【 Castlevania 2 - Dwelling of Doom 】 【 Cover by Torzelan & Nihoggr 】

Awesome drums: Nihoggr ( http://www.youtube.com/user/Nihoggr )
Rest: Torzelan

It's been over a year since our last collab and even this short piece took forever to finish (so much other stuff going on for both of us; bad timing by me) but here you go! A late Halloween entry.

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(Has all my videos and .mp3s!)

Category:

Music

Tags:

• simon's
• quest
• akumajou
• densetsu
• ドラキュラII
• 呪いの封印
• dracula
• ii
• noroi
• no
• fūin
• vampire
• kenichi
• matsubara
• nes
• nintendo
• entertainment
• system
• famicom
• soundtrack
• ost
• metal
• rock
• guitar
• drums
• music
• theme

[casperHeyzeus]

how the hell does that elec kit sound so damn good? the one im using sounds like a dead bee in a tin can

[Torzelan]

@casperHeyzeus Sample replacing! ...Manual, unfortunately, since he couldn't record MIDI. The track originally sounded like it did in the Nightmare Creatures cover (which I also equalized some but it is of course difficult to do with a single wave file for the entire kit recording).

[GreatJuja]

How the hell do you play those fast parts? Do you do some sweep picking or do you use finger tapping or something? I've been trying to learn this song recently, and I'm not sure what the best way to do it is. I've been trying to sweep those parts, but I've been doing a pretty sloppy job.

[Torzelan]

@GreatJuja Good luck though, I definitely look forward to hearing your version!

[JohnGotti0831]

damn that was great. You never let me down Torz.

[maggot289]

fucking amazing as always torz.

[cnh2132]

Awesome cover. However it is too god damn short!

[NailBombed]

Awesome, awesome, awesome. This is just ----- brilliant.

You now prosses Dracula's testes.

[soadhusky]

amazing

[scars2k2]

\m/ (v_v) \m/

[Torzelan]

@GreatJuja Yeah quantizing live instruments and making it sound real is quite a lot of work; not as much as the years it would take to become the next Petrucci or whatever but still enough to not be something most people would want to sit and do. :)

I mix it up though, currently working on two covers, one almost note-for-note quantized and the other completely live (should record video for that one I guess). Both are fun ways to pass time for me. :)

[GreatJuja]

@Torzelan

Ah, I see. Well, it still sounds good. I don't have the knowledge or skills to quantize live instruments, so on my songs what you hear is pretty much what I played. I did a mix of tapping and picking in my version of the Decisive Battle. I picked ever note on the lower octave, but I also did a higher octave where I did use tapping.

As for Dwelling of Doom. It'd be cool to do someday, but it'll probably be a while before I can play it well enough at its normal speed.

[Torzelan]

@GreatJuja Disappointing but honest answer time: quantizing. My skills in the DAW far exceed my skills with both sweeping and tapping (for whatever that's worth) and even more so a year ago when this was made. :)

If I had to play it "live" I'd practise picking until it sounded clean for sure though; from what I remember tapping doesn't really make sense to do here (but hey, everything's viable/allowed in music IMO, I picked where most(?) people seem to tap in the Decisive Battle cover too).