#General Discussion - Cover Project
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10/10 gif usage
You’re going into the contraption
Let's hope next time you can get a role!
First ever win! Let's go! Thanks for voting for me people
You. Were. AMAZING!!!!!!!!
Thanks! ❤️
Awesome! Looking forward to the final mix!!
Congrats man! Your voice is so good!
Thank you! 😊
👏
@teal otter are you in a band
Nope, just love singin’. I’ve always kinda wanted to be in a band though, think that’d be awesome
Just a question regarding the cover project, are we going to cover any new albums from side projects? Considering that Pinhead Gunpowder’s new album is out
We did the network album as a bonus track because it came out right around when that phase of the project ended, it's unlikely we'll be doing any side project songs this time since we have a bunch of demos and stuff to pick from when we finish the studio albums
What time does it come out?
Honestly some of the songs that haven't been covered yet are shocking
What the people want isn't always the singles
I mean yeah obviously
¡UNO! vote will go up tomorrow by the way
For now kick back and enjoy the last night on earth cover as if you were in a New York jazz club on a Friday night
Do y'all generally do this in chronological order btw?
Like one song from 1,039, one from Kerplunk, Dookie, till whatever the newest is, then back to the beginning?
Yep
Precisely
Okay tyy
With a break in between because it takes at least a year and a half each time
Yeah makes sense
👀
I wanted to remind you but didn't wanna seem like a dick
Nickelback reference
My favorite band
I’ve never known why Jason spells it “co-ordinators” every time on the web page
I’ve always just accepted it
What do you mean
In the credits
Oh
Jason who?
Jason our guardian angel
I'm suprised by how many people on the surver sound similar (some more than others) to billie. I wish I sounded like him
I just realized, I'm not credited for trombone on Hitchin A Ride
Oh wait, scratch that. I just saw at the bottom
Stupid me
Out of curiosity, can women do vocals for the covers and have any done them before?? Cuz i'd like to submit my vocals for future projects. My friends always tell me I sing like Billie Joe so I thought I might try 😅
Nope women are banned
Check out our Lazy Bones cover, links to previous covers are in #986418026758934568
Thanks
Bro 🤣
Rusty James results and lineup:
Vocals: @lament tree (Submission D)
Guitar: /u/s_t_ar (Submission B)
Bass: @void mirage (Submission A)
Drums: @supple mica
Stems going to @median needle for mixing, with a final mix expected within 2-3 weeks
Not giving a mixing "deadline" because 2-3 weeks from now is literally Christmas and New Years Eve/Day
And regardless of when that's done, we will be move on to Dos after the new year
i.e. if Rusty James is done before Christmas we will still wait until after January 1st to start Dos
rip yeah, still excited nonetheless
I'm sad Stray Heart got covered 
Also, the stems from all covers up to Church on Sunday are now included in the public folder mentioned in #986418026758934568 for anyone who wants to play with those. Previously it only had songs from the first three rounds of the cover project, but I've added a v4 folder for the recent ones
Trust it’s gonna be fuck time
We got that #1324147902397943858
Wow! That's Loud results and lineup:
Vocals: @drifting hazel (Submission A)
Guitar: @tough widget (Submission A)
Bass: @scenic aurora
Drums: @supple mica
Stems going to @fluid imp for mixing, with a final mix expected by 2/23/25.
Kinda bummed we didn't get more submissions, as I love hearing the work of all these talented individuals in this server, but I can't wait to hear this absolute banger.
Just trilogy things. We’ll get more for revrad
I tried adding some unique stuff during the interlude that wasn’t in the song really
like the harmonic minor scale
my favorite scale
idk if it worked well but i won so
It's surprising because a lot of the songs on the trilogy are really fun
Fun but unpopular
Soo… any news on this final mix?
Yeah we missed the final date on that but should be wrapping it up soon, sorry for more delays 
Apologies guys! Ran into some issues with electricity and got set back a while
I spotted this guitar on guitar centers website used and it was close to me. Instantly drove to get it and go after the trilogy tone. Wanted to share.
The pops/crackles are from using my AXE FX SPDIF I think. Gotta figure that out
Dirty Rotten Bastards results and lineup:
Vocals: @upbeat wasp
Guitar: @normal widget (Submission A)
Bass: @red ore
Drums: @zenith drift (Submission A)
Stems going to @wheat ivy for mixing, with a final mix expected by 4/17/25.
