StarDragonX Posted September 25, 2024 Share Posted September 25, 2024 (edited) Please instruct me if there is already a dedicated forum space for personal songs and projects, for instance for covers. I didn't find that kind of a thread. I joked with my brother that we should start a band called Nightwish Insomnium and call Floor Jansen to record our vocals or something, as some Insomnium members are from my home town, Kotka, Finland. I have actually met Niilo sevänen, Insomnium in real life once. Anyway, I have developed my mixing skills and stuff. The material is usually recorded with a Washburn Drop-C guitar. I use Reaper DAW in Windows 11 right now. https://youtu.be/SVNb2AHAqCQ?si=CbMOjMdBPYev7u4D Edited September 25, 2024 by StarDragonX I am new on this forum and I don't completely know how this system is supposed to work Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StarDragonX Posted September 26, 2024 Author Share Posted September 26, 2024 Nightwish - Dark Chest of Wonders cover by me. I used this song as ear training. The whole song is copied by ear. I also downtuned the song from D to C, so I could play it with my Drop-C Washburn guitar. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StarDragonX Posted September 27, 2024 Author Share Posted September 27, 2024 This is a short classical piece. It is composed with Reaper DAW and BBC Discovery. It used to cost €50, but now I think it is free. It is a downgraded version from BBC Symphony Orchestra, which costs €500+ and it eats your processor like a dog eats food... in lack for a better analogy. There is also a little bit of Spitfire LABS percussion (completely free VST, a must-download) and and also Ferrum Free Version trailer music drums. I think all these VST's are free at the moment. Seems like there will be pieces in C minor as this one. BBC Discovery is a good background string instrument. I used it in my Dark Chest Of Wonders Cover. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StarDragonX Posted October 2, 2024 Author Share Posted October 2, 2024 This is one of my first final mixes, when I started out music producing a few years back. I used Shreddage II VST to write the electric guitar line in the early stage. This song went through some stages. And I also lost the passwords for this account, and the WAV file was gone after I cleaned up Hard Drive space. Anyway, it is on the internet, so no problem. 🙂 I figured out that I want to do shorter songs than 10 minutes. The production time was so long that it was a little bit exhausting, and things happened in between so it was a little bit risky. For instance, there might be some Apple Logic Pro fail that could corrupt the file or something or some plugin might stop working. POWER METAL FTW (for the win). I designed the logo by myself, as I do photography and visual work as well as music. The song is uploaded on Youtube year 2021. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StarDragonX Posted October 13, 2024 Author Share Posted October 13, 2024 This is an older project of mine. It is from the time I used the iMac (2013 model) and Logic X. The picture is also my design. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StarDragonX Posted January 12 Author Share Posted January 12 Ladies and gentlemen! I present top you... a Planet Hell Cover. "Planet Hell" was the nickname of an unusual uninhabited M-class planet located in the Delta Quadrant. The USS Voyager's Stellar Cartography department was responsible for the name. (fandom.com). First I thought this song sounds fairly easy. I copied every note by ear from the Once album track. I will never say anything is easy again... This is also a famous song in the gaming world. A Runescape player hacked the servers and stole everybody's gear in in 2006-06-06. The player called Durial321 played the newly released Nightwish - Planet Hell track in a famous video where he showed gameplay of him after he had hacked the servers. The story is a little more complicated than that, but this version was shortened. Also, the copyright claim reads Nightwish - Planet Hell (Hartwall Arena). I joke a little bit of the fact that some people want Tarja back, and I have to replace Tarja's voice with an istrumental piano melody, as if Tarja was singing. I don't know if the copyright claim is the End of an Era version. These kind of tracks are somewhat sitting ducks concerning copyrights. Who knows who has recieved the original copyrights of this track as a legacy. Seems like it is possible to block song covers on Youtube. Though, the copyright claims that the Artist allows covers of this track on Youtube. I believe that is Tuomas' wish. If this track succeeds, Tuomas and some record label bosses will get some money. But I don't have the fear of my tracks exploding into the public scene... yet... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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