New Electro Hamonix 12AY7 pre amp in action

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I recorded a few songs this morning, as a 1 man band, using the EH preamp on the vocals and harp. The mic was a AKG C414 TL II, through a lexicon MPX100 reverb unit, delta 66 soundcard, mixed on samplitude Master version, and mastered on T-Racks. The drums were recorded with a C414 B-ULS, and the guitar amp with a RODE NT-1A. Both these went through an ART TPS preamp. Everything was within 3 feet of each other, recorded live, no overdubing. The guitar amp is a fender deluxe reverb, with a thd hotplate, set all the way down, which kept the actual volume down to acoustic guitar level. The guitar is a korean made Tokai, copy of a gibson 335. I am liking this new preamp. What do you all think?

Walter


http://www.soundclick.com/bands/7/waltertoresspontobeat.htm
 
Good GOD man!!!..Those are some get down Bluuuuuues!!!
I really cranked out on these tunes!!! :cool:
 
I ...uh ...don't....uh.........don't know where to begin.
first the preamp sounds great.
Second, I think you would sound great recorded on a boombox on the side of the freeway. Your performance would hold its own no matter what. I only got to check out a handful of tunes so for but I will deffinitely add it to my very short favorites list on Soundclick. I wish I was as prolific and freewheeling as you. Thats admirable man. Admirable.
 
Be Loveless: Thank you so much for such a nice compliment. I am still new to the recording end of music, but am loving it. It made my day to read your reply, and inspires me to keep playing! I don't tour anymore, just play in the neighborhood, at a local bar every saturday, and private parties. I used to do about 250 dates a year, so this internet music has kept me playing everyday. You guys are my club now!

Thanks for the harp compliment Travis!

Walter
PS: If you scroll down the site a ways, you can hear me with my trio-Douglas Mckenzie on bass, and Katherine stevens on drums. I just play harp, guitar, sing, on those. Stealing Cadillac Cars, and Albert and Roy on My Mind, are from that living room concert. We played so quiet, that I didn't use any amplification on my vocal or harp. Katherine is about the quietest drummer I have ever heard.
 
Your the man! SO MUCH TALENT! I didn't realize that you had tons of songs.
 
Thanks VSpaceBoy. I have been spontaneously making up words and music for almost 50 years. This is what held me back in the music industry. Most of my buddies have gone on to fame, and some even fortune. Roger Slovine, then president of BMI, came to me and brought me to Nashville, to "learn the formula". He said I had great ideas, but they went astray, too long, etc. If I was willing to learn the formula, write them down, have a nashville session band behind me(Iwould only sing and play harp-my guitar was too primative he said), tour them, them he would personally get me a major deal. I told him thanks so much, but I couldn't do that. He said, when I go tired of playing 1 nighters all over the world, for peanuts, to call him. I got tired, but instead went to college, and became a teacher. I never could remember a song, but can make them up all day long. I recorded 350 full lenght cds in the last year. I just sit down, and record, and when I fill a cd, burn a few copies, and sell them at my gigs for $6 each, with a money back garunteeee! I tell people to go out to their car, and listen. If they don't like it bring it back and try another. I usually have about 20-30 different cds in my box at gigs.
 
Walter Tore said:
..I just sit down, and record, and when I fill a cd, burn a few copies, and sell them at my gigs for $6 each, with a money back garunteeee! I tell people to go out to their car, and listen. If they don't like it bring it back and try another. I usually have about 20-30 different cds in my box at gigs.
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Legendary!
 
thanks again. I tried to change the music world, but they would have nothing to do with it, but then the internet came along, and affordable, dummy proof recording gear, and here I am. I tried for years, to get the Austin American Statesman to list me under the Spontobeat catagory, but they said no. Why? Because no one else was doing it. I said someone had to have enough nerve to list a band under rock and roll............ The music business was about the most conservative business I ever messed with, yet they like to portray themselves as "way out there". Baloney! If the suit fits, you got the gig........... Anyway, I am done with all that. I am my own universe now, thanks in big part, to you all! Walter

PS: blank cds and jewel cases are always on sale. I often get them for free after rebates. I make between $5-6 a cd. That is about what I would make selling a label release off the bandstand. It ain't worth it.
 
I added a vocal sample, using different input/output setting on the EH. You can get quite a range of tones out of this thing.
 
That is impressive that you can write and even have the time to write and record 350 albums in a year.
It has taken my band Serotone 2 years to get our first album ready and it still aint ready yet!
 
thanks ecktronic, but my approach is completely spontaneous and live, bleeding into every track, etc. I don't write a song first. I just start playing and whatever words and music comes out, is the song. I have no idea what will come out. This for me, is the fun of it. Each day of life has about 100 songs in it. I can't keep up.

"Mistakes" become part of the song. I only spend about 10 minutes mixing, and mastering a song. It has taken me a long time to accept my approach, because the musical results are often pale, in comparision to a full blown recording project.

I know how hair splitting it can get when you do isolated tracks, overdubbing, etc. I have watched friends agonize over a piece of a song for months, and spend years on an album. Eric Johnson comes right to my mind in this area. I just don't get interested in that approach becasue songs are coming out of me faster than I can run to my instruments and record it. Walter
 
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