Just made a new "Canon Rock" recording, twin guitars (mp3)

Docaroo said:
ok I've listened to the mp3 and I'm gonna be really harsh (mainly because Canon Rock has been done to death on the net and it has to be really good to impress me)...

First thing I notice are the volume swells in the intro, they just sound terrible, the notes are cut short and this sounds really amateurish (I'm not saying ** amateurish on guitar...) just that the intro doesn't start the whole thing off well...

Second, I like that you've played it harmonyed throughout the song - that's quite cool! Although I'd like to hear more adventurous harmonies used (not just minor 3rd... how about some 4ths? maybe a 5th or 2 :D just a bit more than minor 3rding the whole song lol..)

Thirdly... the sweeps need definate work as I noticed in the vid... the tricky sweep at the start has been fudged which is dissappointing! :S if you harmonised that I would have been impressed....

Overall it's not bad... i'm not mad keen on the guitar tone though - but I don't know your setup so I can't comment further on this...

Anyway sorry to be so negative but as I said Canon Rock has been done so it needs to be better than this I'm afraid!! :)
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I Agree with the volume swells comment, I was gonna rerecord that track at the end but i couldnt be bothered by that time.

Harmony wise, only minor 3rds ever sound good, so i never bother doing anything else (unless im using 3rds and 5ths at the same time).

I changed the sweeps to taps in the mp3, because i couldnt be bothered to practice the sweeps up to standard. In the video i play them scruffy because I never got it up to standard before recording the video (I still cant do them)

Guitar tone is amazing for a v-amp2 so I disagree with you there, but thats down to opinion


Heres a sweep clip of some sweeps I can play though

http://youtube.com/watch?v=TLqlPV0WYJU
 
It sounds ok but I still wouldn't have used them in mine though, don't like that sort of sound... i mean i use other harmonies when i want to sound "Out there"

listen to this:

http://www.planetcarl.com/music/MEGADRIVE.mp3


Also the thing with my tone is that its suprisingly undigital sounding for a crap piece of plastic (v-amp2)...your boss GT-8 sounds really digital. I almost bought a GT-6, but ran out of money buying too many takeouts during christmas, so had to go with the v-amp 2 :)

Anyway, a lot of people try to be too original in their covers and it ends up making the song sound not as good, which is why I only use generic harmonies
 
I prefer when people do covers exactly the same as the original. By "people" i mean people who post videos on Youtube and google videos, guitar wise people want to see people actually play the song and match the original exactly.

People get really ****** off when someone posts a cover, and they just noodle random crap over a song that makes it sound worse and claims its their version

The exception to this is harmonising stuff :)


and btw, most the canon rocks are incomplete and low sound quality covers, mostly played wrongly (or changed and made to sound worse unintentionally).
I dont think many people were trying to cover it exactly exactly :OD


btw, check out jerryC's live canon rock with his band

http://youtube.com/watch?v=fjqPvBvU1tg
 
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