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The final, new and improved mix of this song is available on the Fists of Righteous Harmony CD! Check it out here:
http://www.thelostrecords.com/forh-artist.html
Neal Stephenson's book "The Diamond Age" is my favorite read of all time, give or take a book or two. The Fists make a dramatic comeback in this science fiction novel, swarming into the future Shanghai. Vac (Steve Vaccariello), who also loves that book, plays bass, and rhythm and lead guitars.
Hardware:
Mac G4, Steve's gear
Software:
Soundtrack, SoundEdit, Kompakt, WireTap, GleetchLab
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Great Funkin' Jeff Beck &mdash 01/02/06 - 05:55:43 PM
Great groove goin on here - also love the various guitar tones and solos.
Production is very clear - every instrument is distinct - the bass is very
tight - and the production doesn't distract from the performances, it
focuses on them.
PS. Cool picture. [ Reply to This ]
Great Funkin' Jeff Beck &mdash 01/02/06 - 08:01:48 PM
Thank you DN, I appreciate that about the production. Thanks for listening
and faving this! [ Reply to This ]
Man, Vac can &mdash 01/02/06 - 07:11:35 PM
tear itt up! Love your tunes man. Production is always so tight. To me, the guitars and bass are mixed SO well. They really have room, stand clear of each other, and allow all the other standard PV effects and sounds to create depthin the music without interrupting the solo instruments in the forefront. Just really impressive production, and the performances themselves are sick too. I mean, legit sick. Damn. [ Reply to This ]
Man, Vac can &mdash 01/02/06 - 08:11:59 PM
Thanks Josh, you really nailed what I was aiming for; I didn't want to
obscure Steve's great playing while I was building on it. I have a lot of
respect for your musical ears, so it's nice that you like my tunes. And I'm
glad you like Vac's killer playing as much as I do. [ Reply to This ]
Nice &mdash 01/02/06 - 07:42:51 PM
Another nice one David. So are we all going a little up tempo for the new
year. :-). Nice energy, now we just need to get all this energy we have
into one song. Tell Steve he is top shelf in my book, but you are one shelf
higher. Look forward to doing something new with you. John [ Reply to This ]
Nice &mdash 01/02/06 - 08:22:04 PM
Heheh, funny I thought the same thing when I heard your new tune. You
are too kind, thank you. I'd also like to work on something together soon,
and I've got a few ideas. Thanks John! [ Reply to This ]
Great guitar work &mdash 01/02/06 - 08:11:26 PM
You are an amazing guitar player. I think I saw You do this song live
with at the G3 show. You could definatly hold your own with that group
of guys. [ Reply to This ]
Great guitar work &mdash 01/02/06 - 08:25:15 PM
Steve would appreciate that, and I agree with that opinion! Thanks for
listening and commenting rich. [ Reply to This ]
Really &mdash 01/02/06 - 09:46:27 PM
like the the guitar nice playing nice arrangement only thing I didn't
care for was the drums at the beginning right after the first bass line
overall great tune and prodution thru out. [ Reply to This ]
Really &mdash 01/03/06 - 07:14:30 PM
I think I know what you're talking about, because I struggled a bit with
getting the right drums for the beginning, before the lead comes in. I
appreciate your observation there. Thanks for listening, hacked; I'm glad
you like this.
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Check out my latest song: <a href="http://www.macjams.com/song/16698">Fists of Righteous Harmony</a> [ Reply to This ]
You know... &mdash 01/03/06 - 06:28:46 AM
...all these really fast, rockin' guitar tracks are unhealthy for me to have in
my system when I get my driver's license...
But until then...
...Rock on! [ Reply to This ]
You know... &mdash 01/03/06 - 07:20:06 PM
Yes, you're going to be weaving through traffic, and doing screeching,
skidding u-turns. That'll be cool. Are you allowed to drive like that in
Iceland? ...yeah, here neither. Thanks for listening Einar!
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Check out my latest song: <a href="http://www.macjams.com/song/16698">Fists of Righteous Harmony</a> [ Reply to This ]
oh man &mdash 01/03/06 - 06:46:14 AM
that bass line just cooks......the guitar is very very kool......the groove
happening....me likes! i love those licks.....!!! 9-9-9-9 [ Reply to This ]
oh man &mdash 01/03/06 - 07:26:25 PM
Thank you Mcboy, I always appreciate your comments. I agree that's a
cookin bassline and great guitar. Thanks for faving our tune!
