warning! experimental hillbilly orchestration!

[Lt. Bob]

That's from that show "The $4.95 bionic hillbilly."



I guess I shouldn't laugh.....living here in Louisiana he might be that guy that lives down the street.

 

[chrisharris]

That... didn't suck.

Jeap - Just in case you've still got "Blue Bear" on 'ignore,' I just HAD to post the (slightly edited) comment that he made.

I obviously don't have the ability to speak as much of an authority or a "pro" on much of anything musical, but as a self-proclaimed authority on "hillbilly" music, I say GREAT JOB. Is that a real banjo? What did you use as a "reference CD" for this one?

Anyway...nice.

 

[acidrock]

Cool,I downloaded another song of yours awhile back (Time to go) and that was great too!
No pandering to the flavor of the day crowd here.
It's stuff like this that keeps me coming to the mp3 clinic and keeps my radio turned off.
Once again great stuff (I do agree with the "spoons"suggestions though.)

 

[David]

Nice recording jeap...like the harp, push it up a tad.

 

[jeap]

Jeap - Just in case you've still got "Blue Bear" on 'ignore,' I just HAD to post the (slightly edited) comment that he made.

I obviously don't have the ability to speak as much of an authority or a "pro" on much of anything musical, but as a self-proclaimed authority on "hillbilly" music, I say GREAT JOB. Is that a real banjo? What did you use as a "reference CD" for this one?

Anyway...nice.

ha ha ha

yes its been so nice having him on ignore. i dont understand why he started posting on my stuff AFTER i told him i was ignoring him. maybe that made him like me?


its a real banjo!!!!! ive spent a lot of time goofing with the banjo and im developing my own style cause the scruggs thing is way hard and would take too long to develop and i would never be able to keep it in time.


i didnt use anything for a reference cd!!!!

i already referenced a couple tunes and now i have a new "formula" or strategy. its an EQ strategy to make up for my small room.

when i first started multitracking in san diego i had a huge apartment with 15 ft ceilings and i never had trouble getting good sounds.

now i have a funky tiny basement room to record in. it took me a while to realize that my sound was awful and why!

 

[jeap]

Never thought I'd see the words "experimental" and "hillbilly" in the same sentence.

Yup, needs more spoons. Otherwise the mix is good, and the instruments sound fine. A lot of stuff going on, but a clear and distinct sound without much muddiness.

i cut the "mud" out with graphic EQ centered around 500 hz.




thanks everybody!

i wanted to add a little more percussion but i ran out of tracks and then forgot.



i was gonna put sandpaper blocks over the first thing i recorded cause i couldnt hear it any more. the first track was a sample of a foot step on the floor!

i really wanted to have the foot step and its there you just cant hear it!

like one of the players keeping time with a big loud foot!

 

[TripleM]

Really nice sound. Boy that banjo sound is really full. Did you double track it?

Good job. Trip

 

[jeap]

no i just played it into the rode nt1.

i have to admit though that some of the banjo parts are played with a pick, guitar style. ha ha ha.

theres 3 banjo parts ( i think).

double track means playing the exact same thing or copying onto another track for effects right????

?????



the 3 parts are all very different from each other.

 

[CrankyOne]

I didn't read any other replys, so forgive me if I'm repeating you guys:

Very nice acoustic clean sounds. I'd like the harmonica to be louder, maybe adding a bit more mid frequencies to it too. I'm not sure, but it sounds too high-heavy, but it may be the quiet volume that does that impression on me. I like the balalaika type guitars (or banjos?) on the right occasionally. The song is nice and short, so it doesn't need any more parts or vocals. It works for me as it is. The harmonica thing was really nitpicking so you can forget it if you wish.

 

[jeap]

glad you like it!

the "balalaika" is just a mandolin with single strings instead of doubles.

that way i get 2 sets of strings for the price of 1!

really though its a lot easier to play that way.

the harmonica part is sposed to be "laying back" so as not to step on any toes. it jumps out at a certain part for accent of the contrapuntal melody. ?

i wanted to play the primary melody on harmonica but a regular 10 - hole cant do it right and i would have had to work on my technique to make it sound good. it probably would have taken a lot of takes as opposed to the single take i used.

i thinned out the sound yes and the bass is actually a dreadnaught acoustic guitar!

next time i do one like this i will take more time i think and refine the sound...

 

[boydrj]

Reminds me of an old Mouskateers song "Well A Cowboy Needs A Horse" ...

This recording sounds very well done. Very old west feeling with a dash of folk. Porch-playing music.

I like it. I could probably listen to a whole CD of this kind of stuff. It is pretty relaxing!

Keep up the good work!