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Location: closely held secret | Ah, that explains your success in the political realm.
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Location: Converse, Texas | EXCELLENT! |
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Location: closely held secret | Thank you, sir.
We now return you to the future, which is already in progress. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Crazy Waskel
I return home from work, ready to post up your songs and find them already up and running :)
Comments.....very smooth and done very well. Obviously more production effort put into them compared to mine (or maybe you are just more talented :D ) I swear it sounds like a fretless bass in parts.
I was gonna ask what you used but someone beat me to it. How much time did you put into each song?
Good stuff and I liked your email....indeed would be cool if we lived closer. Maybe collaborate through email. I believe if our versions of cubase are compatible we could send back and forth the raw data and add parts......hmmmm...worth thinking about. |
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| The future may be in Progress, but he's in Converse. |
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Location: Nova Scotia, Canada | I'll be brave and post a couple of country gospel songs written by my brother. He is doing the lead vocals and I am doing the rest with the exception of the drum track on the second song which was contributed by my 17 year old nephew.
All the acoustic tracks on both songs are done with my GC Adamas prototype. The electric on the first song is my '53 Fender Esquire, the second one is totally Bluebird 6-string.
Sowing Seeds
Miracle
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | This is great stuff we have going on here. Now I wish I had spent more time on my stuff so it sounded a little more professional :D
Wayne, tell us what equipment/system you used to record with? Was this done with overdubs, partially live, etc? |
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Location: Nova Scotia, Canada | Thanks Stephen!
I use Magix Studio 7 for a recording program. Everything was done a track at a time using an sm57 mike into the Creative Audigy soundcard...no mixing board.
I run the electric guitars through a 1955 Fender Princeton tube amp (with all of three and a half watts!) and a vintage Ibanez TS9 Tubescreamer on the overdriven electric parts. The acoustic guitar is straight through the sm57.
For the first part of the lead guitar solo on "Miracle" I layered three harmony parts onto the melody for four total but I pulled the highest and lowest back in the mix.
Other than that, I added some of the onboard reverb and delay. I don't think I used any compression anywhere but it was a few months ago that I did this.
I should try to pick a couple of decent condenser mikes to keep the levels more even sounding. Lots of fun, anyway!
You and Waskel mentioned recording from afar. That is what my nephew (who lives fifteen hours from me) and I did to get his drum track. My brother has the same program so I sent him an MP3 of the project and he imported it into his program, recorded the drum track, then exported the drums only as mp3 and sent it back to me and I mixed it in. One could actually have a recording band and never meet in person.
Your recording sounds great...I could never whip up something to sound so good in so little time!
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Location: closely held secret | Hey, Stephen, I might still take you up on your offer - not too keen on posting anymore on that board, you don't have any control over it once you post.
Thanks for your comments!
The first song I already explained. The second one (My Life Is In Your Hands) everything but the vocals and guitar is MIDI. It's a wonderful thing for people like me who hear instruments they can't play.
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My Life Is In Your Hands was done about 4 years ago with a $50 piece of software called PowerTracks. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | I have created a monster! Just got a couple more tunes to post by some amazingly talented OFC members. I know Bluebird (Wayne) will like this one! :D
By The Time I Get To Phoenix
This is by Stu Gotts (Dave Rosean) and what a beautiful version. I will let him tell everyone how it was recorded and on what equipment. |
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Location: Nova Scotia, Canada | Great job by Dave! That's gotta be a Deacon or Preacher type guitar with the regular Ovation humbuckers.
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Location: Clermont FL | Thanks Guys,and thank you Stephen for posting one of my tracks. I hate to say it but the guitar on that cut was my 62 Jazzmaster. The background is Band In A Box. I recorded it on a Tascam Portastudio 4 track tape. I plan to get a digital 12 track soon. I am retired from being a road musician for most of my life, I now spend much of my time recording. I have tracks made with my Elite 5868 also. I have a Guitorgan and I may try a cut using that before I sell it. I have saved the cuts by Stephen ,Bluebell and Waskel on my Music Match Jukebox, great stuff I love it. Stu |
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Location: Nova Scotia, Canada | It's amazing how much your old Jazzmaster sounds like some of the Ovation solids. I have had a couple of old Jmasters and Jaguars but not for quite a while. Dave, are you playing straight in or miking an amp?
