Slowing down for a more thoughtful track

[ido1957]

Listened to the latest version on my Sony earbuds at work Sounds better than through my PC speakers this morning . Volume has come up now - but no distorting or clipping that I can hear.

Big Bubba - what kind of guitar/amp/reverb are you using for this? Electric/Semi Acoustic/Accoustic? I'm hearing what sounds like acoustic but you mentioned it's through an amp. Also the reverb is very nice - nice room sound to it.....

 

[XLR]

Very nice sound and lines. I like the tone color change that happens a couple times in the right side melodic guitar line. The ending phrase just kind of trails off, and that's a nice touch given the mood of the piece. With this type of gentle lyrical playing I think a slow subtle left hand vibrato could add a lot to long tones. The kind of thing you don't really notice but it just makes long tones sound expressive. It also helps to control left hand intonation if there's some slow, wide (well, not real wide) vibrato in there.

Tim

 

[bigbubba]

Wow very nice! I agree with the previous comments on this thread. Nice soothing piece, great tone, great arrangement, nice (but maybe still a little rough) time changes. Or maybe my internal metronome needs recalibrating

Great piece post some more for us!

Danny - Thanks for listening. I guess everyone is talking about the time changes. Your internal metronome seems to be fine.

Thanks again.

 

[bigbubba]

Hi doods!! I listened a few times. I like the runs and change of time also....because I was getting a bit bored by the time the change came. Not because of anything Bubba did. It is just the mood and move of the piece.
This song rings of a Hebrew foundation. It sure feels of it. I do love Israelite music. I must agree with r00, that the first time change is not a smooth transition. The second change I absolutely love. It is very defined and played with more confidence. I would love to hear it with a mandolin!!

Snake and r00....you both know where your next visit is.....now.

I love the song, just needs a bit more refining, as the refining of the fire that inspired it.

That ought to really get a stir of the pot.

Hey True - Thanks for listening.

I guess all the times changes are primarily perceived in the rhythm guitar playing smoothly or not. I might go back and redo the first run in on the rhythm side.

Mandolin? Fire? Yeah yeah throw that Mandolin in the fire.... LOL. Just kidding. I don't think I know what a Mandolin really is.

Thanks again.

 

[bigbubba]

Everything sounds very clean to me. Song is pretty fantastic I really enjoyed this man. Guitar tone doesn't hurt even at high volume which in my eyes is a very nice thing and something I can't pull off. Nothings overly bright or warm, sounds great. Overall I listened 3 or 4 times.. realy dug it man.

Take care
gary

Gary - Thanks for listening. You're either really easy to please or maybe I did do it good enough. Well there's only two tracks so I didn't have much room for screw ups. .

 

[bigbubba]

Very nice sound and lines. I like the tone color change that happens a couple times in the right side melodic guitar line. The ending phrase just kind of trails off, and that's a nice touch given the mood of the piece. With this type of gentle lyrical playing I think a slow subtle left hand vibrato could add a lot to long tones. The kind of thing you don't really notice but it just makes long tones sound expressive. It also helps to control left hand intonation if there's some slow, wide (well, not real wide) vibrato in there.

Tim

Tim - to hear you say something positive is very nice to hear. Considering you're like the king of clean and classical and inspired pieces.

About the vibratos, the very first take had a lot of those subtle and some not-so-subtle vibratos 'coz it was played with emotion but the tune wasn't played exactly as sung. So syllables were missing. Later when I realized that I had to go back and practice the real tune and when recording that it was almost too methodical and I kept moving on from notes and thinking I should shook my hand a little on that note. If I do a next take on the melody, I'll keep that in mind too 'coz there's places I think I hear little extra ringing that I'd rather get rid of.

The tone change is the same guitar with the pick selector set to middle and the volume raise a little while playing the melodies on higher frets.

Thanks.

 

[bigbubba]

Listened to the latest version on my Sony earbuds at work Sounds better than through my PC speakers this morning . Volume has come up now - but no distorting or clipping that I can hear.

Big Bubba - what kind of guitar/amp/reverb are you using for this? Electric/Semi Acoustic/Accoustic? I'm hearing what sounds like acoustic but you mentioned it's through an amp. Also the reverb is very nice - nice room sound to it.....

Well, the guitar is a Fender Squire strat (as opposed to a Squire bullet I'm guessing.). $119.00. The Amp is a Crate MX65R.

The Rhythm guitar has a mild reverb.

The lead guitar has a mild reverb and a touch or delay, so much so that it's not really detectable.

The interval guitar has a mild reverb.

From Amp to line-in on the stock soundcard on a HP media center PC.

The strings are DR. I don't really care much for them at the moment (having used Elixir for a while). I don't like the sound when playing rhythm as distored. But the clean rhythm sounded somewhat sweet without being over dull and so on. So I'm keeping the strings on until they break (as a rule of thumb. What good is too much work?). Then I might switch back to Elixirs.

Sorry for responding to each post individually guys but once I started, I thought whoever is the first one that I put together with another one will be thinking they weren't special enough to get a separate response.

 

[bigbubba]

bump.

Just one time.