Planktons Odyssey - The Dream
 

Been seeing quite a few members posting up their work so I figured I'd jump on the bandwagon.

The Dream is a concept piece that I stitched together with some various sound effects, drum loops, and a couple backers from around the net. Guitar oriented, and incredibly self absorbed, it tells the tale of an entities struggle to become something better and more aware.

Here's a breakdown of the tracks:

01 - Rise
Intro/Outro was taken from Rush's Natural Science. The drum track was something I grabbed from a BT source (not sure where atm). I played the rythm on a whim just trying to get a bead on my equipment, but it turned out fairly well so I went with it, and finished it off with a lead.

02 - Farewell To The Sea
From Zakk Wylde's Farewell backing track, I just added the guitar.

03 - Metamorphosis
A tune I wrote for my girlfriends father who'd passed at the time I wrote it.

04 - Power Process
PP started out as a drum track I grabbed from either guitar chaos or jamsession, and quickly became a metal anthem.

05 - Flight Of The Killer Plankton
A collaborative effort from a gentleman from Portugal who set me up with a fantastic techno backer and asked if I'd throw some guitar over it, so I obliged.

06 - Floating In Another Time
The same drum track that was used in Rise is featured here. Another rythm played on a whim that turned into something useful that thought would be a good coda with the build and release. The outro is from The Jabberwocky.

There you have it. I created this sometime last year with the mindset of doing a "Mock" album all for fun, and it has gotten some good, and mixed reviews. And please keep in mind that I am fairly new to recording techniques, and all this was done using Audacity which has it's limitations. Critique is always welcome... good, bad, or indifferent.


Link to the full album:
Planktons Odyssey - The Dream.zip

Link to the soundclick playlist:
SoundClick artist: Planktons Odyssey - The Dream - page with MP3 music downloads

As always....Good stuff Plank! :clap:

Thanks G!

75 views and only G has the balls enough to say something? I feel sad for human existence right now.

Im definitely going to check it out when I get off work.

Sounds good. Lemme know whatcha think.

It looks like I need flash to listen and I'm on my iPad now, i will give it a listen when I'm on the desktop

This is awesome!! Great work :) It's amazing how much you can communicate without words...it'd make an amazing soundtrack to an epic videogame. :)

Just listened to rise and all I can say is "wow". And, do you listen to buckethead? Very buckethead-esque. Great stuff. What scales/modes are you using?

Thanks Alice and Blast. I listen to BH quite a bit. Funny I saw him with Primus and didn't even know who he was until a couple years ago. Modes...? I have no clue. I'm self taught by ear, so I can only say that I play quite a bit of minor stuff.

Even more impressive. You don't know any modes or scales yet you still can come up with something like that. Very well done. Do you know what chords you're using or you just wing all your chordal work as well?

This is awesome. I'm not sure how you mix your material whether you use something like Pro Tools or Sibelius but this cannot be Audacity.

How did you mix your material?
What kind of Equipment do you use?
Have you tried getting signed before?
What instrument and amp do you use?

Can you give me advice on my song?

My thread is:

http://www.musicbanter.com/stereo-pr...s-editing.html

I'm a new member so if anyone has asked you about this let me know. Some books I know that are good are from Musician's Institute especially their Guitar Lictionary.

Thanks

I know what chords I'm playing, just never got into modes, theory and all. I remember quite a few years ago barely touching on Ionian/Mixolidian, and all the other -ians but that's as far as I got. It all seemed too catagoric for me. Basically I learned what/how to play through the "Brute Force" method.

:D

Audacity

PRS through ZoomGFX8 to M-Audio interface to PC Audacity (at the time I recorded those).

Nope. Too much BS. I just play for fun. I'm all about keeping it free, but if people want to throw money at me I won't turn it down.

For live situations (bands I've been in) I use a crappy Line 6 stack (half of which is a 4x12 90's Crate) with the Zoom GFX8 (which has since been substituted for a Line 6 HD500 since I dropped it a couple weeks back), and Schecter and PRS guitars.

I'll pop in and see what I can do.

Here's an older pic of my home setup (sans PRS and HD500) I just found, for a visual:

http://i539.photobucket.com/albums/f...01/SetUp02.jpg

I know next to nothing about instrumentation, but I know what I like, and I quite enjoyed this. Each track really does have something to say. The sound effects are nice, too! Drew me right in.

Thank you Geekoid. Very kind of you to comment.

Good work, Plankton. Every song is at least good, if not great.

My only real critique is I think you should focus more on the beat. All of it is sampled besides the guitar, so do something different. Mix it up. Give us 7/8 time, or a clattering, broken beat, or unusual samples.

So yeah, your guitar parts were fanfreakingtastic, even if the beats behind them were unimpressive at best and plain boring at worst. Good job overall, though. :)

Thanks Blarobbarg. Yes, the dreaded drums... and lack of bass too.

Yeah, I forgot to mention that. You need that. Even sampled bass or some kind of synthesizer bass would be better than no bass.