rayc said:
WARNING WARNING......NON GENERIC GUITAR SOUND
Nice touches on the periphery: the psych guitar that noodled in the L speaker for a few moments at 1.30, the light percussive touches in the right.
What did you use for the guitar sounds? Just far enough away from generic to sound meaty yet mighty.
Some of the lyric phrasing is a little stilted around 1.50+.
The B/vox sit nicely. Can't have it all - BUT....
The line has a very eastern feel - something that The Tea Party do so well.
Well done in the recording & pretty good work in the playing too. It all hangs together like it belongs.
Cheers
rayC
thanks for the comments man
def like the detail on the info.
You know quite honestly, on the guitar sounds we went with a Line 6 POD rackmountable, but I think the difference was really in the EQs. The studio we are using for this carries "
Q-Clone" which basically copies the exact sound of any EQ.
I think I ended up going with one of the Neve settings. The before and after was amazing. Gave the guitars a nice mist.
The rest was pudding production work. So in other words, what I usually do is I have the rhythm guitarist work with at least two types of distortion per song:
-A slightly less chunky with a slightly lower gain setting. I usually like the sound of rectified stuff. Deftonesish if you will.
That in turn ends up being the main left and right guitar tracks. To help with "chunk", I used both L and R outputs from the line 6 and assigned it to a mono track. So you kind of have 2 guitar takes in one.
This is what I label "Verse D Guitars L and R". The effect is specific to the verses, but I also have the guitarist play through the choruses as well.
-Second, the chorus guitar tracks,
If you listen carefully, you can hear a second layer of guitars comming during the choruses. This plays blended with the verse guitar tracks.
I usually reserve the chorus guitar channels for a meatier, ultra thick fuzz distortion. Not so shrill on the high end as the verse guitars. The gain is full blast on this one.
I keep these seperated for obvious reasons...plus it makes it alot easier to create different progressions for the song.
So by the end of it, my track list would look like so:
Intro Guitar L
Intro Guitar R
Verse Guitar L (also my main guitars)
Verse Guitar R
Chorus Guitar L
Chorus Guitar R
Lead Guitar L
Lead Guitar C (to fill up the center channel in key places)
Lead Guitar R
So each grouping has a different and specific guitar effect and type of distortion. So in the end, you got a few different colors to work with and it helps the song naturally fall into place without a lot of automation.
Same with voices. The intro sequence uses a different mic than the main voices. Same with that last outro sequence. All with the intention of creating different colors.
I'm excited, cause we'll be going back later today to tackle those few parts. again, thanks for the comments guys.
but the string thing sounds good. Well done and props to the band. 
