Solved Tears In Heaven

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Too late to be recording, much less mixing on speakers so I had to use headphones, and I have no idea how it sounds. I used to be able to play this song easily but honestly it was a struggle the whole way through...not sure why.

Anyway...



I forgot what came next towards the end so I had to cut it short. I will probably pick up where I left off, but kind of curious how it sounds right now...:o
 
I think you have a recording process down that really works for you. Each of your songs (amazing grace, this one, etc) have a bright, clear, nicely reverberated yet intimate sound to them. Do you do electric stuff? I'll have to search...

Anyway, on this one, I'd prefer to hear the second guitar (melody?) a little higher level-wise in relation to the other, but it is pretty close. Other than that, it sounds really good.
 
Thanks guys.

Guitarer - Do you mean signal chain? Behringer ECM8000 -> M-Audio DMP3 -> M-Audio 24/96 -> Reaper, same as always, except I usually switch out between the Behringer and my MSH-1 mic.

heatmiser - Thanks, my guitar is naturally pretty bright sounding and I had a hard time getting a good tone I was happy with, on the guitar panned to the right, so I turned it down and tried to bury it a little. :p
 
Sounds awesome, man. I like the room sound you're getting.
 
Thanks, Kramer. It's actually a reverb plugin. :p Waves RVerb. It's good to know that it sounds like a real room though. :)
 
Remixed

I was messing around with it and decided to remix. Tell me what you think.

Right-click and "Save As..."


I tried to use compression to give it a more balanced, and slightly more "full" sound. I also changed reverb settings a bit on the lead guitar, and did a *very slight* EQ dip around 240Hz to help with the "boomyness" on the A string. Not sure how well it worked.

This is my first time really taking the time with compression settings and stuff, normally I'm too lazy.

I used Waves RVerb for the reverb. And Reaper's built in EQ and compressor (ReaEQ and ReaComp). I also slapped the free W1 limiter on the master buss to try and get some more volume out of it.
 
danny.guitar said:
I was messing around with it and decided to remix. Tell me what you think.

Right-click and "Save As..."


I tried to use compression to give it a more balanced, and slightly more "full" sound. I also changed reverb settings a bit on the lead guitar, and did a *very slight* EQ dip around 240Hz to help with the "boomyness" on the A string. Not sure how well it worked.

This is my first time really taking the time with compression settings and stuff, normally I'm too lazy.

I used Waves RVerb for the reverb. And Reaper's built in EQ and compressor (ReaEQ and ReaComp). I also slapped the free W1 limiter on the master buss to try and get some more volume out of it.
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I admire your playing.

The first mp3 you posted was by far better than the second posted compressed file. I don't know what you did with compression, but whatever you did removed all the emotion from your initial guitar performance IMO.

You need to relisten to your original track and hear how good it really is and forget about compressing it and unknowingly destroying the original dynamic quality.

Your original file left room for bass guitar and much more.
 
If you take the time to listen very closely to differences between the 1st and 2nd file you might notice that the acoustic guitar lower frequencies in the 2nd file possess a more "tinny" sound in comparison to the 1st file.

Then again, it might be just be what I'm hearing on my end.

Nonetheless........it's an awesome performance! :cool:
 
Thanks 60's guy. :cool:

I'm not sure what could be explaining the slightly more "tinny" sound. I did a very slight EQ cut around 240Hz but not much at all, but that could be why. Or maybe it has something to do with the compression, I have no idea. :D

Thanks for the comments. :)
 
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