Calling all Musos! - anyone for a Jovi project?
 

Hi guys. Know this has been suggested before but no-one’s really pulled their finger out and got things organised –

Wondered if the musicians out there wanted to lay down a few jovi tracks for a bit of a laugh and post the results up here. Be even more fun* if we had multiple guitarists/ keyboards/ bassists / singers and we could splice up the tracks into sections and make complete songs played by different musicians throughout.

You’d need to be able to make a fairly error-free, decent quality, hiss-free, recording of only your part – and to receive everyone else’s tracks I’d imagine a broadband connection would be a must too.

The only problem I can see here is the drums- Might need to have just one drummer play the whole thing- or have a couple of drummers willing to play to a click (Please, for the love of god, lets have no discussion about slippery funking slopes) and who would mail each other about how they were setting up mics for their kit etc.

Anyway… in short, if anyone would like to give this a go then please drop a line to joviproject@googlemail.com letting me know what instrument you play and track suggestions.

Oh, and if I’m stepping on anyone’s toes here who tried to set this up originally then drop me a post too and we can try and manage the thing and put all the tracks together when we get them.

Cheers.

R

* "Fun" is a relative term.

i dunno if i can promise them being totally hiss free since my brother likes to normalise every track till the point of it being hotter than a really really hot thing but i could do the drums no problem with my rolands.

i'd have an 8 click intro before the drums started or a longer click if the drums don't start straight away just to keep everyone right and then whoevers doing the final editing or mixing or whatever it is would just have to cut that out.

i could stick a guitar or bass down there too and vocals depending on the tune (though i'm never 100% happy with the overall sound of the vocals i record up here) if needed but it'd be cool if we had a bunch of different people all doing different stuff on it.

I see no reason why I cant play rythm. I dont mind laying down the chord structure of whatever song you like :)

I'll have to go to a proper studio to record though (i'll jump in at the lunch break of my mates slot).

Give us another couple of months and i might be in.

Cheers Jim, that's a great start - getting a solid drummer really makes the difference, especially when we're recording stuff all in different places!

Laying down other instrument tracks would also be cool, then we can cut and splice bits in from lots of different people.

Cheers also guys - should make a good go of it with the talent I'm sure is on the board!

i was thinking i could knock together a scratch track so everyone knew where in the tune it was.

problem being i mixdown everything from my desk to stereo on the laptop so in order for you to be able to cut the scratch track once the song started getting built up i'd need to send one track of the drums, one track with the scratch alone (recording alogn with the drums but with the drums faded out) and then you'd have to sync them up.

unless i did a full guitar track but if i did i'd rather keep it clean / acoustic and let other folk do the main parts.

idea's for a song btw?

Well, it only really gets complicated if there is going to be more than one drummer! - were you planning to record to a click?

Depending on the tune we want to do, maybe we could use a rough guitar track as a guide - I know bassists have a hard enough time as it is with "where's spot" without being handed a stand-alone drum track to play with.*

No ideas on tracks yet- thought I'd go with the majority when we've got some more vict... volunteers. Any favourites yourself, Jim?


*This is, of course, not true of any bassist smart enough to be a member of Dry County.

Dig.. dig

i can do the 2 seperate drum and scratch guitar tracks so everyone knows where the song is as long as you'll be able to sync them up to each other which shouldn't be too hard since they'll both essentially be coming from the one track.

as for tunes.... i dunno, depends how much of a cluster**** you want to make it. :-) i like drumming to the solid 4/4 beats that you can just drive along because you don't have to get too fancy or intricate ie just older, born to be my baby, misunderstood, in these arms, these days etc...

but if we want to get a bit creative i think trying if that's what it takes or hearts breaking even would be fun.

maybe starting with something simpler to see how it works out cause it'd be a waste if everyone spent alot of time working on a complicated tune and it ended up terrible or not getting finished at all.

anything that i get to use my "phil collins" drum patch on is an added bonus :-)

C'mon people! are you telling me there aren't many musos out there? You all talk a good gig on the forums!

Still looking for at least one bassist, singers and lead guitarists - :)

if we don't find a bassist i can lay that down too.