DonF
Call Me "Grandpa"
The Old Dish Rag
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Written by my older brother in the early 70's, when he was a teenager and I was in grade school. He was my hero, so I naturally have a lifelong love for the tune.
I ran across an acoustic guitar track I recorded a year or so ago. I had forgotten about it. Decided to import it into ProTools FREE (it was tracked in Digital Orchestrator Pro) and mix it down.
Everything except the guitar is coming from the Roland HP335 as a stereo mix, unfortunately including a pseudo-guitar you can hear off to the right. Any reverb you hear on piano and drums is coming from the HP335 as well. The guitar is capo'd up a few frets, and I think it adds a nice sparkle to the mix. I avoided quantizing and overly editing things, to keep the feel kind of loose. I admit I did fix a couple of major gaffes in the guitar part.
My mixing environment is far from ideal, so I'd appreciate any comments regarding the balance between the instruments. I have to go largely by feel and by looking at a graph of the spectrum, etc.
Thanks,
Don
http://www.nowhereradio.com/donf/singles
Written by my older brother in the early 70's, when he was a teenager and I was in grade school. He was my hero, so I naturally have a lifelong love for the tune.
I ran across an acoustic guitar track I recorded a year or so ago. I had forgotten about it. Decided to import it into ProTools FREE (it was tracked in Digital Orchestrator Pro) and mix it down.
Everything except the guitar is coming from the Roland HP335 as a stereo mix, unfortunately including a pseudo-guitar you can hear off to the right. Any reverb you hear on piano and drums is coming from the HP335 as well. The guitar is capo'd up a few frets, and I think it adds a nice sparkle to the mix. I avoided quantizing and overly editing things, to keep the feel kind of loose. I admit I did fix a couple of major gaffes in the guitar part.
My mixing environment is far from ideal, so I'd appreciate any comments regarding the balance between the instruments. I have to go largely by feel and by looking at a graph of the spectrum, etc.
Thanks,
Don