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New Van Halen Cover!
« on: July 19, 2022, 05:04:02 PM »
My old singer and I started a cover of Summer Nights last year and kinda stalled on it. I got the lead out of my ass and finished it up today. Hope you guys dig it.

https://soundcloud.com/cozmo-hagar/summer-nights
« Last Edit: August 03, 2022, 03:51:50 PM by Sir GuitarCozmo »

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Re: New Van Halen Cover!
« Reply #1 on: August 03, 2022, 02:43:04 PM »
It doesn't ull up for me. :(

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Re: New Van Halen Cover!
« Reply #2 on: August 03, 2022, 02:59:44 PM »
The link didnt work for me either

but this works for me https://soundcloud.com/cozmo-hagar/summer-nights

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Re: New Van Halen Cover!
« Reply #3 on: August 03, 2022, 03:51:07 PM »
Wtf? Not sure why the other link didn't work. Thanks, man!

Edit: I see. I fixed it.

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« Reply #4 on: August 04, 2022, 06:50:08 AM »
Friggin' nailed my favorite part: the flood of guitars right after the intro.  Ed always made it sound like an avalanche of guitars and you got it.  Usually I hate the vocals on these kinds of things, but that guy kind of got it.  There's a little pitchiness on the chorus, but for what this is, I think it's pretty damn cool.   

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« Reply #5 on: August 04, 2022, 06:57:16 AM »
Thanks, it was a lot of fun putting this together when I live in PA and he lives in OH!

Since EVH used a Steinberger, I had to play the intro part in standard, then pitch shift it up after the fact. Plus the drums are all programmed in EZ Drummer 3. I took a lot of listens to the song and went measure by measure hand programming the part. The solo was a serious pain in the ass, honestly. I'm not super good at recording and mixing and such yet, but like you said, for what it is, I'm pretty pleased with it.

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Re: New Van Halen Cover!
« Reply #6 on: August 04, 2022, 07:59:26 AM »
That's pretty cool though. 

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« Reply #7 on: August 04, 2022, 08:01:34 AM »
Glad you guys dig it. I keep tinkering around and leaning new recording stuff all the time. I enjoy it.

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« Reply #8 on: August 04, 2022, 08:14:16 AM »
Glad you guys dig it. I keep tinkering around and leaning new recording stuff all the time. I enjoy it.

I do dig it; my "it is what it is" was not a criticism at all; I just wanted to make clear that I understood this wasn't done at Abbey Road with the full resources of the BBC behind you.  :)

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« Reply #9 on: August 04, 2022, 08:24:19 AM »
Haha, no, I understood. Thanks for clarifying. This was done on a laptop with a Line 6 interface and a couple small monitoring speakers. The guitar tone was a custom made one I found on Line 6's Customtone site. Someone made an unbelievable OU812 tone and it was perfect for this.

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Re: New Van Halen Cover!
« Reply #10 on: August 13, 2022, 04:45:42 AM »
Nice job! Hangar’s best song in my opinion. I do t care what anyone says; 5150 is a bangin’ Van Halen album.

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Re: New Van Halen Cover!
« Reply #11 on: August 16, 2022, 02:58:36 PM »
Nice job! Hangar’s best song in my opinion. I do t care what anyone says; 5150 is a bangin’ Van Halen album.

+1 on the 5150 love.  Summer Nights is a killer tune.  I was so bummed this one got played on the PA before Sammy's concert recently.  I wish they did it live instead.