Is it just me, or is this a fun tune?

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A fun tune?

I just broke the D-string on my bass while playing along...
One month old Elixir strings... Not funny...
 
Hey Chess........
Cool song........ and as usual from the Chessmeister......great recording. The bass is definitly thumpin...makes me wanna go boil my rotosounds. I agree about the cymbals, especially that ride at the end. Those are easily fixable with a knob tweak. I too kinda didnt like the vocal effect though..... maybe the verb is too short? ...I dunno..Just sounds a bit too up front. The rap vocal sounds cool though. All small things.......... Great job as usual chessrock!!!:D G
 
it seems that the opinion is a good mix, at this point.

[but]howcome I envision bell bottom pants and afro's and shirts with big, colorful collers?:eek:

the drums are the highpoint and easily the dominant sound of the tune..with its' wide 'room' sound and open panning..., albeit the loud cymbals...(too loud overheads?)
 
Thanks again for all the comments.

The bass sound wasn't achieved by anything magical - just the dude's bass guitar running in to his amplifier, then out of the amp to the sound card's input. Wish I could take some credit but it's just one helluva' nice sounding bass guitar (musicman, with the huge-ass pickup that covers most of the front of the guitar). It just sounds wonderful through anything you plug it in to.

The drums were also about as basic as it gets - audio technica atm25 on kick, 57 on snare, with two oktava mc012's on overhead. All mics ran through the inserts on the mackie board and that's pretty much it. I definitely had one of the overheads too close to the cymbal. I think I can tame the over-exaggerated crash if I compress the hell out of the overhead tracks before mixing in the kick and snare - if that doesn't work, I suppose I can edit the tracks, highlighting just the crashes and bringing the volume down on them. The key, again, was just a very good player and a very good kit. The dude is a professional drummer, so he knows how to tune it, so that's also key.

I really need to have him re-do the vocals in a dead room. A lot of your comments are right. The room sound is just too much. I added some chorus in an attempt to thicken the sound, but that might just be making matters worse.

Thanks again for the comments and criticisms.
 
funkomatic!!

i really enjoyed this tune, i was snapping finger's and do the computer chair boogie!!

thanks for posting this!!

peace

rick
:D
 
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