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Like the arrangement a lot - a bit more C&W than the Dead version. Have you considered adding yourself doing a high harmony to support the vocal?

My dad's got the steel string. The action's not bad, the tone and volume are a bit lacking compared to a full size acoustic and because of the shape it tend to fall off your knee if you play it sitting down. It is extremely light and compact, and will fit in the overhead locker on a plane so...

Ok see if you good folks think these are an improvement. Future Blues I've just eased up the compression. On 'call my name' I've pulled the vocals back a little and pushed the drums up a tad to give it a bit more drive. Thanks for all of your help so far :-) Call My Name Future Blues

Thanks for the useful response Chibi :) The only compression on either track is a 2:1 @ -20db on the master bus, I could reduce the ratio and increase the threshold I guess... The echo on Future Blues is what was supposed to be the original vocal, which I tried mixing in a little to give the...

As requested: Country Blues Call My Name Future Blues These are still not finished mixes - I've just burnt them to a CD to start checking how they sound on other systems. The original plan was to do a whole album's worth live in our rehearsal space to get something akin to an old blues...

You're probably right SouthSIDE Glen, but I guess the joy of digital recording is (to return to the cooking analogy) that you can throw in all the chilli in Mexico, taste, and then take it all out again. I'm new enough at all this that i can't always 'hear' it until I actually try it, and i...

Now this might belong better in the newbie section, but I'm currently mixing down some full band 'live' takes. I'm pretty happy with the performances, although I'm overdubbing the odd vocal, but there's still some magic lacking in the final product. On one track I re-amped the vocal through a...

I bought two AKG D3700s a couple of years ago, having spoken to several more experienced musicians and heard they were dramatically better sounding than the SM58 on the same money, which is true, but the very crisp highs means they are a touch feedback prone. Having sung through a number of...

My current amp is a Peavey Classic 30 which I use for guitar on gigs, and harmonica and guitar in the studio. I've also got an Epiphone Valve Sr, which is nice, but I@ve hardly touched it since I bought the Peavey.

Mix 2 So I've EQd the kick for a bit more snap and a bit less mud and I also pushed the guitar up in the mix and tweaked it for a touch more treble. There was no bass recorded, as we don't have a bass player (which is a deliberate decision). Mix3 is the same as mix2, but with a bottom end...

We recorded a bunch of songs live in my studio at the start of the week. I'm trying to mix down with hit & miss results. I'm deliberately looking for a certain rough & ready quality - but there's a difference between 'raw' and 'poorly mixed' and I'm not quite sure which side of the line I'm...

If you only have a passive monitor and no way of powering this is one way of running it (using the 'through' port on the back of your main speakers). However you need to make sure you've done the impedance sums to make sure you don't do any damage to your amp. The other limitation of this...

Well I don't have a proper kick mic - live I a use a cheap and cheery behringer (XM8500) on the kick usually, and have generally been pretty happy with the result. FWIW here's what we've got between me and the rest of the band: Samson C01 & Sontronics STC-2 "large" diaphram condensors (one of...

Everything I have tells me to use a pair of identical condensers as drum overheads, but I just wondered why? I was hoping to track some drums this evening and I don't have a matching pair of condensors, so should I use matching dynamics? One condensor and one dynamic? Or should I just live...

Ok...so here's the second track we did. Feeling daring so I've had a go at mastering this one myself first using the onboard tools in cubase - ideas on what I can do better very welcome. Raw Mastered If anyone is interested I compressed to a ratio of about 3:1 put the limiter on the 'auto'...

I don't own any, but I've played, and been impressed by LP copies branded 'Vintage' in the same kind of price range as the Epiphone Models. A former bandmate used to play a 1980s Aria Paul-copy which had a magnificent tone.

When I first began to record my voice it threw up all sorts of pitch problems I'd never noticed live. Vocalist.org.uk is full of useful stuff and links out to other sites where examples of scales, warm -ups and much else can be heard. I found this immensely useful. Practice is the way to go...

Cheers! Well that definitely sounds much better - what did you do? I can obviously hear a fair bit of reverb but I'd be interested to know what else (I'm interested in training my ears, apart from having another four songs on the same show engineered in similar haphazard fashion) There was a...

Thanks for the thoughts guys - I've got plenty to be playing with now. Really like the SimulAnalog Guitar suite - the fender twin is good as well as the Marshall. I appreciate it's never going to be as good as the real thing partciularly for cleaner sounds, but I was struggling to even get...

We did a live acoustic session at a local radio station. I'd like to do something with the results, but I'm not sure how to get the best of the tracks. It was engineered live in the studio to a live broadcast so all they've sent me is a two hour stereo track of the whole thing, that I can cut...