Miracle of Sound: Binary Divide (The Darkness 2)

[MiracleOfSound]

Also, liked the references to the first game in the lyrics, and that nod to Patton ("Faith will follow me no more") was pretty clever.
Side note: Did you enjoy Patton's portrayal of The Darkness more in the first or the second game? I thought it was better in the first one.

First one, by far. Much more deranged and sinister. The second one was too shouty.

 

[Larcenist]

Congratulations on the success making it possible to buy the guitar you've always wanted. As a fellow guitarist I know very well the feeling when you finally get to hold that beauty in your arms. It takes a special kind of talent to be able to produce a new song every 2 weeks that isn't only very well made but is very easy to listen to, catchy as hell and in different genres all along. You have earned every penny and you will earn a lot more. Keep taking my money every 2 weeks and keep up the excellent work Gavin.

 

[MiracleOfSound]

This song is a nice "fuck off" to anyone who keeps complaining that Gavin has no vocal range. Great job, man.

Thanks

I was poking through your encore written articles, curious what kind of setup you use, as someone who really loves music tech and kit (both hardware and software). Most of my work is from field recording + DSP foley / sound design focus, but I'm always interested how people approach their tasks.

Everything you just listed out is double dutch to me I'm afraid... my knowledge of music gear is extremely small, I just work with what I have!

I don't have any pedals and I don't use Guitar Rig (I despise the sound of Guitar Rig). I leave the guitar dry and with the amp's natural overdrive, apart form the odd delay or chorus every so often. Any effects/compressors I do use are just the ones that came with Cubase.

I don't know the first thing about guitars, drums, amps, pedals, techy stuff or anything like that. I just know what I like the sound of and I achieve it through trial and error and experimenting with the software/hardware (I know LEs Pauls are beastly though)

My speakers are Tapco, dunno what exact type. My soundcard is a Yamaha Audiogram 6. My amp is an Orange Tiny Terror though it's new - only this song and Take It Back were done on it, the rest on my 15 year old tiny Samick).

Komplete and Vienna are on my wishlist. For now it's Kontakt and Ableton for MIDI/Synth stuff.

Also, this answer needs to go in Encore...

 

[OmniscientOstrich]

I can't help it. I must post this.

Aww, he just wants to be loved. XD

 

[Raynoson]

I generally like all if not everyone of your songs so far, I think you are indeed a talent if not a music star.
I do hold some distaste towards this one, I thought it wasn't quite as awesome and or fun.
Then again the might just be me, as far as I can see, but with what you do is up to you plain and free.
I look forward to what you think up next whatever game it is, and yet again you are a whiz.
(I would've of given an extended report, but I prefer to cut this short, as it went on for far to long, and most would by the finish, be gone).

 

[WaysideMaze]

Brilliant song, the heavier feel was just right for this.

Wasn't sure if you'd be able to pull off the heavier vocal style (or ever attempt it) but you absolutely nailed it here, great work.

Can't wait till I can get this on my MP3.

 

[spookydom]

&#8206;\m/ (>_<)&#65279; \m/

 

[zorrandur]

never shut down one of your songs before it ended.... untill now... you're a talented guy no doubt, this just wasn't my style.



damn that red button.................

 

[II2]

Everything you just listed out is double dutch to me I'm afraid... my knowledge of music gear is extremely small, I just work with what I have!

I don't have any pedals and I don't use Guitar Rig (I despise the sound of Guitar Rig). I leave the guitar dry and with the amp's natural overdrive, apart form the odd delay or chorus every so often. Any effects/compressors I do use are just the ones that came with Cubase.

I don't know the first thing about guitars, drums, amps, pedals, techy stuff or anything like that. I just know what I like the sound of and I achieve it through trial and error and experimenting with the software/hardware (I know LEs Pauls are beastly though)

My speakers are Tapco, dunno what exact type. My soundcard is a Yamaha Audiogram 6. My amp is an Orange Tiny Terror though it's new - only this song and Take It Back were done on it, the rest on my 15 year old tiny Samick).

Komplete and Vienna are on my wishlist. For now it's Kontakt and Ableton for MIDI/Synth stuff.

Also, this answer needs to go in Encore...

