Watch it on youtube! https://youtu.be/mOOxmif0UkU
Buy it on iTunes! https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/elements-feat.-brian-enos/id1071743211?i=1071743221
Music originally by Lindsey Stirling (youtu.be/sf6LD2B_kDQ)
Arranged by Chris Mills (@wintersentinel) and Brian Enos(@brian-enos)
Mixed and Mastered by Ted Sopher(@tgsopher)
Produced and engineered by Chris Mills
Chris Mills - guitars and keyboards, drum programming
Brian Enos - Bass guitar and additional guitars

A couple years ago, Lindsey Stirling held a cover contest and my friend Brian Enos and I decided to enter with our rendition of her song "Elements"(https://soundcloud.com/wintersentinel/elements-by-lindsey-stirling). Since it was a contest, it was a bit rushed, and besides it was the first song we ever recorded so we had no idea what we were doing. So a couple years later, we decided to re-record the whole thing, and here it is! Enjoy!

Elements - Lindsey Stirling Cover

Again, off my second CD and it is one of my favorites.  I simply don't what genre' to categorize it under.  Again,  my goal was to texture the sound to make it interesting and pleasing.  The master job,  not so good,  but you'll get the picture. 

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I REDID THIS SONG, GO LISTEN TO THE NEW ONE INSTEAD IT SOUNDS WAY BETTER!: https://soundcloud.com/wintersentinel/elements-final-fade-fixed

A cover of Lindsey Stirling's song "Elements", arranged by Chris Mills and Brian Enos
Chris Mills - guitars, keyboards
Brian Enos - bass guitar, additional guitars
Mixed by Brian Enos
Special thanks to Brian Trotter for pointing me to some recording software and helping me figure out how to use it
Watch the music video at youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LF5lFGk1QoI

Story time: This was my first-ever experience with recording. Lindsey Stirling announced a "cover contest," and my friend Brian and I decided we were going to try our hand. So I downloaded a cheap DAW (I believe it was called Music Creator 6), and in two weeks we managed to figure it out and put this together (big thanks to Brian Trotter for helping me get started). I didn't have a real interface, so I was using a Digitech RP-something something (I believe 55? one of the lower-end models), which is why the electric guitars sound decent, but the acoustics and keyboards sound like absolute garbage. The drums are whatever automatically came with Music Creator 6. The guitar we used was my old Gibson Les Paul studio, and my brother's Ibanez 5-string something something bass. The keys were my old Yamaha digital piano. The classical was just recorded with a piezo pickup I had just gotten installed for this sole purpose. Fun fact: I improvised the classical guitar solo. Also, the first half of the bass solo (with the cheesy blues lick) is me, but the slap part is all Brian.

I ended up revisiting this  a couple of years later with better equipment/software and better knowledge (and no time rush) - the link is above. I still come back and listen to this version every now and then just to laugh at how bad it is - I particularly love the ridiculous drum parts, terrible classical guitar tone, and almost cringy final guitar solo. We all have to start somewhere, right?

"Elements" by Lindsey Stirling cover

Guitarist,  Drummer and Semi-Pro Mix Engineer with room acoustics design experience. 

 Like an eclectic mix of music,  but enjoy musicians who excel at their craft and who are able to perform well live without modern day crutches--e.g., pitch correction,  etc.   

 

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Ted Sopher

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