Cover Tune for My Wife

[WhiteStrat]

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.

 

[Coughmist]

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!

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

 

[Anfontan]

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!

 

[antichef]

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.

 

[D_Vincent]

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

 

[Coughmist]

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.

 

[WhiteStrat]

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!

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. 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!