jukmifgguggh
The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny - Otamatone Cover
updated
May not be 100% accurate, but I think it is much more accurate than some of my previous Hollow Knight transcriptions. Plus, y'know, the game came out two days ago. Surely I get some bonus points for speed?
Check it out on MuseScore: musescore.com/user/26853061/scores/27413653
And, feel free to ask me for a download, PDF, or MIDI version! I'd be happy to assist :)
From right to left:
Henry, Austin, Haze: clarinets
Matthew: bass clarinet
Nate: drums
James: Zubin vocals, electric bass
Allison: Stephanie vocals, piano
Special thanks: Caleb (microphones), Nadav (none of this would have happened if not for him), Dr. Joelle Welling, Typhen (for filming us!)
Credits:
Tung for doing everything
Me for basically nothing
Vocals: @mixvegullish115
"These are just words" -my sister when I played it for her in the car
Me: Vocals which were recorded when I was sick (and which I never bothered to re-record), and also everything else
MuseScore: String samples
yeah this cover is a year old. not really sure why i never released it. although, it took them 10 years, right? haha
thanks so much to @tushersamin6416 for laying down these incredible vocal performances! during the studio session, i had the sample rate mismatched with the mixing console and my ableton which was pretty disastrous, though luckily i figured it out and we still got to record something before our time was up. and now i won't ever make that mistake again!
finally, special thanks to @boigonmon for choosing the song and then getting entirely excluded from this recording. we will make something in the future!
the vocals were recorded by myself in a vocal booth on campus. sorry about all the breath noises, i still dont know how to get rid of those. also no melodyne cause of the variable tempo, so yall get to hear all my mistakes :D
sorry for lack of uploads! i have a very busy school schedule this semester, as well as lots of extra-curricular activities, so i haven't had a lot of time to do stuff like this. but i guess i somehow found enough time to do this...
@Pédrak-k4s on acoustic/electric guitars, auxiliary percussion, Rhodes, end screaming
@masonembers on main/backing vocals, and bass
i did everything else :D
please, if you can let me know what i might do to improve the mix; i know it's off but i wanted to get it out before the end of the day (and my headphones are being silly). i reckon i will have another chance to correct the mixing on this one, sometime in the future... ;)
i found a Sony F-V420 lying around and i tried it out for this cover. i think it suits my voice pretty well. but i also recently got a new SM57 so i think i might just use that for everything now lol
you should also check out the original song (breathe again by the reign of kindo) if you are unfamiliar with it. it is pretty different from how this sounds. i really like Kindo's stuff, and i hope to do more covers of their music in the future.
listen to the (de-Christmas-ified) instrumental here: youtu.be/C1bfWvMuvlY
credits:
lyrics: ameenah.
vocals: @masonembers
art: johnpowerchords
production: jukmifgguggh
lyrics:
A Christmas... tree filled up with presents
A joyful tune that heals you
Baubles packed with cheer
You look so jolly and happy
Bring down the Christmas Grinch
He won't, he won't speak for us
I'll take a silent night
A fruitcake that's perfect for Yuletide
Snow alarms and snow surprises (x3)
Silent (x2)
This is my Christmas gift
A carol, very festive
Snow alarms and snow surprises (x3)
Please
Such a pretty tree
And such a pretty garland
Snow alarms and snow surprises (let's spread holiday cheer!) (x3)
Please
low effort moment
original song: Johnny by Neil Cicierega
featuring samples from:
- Never Gonna Give You Up by Rick Astley
- Hurt by Johnny Cash (originally by Nine Inch Nails)
or, feel free to support me directly by buying the album on bandcamp, which comes with two exclusive bonus tracks, not included in this video! jukmifgguggh.bandcamp.com/album/jukmifggugghs-jolly-japanese-jamboree
-------------------------- FUN FACTS --------------------------
fun fact #1: this thing, all in all, took about 2 and a half years to make from start to finish
fun fact #2: if you are wondering why it is mixed/mastered so poorly, or why there are some awkward pauses between some tracks, it is because i made this entire album inside one (1) ableton live 9 intro project. that's right; this whole album is contained within 16 audio/midi tracks (actually 15 since the 16th had the original songs as reference). why did i do this? great question. i am upgrading to 12 suite asap lol
-------------------------- CREDITS --------------------------
i would like to extend my deepest appreciation to every single person that helped me make this.