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Location: Clermont FL | Hey Bluebird, I am playing straight in through a Yahama EMX 640 powered mixer. I have a Fender Twin Reverb that is one year younger than the Jmaster, but when ever I mic it I get too many extraneous sounds. I can really control things when I go straight in. My wife and I worked for many years as a duo, at the time we retired we where using midi sequences for backgrounds, so I have a lot of them to work with. I also find loads of them for free on the net. I use my Ovation for back tracks on many cuts. Stu |
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Location: Houston, TX | Waskel - My guess is that the intro is done with a Roland GR-20 or Gr-33. I have the Gr-20, and the symphonic swell sounded familiar. Email me and I'll give you the address so you can send me your first CD!! |
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Location: Houston, TX | Miles - is it time to revisit the OFC cd idea? |
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Location: closely held secret | We have a winner! Scott (intermetroman) was correct.
I used my strat and my GR33 to create the intro. No planning, actually it just came out of sitting and playing with my sequencer running, hoping something nice would happen. :)
An OFC CD would be very cool. |
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Location: closely held secret | Phew. Finally got a break from year end inventory to sit and listen to these tracks a few times.
Wayne, nice job! Very nice guitar work, and the mixing is well done. I know from experience that mixing and mastering in a home studio is tough. I like that you collaborated long distance on the drum track - I think that would be a great way to work with others to produce some unique blends of styles and talents.
Dave R, very nice guitar work. Very fluid and melodic, something I haven't been able to get a handle on. Nice usage of BIAB, nice to know I'm not the only one using this wonder. Pretty amazing software for the price. Especially great for throwing together demos.
Stephen, those tracks sound great! I've been known to hole up in my spare room/studio for 6 hours, just trying to get one track down.
Kudos to all of you for sharing your gifts with the OFC! |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Here is another tune by that WASKEL known as John.
Guitar seemd to be recorded a little hot but a very nice acoustic piece! Nice playing John :)
Cottage Brook
Sorry Waskel, but the other tune you sent me was too big. Awesome tune tho.....maybe you can post it from the other site. |
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Location: closely held secret | Thanks for the kind words, Stephen... yeah, it was a little hot, and a little slower than I like to play it. At 10:00 pm, after 3 hours of trying to get all the way through it after work, I settled for this. This was on my 1867 - I'm going to re-track it on my 6778LX - when rested...
Here's the other one - sorry it's long (6:52), but you know, you get in a groove....
Autumn Rain
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Stephen,
Try as I might, I can't send that track. It just won't go. I woulda hated to make you guys look like amatures anyway. :rolleyes:
Waskel, very very cool. |
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| Waskel - knock it off. My hard drives filling up. And what's this obsession with the weather? Are you secretly English?
I don't want to be too nice too often, so I'll just mention that I've played Autumn Rain 3 times in a row. |
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Location: Fayetteville, NC | Waskel the music really is great. I'm enjoying it. Thanks again for sharing and a big thank you to Stephen for starting this post. Music was meant to be shared. |
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Location: closely held secret | You all are too kind.
Autumn Rain was interesting. I laid down the first guitar track with every intention of it being the only one. After listening to it a couple times I kept hearing these 'echoey sounds" in my head. I added the second guitar, then tried this plugin I had which lets you control not just the speed of the echo, but how many times it repeats. Then I grabbed my keyboard and added the "windy strings" using Atmosphere.
Then I sat there and listened to it 3 or 4 times, thinking "Wow. I made that?". It feels kind of self-centered, but it's one of my favorite things to listen to.
Steve, you're exactly right. Music was meant to be shared.
Thank you all for listening and sharing your impressions! |
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