Check it out...How does it sound? Our Great God

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ido1957 said:
What mic are you using?

:):D:):D
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Sorry. I meant to address this earlier. I don't know what mic your talking about, so here's all of them.

OH mics.............Behringer C2 (cheapos)
Kick..................CAD KBMsomething (a cheapo)
Snare............... SM57 or GLS ES57 (I can't remember)
Vocals...............SM58
E. Guitar 1..........Audix i5
E. Guitar 2..........SM57
Bass..................direct
 
What I hear in the electric guit track is a tube amp that needs new tubes...or a transistor amp that's seen better days, or a torn cone or a semi-hollow body guitar that has some rattles getting transduced.

My pick is a bad transistor amp, and a SHB guitar with rattles...mebbe on the saddle or something. Just guessing. But it doesn't sond purty.

I would retrack guitar, and bass...adding some unison with the BD. I wouldn't mess with the rest.

If you tracked two guitars, you could pan L&R...get it out of the vocal's center...and minimize the perception of wierdness in the recorded sounds, I'm betting...

But I don't want to get lost on that stuff...the tune and arrangement...build, parts, etc... is great. And the vox melody is superb.
 
jeffmaher said:
What I hear in the electric guit track is a tube amp that needs new tubes...or a transistor amp that's seen better days, or a torn cone or a semi-hollow body guitar that has some rattles getting transduced.

My pick is a bad transistor amp, and a SHB guitar with rattles...mebbe on the saddle or something. Just guessing. But it doesn't sond purty.

I would retrack guitar, and bass...adding some unison with the BD. I wouldn't mess with the rest.

If you tracked two guitars, you could pan L&R...get it out of the vocal's center...and minimize the perception of wierdness in the recorded sounds, I'm betting...

But I don't want to get lost on that stuff...the tune and arrangement...build, parts, etc... is great. And the vox melody is superb.
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Thanks for all of that.

You ready for the guitar? It's a Fender Strat (Mexican) into a DigiTech RP350 into a Crate Flexwave 65W amp. I know, I know...Crate...yuck, but it's what I've got.

The other guitar, on the other hand is a Gibson Les Paul into a Boss pedal (can't remember which one) into a Peavey Classic 30 tube amp. It sounds much sweeter than mine. Which, when I retrack it, I'm going to be using his. :D

I'm glad to hear that everyone likes the vocals. I am going to retrack them, though, because it's nowhere near as good as he really is.
 
I think it sounds better, IIRC

The chord trainwreck happens at 1:17...that's the part I was talking about.

I think the pans are too clustered in the middle third. One thing that's not working is the way both guits and the piano are all pretty much playing the same chords, the same figures, and, generally, in the same octave range...except the piano which might be sounding the next octave up....and, therein lies the problem: I can't differentiate individual parts cuz of the mash-up. All in the lower mids...bottom of the guitar....100Hz to 300.

If that's MIDI piano, try an acoustic grand...something with decay, to get the sustain out of the way, and lend some purcussiveness. Or eliminate it as it is...cuz it's superfluous.

Another thing maybe you could look at is eliminating guit L, and substituting a capoed-up acoustic part... an octave range up from the other Les Paul track...GuitR, right?

The pizza resistance would be to develop melodic parts for the accompanying instruments to play...counter themes....neat chordal/rhythmic fractions....things to add interest, and eliminate the excessive layers of sound in the low mids.

There needs to be some space in the big parts...and there needs to be actual things for the instruments to play against, and with, one another, and the upper-mids need to be utilized, I believe.

Try some stuff....let your imagination add some filligree to the work.
 
jeffmaher said:
I think it sounds better, IIRC

The chord trainwreck happens at 1:17...that's the part I was talking about.

I think the pans are too clustered in the middle third. One thing that's not working is the way both guits and the piano are all pretty much playing the same chords, the same figures, and, generally, in the same octave range...except the piano which might be sounding the next octave up....and, therein lies the problem: I can't differentiate individual parts cuz of the mash-up. All in the lower mids...bottom of the guitar....100Hz to 300.

If that's MIDI piano, try an acoustic grand...something with decay, to get the sustain out of the way, and lend some purcussiveness. Or eliminate it as it is...cuz it's superfluous.

Another thing maybe you could look at is eliminating guit L, and substituting a capoed-up acoustic part... an octave range up from the other Les Paul track...GuitR, right?

The pizza resistance would be to develop melodic parts for the accompanying instruments to play...counter themes....neat chordal/rhythmic fractions....things to add interest, and eliminate the excessive layers of sound in the low mids.

There needs to be some space in the big parts...and there needs to be actual things for the instruments to play against, and with, one another, and the upper-mids need to be utilized, I believe.

Try some stuff....let your imagination add some filligree to the work.
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I see what you're talking about with the low-mid freq. And also the panning. However, there is no piano.:eek::D

I'm going to retrack guitar #1. I'm just not happy with it and I don't think that I could do anything to it to make it sound good.

Thanks.:)
 
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