SAVALOY

Freddy V-C · Post by **Freddy V-C** » Wed Mar 31, 2010 8:59 pm

Some of you may recall I was asking a few weeks ago about tuning my guitar B to B. It was for my new band, Savaloy, who recorded 7 songs today. It's all improvised. I play guitar on the guitar-driven tracks and my friend James drums. On the keyboard-driven tracks I drum (and you can guess what he does). I'm really pleased with some of the tracks, others not so much. Constructive criticism (or even praise, although that's doubtful) is welcome.

The EP goes like this:
1. Lazer - My favourite, this is probably the track by which all others should be judged.
2. Blazer - Sounds like Electric Wizard, in my opinion.
3. Tazer - A 12 minute long jam which sounded like some bizarre mix of Zombie Zombie and The Blood Brothers, cut down to a minute.
4. Martin Scorsazor - A ballad. Sounds like Pavement in some bits, but a bit more shit.
5. Razor - Kind of like ska, but a bit shitter.
6. Phazor - Another doomy one. Rips off both Enter Sandman and Iron Man at some point.
7. Goodbye Sweet Maggie - Closing tearjerker. This one has vocals!

Dave · Post by **Dave** » Sat Apr 03, 2010 9:35 pm

Enjoying it dude! Awesome guitarage - be that you bringing the pain?

stewart · Post by **stewart** » Sat Apr 03, 2010 9:47 pm

listening now, enjoying it so far.

Freddy V-C · Post by **Freddy V-C** » Sat Apr 03, 2010 11:01 pm

Black Cat Bone wrote:Enjoying it dude! Awesome guitarage - be that you bringing the pain?

Yes it is indeed me bringing the pain!

Dave · Post by **Dave** » Sat Apr 03, 2010 11:12 pm

Damn at yr age I was nowhere near that cool yo. I hadn't even learned 'Sweet child 'o mine' back then. Good stuff dude!

avj · Post by **avj** » Tue Apr 06, 2010 4:09 am

Great work, man. The songs really flow well together, and the last song is a fantastic capper to it all. I imagined Ray Davies on mescaline.

I was also going to make a comment about how I wasn't doing anything that cool in my youth either, but fuck -- I don't think I have the balls to create something like that even now. Well done.

laterallateral · Post by **laterallateral** » Tue Apr 06, 2010 3:39 pm

Enjoyed Lazer alot

Freddy V-C · Post by **Freddy V-C** » Tue Apr 06, 2010 10:54 pm

Thanks for the positive comments everyone

I'm really glad people like it. I just realised I didn't mention earlier about how we recorded it, in case anyone's interested.

We recorded one track into Acid on my computer, through a PA system plugged into the soundcard with two mics plugged into it, and another track into Audacity through a Zoom MultiFX pedal with a USB out and a mic plugged into it. The first two mics were on the drumkit, one actually inside the bass drum and one on a stand pointed at the snare drum. The third mic was just pointed at the Tiny Terror, which was in another room. The signal was split between that and an AC50 in the room we were in, so we could hear the guitar/keyboard but the drums wouldn't bleed much into that track. We exported the track from Audacity and matched it up with the other track in Acid.

For the final song we just had one mic in each track, because I wasn't planning on drumming and singing. When I decided to start drumming I drummed with one hand and pointed the mic at the kit with the other hand.

All things considered the quality is pretty good!