Efflux - new album demo

croninburg · Post by **croninburg** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 4:32 pm

A few months ago we did a live practice recording of a tune from the album we're recording. It's called Trapped in the Astrolab, you can hear it at www.myspace.com/effluxmusic . I would be interested to hear your opinions

UNGODLIKE · Post by **UNGODLIKE** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 11:02 pm

"avant 'tard" heh heh... so is your band's composition formated on improvasation or something?this normally isn't the type of music i'd listen to but it sounds pretty good. i like the tempo shifts in that song. so what do u play?

croninburg · Post by **croninburg** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 11:59 pm

Thanks man, I'm one of the guitarists. We do jam a lot at practice, and there's a little improvisation in our set, but our songs are generally written by one person and then learned by everyone else because we're all at uni and can only play together in the holidays

Everyone gets a say though, which is cool. The "avant 'tard" thing is just a joke, I can't remember who made it up, but it wan't me. Myspace is such a crock of shit that I hate to take it seriously.. If you're really taken by the tunes, we have a CD release split with two other bands.. http://bwcr.bigcartel.com

Pfl?yd · Post by **Pfl?yd** » Tue Dec 11, 2007 10:06 am

The split CD is pretty good, I recommend it.

I don't need to tell you what I think of your stuff.

croninburg · Post by **croninburg** » Tue Dec 11, 2007 10:36 am

Thanks Pfloyd, I think I sent you this track a while ago

It's not on myspace anymore, the guy who mixed it wasn't happy with it

-Will- · Post by **-Will-** » Tue Dec 11, 2007 4:09 pm

I listened to it yesterday, but I forgot to mention anything. Anywhoo, it was excellent, and I didn't expect anything less. You guys are great.

croninburg · Post by **croninburg** » Tue Dec 11, 2007 4:19 pm

Cheers

Buy the CD!

Three Second Doom · Post by **Three Second Doom** » Tue Dec 11, 2007 5:14 pm

Sounds great, I dig the shit out of this kind of stuff.

croninburg · Post by **croninburg** » Tue Dec 11, 2007 5:41 pm

Our other original guitarist is with us as a pianist now, album coming in 2008

Lord of This World · Post by **Lord of This World** » Tue Dec 11, 2007 8:02 pm

oh hell yes

dressed in electric reminds me of old school Rush

good music dude.

DBS · Post by **DBS** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 9:10 am

dressed in electric is a cool song

warhead dime · Post by **warhead dime** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 12:15 pm

Impressive. I like the arranging and the ideas. I like that kind of clean-but-slightly-distorted tone you guys use, it works really well with the music. Makes it sound old school. And the saxophone is fucking badass, I'm a big saxophone fan.

croninburg · Post by **croninburg** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 12:58 pm

warhead dime wrote:Impressive. I like the arranging and the ideas. I like that kind of clean-but-slightly-distorted tone you guys use, it works really well with the music. Makes it sound old school. And the saxophone is fucking badass, I'm a big saxophone fan.

I think all the guitars were recorded with single coils, mostly my tele as well as the producer's mexican tele and coil tapped Ibanez SZ. I love the tele for rythm because it can sound quite abrasive and heavy, but leaves room for other instruments

That said, I recently chaanged the stock pickups to something that has about twice the power, so I look forwards to recording with those

Three Second Doom · Post by **Three Second Doom** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 3:16 pm

I've been looking into Tele's and after playing a few, I can say that I absolutely love the way they sound and play. Definitely my next guitar purchase.

croninburg · Post by **croninburg** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 3:21 pm

They are absolute workhorses. I've had mine for almost three years, and I think I've broken a string once

Three Second Doom · Post by **Three Second Doom** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 3:23 pm

What kind do you have? I was thinking about spending the extra cash for an American, but from what I've read the Standard MIM are just as good after some small modifications.

croninburg · Post by **croninburg** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 3:39 pm

Three Second Doom wrote:What kind do you have? I was thinking about spending the extra cash for an American, but from what I've read the Standard MIM are just as good after some small modifications.

Mine is actually Japanese (the '62 custom reissue), but the mexican models are very solid and excellent value. I don't think the quality control is as strict for the mexicans, but it you find one that you like then definitely go for it - the producer's tele that I mentioned was a mex.

You can get a Mexican model for around $600 here, my Jap cost $1000, there was an American model for about $1400 but the even the salesman said that it wasn't worth the extra cash

However, I doubt that US models are anywhere near as expensive over there. I did end up changing the pickups, but I think all three production lines use the same stock anyway. If/when I get a backup, it will be Mexican with the pickups swiched. Beacuse it's such a basic design, you can't really go wrong

warhead dime · Post by **warhead dime** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 4:20 pm

I'm actually about to buy a Telecaster after I sell all of my old equipment. I've got a lot of shit that I'm gonna put on ebay. But if I sell all of it, I'll have enough for this American Tele I found. It's 900 bucks, plays and sounds perfect. I've actually been planning on buying a tenor sax also.

What were the pickups that you put in?

croninburg · Post by **croninburg** » Wed Dec 12, 2007 4:31 pm

Fuck, if you were unlucky you could pay that much for a Mexican model over here.. maybe I'll try and snap one up on Ebay! The new pups are a Bareknuckle set, the Piledrivers. They're still single coils, I purchased them because since I got my AC30 I wanted something that would push it harder, but I didn't want to switch to humbuckers. They sound pretty good, not quite as bright as the stock pickups but they're much clearer with better string definition. They have about twice the output of the stock pups so my guitar cuts through live without being obnoxious.

The problem with pickups is that you can't try before you buy, but I wasn't disappointed. I should mention that I used it stock for about two years, the sounds that you hear on myspaz are stock telecaster apart from a couple of ibanez tracks. You should definitely snap that tele up