erichenryus - I love this song too. That's why I did a cover
. There are quite a few really good songs coming out of this place IMHO…this one and the Crawdad one I did just happened to be mostly in the style I sing and that is close to my heart. Sorry…I like sappy, Country tinted songs
. I toyed with the idea of throwing bg vocals in, but 1) I just didn't have time 2) If I did, I probably would have wanted to keep adding more and more instrumentation as well and it would have ended up being a full production. And since Chris did such a damn fine job of that plus the superb strings (David & Heidi)… I really didn't want to start down that road…so I left it raw.
. Thanks for the listen
Pedullist - Thanks for the listen & compliment
Chris - What happened? Why did you lose the ability to play guitar? Or are pulling my chain?
Hope everything's alright. I'm glad you liked it. That's the biggest concern doing a cover here for me. Sometimes you can interpret somebody else's stuff in a way that they don't care for, although this really didn't stray too far from the original. I have been experimenting with the guitar tone. I think I found a tone I can start to live with on the scratch tracks of the next song I'm writing. Like in this song, it is mostly mic'd, but I am mixing in some (very little) of the DI signal with the Eq in the mic's & lower mids boosted a little to try to give the old Celeb a little more meaty, full tone. Then I went back and remixed "Miss Her So" using the same technique and I think it sounds better. I think I may have a guitar tone I can use mixing in with other instruments at least. Still, you can't beat the sound of a really nice sounding guitar recorded well. Especially for naked stuff.
Oh & PS...I should have listened to you in the first place. I did one take with the capo on the second fret and it was just a tad too low for me to do just right. Third fret was the ticket. Fourth fret may have worked for me to...but then my Celeb starts sounding like a mandolin up there
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M.Brane - Thanks. Yeah…I'm still trying to figure out how to use this stuff. It's still pretty hit and miss…twirl the nobs & push the buttons
… but I 'm starting to learn thanks to you guys. I did a really stupid thing on this one. I was in such a hurry I forgot to turn off my wife's computer (mine is bad enough, but two going
). The mic was facing right at her computer. I usually have the gate on the compressor (my wonderful 3630
) set so the gate is closed with just the background noise going (my computer) but still so it naturally picks up my breaths and vocal in the mic without cutting out. The other computer on increased the noise floor, so that and the subsequent "remove silence" in Cakewalk trying to get rid of the bg noise may have gotten a little funky a couple of times
. When I move my computer in the closet (and remember to turn off my wife's - lol) those problems should largely be solved. Plus when I get a new soundcard and start recording in 24 bit it should give me enough more headroom where I can do less compressor (especially 3630 compressor) during tracking. Thanks for the input
pglewis - Hey I said the same thing about 2 months or so ago when I stared here and heard all these folks doing their 1.5 challenges and it was true. Now I can do a click track (which I did in this one) and lay down 2 so-so guitar tracks pan them left and right and record an ok vocal in just over that
. Still not too impressive, but it's getting better
. Yeah I've been hearing some intonation problems here and there with this guitar too. I hope it's not going the way of my elec guitar (it needs a new neck and it is largely unplayable as the intonation is so whacked)
. I may have to take this in and have them take a look at it.
Oh and regarding autotune…I just saw a post somewhere a couple of days ago for a free (I think) DX autotune plug-in . Can't remember. I may have to go find it and do another version of this one
. I've never used it before, so that might make it even more interesting hahahahahaha…..damn…now that might be fun
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David - Thanks man & thanks for listening. You can do a hell of a lot wrong with a good song and have it still sound good
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