New demo - bluesy instrumental rock content

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DrewPeterson7

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What the heck, I haven't posted anything around here in a while, and I'm just listening to the last mixdown of this I did, so I figured I might as well post it up here to solicit some feedback. :)


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I was experimenting a bit with acoustic micing on this one - the left (if I recall right) track is my Martin mic'd up with a AKG C3000B from a couple feet back (a bold and probably stupid move, to be honest, as I record in an untreated bedroom :D), while the right was a C1000s close-mic'd. The rhythm guitars were my roommates Gibson Les Paul Studio into my Rectoverb combo on "Raw" mode, mic'd up with either a SM-57 or a Nady RSM-4 ribbon - single track of clean, and then two distorted tracks, hard left and right. The bass was my Sherman custom running into a Sansamp RBI, with a clean signal sent to my Rectoverb and mic'd up with a SM57, and the lead was my Strat into the Rectoverb's "Modern" mode, gain about halfway up, and the treble at 0 (which is actually a strangely good lead sound - go figure), mic'd up with that Nady (which is becoming my go-to lead guitar microphone; I don't get it, it was a $60 impulse buy, and it just seems to work REALLY well with this amp).

The playing's a bit rough - I recorded the lead Friday night while drinking a manhattan, but more prohibitively after a two week stretch where I barely got to play because I was too busy at work, and those full-step sustained bends in the chorus on a guitar strung up with 11's are pretty rough on you unless your calluses are in tip-top shape. :D there's a few flubbed lines in the main solo, but to be honest when I cut this I'm pretty sure I didn't have another take in my fingers. :p

Anyway, any feedback on the mix (or even the playing, I guess, but I'll freely admit this isn't a releasable performance) is appreciated! :)
 
Nice laid back stuff, Drew.
Very nice guitar work. Recording sounds fine to me, no nits. Love the growling bass. Great track!

Joey :):):):)
 
Thanks man! Actually, my bass sound is the thing I've struggled the most with - it's getting better, but I'm still not sure I like it in this tune; it doesn't seem to "fit" as well as it should, to me...
 
I just love this kind of stuff. Pink Floyd/ Dire Straits kind of guitar. I can't play but a few major chords on a guitar but whenever I hear stuff like this, I always get inspired to at least try....of course five minutes later and my finger tips hurt, I hide the thing behind the sofa, drag my keyboard back into view, select the guitar preset and try to convince myself that it sounds 'just like a real guitar'.

Fantastic mate...I can't fault the tune, the playing or the mix other than to say...'it makes me jealous as hell'.

Mart.
 
Thanks man! It's far from perfect, IMO (if nothing else, I need to get some real drums in place of that simple loop I sequenced), but I'm glad you dug it nonetheless! :)

Keep picking the thing up - it hurts after five minutes, but if you pick it up a few days later and keep doing this, after a month or so you'll have calluses and that pain will go away! :D
 
sounds great...the real drums would make it killer...good job
 
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