Thanks to everybody who participated, it's not the easiest song to learn
That's the vibe, i've found that it's a G12T75 4x12 cab, the same used on 21cb and saviors, and the combination of a sm57 and a R121 sounded SPOT ON, which makes sense since they use that a lot in the studio
This is using AC30 on axe fx and the Hilo tron pickups are the secret sauce for the trilogy
Vox amps work great for this tone
I really recommend trying an IR for that with the vox amp
Had to move the "expected by" date out a week on the DRB mix for a couple of reasons, mainly I screwed up transferring some of the stems so he didn't even have everything to work with until this week. We shall have it soon though
FYI I'll put up the vote for our RevRad song tonight
👀
Did you guys do forever now already
excuse me john luke kramer
Imma do it
Yes
It’s some good shit
We’ve done Bang Bang, Forever Now, and Revolution Radio
From Revolution Radio
Time for you to give it another listen
Gonna be time to vote soon as I am making it right now
Bro what? Somewhere Now is a fucking banger
The Forever Now cover is one of my favourites from this project. Excellent job.
Too Dumb to Die results and lineup:
Vocals: @drifting hazel
Guitar: @lament tree
Bass: @celest osprey
Drums @supple mica
Stems going to @timid patio for mixing, with a final mix expected by 5/31/25.
Do we still do critical feedback threads? I'd like some pointers or whatever
Yep I’ll make one
I'll put up a vote for the FOAM song tomorrow
Take the Money and Crawl lineup:
Vocals: @stable current
Guitar: @lament tree
Bass: @scenic aurora
Drums: @supple mica
Stems are with @lament tree for mixing, with a final mix expected by 6/23/25.
(No big ping since I only got one submission for each, so no vote)
Will ping the troops when the song is done
Sure, they can submit parts, but there's no guarantee that they will all be chosen for the final mix
Anyone in the world can get involved, make sure you read #986418026758934568 so you understand how this works though. It's a little different than people jsut submitting covers, we've got a whole process but it would be cool if you or your band members submtited some parts, we've got a couple songs to go still for this round
So… what’s left to do after TTMAC mix is finished?
saviors album
A couple bonuses, details of which I will share after the song is complete
I'm guessing we are skipping Saviors since we did two songs for this round?
Espionage would be a cool bonus track to do
maria
how's the mix coming along?
Gonna be dropping it for everyone to listen later today
Tomorrow I will be making an announcement that I hope will be very exciting, until then enjoy the latest tune
looking at the recent covers, damn i've missed so many songs i've wanted to do for ages. started my masters after whatsername and have barely had a moment of spare time since
Bobby Sox results and lineup:
Vocals: @timid patio (Submission D)
Guitar: @normal widget (Submission C)
Bass: @void mirage (Submission A)
Drums: @magic orbit (Submission A)
Stems are going to Chris Dugan for mixing, watch for an announcement once it is completed.
yippeeeeeeee 🙌
woooo!
Yeah, that’s a good lineup.
idrk how this all works but i’d definitely love to participate
alr
Well actually I’d start with #986418026758934568
Do we save our trilogy references for the next one to name it ¡Cinco!?
"Stems are going to Chris Dugan for mixing" goes so hard
is the project still active?
Yep
We're just in between songs while we wait for a super duper special mix to be done
oh ok
will there be a cover art contest like the last time?
Probably
Whoops I saw this and forgot to answer, yes there will
so wait is the goal of the cover project to cover every green day song?
Not really, that won’t be realistically possible with the structure and schedule we operate on. The goal is to do a song from every studio album each run, and we’re nearing the end of the fourth of those
I see
We had calculated previously how long it would take us to cover every single Green Day song using an average of the time it takes to cover a single song. I believe it was around 20 years or something. That's not including any future releases within that 20 years, just what they have released so far.
So… what’s next? Or are we on a break already?
No sir, the blame lies on me taking forever to fall back into my usual routine now that Bobby Sox is done. That also all fell in a hectic couple of weeks for me. Next steps are doing one more song as a bonus track and starting the album art contest. I'm gonna drop a ping tonight for the album title vote, on wednesday we will begin voting for the bonus track
im looking at Cover Project VI's tracklist
and
this might be the best one yet?
hitchin a ride
basket case
whatsername
church on sunday
86
to dumb to die
american dream
bobby sox
one of the few good foa songs (imo)?
this track list is fire
so hyped
Did you look at the previous three, it's been pretty lit each time
Make sure to listen too
(also almost abbreviated cover project here, do NOT make that mistake 😭 )
This year's CP is fire I agree
does hitchin a ride normally have a trombone?
