Windride (original)

[GuitarLegend]

I wrote this for a special friend.

The acoustic guitar is a Cort with Elixir 11/52 strings recorded with AKG P170 and AKG D7.

The lead and rhythm guitar is an LTD KH-202

(Latest revision)

 

[GuitarLegend]

Hmmm :/

 

[guitar zero]

I really like it, but songs like this remind me that I'm just a guitar zero, even though I really wish I was a guitar hero. Everything was really well done. Even the bass line makes me dizzy trying to imagine playing that fast.

 

[GuitarLegend]

I really like it, but songs like this remind me that I'm just a guitar zero, even though I really wish I was a guitar hero. Everything was really well done. Even the bass line makes me dizzy trying to imagine playing that fast.

Thank you for the reply. I certainly don't mean to intimidate. We all want to be better than we are and we kind of look for encouragement through these posts.

The bass line is not that hard to play and I did that with just one picking finger, it doesnt require anything more. It sounds impressive but really not. Just playing around common narrow boxes on the fretboard. The acoustic part was something I developed a while back and have had lots of practice with it. I just wanted to come up with my own riff and that was it. Not to mention the stuffups that you cut out and replace with a better clip from another part of the song. I just wish I could be more creative with the lead guitar solos.

Thanks for your response

 

[GuitarLegend]

This is the tab and notation for the bass line the way I played it. I know there are several ways but this is the one I found easiest

I only showed 4 bars of the verse and chorus but thats all there is to it

 

[ido1957]

Excellent - Love the reverb you're using on the leads, and the in an out way you double them up. Really really good stuff!

 

[guitar zero]

Thank you for the reply. I certainly don't mean to intimidate. We all want to be better than we are and we kind of look for encouragement through these posts.

The bass line is not that hard to play and I did that with just one picking finger, it doesnt require anything more. It sounds impressive but really not. Just playing around common narrow boxes on the fretboard. The acoustic part was something I developed a while back and have had lots of practice with it. I just wanted to come up with my own riff and that was it. Not to mention the stuffups that you cut out and replace with a better clip from another part of the song. I just wish I could be more creative with the lead guitar solos.

Thanks for your response

I was just being self-deprecating in a lighthearted way. Your song is really well done.

This is the tab and notation for the bass line the way I played it. I know there are several ways but this is the one I found easiest

I only showed 4 bars of the verse and chorus but thats all there is to it

Thanks, that was above and beyond the call of duty.

 

[GuitarLegend]

Excellent - Love the reverb you're using on the leads, and the in an out way you double them up. Really really good stuff!

Thanks Ido, the reverb may be just the chorusing effect of widening the lead part so you hear one side slightly later. I did use reverb but the chorusing helps. Thanks for listening

 

[GuitarLegend]

Thanks, that was above and beyond the call of duty.

You're welcome

 

[jonny deep]

Hey GL. This is really nice and well played. I listened on my headphones and it all feels a bit lopsided to the left. Maybe it's the way you have the verb and choruses setup - dunno if you want to balance it out. Anyway, nicely done.

 

[GuitarLegend]

Hey GL. This is really nice and well played. I listened on my headphones and it all feels a bit lopsided to the left. Maybe it's the way you have the verb and choruses setup - dunno if you want to balance it out. Anyway, nicely done.

Thank you for the comment. It was deliberately set up that way. Although the acoustic begins on the left, the rhythm guitar comes in on the right and provided what I thought was enough balance. I have heard other bands do that effectively. I didn't want to pull the acoustic too far toward the centre but I now notice that the lead guitar is also on the left and that was unintentional. Thanks for the heads up. Its pretty obvious with heaphones.

 

[GuitarLegend]

Hey GL. This is really nice and well played. I listened on my headphones and it all feels a bit lopsided to the left. Maybe it's the way you have the verb and choruses setup - dunno if you want to balance it out. Anyway, nicely done.

Here's the remix:

 

[bennie08]

How/what did you use to get that lead sound? It sounds great! This reminds me of elevator music that I would actually like If you have any tips or techniques please share, I'd really like to learn some more things.

 

[sewickley]

sounds great! very "full" sounding.

 

[GuitarLegend]

How/what did you use to get that lead sound? It sounds great! This reminds me of elevator music that I would actually like If you have any tips or techniques please share, I'd really like to learn some more things.

That "sound" is a combination of things that just happened to work for me. Being able to reproduce it somewhere else might be difficult but here is the setup that I used:

The guitar is an LTD KH-202 using the neck pickup. The amp is a Marshall MG250DFX 100W Solid State combo. Mics were AKG Perception 170 and AKG D7 positioned one on each speaker just off the middle. Clean channel, gain, bass and mid at 5, treble at 6 and reverb at 0. Post-processing was a touch of compression followed by reverb. I don't compress reverb unless I want that specific effect so I record dry and apply reverb after compression. I only applied compression to even out the level differences inherent in my playing.

That covers the original signal but I believe the sound you are asking about is a product of the guitar over the top of the piano and that the guitar has been doubled in a few places which is the result of a mistake. I recorded the piece about 4 times and picked the best and inadvertently played two tracks simultaneously. I liked it in a couple of select spots and decided to keep it.

That was the recipe for this particular cake but I might be hard pressed to reproduce it myself so good luck with that. The trick is to keep experimenting with what you have. You never know what will emerge

 

[bennie08]

I thank you for your response and I will definitely toy around with what you have mentioned. Good work!

 

[rayc]

I agree with Johnny re the lopsidedness: def to the lef(t).
I agree with the other folk re the coolness of the track too.

 

[GuitarLegend]

I agree with Johnny re the lopsidedness: def to the lef(t).
I agree with the other folk re the coolness of the track too.

Thanks Ray... I did address the lopsidedness. Is it still too much?

I hear the bass slightly left. That may be creating the left-heavy feel. Will check it out. The bass was mono... hmmm

 

[GuitarLegend]

I agree with Johnny re the lopsidedness: def to the lef(t).
I agree with the other folk re the coolness of the track too.

Trying again, with thanks for all the input

 

[rayc]

That's much better - the bright rapid strumming of the acoustic pulles my ear to the L a bit but other than that I think you've addressed it well.
Really good stuff.