"Monsters, Inc." original

[lg]

LOL

I think that you have this bouncing v-tracks down pat!
I am still figeting with it....
I anxiously await more....

LG

[Greeny]

This is f*cking great, Ted. Original, weird, rocky, and brilliant. Love the way the vocals sit between the big chords on the verses. Your vocals (and lyrics) are also excellent - some great imagery (especially the factory bit).

This sounds like a full, tight band.

Love it to bits. A forum highlight for me!

[Ted]

Well, in that case, an extra special Welcome Back to you Greeny. You've been playing catch-up. So happy you had time to stop by my little laboratory.

I appreciate you saying that it sounds like a full, tight band.  That's quite a compliment.

I don't know if I have a method to it, but I'm primarily a bass player, and a frustrated drummer who composes on guitar. 

I always start with a mono "scratch track" with just guitar, voice, and (usually) a single drum pattern.  Then (usually) I arrange the drums against the scratch track.  So when I start recording the actual separate instruments, I'm always playing along with that original performance supplemented with a fairly complete drum arrangement.  I don't drop the scratch track until I record the vocals--usually last.

Not that you asked.

BTW: My mad-scientist-and-monster imagery, can't compare to Skullcrusher Mountain by Jonathan Coulton.

[Ted]

Masterbump! This song is 10 years old, and The Nutrients are going to record it!

I decided to use the original as a scratch track, but take out the drums and replace them with clicks (per our producer/engineer's request). Amazingly, I still had the working files backed up somewhere (the SONGXXXX.BRO folder). I got a little confused about how the whole thing was put together on the MBR, and then I remembered that I exhausted the MBR's 50-step limit, and had to do some drum bouncing. So this stands as the most complicated drum arrangement I've ever done on the MBR.