I enjoyed playing with myself today!!

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Gunnage.

Opening guitar a bit too bright on some notes maybe, but it sounds better on the second listen.

Oh, hang on... had the Avantone on. Turned it off. Sounds right now. (Sometimes I listen to stuff with both the monitors and the Avantone together. Didn't work for your tune so well.)
 
Gunnage.

Opening guitar a bit too bright on some notes maybe, but it sounds better on the second listen.

Oh, hang on... had the Avantone on. Turned it off. Sounds right now. (Sometimes I listen to stuff with both the monitors and the Avantone together. Didn't work for your tune so well.)

Thanks for giving it a listen dobro!
Well, I didn't really spend a lot of time on the mix. After tracking guitar with phones today my ears are ringing a little and a really good mix wasn't going to happen. I will work on it some more in the mixing department with fresh ears.
 
Love the bass tone. All your songs have a good groove in the rhythm. You have one of the best voices on the forum, no doubt about it. If you want a critique, I'll say the lead guitar is overplaying.
 
Love the bass tone. All your songs have a good groove in the rhythm. You have one of the best voices on the forum, no doubt about it. If you want a critique, I'll say the lead guitar is overplaying.

Thanks Robus.
I agree about the overplaying. The irony is I just don't have the blazing chops to overplay as much as I wanted to and I felt it was too subdued!
LOL
 
What are you using for a bass, Jimi? To me it had the sound of a P bass with flats. Sounded good. I've got mine strung in TI Jazz Flats right now, but it's getting less play lately than the Jazz bass, also with flats.
 
it's a cheapo Peavey bass (p-bassish). just regular round wound bass strings.
 
Damn dude, this is great. Sounds like one of those legends where the band walks into a studio and they nail it on the first take.
 
LOVE this. Song, tone, and voice remind me of live Stevie Ray. Really good stuff.
 
Good stuff there, Jimi. That rounded, full bass sound works great with the kick and provides the necessary weight for the guitar to do its thing. It goes without saying that the vocal is outstanding, just right for this style of music. You can obviously wring the neck of that geetar, but at times it sounded like you were trying to do two guitarists and one piano player's jobs at once with it! :D All the tones were good and the track was balanced well. The kick went wonky a couple of times, but nothing too bad.

If I was recording this (which I can't - the style is out of my repertoire) or producing it, then I would want to do more with the stereo field, and I'd do that by spreading your guitar work out onto two or three tracks. I wouldn't want them all blasting away at once, but working together with kind of an overlapping call-and-response sharing of parts. I'd have a warmer guitar doing more of the rhythm work, spread to the right (but not too far) and still doing some of the subtler licks. Then I'd have you sing your lines, responding inbetween with nice blues licks with your more raucous, crunchy tone. If it needed it, I'd put some complementary guitar on the left to balance the track. But everything would share space with everything else rather than competing for it.

:thumbs up:
 
Damn dude, this is great. Sounds like one of those legends where the band walks into a studio and they nail it on the first take.

thanks easlern. I was just having fun playing around and it was pretty much play everything once and see what it sounds like all together. I did track the bass twice. I tracked it once before I recorded the drums and it didn't have the groove so a retraced it. Also, I took 2 swipes at the main guitar part with the lead. Both the guitar tracks had, what I consider, great moments and not so great sloppy moments...so I just went with the first one. I can do a better lead guitar track now...since I have listened to it and let it simmer on my brain.
 
LOVE this. Song, tone, and voice remind me of live Stevie Ray. Really good stuff.
Thanks Bruthish. I dig this blues stuff too. I have a more polished Stax style one in the can that Lt Bob is going to play horns on...and maybe some guitar and vocals too. I'm very excited about that one!
 
Good stuff there, Jimi. That rounded, full bass sound works great with the kick and provides the necessary weight for the guitar to do its thing. It goes without saying that the vocal is outstanding, just right for this style of music. You can obviously wring the neck of that geetar, but at times it sounded like you were trying to do two guitarists and one piano player's jobs at once with it! :D All the tones were good and the track was balanced well. The kick went wonky a couple of times, but nothing too bad.

If I was recording this (which I can't - the style is out of my repertoire) or producing it, then I would want to do more with the stereo field, and I'd do that by spreading your guitar work out onto two or three tracks. I wouldn't want them all blasting away at once, but working together with kind of an overlapping call-and-response sharing of parts. I'd have a warmer guitar doing more of the rhythm work, spread to the right (but not too far) and still doing some of the subtler licks. Then I'd have you sing your lines, responding inbetween with nice blues licks with your more raucous, crunchy tone. If it needed it, I'd put some complementary guitar on the left to balance the track. But everything would share space with everything else rather than competing for it.

