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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Recently we had a thread about home recordings and all the different programs that we each use.
I was pretty bored today so I decided to knock out a few tunes. Nothing fancy...used Cubase SX 3.0 and about 8-10 tracks for each mix (guitar, bass, 3 vocals, the rest drums). No effects or anything special....DI'ed the instruments straight into the board. No processing on the vocals...kinda raw but it was just fun to do, spur of the moment kinda thing.
Took about 1 1/2 to 2 hours for each tune. As usual, the drums and percussions were my achilles heel and a royal pain in the butt.
The tunes should be recognizable despite me just putting them together from memory (so no guarantees that the song structures are correct).
Glenn Hess's (soon to be) preacher 12 is featured on the tracks.
Hope the links work and that you enjoy the tunes.
I just always loved the Beatles and the harmonies are always fun to do.
Magical Mystery Tour
Thought about this song because of the recent Adamas I model 1688-8 12 string that got away.
Cryin Time
In honor of the upcoming McCartney tour.
Listen What The Man Says
A hometown favorite (BJ Thomas) from when I lived in Houston.
Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song |
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Location: Cherry Hill, NJ | Stephen
Enjoyed listening to your efforts. Was that a drum machine or are those drum tracks a part of cuebase? Good job!
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Location: Chicagoland | I thought I was the only one who recorded music on here! Nice work. |
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Location: Tennessee | What fun! I do a bit of recording and am sensitive to how much work it really is ... great work in a short amount of time. MMT sounds like the Cheap Trick cover more than the Beatles, which is not a bad thing at all! |
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Location: Fayetteville, NC | Stephen,
Great Sounds. good job. wheni grow up i wanna be just like you! Or at least be able to really play guitar by then. :rolleyes: |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Tommy, drums were from Cubase. I have a Roland DR880 that I use when laying down basic tracks but then go back in and do them within Cubase to add a little better realism and some variety to beat changes, etc.
Stoney....your right. It does sound more like the Cheap Trick version (I happened to have their greatest hits CD playing in the car). Probably why it sounds as it does....as I mentioned, memory only when laying them down.
Thanks Steve....stick to the banjo! ;)
I probably could have polished up the vocals with a little echo and compression and smoothed out the overall sound with some reverb and other effects but it was just a quick and dirty project. Didn't want to spend another 4 or 5 hours polishing them up.....maybe another day.
Thanks for the feedback. |
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Location: Fayetteville, NC | Banjo??? That would be Tim...I have a hard enough time with Guitar! :) |
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Location: Cicero, NY | Very cool, Stephen! Great job! |
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| Hey Stephen either you blew your bandwidth limits or yahoo is down. will try again later.
God Bless,
Glenn |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Glenn,
Yahoo must have gone down. I don't think anyone else has had a problem with the downloads.
I also slightly changed the thread title since a couple people pm'ed me and said I should make it more descriptive so people will give a listen. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Glenn, did you ever get the tunes working on your end? |
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Location: Nova Scotia, Canada | Nice job, Steve!
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Location: Lake Hiawatha, New Jersey | Wow! Nice job. Very good harmonies. I can't imagine having the patience to record this stuff. It was all I can do to lay down a couple of simple acoustic demos without going nuts.
Thanks for sharing these. |
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Location: NJ | Very nice, Steve.
Just got notification from Dell that my new computer ships Monday. Audio card and Cubase(SE) are scheduled to arrive today from MF. Have been working on getting work area finished in my music room these past few evenings. Everything should be in place by next weekend. Psyched! . . . |
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Location: NJ | once I get a few projects done around here I am going to go the laptap and interface route. My plan is to contain all I need in a small rack box. I have been planning this for some time. |
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Location: closely held secret | Cliff, which audio card did you get? |
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Location: NJ | M-Audio Audiophile 2496.
Very basic, but will suit my immediate needs (and more importantly - for now - was cheap).
I'll probably end up upgrading it down de'road, but hey! I'm just comin' off using a friggin' Tascam 4-channel cassette deck . . . I'm willing to wade over to the "deep end" b/w/o the "kiddie pool", for now. |
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Location: closely held secret | It's a great card. I've used one for the last 3 years, recorded my first CD on it.
I just recently upgraded to the FW1814 so I could use my laptop.
You might want to pick up a small mixer if you don't have one. Something like a small Behringer . Try to get one with subgroups if possible, makes it easier to route back into your monitors. |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | Wow, it sounds great, I could swear I hear compression in the guitar, but you say there's none. Second Wow. I'm very impressed, then again when I did stuff like this, it was onto a cassette. And you did this when you were bored in an afternoon? Holy crap, times have changed, this technology is great. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Stephen,
Credit must be given when due. Hard to believe you can get that kind of production value in the short time you spent laying the tracks down. MMT was really well done. SDSWS took me back to our family trips to Ohio ...laying in the back seat watching the the utility lines dash by in the rear window for 6 hours that seemed an eternity
Again well done. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Thanks everyone for the kind words...it was a fun project.
Jeff, it is considerably easier now than in the past. With a fast computer and a good software program, syncing issues are really a thing of the past. Just lay down a timing track to get the general feel and then go back and lay down each specific track as desired.
Since I did not use any effects or post mixing/mastering, each part took literally as long as the song it fit in. A harmony part took 3-4 minutes to record in place...que it up and sing along with the recorder.
an4340...no compression, just happens to sound that way.....maybe the magic of Glen Hess's soon to be Preacher 12 string. |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | That makes sense, the 12 string would smooth out the sound. Nonetheless that's a great sounding guitar. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Yeah, the Preacher 12 is a fantastic sounding and playing guitar. Only reason I am parting with it is that I have a Deacon 12 to fill the gap. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Hizzoner...site seems to sometimes be sporadic. If the first link doesn't work, try the others. They seem to be independent in their thinking and their responses. |
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