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Check out my latest song: <a href="http://www.macjams.com/song/16698">Fists of Righteous Harmony</a> [ Reply to This ]
Excellent &mdash 01/03/06 - 10:55:10 AM
This piece is just a funhouse of fretwork, and I'm digging it beyond all belief. My one nit - it's too short! One of those odd cases where I could've listened to this for another four or five minutes - so maybe it's good that you "leave 'em wanting more." Excellent work - great, solid production, awesome performances - killer energy! Way to start the new year! [ Reply to This ]
Excellent &mdash 01/03/06 - 07:54:13 PM
Yes, I agree it's too short... this is one that could go on for me too! Thank
you, I appreciate your comments dreadmon, I'm glad you're digging the
production and performances here.
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Check out my latest song: <a href="http://www.macjams.com/song/16698">Fists of Righteous Harmony</a> [ Reply to This ]
sound sensation &mdash 01/03/06 - 11:10:30 AM
My knees are knockin and my synapses firing on all 8. Screamin
scintillation. A brilliant display of percussive polyphony. Yes. Nice gear.
Vac is the antithesis of vacuousness. This is extreme goodness. [ Reply to This ]
sweet &mdash 01/03/06 - 02:47:40 PM
this is a hoppin little number with great tones and nice production. well done....nice and firey [ Reply to This ]
pinkish pv... &mdash 01/03/06 - 02:52:19 PM
cool! &mdash 01/03/06 - 03:35:30 PM
nice little rockabilly feel to this (i think). A great instrumental!
I wish there were some vocals on it! good production and
great playing! really like the bassline!
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completely amazing. &mdash 01/03/06 - 07:33:46 PM
the bass is amazing, the guitar is amazing, the way it comes sort of screeching in. it has some awsome rhythem to it's lead soloing style. this is a great instrumental, but with such awsome playing it almost makes me want to hear some vox, to make it really powerful. i donno, i had the thought of the way eric clapton did the cross roads cover with like chords or something simple during singing then in breaks going into lead. the bass part was killer. made me think of the who's bassist a little. sad thing he passed away. i can't give any real criticism, because the musicians in this blew me away! sounds like that are why i love music. knowing there's something so great gives me something to strive for. [ Reply to This ]
Tittillating Nipples! &mdash 01/04/06 - 02:24:09 PM
I had to pull out the whip cream and dress up my girls tatas after this one! Dropped a cherry right on top and began licking like spanish fly on a group of virgin! Fresh meat where? At the deli! Hey Stevo great licks! Keep the tongue in shape! PV Always rippin and brilliant! Great song artwork too! [ Reply to This ]
Very nice &mdash 01/04/06 - 02:25:47 PM
Great great groove, very well-played bass & guitars, fun fx, holds
together very nicely. Everything is mixed well, but I do have one
headphone gripe, and that is that the bass is permanently off to the right,
which feels unbalanced to me, at least in headphones. I'd have preferred
the bass to be really close to center (or centered but stereo-spread L-R a
little), and the guitars to dance a little to the left and right. My right ear
got bass-thumped :-) But other than that minor suggestion,
performance, writing, and production was wonderful on this! Great tune!
ttfn,
Drakonis [ Reply to This ]
Very nice &mdash 01/04/06 - 06:28:41 PM
Thanks for pointing that out Eduard. My crappy headphones at home don't
have much bass so I didn't pick up on that. But yes, now that I'm listening
on better 'phones at work it does sound unbalanced. I'll definitely fix that
for the album. Glad you liked this, thanks for listening and commenting!
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<a href="http://www.macjams.com/song/16698">Fists of Righteous Harmony</a> [ Reply to This ]
It does &mdash 01/04/06 - 03:11:12 PM
guitar sounds a bit like jeff. Bass is right on. Never have time to read anymore but listening to the interpretation is quite pleasing. Great job the two of you...has a bit of a happy feel to it.
Regards,
John [ Reply to This ]
like that electric funky strummin on the guitar. &mdash 01/04/06 - 07:17:30 PM
Nice licks on the guitar, bass is groovin cool. Nice travilin funkyness
!
Thanks for sharing [ Reply to This ]
Very cool &mdash 01/04/06 - 07:20:27 PM
Excellent guitars. I agree with Drak the bass might be better dead
center. Great piece. [ Reply to This ]
What A Break Out &mdash 01/05/06 - 03:45:48 PM
Great Groove from the Get Go. MX achieves quite a spacial SoundStage
with no trainwrecks despite full charge going on.
Fine Licks. PRO Level Production.
rtc [ Reply to This ]
Book that music rings &mdash 01/06/06 - 05:11:47 AM
I am not reading the book.
Ah, I want to read.
Rhythm and guitar.
