Doom - Sign of Evil (E1M8) - Metal Cover 

UPDATE MAY 2018: Dissatisfied with the mix in the video, I adjusted the mix further late last year. This remix is closer to how I imagined it sounding when I recorded it.
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Surprise, this is another cover for the VGCovers Subreddit, for the February Cover Contest. The theme of the contest is "Final Stage/Last Dungeon", and the criteria for a song to be eligible to be covered for the contest is as follows:
"It includes the last part of a game; NOT including the boss fight!
It could be many things such as the dungeon where the final boss is hiding, the last race of an arcade racing game, the final stage of a platformer game the last fight of a championship in a fighting game etc etc."
If you've watched my other covers, they have all been either in my uncle's studio (my first three covers) or in my bedroom (all the other covers), and for this one I wanted to change up the visuals a bit, so I recorded both the video and the audio for this cover at the car park of my mum and dad's workplace. The sad thing is, since I A: don't have more than two microphones (I had to borrow my uncle's AKG D112) and B: I don't have an interface with more than two channels, I couldn't mic up the whole drum kit, so the drums sound a bit weaker than the sound I got with my electronic drums and the drum samples. However, to get the majority of the kit sound, I also used my uncle's camera, a Sony HDR-MV1, which has two condenser microphones in an X/Y configuration, and that works really well for recording loud sound sources in stereo (like drums).
This is also the first time in over two years that I've brought back out the Octavia pedal that my dad made quite a few years back. It is in fact the same pedal that was used in my cover of the theme song of "The Good, The Bad And The Ugly", and I used it in this cover for the solo, to make it cut through more in the mix.
For guitars, I used the Fender 1982 Stratocaster again, and I used the neck position exclusively in the cover. There are two reasons for this, one is because the Octavia pedal works best when using the neck pickup on the guitar, and the other is for the sustain. If you look closely, and it may also be easier to see in my other covers that feature this guitar, the strings don't line up correctly over the pole pieces of the bridge pickup. The reason for this is because, for whatever reason, the bridge is not the original bridge that came on the guitar, and the spacing of the bridge saddles is meant for a wider neck on a Stratocaster. What this means in terms of sound is that on the high strings, high notes don't sustain very long, even with the fuzz pedal on. However, the strings line up much better on the neck pickup, and that means that the note sustains much longer. In my Ikana Valley metal cover I posted at the end of 2015, I used the neck pickup exclusively in the guitar as well, because I found out then that it had more sustain than using the bridge pickup.
Also, no, I don't have two amplifiers, the amplifier in the lead guitar video clips was recorded in two places, one for the main lead guitar, and one for the harmonising guitar at the end of the song. The editing of the clips required some clever editing to make it look as seamless as possible, because I accidentally bumped the camera in between shots, and my dad accidentally bumped the guitar stand between shots, so the second clip required some skewing to make it look as seamless as possible.
Programs used:
Recording, Mixing and Mastering - Sony Acid Pro 7
Video Editing - Sony Vegas Pro 13
Equipment and other stuff used:
- Lead Guitar - Fender 1982 Stratocaster
- Rhythm Guitar - Jackson JS32T Rhoads
- Bass Guitar - Hohner Jack Bass Custom V
- Drum Kit - Yamaha Stage Custom Advantage (5-Piece)
- Keyboards - Korg KRONOS-73
- Microphones:
- AKG D112
- sE Electronics sE2200a
- AKG D310
- Guitar Amplifier - Orbitek Prototype
- Bass Amplifier - Gallien-Krueger Backline 600
- Bass Cabinet - Electro-Voice 1x15 Cabinet
- Lead Distortion - Silicon Fuzz Face Copy
- Solo Effects - Octavia Copy
- Rhythm Distortion - Behringer OD100 Distortion/Overdrive Pedal
- Other Effects - Sony Acid Pro Plug-ins
- Cameras:
- Sony HDR-CX405
- Sony HDR-MV1
Guitar Tunings:
- Fender 1982 Stratocaster: E-A-D-G-B-E (E Standard)
- Jackson JS32T Rhoads: C-F-A#-D#-G-C (C Standard)
- Hohner Jack Bass Custom V: B-E-A-D-G (B Standard)
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