Personnel:
@superphone7800 : additional vocals (1)
@ch3yco617 : additional vocals (1)
@boigonmon : additional vocals (1, 11), vocals (3)
2ng: additional vocals (1)
Greenvolt: additional vocals (1)
@sadrackfav : additional vocals (1, 5), vocals (3, 14)
octangula: additional vocals (1, 11)
@mixvegullish115 : additional vocals (3), vocals (5, 14)
@genuinelyTHEJUICE : vocals (3)
Melee: additional vocals (3)
Mr. Mustard: bass (4, 5, 13, 14), vocals (5, 14), guitar (5, 13), keyboards (14)
(╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻: fiddle (6)
@hujiba : bass (10)
@TheRealSullyG : additional vocals (10)
@needlejuicerecords : additional vocals (11)
@creepersonryestudios : additional vocals (14)
@dndrecordsofficial : vocals (16)
pizzaroger2003: artwork
jukmifgguggh: producer
Special Thanks:
TheRealSullyG, Husk Recordings, Demofield, crimeraa, beyn,
Caden Hopkins, Jacob Konopasec, Cyrus Kavousian, Anthony Krim,
Needlejuice, Hidden In The Sand, An Abject Hackneyed Game,
Official SiIvaGunner Fanserver, Music Production Society,
Schulich Soundstage, my friends and family
-------------------------- CHAPTERS --------------------------
chapters:
0:00 Good Day
3:39 Greener
7:22 Welcome to Tally Hall (feat. Mix, BoiGonMon, Sunny, Techni_Callie)
12:25 Taken for a Ride
17:11 The Bidding (feat. Love of the S*n)
19:54 Be Born (feat. (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻)
23:04 Otamatone Man
27:33 Just Apathy
30:44 Spring and a Storm
35:35 Two Wuv (feat. TheRealSullyG)
39:16 Haiku but everything is my voice
42:19 The Whole World and You
44:14 13 (feat. Love of the S*n)
44:30 Ruler of Everything (feat. Love of the S*n)
49:35 Hidden in the Sand
51:28 Mucka Blucka (feat. D.O.M of DnD)
53:07 Dream
anyways, now that the whole album is finished, it is time to prepare the CD release. the expected release date is: November 22nd! so mark your calendars :D
many thanks to @boigonmon, octangula, and majorb for recording their respective voice lines! so, i guess, not everything is my voice after all. i sincerely hope you all will forgive mee
i threw this one together quite quickly, just like the last one, but then i spent an extra two weeks just mixing it lol
anyways, my desktop is now entirely full of ai generated images of men in protective gear looking worried about breakfast
..ok maybe you were able to tell but still
anyways big thanks to Rob for making those awesome tutorial videos on how to play many of their songs, totally not expected of him to do that so it's really awesome that he did
p.s. if you like First of October, please suggest what song I should cover from their second, third or fourth albums! i would like to do one from each
p.p.s. tagging @robscallon and @andrewhuang even though this isn't my best work, just wanted to say hi :D
so yes, admittedly, i like these sounds. i am ready to accept the fact that it sounds bad to most people. i might do more things like this in the future, just to explore the sounds myself, and i don't mind if nobody else cares about these kinds of uploads (since it's not like i make money off my videos anyways :despair:)
and don't worry! i still plan on finishing this whole album at some point. none of the rest of it will sound like this, and it will still mostly be otamatone vocals. i'll throw in some collabs as well. it will be swell
vocals are first take as always. don't want the fam to catch me singing, you know. mostly because I still don't know how to do it properly lol. which is mostly because I don't practice singing at home. mostly because I can't sing very well. mostly because...
Since I have always used this program, Open Note Block Studio, to make my covers, I now feel that my old Minecraft videos are a little disingenuous. (The actual video portions I mean, I'm not talking about the audio which is the thing that I actually work hard to make.) So, I have decided to make use of the program's visualization tools to show what's happening in the song. I think it works well, but I've put the original song's music video as well so you have something to look at.
Thank you to the publishers of the music video to Kirin J Callinan's Big Enough for not taking down this video! I'll try to make better video portions of my covers, I'm just experimenting with things like this at the moment.
Fun fact: this cover uses about 30 tracks worth of instruments and samples, which meant that I had to produce and flatten down about 15 of those tracks in a separate Ableton file (since I'm limited to 16 tracks per file with my version.) I'll probably upgrade soon considering how often I use it these days.
Next cover will be Haiku, then I'll have finished all of Marvin's! (However, this will have to be after I get back from summer vacation.)
