Hi!
This is the first "big" project I've got going on ever since I got into recording stuff, which is basically to record 8 black metal songs. The problem is that I need to lay the drums myself because the guy I'm recording plays everything else but drums (trust me, it may sound like he is awesome through my words but... he doesn't even know how to figure out the BPM of his own songs), so that means I have to practise to the scratch tracks that we recorded today along with the drums I programmed, and then lay the drums.
Now... as I may have said before (sorry to any black metal fanatic in here), but I HATE black metal. HATE!. It's all about the money though and I could really use some to buy the software I use so I can go 100% legal, so that's what keeps me going really.
Question is though... when you guys work with something you just want to vomit all over, what do you do to keep your sanity? Seriously, his black metal riffs sound all the same, lack imagination, is played in the same tempo, same notes etc etc, and the WORST thing is... they actually get stuck in my head. I can't seem to get rid of it :| I'm listening to Jamiroquai right now, it's good... clears my head a bit. Funk baby funk!
The worst thing is... I'm actually a tad scared that I might somehow get entangled in this shit and actually start liking it and become one of those depressed assholes who think satan and darkness is the answer to a "happy" life. Seriously...
On the other hand... when this project is completed, I'll have all software I use in a legal form! Just hope I only pay with cash and not with my sanity.
So yeah, I dunno what I want from this thread really, maybe just some of your similiar stories or whatever but maybe I just wanted to vent out a little like some people have done lately
(There's more to this story that makes me worried too, like the fact that this black metal dude's record label guy (which is an underground record label) is depressed about everything and he says he will probably commit suicide when he has released a few more of this guy's CDs, as he thinks his role in life has been completed once he does that... etc. Just makes me sick...)
This is the first "big" project I've got going on ever since I got into recording stuff, which is basically to record 8 black metal songs. The problem is that I need to lay the drums myself because the guy I'm recording plays everything else but drums (trust me, it may sound like he is awesome through my words but... he doesn't even know how to figure out the BPM of his own songs), so that means I have to practise to the scratch tracks that we recorded today along with the drums I programmed, and then lay the drums.
Now... as I may have said before (sorry to any black metal fanatic in here), but I HATE black metal. HATE!. It's all about the money though and I could really use some to buy the software I use so I can go 100% legal, so that's what keeps me going really.
Question is though... when you guys work with something you just want to vomit all over, what do you do to keep your sanity? Seriously, his black metal riffs sound all the same, lack imagination, is played in the same tempo, same notes etc etc, and the WORST thing is... they actually get stuck in my head. I can't seem to get rid of it :| I'm listening to Jamiroquai right now, it's good... clears my head a bit. Funk baby funk!
The worst thing is... I'm actually a tad scared that I might somehow get entangled in this shit and actually start liking it and become one of those depressed assholes who think satan and darkness is the answer to a "happy" life. Seriously...
On the other hand... when this project is completed, I'll have all software I use in a legal form! Just hope I only pay with cash and not with my sanity.
So yeah, I dunno what I want from this thread really, maybe just some of your similiar stories or whatever but maybe I just wanted to vent out a little like some people have done lately
(There's more to this story that makes me worried too, like the fact that this black metal dude's record label guy (which is an underground record label) is depressed about everything and he says he will probably commit suicide when he has released a few more of this guy's CDs, as he thinks his role in life has been completed once he does that... etc. Just makes me sick...)