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This tune is a mixture of a few styles - rock/latin/pop.... It's got a lead guitar running throughout which is a little reminiscent of the stuff that Santana has done lately although I don't match his skills or tone :) .

There’s a few new things going on in this arrangement that affect the mix.

Mike has some different settings on his bass. The bass sounds nice on Mike’s BOSE 301’s, and on my TR8 monitors. It’s almost like keyboard style bass with its low frequencies. Well, we like it anyway :D.

The drums are written in midi and then played through a Yamaha DGX305 recorded to an audio track.

The lead guitar is my Eric Clapton Stratocaster with the mid boost cranked, through the clean channel of my Marshall JCM900; the preamp gain turned up to about 75%.

Both rhythm guitars are done with my Kramer Imperial with 40% gain through the Marshall. All guitars are mic’ed with an SM57.

Vocals are done through a Rode NTK with some mild compression and some automation.

The tracks were all recorded onto ADAT then downloaded into Sonar using an Alesis IO/26.

I’m mixing this in the computer and I’ve now got a four band eq, parametric style, with variable frequency and shelving on each channel (although I used it sparingly).

The entire mix is sent through a PCM80 for reverb and a Triple C for compression.

Let me know what you think once you have a chance to listen…..

Song Page
http://soundclick.com/share?songid=6359716

Streaming Auto Player
http://www.soundclick.com/util/getplayer.m3u?id=6359716&q=hi

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It needum kick drum. No boomboom. Me want more boomboom. :) More boomboom makey guitar muchly yumyum.

EQ curve on bass emphasizes fill-in, not definition; perhaps a little better defining attack would push the groove harder, since no boomboom. :)

Otherwise, up to your usual standards... :D
 
Nice vox and a good overally easy listening song...enjoy the harmony on the chorus kind of sections. Seems to be a lot...well not a lot, but some fuzz or something on one of the tracks. Anyway, I like the vocals, the harmony and the complementing, colouring licks. Hmmm...i just scrolled through some other comments...I agree with the Eric Clapton vibe.
 
Kudos for the lead guitar on this.

The rhythm gtr drives it too.

What I like about the vocal is that it has a bit of an edge that suits the song.

A live drummer is all it needs IMO.
 
Sounds really good Gerry. Sorry I missed this, was on a small vacation. Guitar work is really nice in this one. The bass is present on my speakers for sure, but not too punchy. I'm sure this is the vibe you were going for. The main chord progression on this is really nice. Vocals are fantastic man, you can really sing. Overall i'm finding this song really catchy actually I think it's going to be stuck in my head for awhile. Drums can be a bit more realistic but not being a drummer I never really find it too distracting.

Take care man

Gary
 
Thanks Phil, Mr Allen, Tim and Gary :D

EQ curve on bass emphasizes fill-in, not definition
True - it's full but not defined. I'm weighing the plus and minus of this type of bass sound...

some fuzz or something on one of the tracks.
I think the lead guitar is providing that fuzz. It's coloring the mix IMO.

A live drummer is all it needs IMO.
Agreed....

The bass is present on my speakers for sure, but not too punchy.
Yep - that's the "new" bass sound we got with this set up which agian I'm kicking around....

Thanks Again guys....:D
 
This song rocks. On cheap headphones, things are well balanced. The gits are the bomb. :)
 
bigbubba! You and your prolific musical talents have been missed lately! What have you been up to and more importantly any new pieces? Were you affected by all these hurricanes per chance?
 
Nice song! -- love the lead track. Don't have much to add in the way of suggestions :)
 
bigbubba! You and your prolific musical talents have been missed lately! What have you been up to and more importantly any new pieces? Were you affected by all these hurricanes per chance?

You and too kind man. :) Well, I accidentally deleted my win32 partition a year ago. Lost all the masters of everything I ever recorded. Lost all the waves. All that remains are my 320kpbs mp3 on some songs that I was too nerdy to encode lower and mail to myself in gmail for portability. Some pieces are in 192 kpbs. Downloaded some from soundclick at 192kpbs. That is all. :)

All the software I had was software I had helped myself to from "internet" and wanted to go legit eventually. I took the crash as a time to wait until I can afford the music software that I use for recording. Getting ready to spend 4 Texas pennies ($400) on fl studio. Maybe Acid Pro or Pro Tools for mixing. Haven't decided. Haven't recorded anything since.

Installed Linux and tried all open source apps to synthesize and mix the way windows world was. Well, turns out Linux is great if you wanna do more regular (web surfing, file sharing, coding, office suite'ing) kinda things. But for music it was lacking. Linux desktops are also much less responsive (slower) than windows.

There you have it. Doubt that you wanted to hear all that but hey that's what you get for asking. :p

On the hurricane front, Ike was in Texas but I was in Cali. Went road tripping for the summer to Cali. Jumped in the car and drove on out. :) It's overrated. Texas FTW!!!!!
 
You and too kind man. :) Well, I accidentally deleted my win32 partition a year ago. Lost all the masters of everything I ever recorded. Lost all the waves. All that remains are my 320kpbs mp3 on some songs that I was too nerdy to encode lower and mail to myself in gmail for portability. Some pieces are in 192 kpbs. Downloaded some from soundclick at 192kpbs. That is all. :)

All the software I had was software I had helped myself to from "internet" and wanted to go legit eventually. I took the crash as a time to wait until I can afford the music software that I use for recording. Getting ready to spend 4 Texas pennies ($400) on fl studio. Maybe Acid Pro or Pro Tools for mixing. Haven't decided. Haven't recorded anything since.

Installed Linux and tried all open source apps to synthesize and mix the way windows world was. Well, turns out Linux is great if you wanna do more regular (web surfing, file sharing, coding, office suite'ing) kinda things. But for music it was lacking. Linux desktops are also much less responsive (slower) than windows.

There you have it. Doubt that you wanted to hear all that but hey that's what you get for asking. :p

On the hurricane front, Ike was in Texas but I was in Cali. Went road tripping for the summer to Cali. Jumped in the car and drove on out. :) It's overrated. Texas FTW!!!!!

*ouch* that really reminds me that I have to buy a remote hard drive for backup. Man I'm sorry to hear that.....At least you have SOME of them on MP3, be that only makes up for it in a minor way....
 
Bigbubba,
I learnt that lesson the hard way - but, due to some backing up on a portable 10gig HDD I only lost one complete song.
Sad to hear - you have my commisserations & empathy.
Ido - tres bon chauson (or accents to that affect).
 
Loved your tune man, sounds very retro to me, just the way i like it, regarding the bass, i think it sounds perfect, you know if you listen to most of the late 60s and early 70s songs youll notice that the bass is not very in front (in fact in some songs theres no audible bass at all) so i think it fits your song if thats what you intended...
 
ido1957, rayc - Thanks both. It's enough to get me thinking of a RAID controller. You can guy one for less than a hundred bucks and it's PCI/e based. Plug in 4 drives and just use RAID 5. If something crashes, buy a new drive and rebuild the RAID. No more backups.....

Enough hijacking your thread. Loving the music. I have most of your songs that occassionally listen to. This will be joining those. :)
 
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