Portastudio The Velvet Underground - Cover

[ksounds]

This is a cover of the song "Jesus" by The Velvet Underground, one of the greatest bands ever.

I've always loved this song, and decided to do my own version of it.

Done on a Tascam 424 mkII and mixed down to garageband.
I've never recorded a cover song, so I was excited to do one. I was thinking about "Heroin", but that seemed kind of obvious and way out of my league...so I picked another great one.

Let me know what you think.

http://www.soundclick.com/bands/defa...&content=music

[Nakatira]

Not heard the Original, but I take it Lou Reed was a part of this band.

And I know some of his stuff, this sounds right up his alley.

I liked the choices of verbs on this track, nice atmosphere.

Nice job

[A Reel Person]

I've not heard the original either, but the recording and playing/singing sound fine to me. Got that characteristic tape hiss on the preroll, but when the song kicks in it's negligible. The "mix", eq or overall sound quality or spectrum has that full bodied sound of analog, and sounds authentic (realistic). I'm not much for efx or verbs on vocals, but the vocals sound real tight. Aye!

[rayc]

The Velvets as covered by the Violent Femmes! That's basically due to the tone of the bass.
You do Lou well.
As a big velvets, lou & john fan (well except for anything by lou after growing up in public) I say WELL DONE on the cover choice and performance. You walk a nice edge along the innocence and cynicism of the song.
Now, as a four tracker myself I can say WOW & Viva cassetta!
4 into computer works quite well doesn't it!

[ido1957]

Well done - and another Tascam wunder tone piece. The four track max doesn't seem to limit your ability to make an interesting mix. The mix sounds good to me and I agree with the reverb being really nice....

[ksounds]

Originally Posted by rayc

The Velvets as covered by the Violent Femmes! That's basically due to the tone of the bass.
You do Lou well.
As a big velvets, lou & john fan (well except for anything by lou after growing up in public) I say WELL DONE on the cover choice and performance. You walk a nice edge along the innocence and cynicism of the song.
Now, as a four tracker myself I can say WOW & Viva cassetta!
4 into computer works quite well doesn't it!

Thanks for the kind words guys. Yeah the bass tone is a little different than what I usually lay down, but I like it, and now that you mention it, it does have that violent femmes vibe to it, which is cool by me.

I know that alot of people have not heard this song, and I knew recording it and posting it here, there would be a fair share of people who might immediately be turned off by the lyrics and jet. My worry was, especially at mix down, when I started throwing the verbs all over it, it would have this catholic church hymn thing going on, which is exactly what I didn't want to happen. So when I took the reverb off the vocals, it turned into this koombyaaaa campfire thing, which sounded freaky and Charles Manson like, so I threw caution to the wind and added the heavy reverb treatment, yet kept the acoustic dry for the most part to help balance it out. I think the bass line, as simple and hokey as I play it, also helps keep things from getting to pretty