Nope
No one sent in violin, so @drifting hazel recorded trombone instead
oh cool
props to you @drifting hazel
song of the century and 21cbd Title track is so epic
❤️
I'll be putting up the final song vote and the second round of the title vote tonight, it'll be a reddit post with its own thread here
Also now that we're here, the vote will be to choose one of the demos from the American Idiot and Dookie anniversary editions
After that vote (and the title vote) is done, we'll start the album art contest as well
demo as in like we make it sound like a demo?
No, we will cover one of the demo tracks from the anniversary editions
okay and make it sound studio quality?
So the ones that have (demo) next to the title
It will be just like any of our other covers so yeah the best we can make it sound
Have we covered JAR yet?
The demos of songs that didn't get released with the album
tired of waiting for you?
i mean its an outake
outtake
same with JAR tho
i know it was on shenanigans
but does it count?
everybodys breaking down demo?
All of the demos of songs that didn't get released on one of Green Day's studio albums will be included in the vote. So yes JAR, those Shenanigans songs, etc. but also stuff that didn't get released at all like Lowlife, Everyone's Breaking Down, and so on
to be fair though
Lots of options so it's gonna be a ranked choice vote
Yeah most of the demos went on to become other songs, but this cover will be of the demo version specifically. Parts of Lowlife went on to be a bunch of songs over the years but that one will be an option too
have we done jar
We have not
Nowhere yet
It will be ranked choice so you're gonna vote for everything by order of preference
I'll put it up in like 8 hours
ah yeah all good
i'll see when the poll is out
In a gadda da vida
yes… title vote…
its up for vote rn 👍
We'll see about that
I didn’t know you play guitar
Oh come on
hey have you gotten those stems yet?
BRUH
you’re being a pest about it
Sending me 3 am DMs lol
timezones sorry
for me it was 2 in the afternoon
and im not quite sure where u live
so i had to guess
No worries, I just didn’t have them handy and have to look for them in my google drive
thats all good
And also I forgot
thats all good
may i ask when u might be free to send it?
going on vacay soon
its fine if your too busy
No you may not
all good
I already answered the stem question, please don't ask submitters for their stems. I'll upload the ones used in the covers from this round when I get to it and there are rules on using them, those are in #986418026758934568
she was only gonna give them to me just so i can have a little fun practicing mixing
thats all i wasnt gonna post it or use it for anything
was only for practice
Right, that's why I'm saying just wait for them to be in the public folder like I said. Those can be used for practice when they're available. I don't upload them immediately because I want people to focus on our mix for a while before they start doing their own thing with it
it was only just the raw drum recording she was gonna send me, isnt the bobby sox mix already done?
not trying to be rude but thats a bit of a wait since im going on a LONG vacay soon
i was just literally gonna practice with the raw ones before i leave
its all good tho
They will be there when you return
Maybe
If that's like a month from now
It'll be when the last song is done
i mean i get that
and ill be happy when all the stems get released
but she was gonna send me all the individual mics raw just to play with
and bobby sox is already done i dont see why she cant send them herself to me to mess arouind with
I don’t think she offered to send them she just said I would upload them, which I will. The focus here is and always will be the completed covers. Having the stems available to practice mixing with is a special extra thing so please be patient, I will post in this channel when the rest of them are available
i asked her nicely if i could have the stems
and she told me she would send them all when shes free
Alright well my main point is please don't nag even if you have a vacation or whatever, sharing the stems is a kindness and no one is entitled to them so just chill
hey man im not trying to nag, i know sharing the stems is a kindness and i know that im not entitled to them, i dont think its a big deal she was doing me a kind favour by sending the stems SHE recorded and should have permission to send to anyone she likes, it was just a kind thing to do to give me some practice, thats all convo over.
roomsixband was banned. | No reason given.