All are very good. [ Reply to This ]
yes, righteous guitar riff..... &mdash 01/06/06 - 11:01:21 AM
Very high powered, high octane, and all that very high kind
of thing! Need to come for air. Everything sounds tight and
clear and funky. Kudos
Jack [ Reply to This ]
great tune &mdash 01/06/06 - 02:09:55 PM
Using Wiretap, eh? That's a great little simple program... what did
you use it for here? Just curious. I hear the gleetchlab, too. I
gotta figure that program out someday... [ Reply to This ]
great tune &mdash 01/06/06 - 04:56:05 PM
Thanks Eric! I use WireTap a lot in making my own loops. In this case, I
used WireTap with Kompakt (the Demo version, actually); I try a whole
bunch of stuff in Kompakt, recording it all. Then I bring the sound file into
SoundEdit and chop out segments as loops (and mess with them, of
course). Most of the recording is discarded. WireTap is just a convenient
way for me to record whatever sound experiments I'm doing sometimes.
Another thing I use it for is with Soundtrack. Soundtrack has nice fx control
panels, and you can get cool noises by looping something and changing
the fx parameters. Sometimes it's easier to get the effect you want by
recording THAT, than by finding the parameters and changes that work
best, and then keyframing them (if that's even possible).
So, that's the long answer. The short answer is that I used WireTap to
create some of the synthy stuff in the background. As for GleetchLab, it
seems confusing at first, but once you understand a couple of basics it
gets easier. Not that I fully understand the whole thing. Grokking the matrix
is important. --- Fists of Righteous Harmony[ Reply to This ]
tight &mdash 01/06/06 - 04:38:35 PM
The future Shanghai... or the ancient city of Shanghai...
...anyway great tune, well performed. Could be the soundtrack to the movie:)
Great guitars on this:) [ Reply to This ]
tight &mdash 01/06/06 - 06:49:30 PM
First one, then the other. Thank you thoddi!
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<a href="http://www.macjams.com/song/16698">Fists of Righteous Harmony</a> [ Reply to This ]
Whooo Doggy! &mdash 01/07/06 - 10:01:34 AM
Kicking some major ass on this one PV. Vac's stuff is great and, it goes without saying, the drums and production are spot on, cool as an August sail boat ride in the San Fran Bay! [ Reply to This ]
sweet &mdash 01/09/06 - 01:33:41 AM
That bassline is the best part of this song. Everything goes together pretty well too. [ Reply to This ]
asdf &mdash 01/09/06 - 02:20:44 AM
Great great groove, very well-played bass & guitars, fun fx, holds
together very nicely. Everything is mixed well, but I do have one
headphone gripe, and that is that the bass is permanently off to the right,
which feels unbalanced to me, at least in headphones. I'd have preferred
the bass to be really close to center (or centered but stereo-spread L-R a
little), and the guitars to dance a little to the left and right. My right ear
got bass-thumped :-) But other than that minor suggestion,
performance, writing, and production was wonderful on this! Great tune! [ Reply to This ]
asdf &mdash 01/09/06 - 12:16:52 PM
Thanks Eseoh! You took the words right out of... uh, drakonis' mouth! I agree about the off-center bass, and I've already corrected it for the next version. Thanks for listening!
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<a href="http://www.macjams.com/song/16698">Fists of Righteous Harmony</a> [ Reply to This ]
Cool Stuff &mdash 01/09/06 - 05:22:20 PM
The art work rocks... Oh yeah and by the way I dig the sweet groovin
music too :D [ Reply to This ]
Holy Smokes! &mdash 01/09/06 - 09:09:32 PM
This is so cool! High energy from start to finish. OK, Dave, are you drumming, or using loops? Good choice if they're loops.
Man, can you mix a tune!
Great stuff!
Scorp:) [ Reply to This ]
Holy Smokes! &mdash 01/09/06 - 10:30:27 PM
The guitars and bass are real, the rest are loops and homemade sounds.
The drums are all Drums on Demand loops, with a few exceptions. A lot of
the loops come from the East West Zero-g Pro Pack, and several are
homemade. I suppose I could detail this stuff up top.
Hey thanks for stopping by for a listen, Scorp, I'm glad you like this!
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<a href="http://www.macjams.com/song/16698">Fists of Righteous Harmony</a> [ Reply to This ]
Man, what do I need to say… &mdash 01/10/06 - 04:58:54 PM
… about this? Not a lot, basically. I could hear this being recorded
by Liquid Tension Experiment (another recommendation to you, if
you don't know them). Very slick, very fine, very groovy, very cool!
Amazing playing and performance! A pleasure, as always, PV. [ Reply to This ]
Man, what do I need to say… &mdash 01/10/06 - 05:25:18 PM
Oh yah, Liquid Tension Experiment... I haven't heard that for a while, but
the CD is around here somewhere. It was Tony Levin and Mike Portnoy
that sold me on them! Thanks for your kind words Eppy, glad you like our
tune!
