sometimes I read the responses and don't know how to respond.. there is so much more here than just mix feedback.. it's easier to type stuff when your responding to flaws that people point out, but when everyone's just saying cool stuff I almost don't even want to respond.. Not that I don't enjoy reading it because I do, but I figure why keep the thread around? May as well make room for someone we can bitch at!
I'm going to try to sum it up in one shot if you don't mind..
first, thanks again for the feedback.. Anyone who has been listening to my crap for the past year knows that my stuff isn't as good as it used to be.. Not that it was ever great, but I used to do actual songs.. Now it's just a bunch of little ramblings.. To tell you the truth, I'm just happy to be able to record anything at this stage.. hopefully I'll get back to structured stuff soon..
for this jam, I recorded the acoustic to a metronome and then doubled it (played it twice).. It was tuned to drop C#.. direct acoustic chain was guitar into a Blue Max compressor, into a Behringer mixer, then into my recorder.. the electric guitars all went through a Pod Pro and then the Blue Max compressor, then the Behringer mixer.. doubled and tuned to drop C#.. Guitar is a Korean Hamer Telecaster with a Seymour Duncan hot rail.. I haven't changed the strings since I posted my first song here over a year ago.. (except the occasional ones that break every few months.) I used the whammy pedal on the rhythm to give them a lower tone by pitch shifting them down.. ----->mud.

There was no EBow in this one, but I used
the Boss AW-3
Dynamic Wah, and
the PS-5 Super Shifter.. Normally I use a J-station track and or a SansAmp track to mix up the rhythm tone, but I got lazy on this, and it sounds it..
2 synths on this.. the ultra low bass-ish sound was an Alesis QS6.1 using the Vintage Synth expansion card.. I sent it through the Behringer because it has a low -cut button, and that button made the woofers stop moving.. the voices and synth solos were a Roland XV 20-20.. the voice parts are 4 different parts.. I played the keys with both hands and recorded it in stereo.. I did it again but played different notes.. higher or lower depending on the part.. the piano was done with a billion punches.. I just kept punching in until I reached the end.. I can do those little piano runs fast because I play the same type of shit over and over.. I'm not a real piano player by any means.. -----> it's all about the black keys!
all the keys went through the Behringer..
programmed the drums in Fruity Loops, but I have the midi out of the computer going to a Roland TD-8 drum sound module.. I added nothing to the drums, just set the volumes.. It's a basic simple lazy drum beat.. I'll be putting more time into that stuff in the future..
I'll finish this reply later.. It took me 3 months to type this.. I have a few p.m.'s to send to some of you, but I used up all my cpu time typing this.. I'm gonna check out a few tunes before bed..
thanks again for the ears!!
