Animals as Leaders influenced Song 2

This is the 3rd finsihed song from my band, Green the Light. We are a duo (recently a trio) in Hawaii recording songs for our Ep release;

This song is called "Ode to the Departed" and draws influence from everything from Animals as Leaders to U2. This song was started by Nic who was messing around with a scale on the "Mandala" app on my Ipod touch, the notes of which became the Celesta part in the intro, and the rest of the song came together over the last few months. The Djent part went in next and the framework of the song was built from there throughout the next couple of nights. The title is a dedication to Nic who was moving to Texas a few days after we started writing this song.

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

Recording Notes: DAW is Logic Pro 9 in an older Intel iMac. Drums are from Toontrack Metal Foundry, performed live on a Roland TD-4. Electric Guitars and Bass were recorded through my VOX Tonelab ST on the Clean CST setting (DI with Preamp EQ) and then into Overloud TH1 and Amplitube 3 with Recabinet Speaker Impulses. Some of the Synth lines were made using Bebot on my iPod Touch, with all of us contributing to those parts in some way. Check the tags for some of the other plugins used in this recording

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Green
• the
• Light
• Animals
• As
• Leaders
• Circa
• Survive
• Minus
• Bear
• Ent
• Thrice
• Dream
• Theater
• U2
• Periphery
• Logic
• Pro
• Recabi

[AvengeXKing]

Xylophone parts ftw! Very melodic... I like.

[jacosmith86]

@AvengeXKing Sounds like a xylophone or glockenspiel in the intro, but was actually a celesta. We came up with those particular notes using an iPhone app called "Mandala Music" that gives you the notes of a scale laid out in a circular pattern similar to a Hang Drum. We thought it would sound cool on a celesta so we went with it. That was one of the included sounds from Garageband for that patch. There are few sampled celestas out there that are ace. Check out Realsamples Dulcitone Celesta.

[ArizzleProductions]

Fuck yes.

[jacosmith86]

@ArizzleProductions Gracias. We have a new one almost done. It's a little bit crazier and heavier than this one. Most importantly my production is now better. I'm done using this software crap for guitar tones. I now use the output of my Vox Tonelab ST with cab IR's from Redwires and am achieving incredible, thick results. It's more like analog recording in that the take has to be perfect but it's easier to get that beautiful warm tube sound that I want compared to this digital harshness.

[ArizzleProductions]

@jacosmith86 Can't wait to hear it. I myself am trying to start a band but it's not really working out. Drummers where I live are scarce so I'm contemplating just doing solo work and buying myself a bass and getting a drum machine or something.

[jacosmith86]

@ArizzleProductions You can program really good metal drums through Toontrack's products like Metal Foundry and Superior drummer, it just takes some time to learn how to use.  Bass can actually be programmed as well to some good results if you have the right software, but for the cost of the software, you could just buy a decent used Fender Bass. The Tonelab ST is great for guitars. Let me know if you have any questions on gear or anything else to get you started recording your own music. We

[hardcoremetroid158]

Amazing, I'd love to hear more! I found this searching through periphery stuff and it fit well lol

[jamoxesox]

cool i dig it

[pr0llyn0t]

This music is just excellent once again! Peace

[AvengeXKing]

@jacosmith86 Thank you for that useful information g!

[pantera0410]

this is fuckin nice!

[Electrofarce]

do you have a facebook page? and btw you're awesome and you should make a fb page to get more exposure

[BabyFaceDestroyer]

Can't wait to hear the new song Jacob, when y'all are done with it please send me the mp3 (: I want to compile it to be like I was a part of this!

Btw, the new thing with HDW is going quite nicely I'm going to be uploading another video soon so please czech it (: