Animals As Leaders Influenced Song 3

This is the 4th song from my band/production team, Green the Light.

Title of the song is "English To A Chinaman Is Like Chinese To An Englishman (or The Portside Of Starboard)". This one came together fairly quickly and was a lot of fun to make. First one where I feel we are close to getting pro-level tone out of my computer.

Us:
Jacob (me): Drums/ Programming/Production
Austin: Guitar/ Bass

Recording Notes: DAW is Logic Pro 9 in an older Intel iMac. Drums are from Toontrack's Metal Foundry and NY Avatar, all programmed in the piano roll for this song (exactly as I would play them live), with most compression and EQ through the Toontrack Easymix plugin. Electric Guitars and Bass were recorded through my VOX Tonelab ST through various custom patches, then into speaker impulses from Redwirez. The Tonelab was the real key to making this song sound great (so much better than any amp plugins IMO, and I've tried alot of them). The only other plugins used were the Channel EQ and Adaptive Limiter within Logic Pro and Overloud Breverb on 2 minor guitar parts in the song.

Check the Tags for some of our influences for this one.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Green
• the
• Light
• Animals
• As
• Leaders
• Periphery
• Killswitch
• Engage
• Meshuggah
• Pantera
• Tool
• Fall
• of
• Troy
• Logic
• Pro
• Redwirez
• Big
• Box
• VOX
• Tonelab
• ST
• Toontrack
• Superior
• SD2
• Metal
• Foundry
• Easy
• Mix
• Overloud
• Breverb

[hodges4886]

this song is sick, you wouldn't happen to have tabs drawn up for it would you?

[jacosmith86]

@hodges4886 No, sorry, definitely no tabs. Austin probably doesn't even remember how to play this one (especially the leads). I can tell you that it was recorded on a H-S-H Strat tune BADGBE.  Half of the song is just chugging that low B. The verse is just powerchords with add9 type shapes thrown in there. Sorry I can't tell you more but I am the drummer.

[neo69hk]

Really sick guitar tone ...

does the tonelab doing great for metal ??

i want to buy a tonelab for some heavy stuff...

how do you feel ?

[jacosmith86]

@neo69hk Yeah it does pretty good. The new Tonelab EX is even more versatile than the ST that I used here. I think the POD HD500 seems to be even better but will cost you a bit more than the Tonelab EX. The tone is about the same but the POD HD500 is more versatile and more adjustable. If you can really afford it, get an Axefx 2. That is really good for everything and is far better than any Tonelab or Line 6 product as far as i'm concerned.

[sockpaladin5]

3:04

DAT GROOVE

[jacosmith86]

@sockpaladin5 yeah dude! We love that one. That was a super collaborative effort between Austin and I. It ended up like Southern Boogie Metal meets Meshuggah. That solo that Austin did there (dubbed "The Worst Solo Ever") was perfect how it sounded so random but he followed that rhythm so perfectly. That was heavily influenced by Larry LaLonde and Frederik Thordendal.

[BabyFaceDestroyer]

Thumbs up if you want the whole band to get back together during my Christmas break.

If I can get enough money scrounged up you will hear a new song during Christmas with the whole crew (;

[electroneticTV]

Kommt ihr aus Berlin? :D

[polylyth]

This is great, more refined production and you'd be kicking the shit out of it!

[SiMMkillsAll]

3:35 amazing omg!!!!!! wowowoww wyou made my week. i was in a musical slump. it is very rare that a song gets me out of something like that. this is fantastic

[CrawfordDrummer]

The name come from the Great Gatsby btw? Great stuff keep it up!