J-unplugged Plugged in for Fun. What do ya think?

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:eek: JUN PLUGGED Rawks!!!

pretty cool man..
The drums seem to get a little too busy at about 45 seconds in....
kick sounds like it is a littled flat/ muffled too...I like the snare sound but it is missing that pop ring at the end of the hits......did you use compression on the kit?
cymbals are cool man...
bass is good man...real good....nice tone and rock steady...
guit tone is exceptional and overall the performance is great.
I would like to hear the lead louder in parts...
I also think I hear a overall level boost at about 33-34 seconds in....
Cool man...
Maybe we'll play some blues at the next Jamfest man... :D :cool:
Be cool dude,
Joe
 
Hey Joro, Thanks for the comments and for listening.

The drums sure do get busy. The way this track evolved was odd, not planned out. I set up 2 mics in strange spots. I was really just auditioning 2 new placements and I felt like letting loose on the drums, I was needing a break from working too long on my acoustic thing.

So after I heard the drums, I was like, wow, that snare is fat! It sounds like the snare has gated reverb, but it's dry. That's all room, and 2 mics in freaky spots. The first test had no snare, because I mute the crap out of my drums most of the time. I have thick mouse pads on the snare and floor tom. Then I have some denim from cut-off shorts and some old sweatshirt material on the other 2 toms. So for this track, I pushed a lot of it aside, but the snare has a tiny tape on it. Shockingly loud after having it muted for so long....

Ok, so I have this not-that-bad drum track. I can't just leave it so I DI'd a cheapo bass into the Art and EQ'd it for a shelf cut at about 3 or 4kHz. also some low cut, but very low, like 40 hz? I have to look that one up. I don't know what the heck I was doing on the bass, it's a I chord to a IV and stays there, like forever and it turns into a IV7 and back to a IV and finally, back to the I. this made it hard for me later to lay some guitar....

So I didn't compress anything until the mix. I mixed thru a stereo compressor, I had to, there were spikes that made my hair stand up. The whole stereo mix goes thru it. I played with a lot of settings.

I'm wondering, since it was getting really late, if I acutally popped some eq in and out myself on that weird boost in the middle, stupidly forgetting I was mixing down!

Gotta run, more later. - John.
 
That boost at 0:37 or so is very interesting - a dramatic lesson in the power of EQ, kind of an A/B thing :)

Cool blues jam - think of some of the hit songs that came out of this sort of playing. I was just reading how the Faces wrote Stay With Me, for example.
 
I popped it on a CD to check the sound of it on my girlfriend's system, and it sounded very nice. There was too much bass though, I had to keep the bass bost off on the stereo and her sub woofer was kicking. Her mom started dancing, I thought that was a kick.

The missing pop from the snare I realize must be b/c I used no overheads and no SDC mics. So not enough highs on it maybe.

The weird thing is how the snare sounds like it's stretched out, I guess that's my room.

I'll have to do some more, start w/ a longer drum track, and maybe a plan this time :)
 
Thanks, it was just the first try, I didn't know what I was doing, just dumb luck. I'll take notes so if I ever want a long snare sound that sounds like a very loud trash can with no pop, I'll know how to get it. But I have another feeling, and it's that I might only get that sound since it's probably the room. I wish I had the time to experiment w/ about 20 things I could think of doing at the moment....

I liked it too, so that's why I jammed on it. I'm just excited that I can play any drums at all in any acceptable timing and all. But the more I read, I see that drummers don't always have pefect timing, or dynamics, balance, consistency in hitting same spot, etc., or other stuff I was kind of figuring they were perfect in all of those things. So I'm encourged to continuing.
 
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