Cover Tune for My Wife

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Forgive the brief diversion into what some may consider borderline elevator music. Submitted for your review is an instrumental arrangement of "You Are So Beautiful (To Me)" that I did for my wife on our anniversary.

All sappiness aside, your comments of any nature are welcome.

 
as i listen:
I like the panning. great stereo usage.
great guitar tone!! i could use more of it. the piano is beautiful, but it sort of covers the guitar in parts. the guitar sounds a bit in the back. great playing, i would like to hear it in the forefront! escpecially around 1:50 through 2:25 great riffs. but if she likes the piano more... it is her anniversary! :p

Beautiful rendition! She is a lucky lady! Happy early anniversary!:):)
 
Great tune, it works very well instrumentally. The bluesy variations sound so good in there. Is that the recently rewired Strat with the 3 switches doing all the melody and solos?
The organ/synthe sound is really reminiscent of a Farfisa organ, but a bit more percussive-it was a good choice to compliment everything else.
I like it a lot!:D
 
sounds great! Very good use of the stereo field, indeed. I too, would like the piano down slightly and the guitar up slightly, but I'm just another guitar player.
 
Nice recording...very relaxing and soothing...very nice...wish there was more sax or clarinet or whatever it was in it.
 
yeah, i noticed the sax as well. i am assuing that it is a synth. is it staffed midi, or were you runnning your guitar through something? I had a frindn that had a kick ass box that would change his guitar into soundfonts of various sorts. it had a kickass organ effect on it. it could do even more than one note at a time.
 
Hey gang,

Thanks for all the listens and the comments. Here are some answers

as i listen:
I like the panning. great stereo usage.
great guitar tone!! i could use more of it. the piano is beautiful, but it sort of covers the guitar in parts. the guitar sounds a bit in the back. great playing, i would like to hear it in the forefront! escpecially around 1:50 through 2:25 great riffs. but if she likes the piano more... it is her anniversary! :p

Beautiful rendition! She is a lucky lady! Happy early anniversary!:):)

Thanks Coughmist--she may like piano a tad more, but the guitar was "singing" the song--so you're right, it should've been a bit more up front.

Great tune, it works very well instrumentally. The bluesy variations sound so good in there. Is that the recently rewired Strat with the 3 switches doing all the melody and solos?
The organ/synthe sound is really reminiscent of a Farfisa organ, but a bit more percussive-it was a good choice to compliment everything else.

Thanks Anfonton! And no that wasn't the rewired strat. :D These tracks are a bit older than that. The first and third verses (mellower) are a semi hollow Dot (335 style) and the middle, more "wailing" verse is the Strat (before it was worked on).

Glad you liked the organ. As a guitarist, I often sweat the things I'm less fluent with--and on this one, I spen the most time with the organ. It's a Sample Tank VST instrument.

sounds great! Very good use of the stereo field, indeed. I too, would like the piano down slightly and the guitar up slightly, but I'm just another guitar player.

antichef--I appreciate it. Believe me, guitar is my main gig too--so I think sometimes I'm afraid I favor it too much, and end up trying to second guess what a "normal human" would want to hear. Next time: more guitar!

Nice recording...very relaxing and soothing...very nice...wish there was more sax or clarinet or whatever it was in it.

Thanks D_Vincent! That was a sax--again Sample Tank. Love that VST!

yeah, i noticed the sax as well. i am assuing that it is a synth. is it staffed midi, or were you runnning your guitar through something? I had a frindn that had a kick ass box that would change his guitar into soundfonts of various sorts. it had a kickass organ effect on it. it could do even more than one note at a time.

Yep the sax is midi (Sample Tank). First played on a keyboard, then cleaned up note by note in the midi piano roll screen.

I've got a friend who plays a Godin synth ready electric guitar through a Roland set up and drops into a sax solo in the middle of his live performance. Sounds so real, everyone in the audience starts looking for the sax player!
 
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