Rob Vigna from Immolation records a quick song for REVOLVER magazine

[ChAAPY]

http://www.revolvermag.com/theunit/index.html

[The Baron]

his riffs never fail to impress. pure evil

[Cognitive Defeat]

very cool

[shroudofimpurity]

hummm.... I wish I could get a shot at this. I do this type of shit all the time.

I wonder whats up with the drums in this song? Sounds like some 80's Casio preprogrammed drums with Immolation riffs? Maybe he doesn't do much drum sequencing. The guitars sound like they were recorded with a metalzone straight in to the board, I do like his trippy twisted riffing though.

I say give me that Boss multitracker thing and I'll show ya what I can do!

[ChAAPY]

hummm.... I wish I could get a shot at this. I do this type of shit all the time.

I wonder whats up with the drums in this song? Sounds like some 80's Casio preprogrammed drums with Immolation riffs? Maybe he doesn't do much drum sequencing. The guitars sound like they were recorded with a metalzone straight in to the board, I do like his trippy twisted riffing though.

I say give me that Boss multitracker thing and I'll show ya what I can do!

I think all the artist gets to use is their instrument and they have to do all the effects and programming on that BOSS recorder. and the distortion on thing fucking sucks... I'm sure you could get a decent tone but it may be hard when you have under an hour or so to write and record a whole song (if you've never done something like that before of course).. I was reading through the magazine at Hastings today, even Rob said he hated the way the song turned out.

But yeah, it would killer to hear something from Decrepit Birth on it. Not to mention the publicity it would give you guys.

[m138jewski]

yeah the drums sound goofy. I supose its a cool thing to have to show your bandmates your musical ideas.

[Reincremation]

cool!

[shroudofimpurity]

I think all the artist gets to use is their instrument and they have to do all the effects and programming on that BOSS recorder. and the distortion on thing fucking sucks... I'm sure you could get a decent tone but it may be hard when you have under an hour or so to write and record a whole song (if you've never done something like that before of course).. I was reading through the magazine at Hastings today, even Rob said he hated the way the song turned out.

Oh you cant even use your own amp? That sucks... wonder why they give you a mic? Maybe for vocals only?

If it werent for the drums and guitar tone everything else is killer.

[shroudofimpurity]

You know I honestly hate those little multitrackers, I suppose they're cool to take on the road and maybe record live performances, but computer based audio software is getting so much cheaper these days... and its so nice to have a big 19 inch screen in front of you instead of the little 5 inch digital display. I haven't fucked with one of those standalone multitrackers for years now.

I'd still be down for this challenge, but I bet Revolver has never even heard of DB.

[ChAAPY]

Oh you cant even use your own amp? That sucks... wonder why they give you a mic? Maybe for vocals only?

If it werent for the drums and guitar tone everything else is killer.

here's the article



The odds were against him. With his bandmates waylaid by their days, Robert Vigna was the sole members of Yonkers, New York, death metal stalwarts Immolation who could make it out to Revolver's offices to take on the Unit. That meant he'd have to write and record a song from sratch all on his own. And he'd have to do it in two houws, because that's all the "studio time" we could wrangle in Revolver's conference room on the day in question.

But the guitarist didn't anticipate any trouble with the task at hand. "We only had a couple of months to write our entire new record [Shadows in the Light (Century Media)]," he pointed out. "I think this'll be OK."
Famous last words.

Unit participants tend to start with drums finding a patterns on which to build their song; Vigna, however, quickly dismissed this plan of attack after hearing the presets available on the Boss BR-1600. "Nothing's working," he said with a grim shake of his head. "I'll just write my own beat later." For the time being, he laid down the basic click track.

The axman spent the next few minutes running through dozens of guitar effects before settling on a reverb-heavy crunch. Then he started experimenting with some surprisingly complete-sounding riffs. "I woke up this morning with a bunch of ideas," he explained.

Satisfied by his first pass on the song--a two-and-a-half-minute blast of sinupus death metal-Vigna began adding layers of guitar tracks, building up a deafening wall of noise. But as he passed the one-hour mark, his perfectionist impulses overcame him.

"Can I do another punch-in?"
"I'm really sorry for how long this is taking."
"Where's that amp sound again?"
"Can I just do one more track?"

