FTR cover(ed) Fiona Apple's Criminal

iliace

Alright, well first the not-so-good news. My primary band recently broke up (out of the blue, and very quickly). Everybody went their own separate ways and probably won't work together again. It wasn't a bad/bitter breakup, but just the atmosphere surrounding it suggest that this is done with for good.

So, even though the mixing on this isn't finished (and probably won't be), I'm going to let you guys hear this - let me know what you think.

Guitar is GNX3000 -> PC. The distortion was a last-minute decision (about 5 minutes before we recorded the rhythm tracks) and so not polished at the point when it was recorded. Bass is into a Line 6 amp -> direct to PC. Electric kit -> direct to PC, unfortunately we didn't have enough outputs on the drums (and no MIDI map for the old Roland) to do them on a separate channel, so snare/kick is channel 1, and everything else is channel 2, hence the mixing difficulties.

Vocals - this is (was) our most recent addition, Sandra (for those who read the \"what would you do in this situation\" thread). I might continue working with her on some originals that she and I started.

http://www.44lbs.net/FTR/Criminal.mp3

partch

Don't know the original tune. Sounds pretty good what you all did. I suppose like you said the drums at parts would have been challenging. Sorry about your band breakup! Like you said at least it's not on bitter terms or something like that. Hope the Original stuff works out for you man

Unknown

Drums sound good to me. What did you use? Sounds like a R8.

iliace

It's some kind of Roland. Pretty old. The sound is whatever the sound module has, the drummer picked the preset. Then we ran it through the Waves stereo image plug-in.

Rawb

\iliace\ wrote:

Alright, band broke up, but the atmosphere surrounding it suggest that this is done with, for good.
just out of curiousity. Keeping the old and new vox, have a part in it?
Could be something for all to learn from.

So, even though the mixing on this isn't finished (and probably won't be), I'm going to let you guys hear this - let me know what you think.
I think it sounds real good. Could be the 'unfinished mix' But I think she could/needs to impart a bit more emotion. Seems a little mono tone, but for all I know that may be what yous were after.

Vocals - this is Sandra, I might continue working with her on some originals that she and I started.
8) I really like her sound. Hope to hear them if you do?

http://www.44lbs.net/FTR/Criminal.mp3

iliace

No, the breakup had nothing to do with personnel changes/additions. It was really more goal incongruence between different members. The newbies had no choice but to go along.