Cold Heart's "Don't Give Up"...

by **G.I.Jim** » Mon Feb 28, 2011 11:35 am

Well, after MANY delays... here is the brand new song!!!

This is about a minute and a half clip, and it's still a pretty rough mix. We really hope you like it! You can either check it out on our myspace page at www.myspace.com/jimrykbost

OR, you can download it here...

https://www.yousendit.com/dl?phi_action ... d3fda87792

YAY!!!

by **Starrider** » Mon Feb 28, 2011 11:58 am

I like it, Jim. Sounds like it has a lot of potential. You said it's rough...what else are you planning to do with it?

Will be looking forward to hearing a final mix.

by **G.I.Jim** » Mon Feb 28, 2011 12:11 pm

Starrider wrote:I like it, Jim. Sounds like it has a lot of potential. You said it's rough...what else are you planning to do with it?

Will be looking forward to hearing a final mix.

Thank you! We've still got some guitars to get done, and I just recorded all of the backing vocals for the first chorus (in about 20 minutes tonight) so that we could get the song posted. It's still just a demo. We've discussed it, and I think we're going to have Lars (a guy who owns a studio there in Italy) do the mixing and mastering on all of our songs for the album. He's done a great job on the studio drum tracks so far, and I think he will do a great job on the final songs as well. We're still trying to work that out. Guess we'll know more this week. :wink:

by **Ehwmatt** » Mon Feb 28, 2011 12:43 pm

Nice, Jim. I love the opening chords and the atmospheric boards. Fatten up those BG vocals in the chorus and you've got a winner!

by **G.I.Jim** » Mon Feb 28, 2011 12:54 pm

Ehwmatt wrote:Nice, Jim. I love the opening chords and the atmospheric boards. Fatten up those BG vocals in the chorus and you've got a winner!

A wiener?

Thanks Matt! Yeah, this was a very fast mix. It also needs more guitars. Alex and I have been having some technical difficulties over the last few days... internet providers down, and tonight, the disc drive on my digital recorder took a crap.

I worked around it, but the quality suffered on the song. I'll have to replace it.

I'm not sure what we're going to do with this song now... do we add it to the album? Is it strong enough to put on Andrew's next MRCD? I don't know. We'd have to track real drums on it for it to be added to our album, and I don't know if we want to (or CAN) do that at this point. Any thoughts?

by **Rip Rokken** » Mon Feb 28, 2011 1:26 pm

Good stuff Jim!

by **slucero** » Mon Feb 28, 2011 4:03 pm

Jim... what are you recording on.. Pro Tools, Logic, Reaper... ?

by **MichaelRiesenbeck** » Mon Feb 28, 2011 6:24 pm

G.I.Jim wrote:Well, after MANY delays... here is the brand new song!!! This is about a minute and a half clip, and it's still a pretty rough mix. We really hope you like it! You can either check it out on our myspace page at www.myspace.com/jimrykbost

OR, you can download it here...

https://www.yousendit.com/dl?phi_action ... d3fda87792

YAY!!!

Nice Kansas/Lec Zorn vibe you have going on in this song. Make sure it starts to rock out more in the verse after the 1st chorus (so no half time), would be my only advise. The singer sounds real good in the low register.

by **Duncan** » Mon Feb 28, 2011 7:40 pm

The verse sounds great, but to my ears it needs an injection of energy in the chorus.

by **G.I.Jim** » Mon Feb 28, 2011 10:32 pm

Thanks for the compliments and the advice guys! Will definitely take into consideration. And Michael, there are heavier guitars in the second verse that I think you'll like. They just weren't on this version. :wink:

by **G.I.Jim** » Mon Feb 28, 2011 10:43 pm

slucero wrote:Jim... what are you recording on.. Pro Tools, Logic, Reaper... ?

On this song, the bass, clean guitars and keys were sequenced in my Yamaha Motif XS8 and dumped down on my Korg D16XD digital recorder. I then sent those to Alex who uses Pro tools. He programmed the drums and recorded the distorted guitars and lead vocals. He sent it back to me and I uploaded it into my digital recorder again and added all of the backing vocals.

I do have Logic Pro 9, but haven't used it for anything other than the actual studio album songs. It's got a pretty steep learning curve, so for this demo, I just used what was easier. Thanks for asking. :wink:

by **MichaelRiesenbeck** » Mon Feb 28, 2011 10:48 pm

G.I.Jim wrote:Thanks for the compliments and the advice guys! Will definitely take into consideration. And Michael, there are heavier guitars in the second verse that I think you'll like. They just weren't on this version.

Cool, but I was mainly referring to the drums.

by **Michigan Girl** » Tue Mar 01, 2011 2:02 am

I like it, Jimbo/Alex ...the rough mix sounds pretty darn good!!
I'm sure the finished product will sound fantastic!! :wink:

by **Rick** » Tue Mar 01, 2011 2:13 am

by **artist4perry** » Wed Mar 02, 2011 2:32 pm

G.I.Jim wrote:Well, after MANY delays... here is the brand new song!!! This is about a minute and a half clip, and it's still a pretty rough mix. We really hope you like it! You can either check it out on our myspace page at www.myspace.com/jimrykbost

OR, you can download it here...

https://www.yousendit.com/dl?phi_action ... d3fda87792

YAY!!!

Hugs Jim, glad to see your still at it!

by **G.I.Jim** » Wed Mar 02, 2011 10:50 pm

Thanks very much Ginger! You too MG and Rick.

I appreciate it, and I'm glad you like it. We're slowly working on all of the rest of the songs now, and Alex and I are re-recording all of the guitars and keys. We won't stop until it's right. We have a LOT of work to do, and Alex has already started on it. I talked to him yesterday, and he had re-recorded the clean guitars on most of the songs, and was getting ready to start on the distorted guitars.

We'll keep you posted, and thanks for your support! :wink:

MR

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