For some context he was also harassing her in DMs repeatedly about the stems
Very much not the cover project vibe and not the server vibe either, disrespectful of people’s hard work and privacy
wild lmao
They asked me a bunch of questions in DMs after we did TTMAC, dude really bombarded me
Tone chasing final boss
He asked me for a list of every microphone I use for each drum and location
did he ask for the temperature of the room too
he asked me about cabinet stuff for album specific tones like i was the wikipedia of whatever billie used lmfao
oh hey Callie Mae, I play Reaper too
What do you have the humidity level at in your room? 🤣
I also heard photons can affect the way drums sound. How dark is it when you record? Lol
I ghosted him after a few messages because literally he asked me what CLA uses to mix (like 25 messages), after I sent him a quick mix of his song
Like da fuck bro check on YouTube lmao
Not me, I really suck at mixing and recording
The guy was DMing everyone but me apparently lol I only talked to to him here
Leave a message then
Tré is on tea break till 5, call in a few
(All seriousness i didnt call, just wanted to make the he doesn't care joke lol, im not calling a random number, my social anxiety+the risk of a malicious person on the other end are why im not)
(Sorry)
ARMSTRON is 8 😭
the 1:6 message ratio he gave me in dms was rancid
Well shit, gotta correct it lmao
Billie gave us the wrong number! 😔
Imho it was better with the irony of having too many letters but still not full name
Agreed
RMSTRNG would probably be the best but yk whatevs
Holy shit, I thought I was the only one
Buddy was messaging me nonstop about mixing his album for free. I sent a mix of a song because I was being nice, and he just kept telling me it wasn't good enough and kept spamming me so he could drop his pre-mixed vocals and drums into my mix or something
I legit had to ghost the guy
He kept being like "it's not good enough, can you put more Nimrod effects on it" like wtf does that even mean

Nimrod effects
You were too nice man
"nimrod effects" sounds funny considering nimrod has one of the driest vocal sounds on green day's discography lol
I had less reverb and delay than his mix had yet he said it was too wet 
What the fuck
"Hey how's the mix going? I really want to shit on you again, I dunno why don't just do it all myself by the way do you think you could change everything"
I can't believe this dude never bothered me
Will's mixes on the cover project are top notch
Whenever I try to participate on the cover project again something stops me from it, i got to record a quad tracked rhythm guitar for bobby sox but my pc started malfunctioning all of a sudden lol
I was just remembering that I recorded both the stuart and the ave cover and the one of my lies cover without the high E string on my strat lol
Lolllll yeah that was like the third iteration of the mix and he wanted me to start dropping in his tracks so I was like yeaa no thanks
I had no idea this project was a thing and I'm upset I only just now found out about it
I hope for part 5, if/when it ever gets made, I can do vocals for something
Right now we’re working on the finishing touches for the last song Lowlife and the album art
So it should all be wrapped up by Christmas
Unless this place is dead and gone by then, I’ll look at doing another round whenever the band puts out another album
So we're taking a break?
Yep we'll be going on hiatus
Is there a list of what songs have been done? I'd rather not comb through the releases
also, is the song selection for vol. 5 set in stone, or will there be more voting?
The songs are hosted on greenday.fm and that is linked under "How can I listen to previous covers?" in #986418026758934568 , each phase/volume has its own page with a list of the songs we covered. I guess that kinda means combing through the releases but it's what we've got, should only be a few clicks and some scrolling
Right now we're wrapping up the mix for our last song of vol. 4 before we go on hiatus, so all the songs are decided and recorded so far. I think the website doesn't have Lowlife listed yet which is our latest song
Also if you give yourself the cover project role in #roles you'll get all the pings with updates, so you'll know whenever the project starts back up again. No clear estimate when that'll be and it's poor timing for people just discovering it I know, but each volume has taken a couple years of work so it'll be a decent break until we do more
I said 5, aka when the next one is
None of that is decided or planned at all yet
This exchange from yesterday has all the info I've got pretty much
Well what I'm asking is, do you have a vote for that or do you just pick the runner-ups from last time?
You vote out of the available songs
Including runner ups, no repeats from previous volumes
Each song is decided by popular vote held on the subreddit and this server, if you haven't read the FAQ I highly recommend it because it addresses stuff like this and how the process works in general
Hey what’s up? So this round’s finished already, so what’s left to do?
I’m gonna make a post this week summarizing the end of this round of the project basically, present the full art and give thanks to everyone involved, etc. Along with updating the stems folder with all of the songs from this round along with another one where people can listen to all of the submissions that didn’t make it. Then we’ll be on hiatus for the foreseeable future
@normal widget checked on reddit and no post on the cover 😭
Or it will be shared on the summary post?
