New Honey Hunters - Fabulous Wonderful

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The first song after the last album. Time to saddle up the old studio horsey and take it for a ride...

At 2:45 it'll be over before you know it. :-)

Any and all mix comments appreciated. Thanks chaps and chapesses.
 
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Armistice said:
The first song after the last album. Time to saddle up the old studio horsey and take it for a ride...

At 2:45 it'll be over before you know it. :-)

Any and all mix comments appreciated. Thanks chaps and chapesses.
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That rocks! The vox sit a bit low in the mix... I know some people actually prefer it that way, but I could use a smidgeon more, especially within this genre.
 
Serendipity Records said:
That rocks! The vox sit a bit low in the mix... I know some people actually prefer it that way, but I could use a smidgeon more, especially within this genre.
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Cheers, thanks. I always struggle with the vox level, not because I'm shy about it but because my brain knows it all so well I think it's filling it out a bit and makes me think it's louder than it actually is. I'll have a listen again today.

(y)
 
Armistice said:
Cheers, thanks. I always struggle with the vox level, not because I'm shy about it but because my brain knows it all so well I think it's filling it out a bit and makes me think it's louder than it actually is. I'll have a listen again today.

(y)
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Speaking from experience, it is a common tendency among many of us ;) Look forward to hearing/commenting on any revisions!
 
Sounds really good. I like everything about it except the chorus. Vocals are great as are melody and composition. Good job
 
I like the tune man I'm thinking a break in it somewhere for a ripping lead guitar solo would be a nice ad. Also some quick little guitar squeals or sax or something added in between the breaks in the words in the area where you sing isn't this ( little ripper going along with the guitar chords and drums ) just fabulous ( another little ripper ) wonderful ( another little ripper ) rinse and repeat in those sections. Just to add a little spice and kick to a really cool song. Good job mang!
 
TAE said:
I like the tune man I'm thinking a break in it somewhere for a ripping lead guitar solo would be a nice ad. Also some quick little guitar squeals or sax or something added in between the breaks in the words in the area where you sing isn't this ( little ripper going along with the guitar chords and drums ) just fabulous ( another little ripper ) wonderful ( another little ripper ) rinse and repeat in those sections. Just to add a little spice and kick to a really cool song. Good job mang!
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Cheers TAE - I've actually redone the opening lead guitar motif on the grounds, as someone else pointed out, I don't actually play things like that... :unsure: :LOL: They are right, but I'm not sure what I've now done is better. I've taken the opportunity to put a little 4 note descending phrase in between the words in the chorus as you suggested. I'm just going to sit with it for 24 hours - I'm not entirely sure I like either yet, and don't want to post it up if I don't.:oops:

So swing by in another 24 hours or so and your suggestion may well have been implemented. Thanks for the listen.
 
That's outstanding. Can you tell us how you did the guitars?: gtr, signal chain, etc
 
TAE said:
I like the tune man I'm thinking a break in it somewhere for a ripping lead guitar solo would be a nice ad. Also some quick little guitar squeals or sax or something added in between the breaks in the words in the area where you sing isn't this ( little ripper going along with the guitar chords and drums ) just fabulous ( another little ripper ) wonderful ( another little ripper ) rinse and repeat in those sections. Just to add a little spice and kick to a really cool song. Good job mang!
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Here you go - the special TAE Edition of Fabulous Wonderful. Couldn't do you a ripping lead break as I didn't want to make it any longer, but I did put a little something into the chorus - and I redid the bit at the beginning so it's a bit less generic blues lick and a bit more what I'd normally do...
 
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That's outstanding. Can you tell us how you did the guitars?: gtr, signal chain, etc
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Thanks Porterhouse

It's basically stacked, relatively clean, no effect guitars played as tightly as I could. First guitar is a Duesenberg Starplayer TV, second is a newish Tele - one track of each hard L and one track of each hard R. In the second half of the verse where the octave low voice comes in I add in a Les Paul Standard playing L and R as well, so at this stage you have 3 different guitars playing the same thing on either side.

All the "amplification" is via my Kemper - some number of Fender-ish profiles just starting to get a little gritty. On their own they don't sound so inspiring, but when you stack them up and have the bass playing the same riff you get a pretty nice meaty sound, I think.

The little motif at the end of the chorus is Duesenberg through a CarolAnn profile - some boutique US amp, I believe. Again, L and R but panned in a bit this time.

The lead work at the beginning and the repeated phrase in the chorus is, apparently, a 1967 dimed Vibrolux - whatever that is... with a touch of delay on it. New version only - not sure what the older version was, I more or less just picked something squealy at random - and because you can't really get a Kemper to feedback in any meaningful way at bedroom volume I used a Digitech FreqOut pedal to add faux feedback... :LOL:

Cheers
 
Armistice said:
Thanks Porterhouse

It's basically stacked, relatively clean, no effect guitars played as tightly as I could. First guitar is a Duesenberg Starplayer TV, second is a newish Tele - one track of each hard L and one track of each hard R. In the second half of the verse where the octave low voice comes in I add in a Les Paul Standard playing L and R as well, so at this stage you have 3 different guitars playing the same thing on either side.

All the "amplification" is via my Kemper - some number of Fender-ish profiles just starting to get a little gritty. On their own they don't sound so inspiring, but when you stack them up and have the bass playing the same riff you get a pretty nice meaty sound, I think.

The little motif at the end of the chorus is Duesenberg through a CarolAnn profile - some boutique US amp, I believe. Again, L and R but panned in a bit this time.

The lead work at the beginning and the repeated phrase in the chorus is, apparently, a 1967 dimed Vibrolux - whatever that is... with a touch of delay on it. New version only - not sure what the older version was, I more or less just picked something squealy at random - and because you can't really get a Kemper to feedback in any meaningful way at bedroom volume I used a Digitech FreqOut pedal to add faux feedback... :LOL:

Cheers
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What about the drums? Or are they VSTi?
 
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Here you go - the special TAE Edition of Fabulous Wonderful. Couldn't do you a ripping lead break as I didn't want to make it any longer, but I did put a little something into the chorus - and I redid the bit at the beginning so it's a bit less generic blues lick and a bit more what I'd normally do...
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Hey thanks for giving the idea a try I like what you did there! It's just a little extra ear candy to sweeten it up...
 
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