wow, what a great response from you folks....
thanks!
elcholo -
thanks for listening...
we're all a 'me', 'cept for the drummer.
he was a hired hand for this project, and did a killer job.
Chili
'well done'
LOL
i hear the 'yes' connection often enough, that i suppose there must be something to it.
i never played or learned any Yes tunes thru my playing life, but i've listened from the very beginning.....
maybe i should crack open Fragile and Close to the Edge, and see what i can steal!!
RocknRollOver
glad you liked it!
Mikromort-
touring...
ugh.
i toured full time for 6-1/2 years.
but hey, it would be cool to put a band together strictly to do the original stuff.
the hardest part, would be picking the players....
i think i'd need 5 guitar players!
LOL
thanks for listening.......
livitup-
my recording setup for this was pretty meager-
pics at the bottom.
basically, this mix now, i did in sonar.
so, i've moved to sonar, and the electric guitar tracks on this mix, were done directly into sonar.
but the original tracks, were done on a roland Daw.....
it's a VS-1880 recorder, using a ART DPS as a digital convertor to bypass the built-in convertors and preamps in the VS.
the preamp i use is a A Designs Audio MP-1 class A tube mic pre....
ADK Hamburg and AT4033 mics, sm57 as well....
Dbx compressor.....sansamp bass DI for the bass signal.....
now, for this version, i took all the VS tracks, created wav files from the data backups, put all those into SONAR, and started over from scratch.
i scrapped all the original guitar tracks, and did them all direct, more or less for the experiment side of it.
guitars: all re-done from the original tracks, using the mini colossal direct. straight into the MP-1, into the convertor, into the soundcard.
Mike J
the arrangement is KEY to this one.....
i spent several years working on different versions of this, til i arrived at this one.
be bop deluxe, i remember Bill Nelson.
he was cool.....
don't hear that band name pop up very often!!
LOL
thanks for listening!
werner-1
that 'deep guitar tone'..... that was all
peavey jsx mini colossal direct.
i've had a pod xt, and i dig this direct tone out of this little midget tube amp way better than anything i could ever pull out of the pod.
and all i did, was plug up, set the gain knob, set the tone knob, crank up my direct drive to it's usual settings, go direct out of the amp and play.
a little tweaking on mixdown was all it took, to find that tone.
easy as pie.
jrhager84
"I'd kiss your ass, but everybody else here seems to have that covered"
LOL
well, i do appreciate positive feedback, i never think of it like that, really, i just figure 'damn, finally i've done a decent mix'
i never aspired to be a good engineer... it's just the thing i have to do to write my songs on my own....
but, i'd say, for punch, start with just the drums.
and tweak and tweak til you get what you want.
lots of compression and eq on each individual part, to make it do what you want it to do.
i did a lot of automation, experimented a lot with compression and eq......
there's no one rule, it's always different for every song, and for every type of tone and even type of player.
you take what you've got, and then with (hopefully developed over time) skills you go after what you want.
more punch on the kick?
well, thats some eq, very selective cuts, and some tricky compression settings, which aren't tricky once you figure them out.
i'm still figuring!!
srx bass close:
vs recording rig:
strats and mini-c-cab:
