My First Song(s)!

[Jeremy Kill]

Okay, I know most musicians write their first songs when their 13, 14... I finally wrote mine at 19, haha. It's not that I didn't want to, it's just that I didn't have anything to keep track of any riffs I wrote when I was 15/16 and pretty much forgot them all. Plus I didn't know what lead sounded good with what rhythm since it was just me playing.

Anyway, I recorded this song in about 2 hours from scratch. The only riff I didn't think up on the spot is the riff at the very beginning. That's why it took me so long to record because I had to keep doing takes over and over again. Both rhythm and lead guitars are me.

Also, my guitar sounds pretty shitty because I didn't take the time to find my guitar sound. I just wanted to record so bad that I just said, "fuck it" to that process. But the guitar isn't too ugly. I recorded the song with my Deryck Whibley replica.

EDIT: No more links. You can listen to the songs on Pure Volume!

http://www.myspace.com/californiascum

http://www.purevolume.com/CaliforniaScum

[Madjid]

You, sir, are made of win.
This is going straight to my fake ass, made in China Ipod.

[Gibsum 41]

Damn, that was incredible!!!

[king of jesters]

awesome
i wanna record some of my songs
how did you do this?
like with no latency between your tracks?
and the drums? unless you can play them

[Jeremy Kill]

awesome
i wanna record some of my songs
how did you do this?
like with no latency between your tracks?
and the drums? unless you can play them

I recorded the song with Riffworks Standard and the Line 6 PODxt. The drumbeat was just made with Riffworks. It's loop recording so I can set Riffworks to record continuously over a set number of bars, that way I don't have to stop recording every time I mess up. I just keep playing into the new take and delete the bad ones after.

It's kind of hard to explain, but that's how I reduced the latency. It's a much nicer change from when I recorded with Garageband, haha.

[Madjid]

I just wanted to add something.
This song is better than the ENTIRE Underclass Hero record. kbai

[king of jesters]

hey man it sounded really coool catchy intro riff
and thankx for telling me how you recorded
i gotta look into it

[CIRCUITzach]

Damn, that was incredible!!!

[Jeremy Kill]

Thanks for the comments guys!

I must really be in the recording mood because I recorded another song again from scratch. It's a little bit more mellow than the first song, but I really like the tune of it.

It's a longie though... about four and a half minutes!

http://www.myspace.com/californiascum

http://www.purevolume.com/CaliforniaScum

[Shiv]

the first one's really sweet
i like it

second one sounds like billy talent . in a good way tho

[Dylan]

they're good. i haven't got a good chance to properly listen to them. it seems very empty, but thats okay. i assume that you want to put vocals on it eventually. i guess iim just used to listening to Rush instrumentals where there's so much going on.

i can't wait until i can play well enough to make my own songs.

[Hentaiman]

Those are pretty cool, nice job!

[R.]

One word.

AWESOME.

[Kelbunk]

you + guitar= X
and X= Fuckin Awesome.
soo...you're fuckin awesome.

Algebra ftl

[Stef]

I like the first more than the second..

[iemnaiz]

One word.

AWESOME.

:D

[Jeremy Kill]

Well, I spent my hangover just recording another song. I took a little more time with this one as I was trying out different guitar tones and playing around with the drums. I believe it's still a work in progress.

http://www.purevolume.com/CaliforniaScum

I also took advantage of my experimenting with guitar tones to re-record my first song. I didn't do the second because I was kind of being lazy.

[I'm A Cunt [*banned*]]

God dammit i wish I could do this shit lol, those sound really good.

what do you use to record?

[Jeremy Kill]

God dammit i wish I could do this shit lol, those sound really good.

what do you use to record?

Thanks! I'm using the Line 6 PODxt plugged into my MacBook and the program I'm using is Riffworks Standard.

[Sara]

One word.

AWESOME.

AWESOME.

AWESOME.

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AWESOME.

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AWESOME.

You make me want to learn electric guitar.

oh and..

YOU FUCKING PWN.