"Unplugged Fest" - Ugly - Sevendust

[Saijinn Maas]

So... Just when i think I am all out ideas for the Unplugged Fest, I am messing around with the MBR trying to get a better handle on recording vox. So I am just humming away checking different setting when a song pops into my head. It'd been awhile since I heard the song, but it was one of my favorites from Sevendust. After listening to it I thought "There's no way this will work as an acoustic song. So I sat rewinding the song over and over to figure out the chords. Once I did that, the rest kinda just fell into place.

3 Acoustic Tracks
1 Bass Track
1 Main Vox Track
1 2nd Vox Track
Used JAZZ kit for the drums
Mastered using a tweaked Live Mix

hopefully this came out okay...

[Halem]

You turned it in a very nice and not aggressive song, but didn't loose the spirit, good job! Chords sequence that you picked works great and vocals brought me back to the original immediately.

[launched]

You and your acoustic can do wonderful things. You should pull up a stool somewhere, because these posts are excellent.

[Gary F]

  Very nice performance Sai !!!! Nice vox and the guitars sounded great!! 
 You did a wonderful job with this song!!!!
             
               Gary

[Satchwood]

Yet Another Great Cover Sai!!  Not familiar with Sevendust, but this sounds great!

If your not playing the club scene solo man, you should be - just take these songs that you've covered unplugged here, and make them your 1st set dude!

[Wiley]

Oh Saiij  I haven't ever hear this before. But I sure love how you are doing it. This was great!!  You can sing to me any day!!

[Geir]

never heard it either  ... but like the other stuff you've posted during this fest you've made a wonderful piece of music. This is really good !!

Love the arrangement and the production is great. 

piePod material !!

[SE]

Don,t know the song but the vocals are just too good and the guitars are just excellent, love to hear another unplugged yourself your covers are all so well done.

[hooper]

Not heard this before either but I really like the way this was played and produced. I like the way the one guitar is 'ticking' like a metronome between two notes and sets up a contra rhythm with the rhythm guitar. Great vocal too!

[Saijinn Maas]

Thanks for the comments everyone.

Hooper -
The counter rhythm was a last minute thing. I was mixing and getting ready to master, and it sounded like it was missing something. And I need to cover up a mistake that I made that is now not noticeable  heh

Halem -
I was really wary of loosing the spirit of the song, which is one of the reasons I almost didn't do it. The "screams" were the hardest part to make a decision about. Being re-arranged for acoustic, and recording at 2am, the screams had to go become whispered "screams"  heh

I am actually pretty happy with the way it came out. I'm usually so self-deprecating when it comes to recording.