P.S. If you'd like to support me directly, I've put all my important releases on Bandcamp: jukmifgguggh.bandcamp.com
too lazy to draw anything so the art is from craiyon.com, prompt was "sans playing a clarinet"
with regards to how i made this: like on my cover of buddy holly, I am using a cool plugin called `guitar gadgets` on the guitars, bass, vocals, and even the synths. it has a good cassette filter thing which is useful for other things, as well as a crazy bit-crusher/down-sampler/resonant-filter thing that i am making heavy use of here. another fun fact- I just put new strings on my electric. can you hear the difference? haha
with regards to the lack of uploads: i have a new computer, thanks to my sister! i am in the process of getting all my old plugins re-installed; i'm mostly back to normal now, but still missing my good old pitch correction software, so this is one of the only kinds of things i can do before i get that again.
The sustained bass note at the end was a little tricky to pull off. It's an A#1, which isn't even possible on a 5-string (unless you tune the lowest string down), let alone a 4-string like the one I have. So, I played an A#2 and pitched it down an octave by slowing it down to half speed. However this didn't sound great yet, so I used a plugin called pitchproof to pitch it back up an octave, and blended the two notes together.
Join my Discord server! discord.gg/bsfHRTyTFR
anyways this is another one of my covers i made for practice, since i was set to perform this song at an open mic (which i did, and it went really well definitely). then, i thought i might switch it up and film myself playing the guitar and bass parts, just to see if i could add a little bit of visual interest. feel free to let me know if it's any better than my other stuff, or if you have any suggestions of what i might put in the video instead of this stuff. thank you!
when watching, feel free to pretend that i remembered to plug in my guitar when filming :D
p.s. obligatory discord.gg/bsfHRTyTFR
oh! also please join my discord server :D discord.gg/bsfHRTyTFR
I think YouTube normalized the audio or something, the final mix is way louder than this upload... RIP
album art by @boigonmon
p.s. jukmifgguggh discord server invite link :) discord.gg/bsfHRTyTFR
p.s. join my discord! :) discord.gg/bsfHRTyTFR
also! please join my discord server and say hi to me :D discord.gg/bsfHRTyTFR
Hey, by the way, you should join my Discord server! I exclusively use Discord for social media and communications lol. I will also use it to share the stuff i've been working on early, if you can't bear to wait for a YouTube release. Come say hi to me! :) discord.gg/bsfHRTyTFR
it's the song is 'there, there' by radiohead on hail to the thief
i picked this song because falsetto easy. i have also gained a greater appreciation for the album, as once you really look into it, you can see they put a lot of work into it jk lol it still sucks
this demo was originally created for a failed JHJH cover album project called "Infinitesimal Strangers"; the discord server has recently mysteriously vanished so i guess it's not happening anymore.
the instrumental was pretty much completed over a year ago. I'm admittedly quite happy with it, though it doesn't really stand out compared to the original. The vocals were supposed to be done by other people, i just added my own as placeholders. (most of the vocals are first take recordings because they weren't intended to be part of the actual cover.)
so, sorry it's pretty low quality, and the mixing is quite off, but i would rather release it now than forget about it.
p.s. to the select few people that care, i'm still working on marvin's, don't worry. i'm expecting it to be done very early next year
(just to clarify, this is the "Intro" from An Awesome Wave, not the other one from the other album)
thanks to shonkywonkydonkey for inventing music, that was pretty cool of him
Edit: oopsie, U+2206 is "∆" but the actual band name is "Δ" (U+0394). i sincerely apologize
Edit 2: I've updated the thumbnail to state the correct Unicode character. I'm sure that was super important and that's why I did it instead of doing homework.
jukmifgguggh.bandcamp.com/album/johnson-com
shop.huskrecordings.com/product/johnson-com
Samples:
youtu.be/5_Nu_KovANQ
youtu.be/djZJojdP2yk
Download the Thé à la Menthe .nbs file, if you'd like: mediafire.com/file/00gl1ywsktxyfmg/thealamenthe.nbs/file
Downloads: mediafire.com/folder/a0z6k0ytddi54/Rolling_Down_The_Street%2C_In_My_Katamari
some guy emailed me asking if i could make a midi of this song and i did it and it only took two months an d i never asked for money even though he kept offering what is wroing me
Listen to the full album here: weliketoplayitall.bandcamp.com/releases
Here's just the single: weliketoplayitall.bandcamp.com/track/shia-labeouf


