I think it was a few months ago, maybe more (maybe an SPF?) where Brad said he wasn't interested in Polyphia because, even though they were very technically skilled, I want to say he said their stuff was boring and unmemorable. I thought that was pretty harsh, I was into them at the time, but thinking back I think it's telling how the only guitar line from any of their songs I remember was Steve Vai's part in the song they collaborated on.
I also didn't get how much he disliked Distrubed's version of Sound of Silence, until I heard the same thing with a song I really loved (Saul's version of Welcome To The Machine). I get it now. I'm going to chalk that up to two points for Brad.
Maybe it's just because I'm getting older, but my tolerance for BS is getting steadily lower.
I'm in the process of creating the demo for an upcoming video on a 1974 Fender Twin Reverb. This is the point where I'm editing the video and audio layers all together with green screening. The studio-captured audio is not added yet. This is just a rough video mix with the RAW camera guide audio for the drums and guitar ONLY! So this is what the drums and rhythm guitar are sounding like in the room by themselves with no close miking and no post processing (other than a bit of compression and EQ). I am actually kind of shocked how good this is sounding even though one of the camera mics (the one for the drums) is from a DJI Action Cam and the other (for the guitar) is a Panasonic camcorder mic. Usually when making this kind of demo, the raw camera mic audio acts as a guide when lining up video clips on the editing timeline and then gets deleted from the final timeline before publishing. In some cases, I will even mix in a hint of the raw camera microphones with the studio mix to give ...
