Elton123
New member
Lucky to have the beautiful blond sing another tune. We had fun with this. Some people go to dinner and a movie, we record. 
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still_fiddlin
Guest
Very nice song. Lovely voice. I do think it's competing with the guitar and mando a tiny bit more than necessary sometimes.
And, apologies in advance, but the bass detracts from the overall feel. Is it a guitar dropped, or what? Only have my headphones here at work, but tone quality seems wrong, and the playing is the weakest part of the "band."
Keep the singer, though.
And, apologies in advance, but the bass detracts from the overall feel. Is it a guitar dropped, or what? Only have my headphones here at work, but tone quality seems wrong, and the playing is the weakest part of the "band."
Keep the singer, though.
Elton123
New member
Thanks for the listen Sir!! The bass is an upright sample from Sample Tank by IK Multimedia played on a controller. I tried to play a pretty standard root-five bass line. I'm not sure why u are hearing it the way you do. Sounds like a sampled upright bass to me? mandolin and guitars were recorded with a 414 through a UA 6176. Vocals were a Blue Baby Bottle. There is no "band" ha, just me. I'm sure she'd be fine with trading me in for some real bluegrass players.
Thanks again!
ido1957
9K Gold Member
Excellent playing and recording. I find there's a bit of a disconnect reverb wise between the instruments and the vocals. It sounds great but I wonder if you pulled the vocals up front more it would sit more in the same space...
Moot point when it's this good though
Moot point when it's this good though
Elton123
New member
Excellent playing and recording. I find there's a bit of a disconnect reverb wise between the instruments and the vocals. It sounds great but I wonder if you pulled the vocals up front more it would sit more in the same space...
Moot point when it's this good though
Thanks for the listen. Yeah, the vox is a little roomy. Recorded it that way on purpose actually. Been experimenting with backing off the mic. Problem is that doesn't work well when u have a bad room. I used a plate on her and a hall verb on the instruments. Then sent the 2 buss to a tiny bit of verb to help blend. As always I try to filter my verbs on the effect buss to bring out sweet spots and get rid of junk.
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chuckduffy
Well-known member
Elton - nice track. Don't know if this will be helpful, but I am picking up on the bass thing that stll_fiddling did... I was trying to thing of how I would be playing this part and here are some thoughts - not really a bass player so take it with a grain of salt...
It's really on the beat and doesn't move around it at all, the individual notes seem to end to abruptly, I would be rocking back and forth between strings and probably slide between the notes sometimes, in general 'walk' a bit more - and there is one note in particular that bugs me - I'll see if I can figure it out, but in general I kept thinking it should drop down - it just sounds kind of 'odd' like that one note in particular is clashing with some other instrument.
Anyway - I think the tune is cool - but do agree that the bass detracts...
It's really on the beat and doesn't move around it at all, the individual notes seem to end to abruptly, I would be rocking back and forth between strings and probably slide between the notes sometimes, in general 'walk' a bit more - and there is one note in particular that bugs me - I'll see if I can figure it out, but in general I kept thinking it should drop down - it just sounds kind of 'odd' like that one note in particular is clashing with some other instrument.
Anyway - I think the tune is cool - but do agree that the bass detracts...
Elton123
New member
Thanks for the listen and great advice. I don't really hear an electric bass on this. That would certainly help with the sustain. Or an arco bass part maybe. Not sure. All great production thoughts tho. Thanks