Finally, he gave the song some low end by running his guitar through the Unit's bass simulator, then leaned back in his chair.
With only 10 minutes left, the drums were still M.I.A., and there was no avoiding that the beep-beep-beep of the click track wasn't helping the song. "No," he agreed. "It sucks."

Fortunately, by keeping the beat simple, Vigna was able to program a pounding foundation for his instrumental track, titled "13013," in record time. With a minute to spare, he slid off his headphones and flashed a grin. "Done! See? No problem."

[shroudofimpurity]

here's the article



The odds were against him. With his bandmates waylaid by their days, Robert Vigna was the sole members of Yonkers, New York, death metal stalwarts Immolation who could make it out to Revolver's offices to take on the Unit. That meant he'd have to write and record a song from sratch all on his own. And he'd have to do it in two houws, because that's all the "studio time" we could wrangle in Revolver's conference room on the day in question.

But the guitarist didn't anticipate any trouble with the task at hand. "We only had a couple of months to write our entire new record [Shadows in the Light (Century Media)]," he pointed out. "I think this'll be OK."
Famous last words.

Unit participants tend to start with drums finding a patterns on which to build their song; Vigna, however, quickly dismissed this plan of attack after hearing the presets available on the Boss BR-1600. "Nothing's working," he said with a grim shake of his head. "I'll just write my own beat later." For the time being, he laid down the basic click track.

The axman spent the next few minutes running through dozens of guitar effects before settling on a reverb-heavy crunch. Then he started experimenting with some surprisingly complete-sounding riffs. "I woke up this morning with a bunch of ideas," he explained.

Satisfied by his first pass on the song--a two-and-a-half-minute blast of sinupus death metal-Vigna began adding layers of guitar tracks, building up a deafening wall of noise. But as he passed the one-hour mark, his perfectionist impulses overcame him.

"Can I do another punch-in?"
"I'm really sorry for how long this is taking."
"Where's that amp sound again?"
"Can I just do one more track?"

Finally, he gave the song some low end by running his guitar through the Unit's bass simulator, then leaned back in his chair.
With only 10 minutes left, the drums were still M.I.A., and there was no avoiding that the beep-beep-beep of the click track wasn't helping the song. "No," he agreed. "It sucks."

Fortunately, by keeping the beat simple, Vigna was able to program a pounding foundation for his instrumental track, titled "13013," in record time. With a minute to spare, he slid off his headphones and flashed a grin. "Done! See? No problem."

hahahahhaha!!! That's so funny, I could totally picture that situation... I'd probably be sweating it too. Only 2 hours? well, I retract my previous statement... he did a damn good job for the situation given to him.

[Reincremation]

it's okay matt, we all know you're a closet Immolation-hater:wink:

[ChAAPY]

I love his soloing too. dude never fails to impress me with those twisted riffs. anyone know what scale Immolation favors?

[Lichtbringer]

'No scale' ?

[ChAAPY]

'No scale' ?

I was thinking that too, but it sounds like he sticks to a lot of Diminished and Dissonant stuff but throws in notes every now and then that aren't in any particular scale.

[Lichtbringer]

I don't really know, lol.

[shroudofimpurity]

it's okay matt, we all know you're a closet Immolation-hater:wink:

no way man! Not my favorite band, but I love me some Immo!

[copper]

no way man! Not my favorite band, but I love me some Emo!

[shroudofimpurity]

^^^fucker!

[copper]

its only cause i wanted your love matt, youve been neglecting me :emot-fail ............ nah but seriously i think the track is cool, drums gay......but guitar cus sound a lot worse and those riffs are trippy.

[Surt]

as untr00 as it makes me sound for some reason i automatically thought of this guy when i saw the title of the thread:
http://www.essentialtoolboxes.com/bob-vila.jpg

Don't ask me why. I probably watch faaaaaaaaaaaaar too many Home Improvement re-runs.

[De Profoundis]

Ahahahaha! That drum track sounds hilarious underneath that song.

[Stupefaction]

Damn, I couldn't write that in two months, let alone two hours.

[Miscreant]

I would have left the drum track out, badass none the less