Yep
Right now it’s on the greenday.fm page I just haven’t pinged anyone about it yet
I must admit I’ve been a bit lazy at the end here
Haha is all good man
Holiday fatigue is a thing
In wepa land we are not done with christmas till feb 1st or 2nd
Still working on this, it will be up this week. I'm making a doc to list all the credits for the runner-up submissions so that I'm finally recognizing everyone this time, not just the people who made it into the songs.
The stems folder is also updated with every song from this round https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1kBohXx8-ZsuQ2tscxOaHto8ojjv2Iocx?usp=sharing
in case it hasn't been noticed, the inside cover says 'special thanks to Chris Dugan for mixing on bobbby sox'
obbby Sox
Booby Sex
‘Sup? Is Cuatro, cinco, seis out already?
Indeed good sir, nothing fancy like a streaming or physical release but it's all in the message I forwarded above this one. The Bobby Sox cover is also getting a vinyl release as part of a compilation album and that info is in #announcements
Feel free to discuss general cover project topics here, or ask questions not directly related to the current song/phase
For those just rolling in to the new channel: we're just coming to the end of a month-long hiatus. Tomorrow, the 15th, we'll begin voting on which song to cover from ¡Dos!. In the meantime, check out the cover of Let Yourself Go linked in the other thread.
Bitches
It's my reality in here
Damn
Oml what happened
Oh nvm
A 25 Second Clip of me playing the Baby Eyes Riff hoping that Baby Eyes will win the vote
I hope its makeout party, i fricking love that song
Dos
Nic finding out features he didn't even know Discord had: Part 52
General Discussion
Quick question about guitar effects. Are we allowed to add a reverb pedal on our original recordings? Just wasn't sure based off the rules page
you can use whatever guitar effects you want, they just don't want effects on vocals
Ah yes, thanks!
Gonna put it here because I archived the vote thread but I'll share some vote stats because @obtuse scaffold asked
It's not super interesting with this one lol
Nothing came close to lazy bones
Insane amount of first place votes. Biggest margin yet
Last time was really close between lazy bones and stray heart, but with stray heart out of the way, lazy bones dominated
This was baby eyes at second place
Easily the most decisive it's been
Baby Eyes was almost 100 points behind, Lazy Bones had 114 and Baby Eyes had 209, Wow That's Loud and Makeout Party both had 210 but everything was so far behind it basically didn't matter
About as expected though
cool, i like seeing the info thanks. 👍
Thank you anyways lol, I was curious how the dos stuff turned out
Damnnnn. I really wanted that song to win. Well done for coming second Baby Eyes! 👏 👏
See You Tonight got that many??? Damn
Yeah, dead last by a lot. More points = lower rankings
Hi, sorry I'm probably missing something here but how do i see the FAQ?
This is all that shows up, the 1st link leads to what i believe to be the part 2 of this project and the 2nd link leads to part 3
Huh that's odd, that's definitely not all that you're meant to see. There's a whole written there
Hmmm
Have you tried looking on desktop or a device other than mobile?
I haven't, but I'll do it sometimes later and I'll inform you of the result, thanks
I tried viewing it on desktop and i can see it just fine
That’s good, I don’t know what was going on before
👀
oh damn did not expect to win bass
Cross-posting over here too:
Lazy Bones lineup:
Vocals: @slender mist
Guitar: @lament tree
Bass: @full wyvern
Drums: @vivid pewter
Stems going to @fluid imp for mixing, with a final mix expected by 8/6/22.
Double pings

smh how dare u double ping im calling the discord police
crime commited
crime
but yes hype hype
gonna call the cops
Calling the discord cop
excited for a @fluid imp mix
the man the myth the legend
Haha nahhh man I’m just me, still a newbie
Trust me, you will be one of my main test listeners, also Teinkie, Callie, Stebe, Beep, Will, Nic and John
Nice
I recorded Laura's vox lemme know if you need anything
Did you do any corrections to the raw recording?
I cut between most of the breathing and unnecessary noise but other than that no it's all raw, had Laura do a lot of takes to make it sound good
Unless you really want the train horn in the background of the solo lol
Lol
Nah is fine lol
I do cascading compression, imagine that horn through a slammed compressor
On the full file there's also a short clip of Roxy growling 
Congrats!
I have 11 mics on my drums now, so you’ll have more play room with them. 🙂
Yayy
