Thanks a lot dude.My favorite Cheap Trick song, that is just one fun song. I prefer the vocals up a bit. Other than that, not bad for knocking one out.
Thanks man. I always did think the song was too slow!Sounds great ! The mix is very good, the guitars really work nicely, the mix has a fresh sound to it. It sounds good up-tempo, the way you did it is more like a live tempo than the studio version.
We used to cover this tune in high school, its a lot of fun to play, especially those bar chords that open up the verses.
What is the guitar chain you used ?
Ok thanks dude. I agree on the harmonies and maybe on the lead guitar. I don't know if I'm gonna remix it or not, but I do agree with you there.Haha awesome dude. Sounds great to me. I think the harmony vox on the chorus and the lead guitar could come up a bit though!
Ha, thanks dude. Besides the wah stuff, I didn't really set out to do a different arrangement. I was just going off memory. I thought that's how it was. I didn't study the original before taking this thing on. I have to say I like my way better.Sounds absolutely awesome. Great mix. I love this tune, great choice for a cover. I like some of the arrangement choices you made, like the guitars and drums punching together at certain points that they don't do in the original. There's really not a thing wrong with this. Diggin' the wah, too.
Cool thanks.If you just knocked this out, you should knock yourself out knocking out some more. This just sounds really really good. The guitar solo's actually exciting.
Epic!
At 1:50 are you just doing simple arpeggios in the right and a single note climb with wah in the left??
I double/triple taked 'cos the combination made it sound like you were doing some really quick lead there! Still can't decide...
Vocals are tip top. Real professional sound, Greg!
Thanks a lot man. I don't know what the fuck an arpeggio is. Let me see if I can answer you....on that one section you mentioned, at 1:50, the rhythm guitars just bang the chords and they ring out. So that's them out of the way. Along with that, a little off to the right is a little repetitive accent thing that's supposed to mimic what I believe a keyboard is doing in the original. And then on top of all that I did this hammer-on-pull-off ala Angus Young thing up the G-string ending with the bend while riding the wah to the tempo. I don't know what it is, some scale I guess. The hammered notes go up the neck and the pull offs are the open G. It just sounded good to me with the wah warbling underneath it so I did it.
Ah, cool. Thanks for that.
I thought it might have been simpler than it sounded, but I wasn't sure.
Kick ass tune + recording man.
Thanks man. I always did think the song was too slow!
But who am I to question Cheap Trick? I'm nobody. It's their song. I just did it the way I want it.
All of the guitar tracks (4 in total) are a Les Paul Traditional into a 1979 Marshall JMP 2204 into two Marshall 1960 4x12 cabs. Full stack, monster volume. My dream scenario. Each cab is X-patterned with different speakers. The A cab has Greenbacks and G12-65s. The B cab has G12T-75s and Vintage 30s. Um, let's see....I'll have to check my notes for specifics, but this is what I remember...
Left rhythm is amp volume fully cranked, gain low, Audix i5 on a Greenback speaker.
Right rhythm is same with a little more gain dialed in and a 57 on a Greenback.
The wah lead track is, I believe, the same as the left rhythm track, but with a Dunlop Crybaby 535Q in front, which has a booster button built in and engaged for this one.
And the little accent guitar part is the same as the right rhythm track, but with a 57 on a G12T-75 speaker.
All of the tracks are one mic on one speaker in one take.
I used the same amp tone settings for each track, and no EQ or processing was done in the DAW on the guitar tracks. This is exactly as the sound hit the mic. That was my main goal for this. All I did was mic different speakers with a couple of different mics and juggle the gain and volume on the amp. A little bit of reverb was added to the lead and accent tracks.
Thanks again man.
Here's that little part isolated if you wanna hear it:
Interesting, the only time I ever got an electric guitar sound on tape I liked, was at Unique Recording Studio in Manhattan, the engineer mic'ed up a 50 watt plexi 4x12 cab and let me play really loud. I always choose sims over small amps, and yet theres a lot of guys (and famous records) that are done with small amps.
Do you have a theory on why you like to track loud?