Quick-and-dirty Acoustic Covers

Kithop · January 22, 2011, 08:49:28 PM

So yeah, my brother lent me his old acoustic-electric guitar, and I was bored. :p

Guitar is an Agile HRB-200-12 BLUE, only standard 6 strings on it, old and dead.
Vocal mic is a Shure SM58.
Done with my Mackie Onyx 1620 board w/ FireWire card and Logic Express 8.

"Waiting" (Orig. by City and Colour)
"Plush" (Orig. by Stone Temple Pilots)
"Rooster" (Orig. by Alice in Chains)
By Zen's request: "Alive" (Orig. by Pearl Jam)
Plague-voice: "You Know You're Right" (Orig. by Nirvana)
Stupid amounts of vocal overdubs: "Play Crack the Sky" (Orig. by Brand New)

Dinsu · January 23, 2011, 02:06:57 AM

Love your voice in Plush! I'm amazed at what you do with that shoddy equipment.. Blows my mind!

You don't need a female vocalist/pianist/guitar.. attempter for anything, do you? <: lmao. We should collab on something someday.
Keep up the good work!

Kithop · January 23, 2011, 06:51:45 AM

Well, the board itself isn't exactly shoddy, so I'm sure that helps. ;p This is just what happens when you've been playing for most of your life.

I'm totally down for collaborating on something or just jamming - what kind of stuff do you like/listen to, typically? :)

Kithop · January 23, 2011, 01:43:50 PM

One more; love the way the solo turned out. :P

"Rooster" (Orig. by Alice in Chains)

Zen · January 23, 2011, 02:21:31 PM

Damn, as I mentioned on FA, I'm totally surprised by how awesome your singing is! Great for those low-tone grunge stuff! You ever tried doing any Pearl Jam? *hint hint*

Kithop · January 23, 2011, 02:45:48 PM

I don't know/have many Pearl Jam songs off-hand, but if I were to pick one that'd fit acoustic, I'd probably try and do 'Alive'. :p

Maybe; we'll see if I can learn/play it. Sounds like my band practice is cancelled today since almost everyone (including me) is or is getting sick. x.x I'm sure all the grit-voice-singing doesn't help my throat. ;P

Kithop · January 23, 2011, 03:31:29 PM

Here ya go, Zen. :p

"Alive" (Orig. by Pearl Jam)

Zen · January 24, 2011, 12:02:16 AM

Holy damn! That is totally awesome. Thank you!

Kithop · January 24, 2011, 03:03:56 PM

No problem. XD Once I'm not so sick I might do some more for fun as I learn them. See if I can re-do Brand New's "Play Crack the Sky", maybe in a drop-tuning so it's more in my range, and do it all grungy. :p

Kithop · January 25, 2011, 10:59:23 PM

Because I'm that hardcore, I even record when my throat is already raw from horrible plague of doom.

"You Know You're Right" (Orig. Nirvana)

Zen · January 25, 2011, 11:13:56 PM

Dude! You should be resting! But throat of doom is great for nirvana.

I think this is probably my favorite of the these covers thus far. Damn you for being awesome! (and having a recording board!)

Kithop · January 25, 2011, 11:18:48 PM

The one spot where my voice cracks (2nd chorus, the +octave register) pisses me off, but at the same time, you listen to the original and Kurt's all over the place. I don't feel so bad; that's the style, so screw it - it stays in. ;P

I wish I had more range, because the whole grunge/alternative thing does get kind of boring after a while, but you play the cards you're given, eh?

Zen · January 25, 2011, 11:21:49 PM

I heard that, but considering you were sick, amazing you could do three takes of that. At least you have some decent vocals, I think the best I can cover is the bee gees ... or daft punk.

Kithop · January 25, 2011, 11:27:49 PM

Well they weren't really three full takes; I screwed up timing half-way through, or something like that. I'm sort of tempted to double-track the vocals like the original, but it's not really the almost-off-the-floor acoustic cover style I'm going for; the overdub solo in 'Rooster' was a bit much, even. ;)

My nose hurts. D: It's raw from blowing it so much with cheap toilet paper, or even paper towel (D: D: D:) all day. X.X;

Dinsu · January 26, 2011, 02:35:06 PM

Yayyyy! The Nirvana cover sounds incredible.
I wanna hear you try Blitzen Trapper or Nick Drake's singing style.

Me? I listen to just about everything. I have a bit of a hearing sensitivity unfortunately so I have to take metal/hard rock/anything with really hard drums in light doses and don't appreciate them as much as other genres for that reason. Acoustic, folk and alternative are probably what the bands I listen to fall into.

I love Ani Difranco, Xavier Rudd, Animal Collective, Battles, Bon Iver, Cocorosie, Dave Matthews Band, Earth Wind & Fire, Eddie Vedder/Pearl Jam, Freelance Whales, Fun, Gorillaz, Infected Mushroom, Iron & Wine, Jethro Tull, Jonsi/Sigur Ros, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Nick Drake, Blitzen Trapper, Patrick Wolf, Prince, Ratatat, Shpongle, etc.
Anything that isn't sleazy basically.. I usually don't like Nickelback or Brittany Spears or whatever the kids are listening to nowadays lololol

Also WOAH I must have missed that Onyx 1620 part. Jealous! :3 I'd love to learn more about recording in general.
Man I need to start singing and playing again.. I haven't in forever, since University crippled my creative drive. Do you have any tips? For vocals especially.
I'm doing Singing Success lessons starting today but other than that I have no idea where to start in improving.