:thumbs up:
Thanks Bubba.
Your suggestions are great and I am going to work on this one some more. I was more just goofing around and having fun with this one than seriously getting to work....I just wanted to do some blues guitar wankin'. There's nobody around here to jam with during the week, so, I just played with myself.
:D
The tune came out pretty good, for a shoot from the hip job, and may deserve some attention to detail.
 
Good raw blues track - mix is secondary to me on this one. It's full of tone and attitude and sounds like a "guest star" stepping up on stage to do a jam tune. Great stuff :D
 
Hey man,

What I like most about this song is I get a sense of the enjoyment you found in the project.. It is a great feeling when it just becomes fun and you find that groove. Nice job.
 
Vocals sound great
Try to get some mud out the mix or the drums.
And try to make the mix wider (pan or ambience)
 
This is bad ass man. I love it. Great vocals too. I think it's perfect and it has an old time sound to it too :D
 
Good raw blues track -* mix is secondary to me on this one. It's full of tone and attitude and sounds like a "guest star" stepping up on stage to do a jam tune. Great stuff :D
Thanks ido1957. I had fun with it.

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Hey man,

What I like most about this song is I get a sense of the enjoyment you found in the project.. It is a great feeling when it just becomes fun and you find that groove. Nice job.
Thanks mspin. This was mostly for shits and giggles...glad you liked it.
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Vocals sound great
Try to get some mud out the mix or the drums.
And try to make the mix wider (pan or ambience)
Thanks ThooriumEx...good advice.

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This is bad ass man. I love it. Great vocals too. I think it's perfect and it has an old time sound to it too :D
Thanks Phil. I like this tune too, it has a lot going for it but...
I've listened to it a few times and the lead guitar is sloppy as fuck. I admit it. I'm going to redo it and it will be much better!

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This is the post that my email had in it so it get's the unfortunate honor of being my first not about me response. So hello, guys.

I agree with a lot of what's said here but some not as much. It's all subjective of course. I wouldn't call the guitar too bright, but maybe a little harsh in some of the upper frequencies. That may be semantics and the same thing as bright to whomever wrote that.
I would like to hear that boost moved down to the lower end where Stevie did the 'boom' off his iconic 'boom chick' sound or the sort of walking bass patterns he'd do. You can't deny the similarities of the style; I'm not saying your guitar should sound like his but it sounds a tad muddied or jumbled up down there with a lot of frequencies competing in the mix which seems to me of having the consequence of pushing the guitar back in the mix when in that register and then it'll jump straight to the front when up the neck.

Those combinations aren't good for this style I think and I would put the guitar front and center with your great voice. I wouldn't add guitars or double that one, I think it would be confusing but I do think Bubba po and I are hearing almost the same thing but would approach it differently. He seems to hear the competition for space at the lower end and at least partially would also fix it with some eq on the guitar down there. I think that coupled with the attenuation in the upper registers would help it sit right without the need for more guitar sounds, though that may be meant stylistically and not 'troubleshooting', not that it's in trouble, or double trouble if you'll pardon the pun if anyone even gets it. I agree that the stage could be spread out even after you've gotten the guitar sitting prettier. Most producers and/or mixers have this style's three or four pieces set almost completely in their own space, but there again you may not want it to sound like all the others with the drums small and not spread wide and everything compartmentalized.

It sounds great though and you do have a killer voice. Just offering my constructive critique. I think it's really strong work and would be a great demo track.
And let that guitar be played, rip it up, that's what this music is for, not introspective lyrics or something. Hell, they usually even repeat lines to get to the guitar. No subdued guitar in Texas blues. That's why I say put it up front and center. If it has to share space with anything, it should be your voice.]

Side note: Those Peavey basses sounded good. They are about an hour down the backroads from me and it may be common knowledge or not, I don't know; it may just be local or everyone knows someone who works there but they are going out of business, so save some money, there might be some decent gear coming up soon for very cheap.
 
pretty cool. No mix comments. What I like is it has that "band" feel" rather than a solo guy. Well done. Guitars DO have some of that SRV vibe going on.
:thumbs up::thumbs up:
 
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