Work

Happy halloweeeeeen to ya!

Some minor news from the passed week:

I got contacted this week about a game project. I will make the music (maybe sound effects as well) for a game that will be featured in a few gaming contests next year. Still work in progress, but I wanted to mention it here, more about this as it progress.

Also, bass recordings with pz has been somewhat delayed, we were supposed to record this weekend, but we'll fix it the coming week instead. No problemo.

Drums recorded!

It's official, our drummer rocks! Walle you ROCK!

You can almost see how much he rocks on this image:



The weekend went well. We focused on nailing the drums for 'my reason' during saturday evening and it went pretty well, we did a few takes on it and finally got a take that worked for us. We had some time left and did a few takes on 'Unbeatable Foe', which is the other song we recorded drums for this weekend. Walle rocked but we all felt a bit tired and decided to nail the last song on sunday.

On sunday we got to the studio with a bit more confident and Walle played amazing all through. He played with a lot of soul and feel on 'unbeatable foe'. I think it was the second take on that song or something, he was surely in the zone. :D

After that we listened to the recording of 'my reason' from the previous day, and we decided to do try another take on that song as well. Glad we did! It was even better this time around. Walle played like he was on fire :) ..and I must say that this guy POUNDS his drums, I almost felt a bit sorry for the drums after a while.

There's actually only one word that sum up Walle's performance - ROCK!

This coming weekend we'll aim to record the bass for these two songs.

Now I'm tired, my head needs some sleep...

Drums in place and mic'ed

Tested out a couple of setups for the drums today. We got a clean and nice sound, natural but still with the punch we need. We used 9 mics today, and we'll add one more tomorrow before we start recording. We realized that we probably need to use two mics on the snare. We'll at least try it.

The setup looks like this:

-Electrovoice N/D868 for the bass drum.
-Shure SM57 and SM58 for the snare.
-One mic for each tom (4 toms and 4 mics total, cant remember what model).
-Two CM3 mics for A/B overhead.
-SP B1 as a room mic.

We'll continue checking some stuff tomorrow and then we'll start recording 'My Reason' tomorrow evening, fingers crossed.

Keep rockin'

First evening of recording!

So now its time. Time to rock. Or in the words of Joey Tempest:

"Rock me like you never done before
Then rock me just a little bit more"

We'll start drum recordings TODAY! Or at least we'll spend the friday evening setting things up. A lot of drum gear to manage and I'll get my studio gear over to our rehearsal place, where we'll set up a temp studio for the drum recording. We'll use 8-10 mics on the drumset. I'll tell you more about the setup later on.

Walle will pick me up in his shiny rockin' Seat Ibiza soon, I'm just waiting.. and drinkin' some coffee.. not enough coffee today i'd say. But I'm working on that as well.

I'll try to get some pictures on the setup tonight as well.

SEEE YA!

No One Left

Here's a song that I wrote with my friend Marcus - who's also the eminent bassplayer in Point zero! I wrote the music and melodies, Mackan wrote all the lyrics. He writes amazing lyrics and works really fast! :) You rock mackis!

Anyway, here it is:



The lyrics:

No one left

Music: Fredrik Lindberg
Lyrics: Marcus Persson Lindqvist

Captured straydog in a cage
Born dirty, born old age
Seeking an escape
Even from you

No one left
There is no one left
Once again, it is easier that way

No one left
There is no one left
Not even you, could make him stay

Captured straydog free again
Roaming lonely with his pain
Wondering why again
(The cold lands and) not you?

No one left
There is no one left
Once again, it is easier that way

No one left
There is no one left
Not even you, could make him stay

No one left
There is no one left
Once again, well its easier that way

No one left
There is no one left
Not even you, could make me stay

No one left...

The week of drums!

Tomorrow we start! First day of testing mics for the drums for the coming point zero recording. We'll try a couple of BD mics tomorrow to see which one we prefer - sound-wise. We have booked Friday-Monday this coming weekend for the actual recording. Exciting..

ROCK!

Rub al-Khali

Finished another track today, it's called 'Rub al-Khali', which is an desert located mainly in Saudi Arabia. It's the greatest desert on earth and one of the most climate hostile places on earth. I got inspired by reading about it, the name 'Rub al-Khali' means, loosely translated - 'empty space', or something like that.

The music is of course middle eastern inspired and has that desert-flair. :)

I'll upload all of the songs for my promo later on. Until then, keep on rockin' and have a lovely friday.

/F

Dagens citat

"Det går i motsatt håll mot groovet och det går inte att räkna"

- Detta sa en något trött Mackan till mig under dagens rep :)

Hoppas jag citerade rätt, men det var något åt det hållet iaf. Mackan? Du kan väl rätta mig om jag citerade dig fel. Kul var det!

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Point zero - It's time

Now it's time. Time to start recordings with point zero, finally. We had an rehearsal today and it feels like we're ready, like we've played the songs enough and that we need to move on, and we will. Next week we'll enter the studio with point zero, to record the first couple of tracks. Starting tuesday, as it seems now. I'll post updates and progress reports here.

We'll start with the two tracks 'Unbeatable Foe' and 'My Reason', and if everything goes smoothly we'll probably continue on with the rest of the set.

It will be a couple of rough, fun, rockin' weeks, I'm sure!

Exciting times!

Stay rockin'

/F

Lindbergmusic.se - Music for games and media

I'm about to finish the last couple of songs for this promo. It's a promo that I will send to the business in hope of making contacts in the industry. I have a wide palette styles featured on this promo, but they all have in common that they could be applied to any kind of media, that's at least what I had in mind writing them. But if you dig this kind of music you probably could also enjoy it as an album of songs.

These are the completed songs at this stage:

01 - Breathless Sleep
02 - Bring Them Home
03 - Collision
04 - Core Enigma
05 - Extreme Conditions
06 - Grand Design
07 - Imperium
08 - No One Left
09 - No You in Me
10 - Pathfinder
11 - Something From Nothing
12 - State of Solace
13 - Warstorm
14 - Will Versus Exhaustion

..and the songs that are in the making:

- Lost In Space
- When Reality Bring You Down
- You
- Departure
- Terminal
- Sworn Enemies
- Rub al Khali
- Rain

As you see, a bunch of songs! I have already gotten an cover for this promo from a great artist. Looks great :)

BACK TO THE STUDIO!

Cheers! /F

Dream Theater cover

Found these guys covering one of my favourite bands - dream theater. Check their amazing cover here:



Cool!