Cool, thanks for the insight. Komplete includes many Vienna Symphonic Library sounds bundled and ready to go as Kontakt multi-sampled instruments. (I don't know if it's actually a comprehensive selection of Vienna's sample material, but it's a significant bundle to the tune of 48gbs of all kinds of orchestral, band and misc samples)... Working with it is a joy and I'd give it a thumbs up.

Interesting you don't like Guitar Rig... I know a lot of other musicians who feel similarly. I like it, myself, but I use it as a general effect plugin and rarely on guitars.

Anyway, cheers man. Keep doing what you do.

 

[brunothepig]

Listened to it three times in a row so far, fantastic job! Wasn't sure if you had it in you to do growls like that, I guess now we know. Loved the switch between clean vocals and growling, this could well become my favourite song of yours. Glad to hear you weren't one of those idiots who tear their throat apart to growl haha, would hate for this to be your only song with growls. Already looking forward to another one.

One thing I've been wondering about for a while, does Clouse get the song before us to make the footage, or just some lyrics or an early version or something?

 

[Doom-Slayer]

Not a screamo fan but i still liked the lyrics a tremendous amount. Very well written back and forth between the darkness and him.

Calling metal screamo tends to drive metal fans like me and Gav up the wall, btw. Just because it has screaming doesn't mean it's called screamo, screamo's a rather crap and wimpy subgenre of something else entirely. This is more thrash/death metal.

OVERDEFINING METAL FAN AWAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

Have to agree. The growled vocals are more closer to death metal/thrash. And I think its less over-defining and more along the lines of people just using blanket terms for whole variety of things. It would be like calling TF2 and counterstrike both FPS's. While in this case its true, a lot of info is lost when comparing them.

OT: Loved the song and the vocals. Nailed the hard vocals and the clean vocals gave a great contrast. Keep up the good work.

 

[MiracleOfSound]

One thing I've been wondering about for a while, does Clouse get the song before us to make the footage, or just some lyrics or an early version or something?

Justin usually begins to get spammed with early recorded versions of the song around 2 weeks before the vid comes out. I send him a lot of emails

 

[ECasThat]

It's a bit too metal for my taste, but good job nonetheless.

I really like the jarring differences between the "Torn in binary divide" part and the rest of the song.
It shows that Jackie really just is a broken down man, controlled by the unstoppable, chaotic force that is the darkness.

 

[jboking]

METAAAAAAAAL

More metal when the darkness was talking rather than Gav, but still pretty damn metal.

 

[Valanthe]

You know, I generally hate the heavy, gravelly voice that usually accompanies Death metal and the like, it simply grates on my nerves and usually is just as a way to hide a lack of talent. But for this, because of the theme of The Darkness 2, it just -worked.-

I never thought I'd be adding a song with that style of vocals to my list of favorites, but there you have it, bravo!

 

[Aggressor and Usurper]

Not a screamo fan but i still liked the lyrics a tremendous amount. Very well written back and forth between the darkness and him.

Calling metal screamo tends to drive metal fans like me and Gav up the wall, btw. Just because it has screaming doesn't mean it's called screamo, screamo's a rather crap and wimpy subgenre of something else entirely. This is more thrash/death metal.

OVERDEFINING METAL FAN AWAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

Have to agree. The growled vocals are more closer to death metal/thrash. And I think its less over-defining and more along the lines of people just using blanket terms for whole variety of things. It would be like calling TF2 and counterstrike both FPS's. While in this case its true, a lot of info is lost when comparing them.

OT: Loved the song and the vocals. Nailed the hard vocals and the clean vocals gave a great contrast. Keep up the good work.

^This guy. Sometimes being specific about genres is necessary!

 

[Bujiraso]

omg awesome.
edit: vocals yesssssssssssssss. guitar yessssssssssssssss. drums yesssssssssssssssssssssss. whole song yessssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss

 

[Jungy 365]

Wow ... Gav, I don't know what to say. First, you give us an amazing Mass Effect 3 song earlier this week (which for anyone reading this who hasn't seen it, go do so immediately), then, on the same week you release another top quality song. Thank you. Really.

 

[Jungy 365]

Wow ... Gav, I don't know what to say. First, you give us an amazing Mass Effect 3 song earlier this week (which for anyone reading this who hasn't seen it, go do so immediately), then, on the same week you release another top quality song. Thank you. Really.