Nice cover @terb. I never heard that song, so I guess you did it perfectly!
P.S. I’m always amazed when I see you doing your covers sitting on a sofa. I can’t (and don’t want to) play sitting down; it just seems so unnatural to me. But you seem quite comfortable with it.
yeah I like to be relaxed when I play, the sofa is the right place for me 
for real I play wherever I am. I can sit on the floor, that’s fine.
Whatever works for you 
Sitting while playing just seems so odd to me. I’ve tried practicing while sitting on a chair, and it just doesn’t work for me. I need to be on my feet, feeling the groove and moving my body to the rhythm. It just feels right to me.
I’ve never been to a concert or watched a band performing in a club where the bass player was sitting on a sofa 
that’s kinda strange to read that. I really don’t mind, I can play standing or sitting, it doesn’t change much for me. so when I’m on stage (which did not happened since a few years !) I’m standing and that’s fine, when I’m at home I’m sitting comfortable. or not. I don’t care as long as I can play. 
I should find a dark country band, where it would be totally appropriate to play sitting on a chair or even a sofa I’m getting old I guess
@terb you do a good job with your covers, I’m just saying how I personally feel about playing.
yeah @PamPurrs I understood, that’s perfectly fine 
Another great cover @terb Laurent! I had the volume turn up a bit and my windows were rattling!
that’s exactly the purpose of the BEAD tuning
Aww yeah, that’s great. BEAD and metal, like peanut butter and chocolate.
I think the tone actually worked well after your EQ. I can see what you mean though - still some strong mids poking through but it kind stood out a bit in the mix. Gonna sound great with the new pups.
I’ve been playing sitting a lot more lately myself, mostly while working in the DAW.
Great cover @terb. I’m embarrassed to say that when I click on your covers I’ve come to expect excellence and you’ve never let me down 
Nice job @Shane_Landen
I’ve been playing around with this very song for a month or more now and as @terb pointed out the timing is quite tricky. I’m also really struggling to play notes and ghost notes within the same song.
My friend and I are still working on the cover for Procession, so I started on another. New Order again, a song called Temptation, another transitional song from Joy Division.
This song has deep personal meaning to me so this cover’s gonna take a while, but here’s a test the first minute of the song, the synths and drums and the start of the bass. Iconic Hooky bassline.
https://soundcloud.com/user-192576005/testation/s-I7cY5SulHag
TRBX604 → opto-comp → bass clone → SHB-1 amp sim → NadIR cab sim, synths and drums are all Phase Plant.
This cover is starting out closest to an early version of the song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YETtoWTNhT0
but it will eventually probably be this version:
yeah that’s it. even with the very strong EQing, those weird mids are very hard to tame.
sounds interesting, I’m not a fan of the chorus (in general ; not only in this case) but it sounds kinda coherent with the synth. I really like how the synth sounds, punchy yep pretty tight and clean. the drum sounds very agressive, very “square”, but I guess there is not much production yet !
Thanks! I’m happy with the synth too. The synths used in the original were these early polyphonic synths that were very basic, bright and punchy. I like the sounds I landed on for them quite a bit, those will probably stick through to the end.
The snare is super artificial though, yeah, I went with it to mirror the snare in the 7" version of the song but not very happy with it yet. The eventual version I will aim for has a more traditional snare. However the producer of the band was famous for trying to get unique drum sounds, including making the drummer play on the roof of the studio
The super heavy chorus is intentional too, the bass player here (Peter Hook) is famous for a heavily chorused sound played high in the bass range. Actually the tone I got in there is really close to his tone.
like the Korg Polysix or Poly 800 ? (I have one somewhere 
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I actually think your snare sounds better than in the 7" version, but I also believe that you can find a better sound 
or maybe just make it sound better with the mix and production. it sounds very “raw” for now, in my opinion.
Ooh lucky, those are great. Kind of like those, yeah, same timeframe as the Polysix - this was 1981. I am pretty sure it was an Oberheim OB-X but I would have to check.
mine is a Poly 800 , not the prestige of the Polysix !
Killer synth still. Lots of early electronic bands used those.
Nice cover, terb. Really cool sounding song. Keep the inspiration coming.