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'When You Use Real Instruments Instead Of Synthesizers'

MudMarine said:
Just goes to show what a personal experience music is to each person! AC/DC with a string section........NEVER; bagpipes are ok!!:applause::icon_lol:
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I bet you AC/DC would translate into a symphony orchestra show very, very well -- excellently in fact!

Imagine the intro guitar solo in "Thunder" being played by a standard string section.

Oh yeah! I can see that being rather tasty indeed!

Ken
 
cheezyflier said:
in your mind (mine as well) it sounds like a great idea. but in reality, it's VERY difficult to pull off. the "sound" becomes too "fat" and it just doesn't work out most of the time. i briefly experimented with this idea many years ago with a project called "the mountain band". we had 5 guitarists, 2 bass players, 2 drummers, and 5 singers. it was a nightmare for the sound guy, let alone everyone else. it has been done effectively but it's really tough to pull off.

speaking of strings, one of the reasons i love the twelve girl band so much is because they play a blend of folk, modern, and classical, and chinese, but with traditional chinese instruments that go back more than a thousand years. so it's classical, but yet it's not. it's rock, (some of it) but it's not. it's "ethnic", but in more than one way. that, and the skill involved is monumental. i would love to try this piece with all guitars:
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That was great! Yeah, I think that would sound powerful with acoustic guitars.

Ken
 
Snuffy said:
AC/DC eh?

Try this ...

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Now that is one of the coolest things I have heard in a long time. Just goes to show, a good tune is a good tune never mind the genre (excepting rap of course ...... lol)
 
i hate it when rock bands use them in an effort to appear more artsy.
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Me, too! Generally! As much as I dislike all this unplugged BS! But sometimes there are some great outputs still. It can even be done the other way round:

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Believe it or not;-) Jaz Colemann, frontman of Killing Joke, is actually the leadcomposer for the New Zealand philharmonic orchestra and conductor of the prague philharmonics! He creates "heavy music" and all the used intruments could easily be played with those of an orchestra and it would sound perfect as well. Funny fact, he dislikes mixing the intrumental styles and rarely uses his orchestra musicians within the rock music.


Bass, guitar, drums. Makes for the best bands. You don't even need a specialized singer either.
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Bjoern, so you definetely must like something like this, right? it fits right into your criterias:d:d:d

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Digression, Digression, my ears bleed, I´ll go...;-)
 
Well, a bit too maintream for my taste...;)

As a result from my own bands I dislike trashy or for me irrelevant lyrics (the reason why I can hardly listen to "young" bands, I guess:-( so I look for singing I do not understand at all (not yet):
my favourite bass-guitar-drum-3-piece-set at the moment (and I don´t get a word;-))):
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And I still like very serious songwriting, among the best:
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AC/DC eh?

Try this ...
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Brilliant! Love it that style, really!!!

Regards
Alex
 
From my favourite live DVD:

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Within Temptation, an orchestra and a choir; it hardly gets any better!
 
I had the misfortune to see Within Temptation headlining at Bloodstock one year. Absolutely atrocious, in fact one of the worst all round performances I've ever witnessed.

Conversely one band that often use a full orchestra to great effect is Manowar. I recall seeing them at Earthshaker, it was a truly memorable experience that actually brought at tear to the eye when the finished with "the Crown and the Ring".
 
I'm usually more of a "Classic" rock guy and I don't care for many of the newer bands but this one...

Well, Evanescence rocks

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Brian
 
grunau_baby said:
Well, a bit too maintream for my taste...;)
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Great, now I'm offended. No one calls Biffy mainstream! NO ONE! D:

As a result from my own bands I dislike trashy or for me irrelevant lyrics (the reason why I can hardly listen to "young" bands, I guess:-( so I look for singing I do not understand at all (not yet):
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I need lyrics, even if they sometimes make no or only little sense.

my favourite bass-guitar-drum-3-piece-set at the moment (and I don´t get a word;-))):
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Asian bands somehow don't tingle my music receptors at all.
Must be the language.

And I still like very serious songwriting, among the best:
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He doesn't sound too badly.
 
Even a real orchestra doesn't sound right any more, since the introduction of digital recording equipment. Everything is being "synthesized"! I am so missing vinyl and analog processing!
 
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