Gladiator - Centrist

6th Jun 2020 12:30 - 6 years ago
Description : Hope you're all doing well. I'm super proud of this because It's the first metal track I've done and I'm really excited how well the guitars and drums came out. All of it is VST work, so nothing prerecorded, all notation was configured by hand. I've been working years to try to figure out how to get the guitars to sound right, if you've ever played with distorted guitar VST's they're always extremely fake and synthy sounding.

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irek07
irek07 1st Nov 2020 19:22 - 6 years ago
JesteÅ› Wielki
vahidzamani
vahidzamani 18th Aug 2020 07:08 - 6 years ago
perfect
bringerofDOOM
bringerofDOOM 16th Jul 2020 19:59 - 6 years ago
Don't usually comment on same track, however you said you were struggling with guitar VSTs.

Here's a few things that may help with your VST parameters:
Upstroke vs Downstroke, palm muted vs open vs fingerpick (nail, flesh of finger, plucked etc.), pick scratch (creates noisy but note specific harmonics, possibly with some wobbly LFO to create randomness), and not all strings are struck at the same time when playing a chord.
There is a tiny delay between each string when a chord is struck, varying from a slow strum, to fast thrash palm-muted bar chords, as well as direction change in that delay, depending if it is an upstroke or downstroke.
If you had just a little more of these irregularities in your VSTs I would be completely fooled in a blind study. Also, just writing this is really making me analyze my playing.

Your plugin and composing work is awesome, and well ahead of most I've heard on and off this site. I hope some guitar theory helps with your struggles.
josenow
josenow 18th Jun 2020 19:14 - 6 years ago
good effort, keep improving and making music
bringerofDOOM
bringerofDOOM 10th Jun 2020 00:34 - 6 years ago
If is VATs I'm assuming you had to write MIDI into your DAW or in to a score. Message me with the details and I may be able to get you guitar tracks, though that defeats the purpose of working with VSTs. Up to you, nice work once again.
Centrist
Centrist replied 10th Jun 2020 - 6 years ago
Thanks for offering again. Let me come up with something unique before I ask you to do any of that!
Stereonomicon
Stereonomicon 9th Jun 2020 20:17 - 6 years ago
Healthy and robust epic metal to strengthen the spirit and the body. Guitars play well with excellent likelihood. A great job, really
2nick8
2nick8 9th Jun 2020 16:59 - 6 years ago
i can hear the work u put in well mixed ..cool orchestral rock vibe : )
bringerofDOOM
bringerofDOOM 8th Jun 2020 18:56 - 6 years ago
Working with VSTs like this has caused you to become a technical death metal composer, which I can imagine would be very difficult. The VSTs sound great, but sometimes they sound more like badass violins. I think it's full of great ideas.

If you want some real guitars just message me, I could play all of those parts and help with mastering for fun. It would be good practice.
Centrist
Centrist replied 9th Jun 2020 - 6 years ago
Thanks for the review, this took me maybe a total of 9 hours to make, not so bad!

I'll definitely use your skillset if you're willing to go through all that to help a guy out. :) Same to you for orchestral stuff.
JCJMusic
JCJMusic 8th Jun 2020 16:52 - 6 years ago
the mix is tight...
olszkool
olszkool 7th Jun 2020 05:52 - 6 years ago
Loved the mix and arrangement.
loopmeDale
loopmeDale 6th Jun 2020 19:20 - 6 years ago
First off great offering. Loved the mix and arrangement. Recording was on point. Kept your attention the whole while.. Keep em' comin' Centrist Peace and good health DDC
Centrist
Centrist replied 10th Jun 2020 - 6 years ago
Thanks for the kind words, man!

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