The title says it all, really.
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?m0hd3jy2jcm (http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?m0hd3jy2jcm)
I've recorded an instrumental metal cover of Black Celebration by Depeche Mode and people have told me that it doesn't sound as horrendous as I'm hearing it. So I wanted to get your guys' opinion on the quality of the audio.
I also wanted to ask you guys if such things represent copyright problems? I mean it's an instrumental cover, and I am acknowledging the fact that the original was made by another band.
Also, feel free to comment on the compositional aspect as well...
Thanks in advance for your help, people! :)
Depends on what you use it for I think - if it's some amateur adventure game and you write all the "all the music and lyrics belogns to Universal", "all rights", used for non-profit" and everything else that you might see people write, shouldn't be any problems. It still is kinda illegal (cause you didn't pay them any money) but since you didn't really publish (as in distribute and sell) there should be no problem and plus you're basically making a commercial for their music.
Now Lucas Arts and their stuff...that's a whole different thing. ;D
On the compression part, it's kinda hard to say, cause it sounds like retro midi music to me, so kinda hard to say what's poor quality and what's supposed to sound chipped. Though if noticable then it's that part after 1:35 and the little guitar outro at the end.
But in general, that doesn't really sound to me like DM's Black celebration (not saying it's bad or anything, just that it doesn't sound like BC to me). So you might not have any problems at all if you don't even mention it. ;D
From the sound of it, you are DIing the guitar straight from an effects pedal or an amp line out. The problem with that is that the speaker is responsible for rolling off alot of the top end odd order harmonics which are still present in your recording.
You can solve this to some degree with a high pass filter at about 5khz but behringer do a DI box with a speaker sim on it which isnt too bad.
Also i would suggest fiddling with your synths alittle.. the FM synth sound is seeing something of a revival but the patch you used to start off with is wayyy to 'presetty' for my taste.
Dynamic wise its fairly good. although i would suggest getting some better drum samples. some of the ones you used neither had the charm of the 808 or the bite of modern samples.. it was kinda somewhere in between.
Also the recording is wayyy too dry.. consider adding some reverb for some space.. unless you are going for the whole wolfenstein 3d sound.
hope that helps
To anian, ok, I get it, it's sort of a grey area copyright-wise, but I assure you that is DM's Black Celebration. It's re-done though with my own structure and compositional style in mind, but I did keep some elements from the original (the main theme and the chrods of course, as well as some drum bits). Also, the guitars might also be throwing you off.
To Calin Leafshade, I'm getting some of the stuff you're saying, but not all of it. Indeed, I just plug into the microphone jack directly from my distortion pedal. I then record the stereo mix. When I'll probably get around to start learning some program especially designed for music composition which works with samples (I'm thinking Fruitty Loops) I'll see about those drums. Everything seems "presetty" to you, 'cos they're all the instruments which Guitar Pro provide. This is not a compositional tool, but a program with which to make midi backing tracks.
I guess the thing that makes it so amateurish is, like Calin said, the lack of reverb, and relistening to it now, my playing isn't very tight as I'd like it to be.
To Andail, however, ummmmm... What?
Thank you one and all for input.
Sorry, Shiver, I posted in the wrong thread, must have had two windows up at the same time. My bad!
Quote from: ShiverMeSideways on Sat 05/09/2009 07:23:23
To anian, ok, I get it, it's sort of a grey area copyright-wise
I think it's not really a grey area:
As long as you don't make money out of it (your homemade cover) there's no problem copyright-wise...