SoundOfAGun

Ahead of putting out a 4 track EP this month; I have made 3 of my tracks available to download for free from my Bandcamp page: 

https://soundofagun.bandcamp.com/

The new EP will also be free to download.

Happy new year!

On 06/01/2020 at 2:48 AM, Mendez said:

I just bought a used JCM2000 TSL100 and a Palmer PDI-03 cab simulator for it. It arrives in 2 days

Nice, check out this out: 

TSL from 1:30, sounds amazing.

The cold heartbreaker line was a real "Greta" moment....

17 hours ago, yumbeen said:

this is the Greta GNR

Greta Van Roses

Fucking killer man! Great voice. 

Is this your cover? If so, what are you playing?

3 hours ago, ZoSoRose said:

Awesome like usual

Cheers man, I fucked up some of the lyrics, but it wasn't anything too bad. 

Latest entry for a cover challenge that I enter on another forum. The challenge was to cover any song with the title "Crazy". I went with Seal's 1991 techno pop song of that name. I did not maintain the techno pop style. Enjoy!

I had a listen to your stuff, I thought it sounded great! Your production is very professional, your style reminds me of Deep Purple and Rival Sons. I would come and see you if I lived in Germany.

8 hours ago, 2020_Intensions said:

(Maybe raise Izzy's guitar +0.5-1.0 dB) 

This. If they had Izzy's guitar at AFD volumes on the UYI records, it would have made them twice as good. the left channel on most tracks is a wimpy little whisper. He should have sat in on the mixing sessions instead of riding bikes...

This one sounds like little more than a sketch. Why is the Mac Daddy so bad? Is he talking about this guy?

Sold my DSL40C and picked up this to fulfill my tube amp needs at a more sensible volume:

2 hours ago, ZoSoRose said:

Thanks. Yeah I play all the guitars on this one. Bass and guitar is all helix

Sounds great man!

Aww yeah! Very funky dude, love the synth/guitar fx and your(?) solo is tasty as fuck!

1 hour ago, appetite4illusions said:

Great to hear all these, but I disagree with lots of people on the mixing.

I hear a mess, just like I'm sure Jimmy Iovine and his people must have. The bass is THUNDEROUS. Like it manages to diminish most of the songs. 

The interesting guitar textures and keyboard sounds in the 1999 demos are still here, but they are played down and subservient to the BOOM. Songs like The Blues, go off the rails with the production - too many things going on...

 

I've always, always wanted to hear the 99 album, now that I've heard a good portion of the songs from that era - I'm undecided. I like what's going on for the most part - but the mix is in such dire straits. 

Agree on the boom, probably just rough demo mixes, the bass tone sounds like shit when isolated. From the stripped down Chinese Democracy, it is clear that Axl wanted that song to be GN'R's Smells Like Teen Spirit, so many similarities. Cool to hear this stuff, prefer the songs without Bumblefoot on them, his angular widdling was a low light of CD for me.

3 hours ago, ZoSoRose said:

Very nice. Did you use your HX Stomp?

Thanks man. Yeah, it is all through the stomp. Haven't updated to 2.8 yet though, will be doing it this week I think.

3 hours ago, estrangedtwat said:

That was not the 9 to 5 I was looking for.

 

 

Sorry to disappoint man!

Latest cover I have done for a challenge ran on another forum:

https://soundcloud.com/imc1980/nine2five

A bit disjointed in places, but would have been an asset on CD with that chorus, epic ending vocals. Get it released!!

Keep practicing man, would be good to hear you sing on one of your own.

No worries, do you write your own stuff?

Great job! Who did the guitar?

3 hours ago, Pele said:

Also, it's worth pointing out a massive amount of the 240 or so reported songs are duplicated.  I.e,

Chinese Democracy (standard drums)

Chinese Democracy (drums up 0.7db)

Chinese Democracy (drums up 01.5db)

Chinese Democracy (drums down 0.7db)

Chinese Democracy (drums up 1.5db)

Sounds like mix 6-10 of every track I have ever done!

Hardschool definitely blows several CD tracks out of the water, even as a 22 second leak. Great to hear full power Axl on something "new".

Harder to have an opinion of the cell phone recording of Atlas; it seems to have an interesting melody and I think I caught a time signature change towards the end of the clip.

If the current line up are reworking any of this material, I hope this lights a fire under them and forces them to release it instead of toy trucks and beach towels. Either way, exciting times!