Metaljonus vs. The Ulnarian

The Ulnarian · 02-10-2005, 11:29 AM

This is a little piece I call "Fall From Grace". It's all about this benevolent king who's tired of having absolute power. In the beggining the king is reflecting upon his life and decides to end it by jupming out of the tower window. A lowly peasant finds his body and laments. Soon the whole township join in. After the tears, the town reflects upon the king's life.

Har Har, me and Metaljonus, just like old times...

metaljonus · 02-10-2005, 12:04 PM

K This is my 1st time doing this thanks for popping my cherry ul lol. This song is a song I did months ago( I guess you can call it old?) To me it is one of those songs that went "nowhere" but "somewhere" also. hehe good luck ul! Just like ol times. How I miss those days

Stiglar · 02-10-2005, 01:34 PM

both great tunes you guys !

i wish yours was a tad longer uln ! but great melody and the drums sound really good here !

jonus , the beginning of yours was very awesome .. and the middle section with the clean rhythm guitars and the swelled harmony notes .. very vai ! i loved it !

cool battle

The Ulnarian · 02-10-2005, 01:46 PM

Stig-Actually, in terms of length, this song is an epic for me (most of songs are barely 1 minute). However, yeah, you're right, I did want to make it longer but I recorded this initially for a site called Guitar War. Unfortunately, there's a 1.5meg limit over there and if my song was any longer I'd go down a notch or two in encoding quality, ultimately I kinda just ended. Probably should've attached some more stuff for this site though.

Beka4MikE · 02-10-2005, 01:55 PM

Uln I could see myself falling from the tower window man!! That was an awesome song!!

Jonus that was a really cool song I liked the guitar work big time!! Both of these were freaking awesome!!!

**axeshredder** · 02-10-2005, 02:08 PM

metaljonus....kick ass production...a little heavy for my taste but talent loaded
ulnarian......very creative and surprising...great tone on heavy part

Ill have to go with Ulnarian by a hair

02-10-2005, 02:16 PM

guys were good. what program did you guys used when you recorded?

The Ulnarian · 02-10-2005, 02:34 PM

Bullet Maniac-I use Cakewalk Guitar Track 2. At only $50 bucks it's the cheapest, good program that you can buy

**guitarwizard2003** · 02-10-2005, 03:28 PM

both great posts.. reminds me of the gb days.. ulnie i have to ask you.. did you change your tone? i love this heavy tone you have.. your stuff always kicked ass but seems like now your playin with a heavier tone and more melody to your post and i for one am lovin it...jon lots of great licks in there as always amazing bro

The Ulnarian · 02-10-2005, 03:44 PM

Gwiz-Heya, thx for listening. If you mean "Have I changed my tone between now and our last battle" the answer is nope. I used just about the same settings (on my crappy Digitech RP100). However, for this song, I tweaked the hell out of my EQ in parts, layered the crap out of that heavy rhythm and added a nice flanger effect in parts.

The rhythm tone is an idea I took from KCRocker. Basically, you lay down one part of the chord voicing on one track and a different part on another track. For instance, my heavy rhythm here looks somethign like this..

(ONE TRACK, I FORGET WHERE ITS PANNED)
----------
-7-7-7-------b
-5-5-5-------g
-4-4-4-------d
----------a

(SECOND TRACK; PLAYED SIMULATENOUS WITH THE FIRST)

----------D
4-4-4--------A
2-2-2--------e

Later on in the song is a cool idea I took from a guy name ROBOT, basically, you kill all of the EQ in the song except that you boost high end. Then you flange it (lol I even flanged the drums) and you're left with sweet, overprocessed sound.

Hope that helps.

**guitarwizard2003** · 02-10-2005, 03:48 PM

thx ulnie that helped and gave me somethin new to try.. but as for your tone i was referring to your tone now opposed back to gb

The Ulnarian · 02-10-2005, 03:51 PM

Oh yeah, awhile ago, Dannyboy (who also has an RP100) gave me these killer settings (by the RP100's standards), since then my songs have sounded a lot better I think.

**guitarwizard2003** · 02-10-2005, 03:52 PM

well you always been a great player but i like your new tone alot

The Ulnarian · 02-11-2005, 12:47 PM

Thx for the compliment, although I doubt I'll ever be a great player (I haven't the discipline).

Ginner · 02-12-2005, 04:00 PM

Holy crap YOU GUYS! Man I havnt seen you guys in a long time. Maybe yuo remeber me from the original guitar battle (metal jonus, we will STILL DO THAT BATTLE MWAHAHAHHA). Is there a list of the originals that made it here? I wonder who else made it back.....

btw I just voted, such a great battle. 2 Great artists.

Nowhere-Metaljonus

good job