Acoustic Instrumental-"Bombay Sunrise"

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Here is one I have been working on for a bit....I used my variax for all the guitar tracks.Been messin around with the virtual alternate tuinings and did this in a open c6 tuining.I think it has a kinda eastern feel to it.Playin is a bit choppy still...I did it finger style,and the variax plays like a strat,even though it sounds like an acoustic in these settings and its a bit "looser" then a real acoustic would be.

Bombay Sunrise
 
Trance-like. The title fits just right... sounds like I'm in India. The guitar tone is just a little sitar-like and that fits too. The percussion is well done, though the cymbals might be a little hot. I like the verb on the hand drums... makes them sound real.

Tim
 
Timothy Lawler said:
Trance-like. The title fits just right... sounds like I'm in India. The guitar tone is just a little sitar-like and that fits too. The percussion is well done, though the cymbals might be a little hot. I like the verb on the hand drums... makes them sound real.

Tim
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Thanks for listening Tim...I mixed this last night,and after listening today,I'm not to happy with the eq/sound of it...seems to ne kinda mid heavy or something....I have a real bad head cold right now,and I think that makes it hard for me to hear well...it's like a blanket is over my head or something.Anyways,I should be able to get a better mix in a couple of days...
I am also going to add a real sitar to the track...(well actually a variax modeled one,but thats the best I can do).
Thanks again for the feedback!
 
Very cool sounding. Very pretty. I agree with Tim, the tone fits very well. Nice playing all around. Great vibe. I enjoyed this very much.
Ed
 
Hey nice playing! This is great to listen to.
The percussion is well done too, adds a lot to the song.
The overall eastern feel is cool.
I agree about the heavy mid sounds, it's rattling/distorting my speakers somewhat throughout the whole song. Maybe lowering the 250-500Hz range would help that out.

Nice track ;)
 
Well played - that variax has a nice acoustic/eastern sound. Good percussion as well. Nice job.
 
Lovely song. Although the downloaded mp3 on my Winamp player says "Rolling Stones Cover" I'm not sure why? The guitar sounds great, I listened to this twice :)
 
Dogman, Snakedog, ido1957, Dolphin_Babe - Thanks for listening guys!I'm gonna address the EQ issues on my remix of this..also going to add some Sitar and replace the bongos/congas with tabala drums to maybe give it a bit more of a Indian type vibe!
 
Nice playing. It does have a nice sitar flavor to it. Thanks for sharing. :D
 
cool stuff variax!!, maybe the tablas will make it more like an India feel.
I like the kick in therre , but it seems lonely, or maybe it could be softer?
Subjective opnion of course. ;) How about the cymbals to be more swelling, there kinda distracting now.

Beautiful peice.

T
 
cmhansen - Thanks!Gonna try and lay down a real sitar track on this tonight,Thanks for checking it out.

Tonio - Agree about the cymbals,I like the swells,but not the crashes.Gonna get rid of most of the crashes...maybe go for a "less is more" type thing...which is tough for me as I tend to clutter things up a bit :rolleyes: ...thanks for your feedback!
 
variaxman said:
Tonio - Agree about the cymbals,I like the swells,but not the crashes.Gonna get rid of most of the crashes...maybe go for a "less is more" type thing...which is tough for me as I tend to clutter things up a bit :rolleyes: ...thanks for your feedback!
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I know what you mean, it's always hard for me to not add all kinds of extra stuff to a song. Even when I try to strip down a song it still ends up having a lot going on...

although I've resisted synth and sound effects for a few songs... I'm sure they'll be back soon though :rolleyes:
 
Its very good. I hear an airy, soft female voice singing lead vocal on this in the vein of enya.

nice.
 
CyanJaguar said:
Its very good. I hear an airy, soft female voice singing lead vocal on this in the vein of enya.

nice.
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Thanks for the compliment!......It would sound cool with that type of vocal,if I only knew someone who could pull it off!
 
Early Morning For Sure

Nice Groove.

Did you piezo the guitar? Mic it? Both?

I'd like to hear the Egyptian Pharoahs play a little bit o' traditional Syrian style orchestration to this. They played with Zeppelin when I saw the good ol' Zep.
 
northsiderap said:
Nice Groove.

Did you piezo the guitar? Mic it? Both?

I'd like to hear the Egyptian Pharoahs play a little bit o' traditional Syrian style orchestration to this. They played with Zeppelin when I saw the good ol' Zep.
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Thanks man...yeah,I really dig Page's acoustic playing alot and that "un-ledded" dvd is definitely a big influence!The Line 6 Variax guitar uses piezo pickups for the modeling of all the diffrent acoustic/electric guitars it has...I used this into a Pod xtlive and from there into my PC(thru a Ark 24 card)

Thanks for checking it out!
 
Sweet tune man, really Hindu sounding,,,I can see cows walking on the water, Ghandi would have loved this man.
Good clean sound sources, nice arrangment.
Cool tune, relaxing and calming.
Great playing, very zep feel to the guitar, again you`ve showed up with some exelent work bro.

Looking forward to getting my hands on tie your mother down :)
 
Nakatira said:
Sweet tune man, really Hindu sounding,,,I can see cows walking on the water, Ghandi would have loved this man.
Good clean sound sources, nice arrangment.
Cool tune, relaxing and calming.
Great playing, very zep feel to the guitar, again you`ve showed up with some exelent work bro.

Looking forward to getting my hands on tie your mother down :)
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Thanks !I just uploaded a new mix/version with diffrent percussion and a Sitar as well...
Oh yeah, a vocal-lessTie Your Mother Down is on my click site now as well so have at it!!
 
New version

Whats up? Hope everyone is having a great holiday season!
I just uploaded a new mix/arrangement of this tune for those that had checked it out before and might be interested...I tried to take some of the muddiness out of the acoustic guitars,and also added some different percussion and a sitar as well...check it out

Bombay Sunrise
 
variaxman said:
Whats up? Hope everyone is having a great holiday season!
I just uploaded a new mix/arrangement of this tune for those that had checked it out before and might be interested...I tried to take some of the muddiness out of the acoustic guitars,and also added some different percussion and a sitar as well...check it out

Bombay Sunrise
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Sounds excellent Mr. Axman!
All the midrange muddiness I heard on my speakers before is gone
The sitar & percussion additions sound cool too. Overall it definitely gives me the acoustic Zeppelin vibe. Love that stuff :D

I'll still give that queen cover a shot sometime soon, have some fun with it and probably trash it. I'll let you know :D :cool:
 
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