

[AndrewRyderPert]

please send me chords

[KarmaPaym3ntPlan]

All of your stuff is pure gold. It's mindblowing

[ladybunyan]

This adds such a different and wild perspective to an already incredible song.

Well done.

[Kinbote123]

Beautiful. Well done. Please keep it up!

[aarossell]

This was always my favorite song on S.J., and this cover is fantastic!! well played

[kajackyl]

good stuff

[bacorn12]

dude... i've listened to this about a million times in the past two days. i probably account for like half the views. this is awesome!

[infinitecomplete]

i dont compliment covers often, but your work on the AC material is unprecedented and, at times, better than the original composition. really damn good fucking work.

thank you thank you thank you.

[ssstephenssskates]

i'm so psyched on this man

[afacewithaview]

any original compositions? these are incredible but you clearly have a talent

[RubyWeaponMono]

Yeah, sort of ;) -- i'll post an EP on here soon of my stuff. For now there's a link to all these mp3s on my profile page-

[fvertk]

This is what #1 would sound like if James Mercer covered it. Sounds great, man.

[no1jailbreak]

it's your voice man. beautiful

[loungelizzard284]

ok, thanks. Sounds harder than that.

Sorry to ask so many questions, but I have two more.

What equipment are you using to record? Just a USB mic into your computer or something like that?

Are you figuring out the chords by listening to the song or are you getting them somewhere else?

[RubyWeaponMono]

Oh its no problem. I used a $30 Logitech USB mic for these (you can find them at BestBuy)- and as far as the chords go I just did my best to figure them out by ear. I've realized that most AC songs have a pretty conventional structure as far as chord progressions go- for instance I think this song is just variations of A and E

[loungelizzard284]

so you're doing these all by yourself?

Can you explain your process a bit? I admire your work a lot.

[RubyWeaponMono]

Thanks, you're kind. Back when I did these I just tried to find a few AC songs that would translate well with just an acoustic guitar. For these covers I just recorded two guitar tracks and panned them to the right and left- Then I just did the two vocal tracks. After that I just piled on the reverb and that was pretty much it.

[endlessellipses]

wow, this is really incredible. do you use a multi track recorder to do this, or do you use a computer? jw, thanks

[RubyWeaponMono]

Thanks! I used Acid Pro 4.0 for most of these AC covers I recorded a while back but now I mostly just use Cool Edit Pro

[manilakila]

I really do think Animal Collective's songwriting is just as good as their technical abilities and this certainly shows that. Damn good.

[ssstephenssskates]

dude, this is really nice

[zabdulla]

excellent

[willlliw]

shit man amazing job...can you put up a link to the songs?

[breadhustle]

dude you are fucking amazing...the house cover was really good, bros was good too, but this is just incredible beyond words! do you make original music?

[PinkMintaka]

Good job, I enjoyed it.