An Interesting Listen: Metal mixed with Hip/Hop.... yea just listen.

http://www.myspace.com/gateseproductions

Listen to the song "Usher in a New Era REMIX"

my buddy wrote the synth part and drums and all that {censored}... it souded pretty cool, but he asked me to metal it up. so he sent me the protools tracks and i recorded using my Metal guitar rig. its weird but i think it's cool and maybe could be a really cool idea if we can pull it off a little better perhaps.

The dude who did the synth/drum parts is living in Florida going to Full Sail for recording, and i live here in minneapolis and have a buddy here who just graduated from IPR for recording. so the florida guy sent the protools tracks to us here and we recorded the guitar here and sent it back and the florida guy mixed it.

we found that its super difficult to mix the heavy guitars in with this digital stuff. the digital stuff sounds very clear and crisp as where the distorted guitar just sits funny in the mix.

anyways, have a listen and let me know what you think... be nice

Translation: wasting lots and lots of money and time.

you forgot the "be nice :thu:" bit

you forgot the "be nice :thu:" bit

I wasn't commenting on the song, I haven't even listened to it.

But seriously dude, and I'm really not trying to be mean. Tell your friend to get his money back and go get a degree from a real 4-year college. I have a "Recording Industry" degree from a very well-known, highly-rated program from a 4-year University and it is pretty much worthless, other than the opportunity to meet like-minded people.

The ratio of jobs in the music industry vs. the number of kids in programs like Full Sail is probably 1/100. Same with all those commercials you see on TV advertising schools that will teach you how to develop your own video games.

When Full Sail quotes their high "job placement" rate, they consider getting a job behind the counter at FYE selling CDs as "working in the industry".

i didn't hear any hip hop in there. a couple little trance synth parts and then the rest was like rock/metal. i kinda figured there'd be a swingin' 808 happening. sounds interesting though.

yeah full sail looks like a scam.

I've been able to learn a lot about audio just from these forums and stealing audio mags from Borders. Spend my money on things I can touch.

Next you'll tell me this guy is full of {censored}:

Good call brother. I've honestly learned more POST "graduation" than I did in the place. The only thing I can say is it was good to get a familiarity and foundation with signal flow and professional equipment/recording, but really it's all on the job training. If you stick it out in the unpaid internship circuit for a year or two (hopefully you have a kind girlfriend/relative/parent that will willingly let you leach off them) you can land a low paying job. The odds of becoming a high paid engineer or producer are the same as becoming a professional musician. So I guess people just really need to evaluate exactly what they think they are going there for. If it's to learn how to record more effectively then great. If it's to get a job, well there really is no shortcut there.

damn, k forget it jeesh! lol who cares if full sail is a scam... thats not what this thread is about hahaha... just listen to the song

True Hip-Hop Metal:

[YOUTUBE]w3w-3iRoy58[/YOUTUBE]

- CM

It was alright. The guitars could definitely stand to sit better in the mix. Every element but them seems very bright and to occupy it's own sonic territory.