New Cover: Gates of Babylon

[Rockermann]

Hi guys... We'd love some feedback on our latest cover if you don't mind. This is for all you classic rockers and Rainbow fans.

It's a cover of the Rainbow classic, "Gates of Babylon". I think we've just about got this dialed in, but there are a couple of things to come yet (like the violin at the end). Read the details at the SoundCloud site for info on our very special guests.

http://soundcloud.com/project-43/gates-of-babylon-cover

As always, we appreciate any and all feedback!

 

[deeaa]

I guess Soundcloud makes it somehow a bit murky...sounds like a messy MP3 conversion. Low end is much improved now though! Too bad the sound quality overall suffers so much with the mp3 conversion...what bitrate is it on soundcloud?

 

[Rockermann]

I uploaded a 192kbps MP3 to SoundCloud. Not sure how their encoding effects it after that. Maybe something went wrong on my conversion to MP3. I'll so some checking...

 

[Katastrophe]

Listening to it now, as I type...

I have to confess that I haven't heard the original, and don't have a frame of reference. As usual, Dee's vocals sound great. The mix is murky, as Dee said, but I can make out most of what's happening. This tune has the potential to sound HUGE. I dig the keyboards, and it's a Blackmore tune, so guaranteed the guitars are gonna sound great. The person doing the solo is good.

I like it! I'd love to hear a little bit clearer version, though... It's kind of hard to make out what the rhythm guitar is doing in parts of the tune.

I can tell, though, that y'all put in a lot of work on a difficult tune.

 

[Rockermann]

Thanks, Katastrophe! Appreciate the detailed feedback. I'm doing some tweaking on the mix and there was problem with some of the 'quickie' mastering effects I applied, so I'm confident it'll be much clearer on the final mix. But, this is exactly why I like getting feedback here.

The solo is being played by Steph (http://www.youtube.com/user/StephLeGratteux/featured) and you are right... he is GOOD. We're excited to have him collaborate on this with us. We're also joined by Richie (U.R.) on keys: http://www.youtube.com/user/rushyeskansas

Full video and final mix yet to come... Stay tuned.

 

[Katastrophe]

Cool! Can't wait to hear the final product!