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<a href="http://www.macjams.com/song/16698">Fists of Righteous Harmony</a> [ Reply to This ]
Sorry that I missed this PV and Steve &mdash 01/12/06 - 12:57:40 AM
You guys - Groove'n in a whole new way... This one is just silly good!
Cookn' - Very psychedelic and in a very good way. At least from what I
read about such things : )
This is very slick and kinda fun too PV. Very different. I enjoyed this,
and can't wait for it to pop outta no where and mix my mix up a bit to
create quite the interesting sceene.
Sorry that I'm running through here, but I'm playing catch up.
Thanks guys. Dion [ Reply to This ]
Sorry that I missed this PV and Steve &mdash 01/12/06 - 12:57:42 AM
You guys - Groove'n in a whole new way... This one is just silly good!
Cookn' - Very psychedelic and in a very good way. At least from what I
read about such things : )
This is very slick and kinda fun too PV. Very different. I enjoyed this,
and can't wait for it to pop outta no where and mix my mix up a bit to
create quite the interesting sceene.
Sorry that I'm running through here, but I'm playing catch up.
Thanks guys. Dion [ Reply to This ]
Sorry that I missed this PV and Steve &mdash 02/12/06 - 03:17:46 PM
Well, now it's playing catchup for me... I'm glad you enjoyed this Dion, I
have a great time making these high energy songs! As always Steve's
guitar and basslines are always fun to work with. Thanks for commenting
and faving!
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<a href="http://www.macjams.com/song/17791">Lastday</a> [ Reply to This ]
this rocks &mdash 01/19/06 - 02:02:54 PM
tasteful jamming &mdash 01/21/06 - 05:09:30 PM
this is a great piece - i hadn't heard much of your stuff before today but
i'm pleasantly surprised. you're definitely a top tier mac jammer.
peace
u. [ Reply to This ]
tasteful jamming &mdash 02/12/06 - 03:20:28 PM
Thanks for the kind words underdog. I'm glad you enjoy my songs.
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<a href="http://www.macjams.com/song/17791">Lastday</a> [ Reply to This ]
Kicks butt! &mdash 02/08/06 - 11:07:36 AM
I love this! I think the guitar sounds great and production is good as well. Curious if you are micing the guitar or playing straight into the computer. [ Reply to This ]
Kicks butt! &mdash 02/08/06 - 11:18:20 AM
Hey thanks glennkav, I'm glad you like this! My friend Steve played the guitar and bass tracks in this song, and he didn't use a computer. Instead, he played directly into his Korg D1200mkII digital recording studio, and burned his tracks to CD from there. Then he gave me the CDs with his bass and guitar parts and I imported them into my Mac, and mixed them using Soundtrack. Thanks for listening!
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<a href="http://www.macjams.com/song/17791">Lastday</a> [ Reply to This ]
Kicks butt! &mdash 02/08/06 - 11:31:06 AM
tap tap tap &mdash 02/13/06 - 09:27:38 AM
One of those songs that you start you bump along to and don't even know it...
Nice work, made me feel wired. [ Reply to This ]
tap tap tap &mdash 02/13/06 - 11:22:40 AM
Thanks for listening Mandi, glad it wired you!
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<a href="http://www.macjams.com/song/17969">December Rain</a> [ Reply to This ]
Magic Ancestor Laser Canon &mdash 11/17/06 - 05:50:59 PM
You know, this does sound like the soundtrack to an anime flick. All about young heroes with superpowers who fight demonic androids and experience every shade of teen angst in an adventure set in a post-apocalyptic landscape.
I really like the mix of the instruments. The delay and reverb could easily have become overwhelming, but instead everything blends nicely and has a lofty, soaring character (nice playing and riffs too!). A lot like listening to someone enthusiastically telling a story with many twists and turns. This never for a moment feels repetitive - though I was hoping for some break out in the bass line.
High energy drums that sound great... but then - what else should we expect? [ Reply to This ]
nice! &mdash 06/19/07 - 01:03:49 PM
Nicely done &mdash 06/28/07 - 10:57:19 PM
Nice bass tone and the guitars remind me of Joe Perry (aerosmith) nice! [ Reply to This ]
Great! &mdash 04/19/08 - 01:01:19 PM
Cool work here my friends. I enjoyed this very much! This has some influences from Country style? (Progressive-Country). Enjoyed!
Take Care
- Yeman A. Al-Rawi [ Reply to This ]
Country &mdash 04/19/08 - 01:27:11 PM
Hey thanks, Yeman! Yes, Steve's guitar playing definitely has a country and rockabilly feel to it in a lot of songs. I think progressive-country is probably a good way to describe it. I'm glad you enjoyed this! [ Reply to This ]
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Production is very clear - every instrument is distinct - the bass is very
tight - and the production doesn't distract from the performances, it
focuses on them.
PS. Cool picture.
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