Beatles Cover Thread!

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Hawk Studio said:
Don,
Awesome job on "If I Fell". The harmonies sound great.

Here is one that my daughter and I are working on. It is still in the "rough" state but here it is anyway.

You've Got to Hide Your Love Away


Mark
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Gonna be sweet when you finish... The guitar and vox need some edge... Your daughter has a lovely voice!! Make sure you post the finished one!!
 
Thanks man...

She was in the studio one night and asked me how to play it. I showed her the chords, then she just sat in front of a crappy mic and layed it down in one take. The tambourine and synth were added later while we were screwing around with the track. The song is kinda at the bottom of her range but I like the sound. We need to get back, eq and clean it up a bit.

Mark
 
Don! I just listened to "If I Fell". Wow! Great job there sir.
strat0tele, That Polythene Pam cover is sick dude (in a good way!).
Apl, I need some more acid (9 times more than I would normally ingest :D )
Hawk Studio, this is one of my all time fav Beatles tunes. Very well done.
 
A Reel Person said:
but only a couple with worthy production value! :eek: ;)
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OK, so where can we find them?

This thread is very entertaining.

Polythene Pam is lots of fun. Very energetic, almost frantic. Is it a bit faster than the original?

Nine is ... different. Made me laugh. The sound quality is awesome! What kind of mic and preamp did you use on the lead vocal? Did the samples come from your CD changer, the radio, or what?

I Me Mine is very faithful to the original's overall feel. Nice guitar work.

Hawk, that's pretty awesome. I'm looking forward to hearing the finished product. BTW, have you been on LI for a long time?

Llarion, I hear what you're saying about it being his first time recording. Gotta find a way to loosen him up!

Did I forget anyone?

Don
 
I thank all for the listen and kind words. What could be cool is if we pick an album and folks could be "assigned" a track to cover. An answer to Dave's (Reel person) Off White Album :D
 
DonF said:
Nine is ... different. Made me laugh. The sound quality is awesome! What kind of mic and preamp did you use on the lead vocal? Did the samples come from your CD changer, the radio, or what?
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I was sitting at the dining room table with a Carvin C68 in my right hand, plugged into a Yamaha MG10/2 using a schmantzy Mogami cable. The mixer was plugged into the cheesy built-in soundcard on my laptop which was running Cubase LE. My left hand was manually panning the channel on the mixer during my vocal performance. Then, while remaining seated at the dining room table, I flipped the TV on in the living room, turned it up, turned the mic up, and started flipping through the Sirius music stations on the Dish, with the mic still in my hand. I recorded two additional tracks this way. I went into Cubase and deleted the silence during the channel changes in the music trax. I applied compression and limiting to the vox, panned one music track left and the other right, and made a mixdown file. I then ran that through some light compression and limiting and put in the fadeout, sent that file over to the kitchen desktop PC and pulled it into Cubasis and used that MP3 encoder, moved the MP3 over to my laptop and uploaded to the host. All the work was done using my $20 Sony headphones from Wal~Mart, which Timboz also likes.
 
DonF said:
Polythene Pam is lots of fun. Very energetic, almost frantic. Is it a bit faster than the original?
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Yea, it's pretty retarded. hah.

I love this thread.
 
I've NEVER heard anyone attempt that one. My hat's off to you. I LOVE it!!
 
DonF said:
Llarion,

Nice job on one of my favorite Beatles songs. It has a lot going for it. I must agree, however, with tamky's assessment. It just seems a bit too stiff. It sounds to me like the singer is thinking more about singing than he is about the song.

OK, now here's one for you to rip apart. My brother Bob and I recorded this as a gift for our parents. The folks have always dreamed of their musically talented children (a few of us fall into that category) overcoming various factors, such as the geographical distance between us, long enough to perform together.

Bob recorded the instrumental tracks and the "Paul" vocal part at a friend's home studio in Massachusetts on a Roland VS-1680. He sent me a CD with a stereo premix, minus the "John" vocal, which I recorded. Then I created the final mix. (This just to explan the limitations we were working with.)

The folks loved it. I hope you find it at least mildly entertaining.

If I Fell

Don
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This sounds very well done. I dig it. Great vocals. Sweet.
Ed
 
Hawk Studio said:
Don,
Awesome job on "If I Fell". The harmonies sound great.

Here is one that my daughter and I are working on. It is still in the "rough" state but here it is anyway.

You've Got to Hide Your Love Away


Mark
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Very nice voice. Another sweet one. She has a great voice. Cool tune.
Ed
 
Track Rat said:
I like it Phil. Great cover. It's funny, I was talking to the wife the other day and I told her that I wanted this tune played at my funeral (cheerful eh? :eek: ).
Anyways, this is my son and I covering "I Me Mine".
http://www.nowhereradio.com/artists/?aid=1331/singles.shtml
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Wow...very nice guitar tones. Vocals are really good. Very well done tune. Nice sounds all around. Like the tones used when it gets a bit distorted and rockin. Very cool.
Great song.
Ed
 
Thanks Ed. That's my little Rivera Pubster. No PODs were used in the making of this tune. :D
 
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