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soundchaser59
Reluctant Commander
Set Me Free - 6mb size, 5:45 length - be careful, it's LOUD!
Well, I guess you could say I've had a grand old time getting to know my new tube amp. After the last 6-12 months of research and jammin, 8 mics, 3 guitar fx units, and all of my old guitar gear is gone and I have new amps and a new bass and a couple of home-built speaker cabs and new 2488 methods. The only thing that survived was the Strat, and it has new pickups and heavier strings. Throw in a couple of all-analog Voodoo Lab pedals for plugging holes. Now that I think about it, I have not recorded any electric guitars since I started questioning the value of that Line 6 I got rid of....
So I resurrected an old (1982) tune that is more of an excuse than a "song".....an excuse to jam with new amps and try new methods on the 2488. My wife gave me some harmonicas for my birthday, so what the heck......and that sound fits! Never played harmonica before! Then later someone said, "Why dont you sing, too??" So I threw some words in the middle. Then someone said, "Play some leads!" So I jam some leads at the end. Now I loosely refer to it as a "song." Mostly, I just felt like this "song" was a great way to get to know my new amp. (On the darker side, this "song" took the life of one compressor, and an old ART SGE black box died in the making of this tune. But it was able to organ-donate its LCD display to another ART unit, thereby saving me a $120 dollar repair bill. Progress is never without cost!)
Nothing fancy, just straight ahead rockin jam thing. I would never call it "finished" so I'm open to all tips and suggestions..... for example, I'd love to add more drum fills, but no time for that right now. By the way, this is the first mix I've ever done on the new Yorkville monitors, so I cant say I am intimately acquainted with those yet either. The low end might hit a bit too hard, you'll have to let me know!
And HEY! Can you believe that snare roll is a drum machine??
Two Warnings, though:
(1) I should warn you one of the things I was testing was a back-door bomb-shelter way to do what I call "home mastering"......to borrow a favorite line from "Aliens" let's just say "things got out of hand and some black boxes were involved!" LOL!!
Does the phrase "Five easy to use knobs!" mean anything to you?? Again, nothing dazzling, but the levels came out a bit hotter than I epxected, and the mp3 conversion over-emphasized the hot level, me thinks.
(2) With warning #1 in mind, I can pretty much guarantee you this will sound a LOT better on speakers than it will on headphones. Even I was surprised at how headphones kinda ruined the impact for me, and I thought I was an unofficial headphone geek! So for what it's worth crank it up on speakers if at all possible. The WAV file sounds waaaaaaayyyy better. Apologies for that. Turn it down first, then turn it up.
And pay no attention to that man behind the tube amp......
Ingredients List:
Fender Strat and '62 Jazz bass. Bass is D.I.
Ovation mic'd mid-side with AT3032 and C414.
Traynor YCV20WR thru a 1x12 Weber Michigan cab, mic'd with EV ND468 and AKG D770.
Voodoo Lab Sparkle Drive and Analog Chorus on the guitar solo.
Hohner Special 20 harp in C, thru an Apex 210 ribbon mic.
Roland U20 organ patch, SR16 drums.
Vox thru an RE20, using Rami's "Motown Compressor" technique. It helped a lot.
The harmony part was a painful "starch my fruit of the looms" thing, but it's better than that old DigiTech Harmonizer I gave to my brother.
Thank you so very much fer yer time! - SC
Well, I guess you could say I've had a grand old time getting to know my new tube amp. After the last 6-12 months of research and jammin, 8 mics, 3 guitar fx units, and all of my old guitar gear is gone and I have new amps and a new bass and a couple of home-built speaker cabs and new 2488 methods. The only thing that survived was the Strat, and it has new pickups and heavier strings. Throw in a couple of all-analog Voodoo Lab pedals for plugging holes. Now that I think about it, I have not recorded any electric guitars since I started questioning the value of that Line 6 I got rid of....
So I resurrected an old (1982) tune that is more of an excuse than a "song".....an excuse to jam with new amps and try new methods on the 2488. My wife gave me some harmonicas for my birthday, so what the heck......and that sound fits! Never played harmonica before! Then later someone said, "Why dont you sing, too??" So I threw some words in the middle. Then someone said, "Play some leads!" So I jam some leads at the end. Now I loosely refer to it as a "song." Mostly, I just felt like this "song" was a great way to get to know my new amp. (On the darker side, this "song" took the life of one compressor, and an old ART SGE black box died in the making of this tune. But it was able to organ-donate its LCD display to another ART unit, thereby saving me a $120 dollar repair bill. Progress is never without cost!)
Nothing fancy, just straight ahead rockin jam thing. I would never call it "finished" so I'm open to all tips and suggestions..... for example, I'd love to add more drum fills, but no time for that right now. By the way, this is the first mix I've ever done on the new Yorkville monitors, so I cant say I am intimately acquainted with those yet either. The low end might hit a bit too hard, you'll have to let me know!
And HEY! Can you believe that snare roll is a drum machine??
Two Warnings, though:
(1) I should warn you one of the things I was testing was a back-door bomb-shelter way to do what I call "home mastering"......to borrow a favorite line from "Aliens" let's just say "things got out of hand and some black boxes were involved!" LOL!!
Does the phrase "Five easy to use knobs!" mean anything to you?? Again, nothing dazzling, but the levels came out a bit hotter than I epxected, and the mp3 conversion over-emphasized the hot level, me thinks. (2) With warning #1 in mind, I can pretty much guarantee you this will sound a LOT better on speakers than it will on headphones. Even I was surprised at how headphones kinda ruined the impact for me, and I thought I was an unofficial headphone geek! So for what it's worth crank it up on speakers if at all possible. The WAV file sounds waaaaaaayyyy better. Apologies for that. Turn it down first, then turn it up.
And pay no attention to that man behind the tube amp......
Ingredients List:
Fender Strat and '62 Jazz bass. Bass is D.I.
Ovation mic'd mid-side with AT3032 and C414.
Traynor YCV20WR thru a 1x12 Weber Michigan cab, mic'd with EV ND468 and AKG D770.
Voodoo Lab Sparkle Drive and Analog Chorus on the guitar solo.
Hohner Special 20 harp in C, thru an Apex 210 ribbon mic.
Roland U20 organ patch, SR16 drums.
Vox thru an RE20, using Rami's "Motown Compressor" technique. It helped a lot.
The harmony part was a painful "starch my fruit of the looms" thing, but it's better than that old DigiTech Harmonizer I gave to my brother.
Thank you so very much fer yer time! - SC
