Steenamaroo Harrison cover.

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heatmiser said:
I'm not too excited about the drums. The snare to me is kind of floating out there by itself. I would fiddle with the tone of it (kind of papery?) and maybe drop it back a bit while raising the kick considerably.
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See if this tickles your percussive fancy.
I threw a few fills in as well.

 
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Way better. I can hear the kik now. Snare still sound a little room-y, but it has much more of a tight presence than the first version.
 
Steenamaroo said:
See if this tickles your percussive fancy.
I threw a few fills in as well.

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Consider me tickled. Wow, this thread is really interactive.

The kit is sounding better. You could still take some verb away from the snare I think, but it's approaching the tone I think they used for tracks like these if that's what you're going for.
 
Thanks Heat.

I keep flicking back to the original and there's an overall sound to the track that I'm not even approaching.
Mine sounds clinical by comparison, but IDK.
They probably tracked a real band in a real room and didn't use behringer stuff. :p
 
This just gets better & BETTER, i keep thinking[what would harmonies on those slide parts sound like?? too much maybe?] i have not heard the original, but loved the vibe of the travs' & i think you have captured a hell of a lot of it! REALLY good job!
 
I just discovered the mp3 forum tonight. What a revelation.

This is such awesome work! I checked out all three versions, and the third is really choice. I don't know, I kinda like the snare sound, and I'd probably bring the backing vocals up a bit more, but then, maybe not. My computer speakers are reasonably good for computer speakers, which means that they mostly, but not completely suck. I'd have to hear it on. . .(heh) monitors.

I will say that your voice is really suited to this song. I think I've got Harrison's recording, so I've probably heard it once. If this version were mine, I'd be sweating bullets about tweaking it to death. But then, that's kinda what we do. . .:D

First class stuff. I hope I do as well with my work.
 
You're too kind, gentlemen.
Thanks for the comments. :)

I think I'm done tweaking. I can listen to it and enjoy it, so that's when I (try to) stop.
 
So all those things you said were....sniff.....ah forget it. <STORMS OUT>
 
All that foot tapping I did while listening to your song....it was all fake.
 
Let's see how you like it when I "have a headache" the next time you wanna record a cover! :p
 
:laughings:

We had good times, but we'll never get back the thrill of that first chorus.
 
Those was crazy times.

But things were much simpler then. A verse was proud to be a verse and a bridge was 8 bars long. These days, you can't tell a chorus from a breakdown and everyone's scared of doing a solo for fear they might end up in a fade out.

It's not like it used to be Johny, it's not like it used to be. In fact, it never was.
 
Both of you...


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Hey Steenamaroo - this sounds great. As far as the drum comments, I think the kick *still* needs to come up - but the snare is really closing in on that patented Jeff Lynne sound, if that's what you are going for. When you get closer on the ganged vocals I think you should consider something you are probably not inclined to do - send em to a group, heavily compress, then into the same stereo verb and about 4 db louder than when you think they sit just fine.... You may lure me out of homerecording retirement with this one - I recorded a Jeff Lynne cover last month with my buddy that came out pretty good.
 
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