Nexokê Contest - Week 8 | Nutshell (Alice in Chains Cover) by @tfranzini
This is the first time I'm participating on the Nexokê Contest. Hopefully many more to come!
Hello Nexo community! This is my entry to the Week 8 of Nexokê Contest. Since this is the very first time I'm participating on this contest, I'm not sure I got everything right so any and all feedback is very much appreciated.
The song
For this one, I chose the song Nutshell, by the grunge band Alice in Chains. I'm huge fan of the band and this is one of my favourite songs by them ever since I watched their great MTV Unplugged! Nutshell is the song that opens that concert and I really loved the way they did it live. You can see it here if you want to see what I'm talking about.
Anyway, I really love this song and it's one of the few songs by Alice in Chains that I think I can do an average job as a singer. And I do mean average! I'm not a great singer, plus Layne Staley vocals are very HARD to mimic but I gave my best shot!
The gear
To record this cover, I used my custom shop Tele style guitar, which is one of my favorite guitars that I own! I thought about using an acousting to record this but my acoustic is broken at the moment and I haven't had the time to get it fixed.
I plugged the guitar directly into my Orange Tiny Terror amp which I also love! It's not exactly the best amp for clean sounds but I think I was able to get a decent tune out of it.
I recorded it using my phone, which is not great but for now is the best I can do! I'm saving up to get a good recording microphone and an audio interface to increase the quality of my recordings but that will have to wait a little.
Conclusion
So this is it! My very first entry to Nexokê and I hope to do it every week from now on if I have the time, which is not always easy!
I hope you have enjoyed it and please feel free to provide any feedback on the song itself or on the format of the post!
▶️ 3Speak
I wasn't really into grunge when I was a teenager, but Alice in Chains was always on my playlist. It was the grunge band in the middle of HC and punk rock on my playlist.
It turned out pretty cool! Congratulations and thank you for participating in our contest.
Wao!! Me volviste al pasado sin escalas! (Risas). Este fue unos de los primeros temas que toque de Alice un Chains cuando tenía como 15 años. Me encanta, lo hiciste demasiado bien hermano!