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06-24-2010, 04:21 PM
|  | Giver of GAS
Owner, Rocket Music | | Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Blacksburg, VA | | | New Recording Project - "Southern Lady"
Danny flipped me a CD this morning with some rough tracks for an original tune that he's been working on for 10+ years. This project has been through 3-4 different studio setups, all kinds of software upgrades, etc. The project was pretty much a mess from an organizational standpoint. But the basic idea seems pretty good, and we should be able to turn this into a rocking little number! 
I spent the afternoon trimming it back to the barest essentials (various guitar and vocal parts). Some of the guitar tones and vocal harmonies are not the best, so we'll probably retrack most or all of this. But this is enough for me to start building a solid rhythm foundation that Danny can then dress up with all the new guitars, amps, mics and preamps he's acquired since he first did these rough tracks.  
I'll document the progress of the tune here in this thread. I figure you guys might enjoy seeing it come together from these humble beginnings. "Southern Lady" (Rough Tracks) |
06-24-2010, 04:29 PM
| | Registered User
Owner: LilRay's Leatherworks | | Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Between my Roscoe and Leather | | Work yo' magic Mojoman!
God Bless, Ray
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06-24-2010, 04:36 PM
|  | Drunk on power... and beer | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Co. Kerry, Ireland. | | Ooh!
This is gonna be goood!  |
06-24-2010, 08:40 PM
| | Giver of GAS
Owner, Rocket Music | | Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Blacksburg, VA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Darkstrike  Ooh!
This is gonna be goood! | I sure hope so! The drums are coming together pretty well tonight. Then I just need to convince Danny to showcase a guitar that we have for sale (as opposed to one from his personal collection). And then I need to choose a suitable bass... Gadow? Roscoe? Suhr? G&L? Warwick? Decision, decisions. Any suggestions?  |
06-24-2010, 08:55 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: Casa Grande, Arizona | | | I vote for the new Gadow.
Mark |
06-24-2010, 09:27 PM
| | Giver of GAS
Owner, Rocket Music | | Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Blacksburg, VA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by mwbonsall I vote for the new Gadow.
Mark | An excellent choice, indeed! It has yet to be captured in 24-bit goodness... |
06-25-2010, 03:42 AM
| | Drunk on power... and beer | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Co. Kerry, Ireland. | | Agreed, new Gadow! |
06-25-2010, 05:02 AM
|  | Providing the Lowend for the High One | | Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Bonaire, GA (near Macon) | |
I love the intro! That's a great "new country" style tune.
I'm looking forward to seeing where you take the bass and drums on this one! |
06-25-2010, 09:02 AM
| | Giver of GAS
Owner, Rocket Music | | Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Blacksburg, VA | | Great ears think alike, Joe! I loved that guitar/vocal part enough to let it stand alone for a full verse before the drums come stomping in. Check it out! "Southern Lady" (Rough Tracks w/ Drums)
The drums really cover a multitude of sins. The various areas of vocal pitchiness ("yo, it was pitchy, dawg!") seem to have disappeared. They're still there, they just don't slap you in the face now with all the drum bombast coming at ya. |
06-25-2010, 09:49 AM
| | Providing the Lowend for the High One | | Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Bonaire, GA (near Macon) | | Oh yeah! That one's really starting to take shape.
The drum beat in the bridge really sounds nice. Nice transition. I can't wait to hear the bass pop in! |
06-25-2010, 01:29 PM
| | Drunk on power... and beer | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Co. Kerry, Ireland. | | Quote:
Originally Posted by RocketMusic The bass is a little hot in the mix... I trust you guys don't mind? | 
If anything, I'd boost it a little... 
I do love how that bass sounds.... lovely growl, you got both pickups running there? |
06-25-2010, 01:33 PM
| | Giver of GAS
Owner, Rocket Music | | Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Blacksburg, VA | | | Yep, that's the blend centered and just a slight boost on the bass knob. Sonar is partially responsible for the huge, fat tone (I added some compression and EQ to really fatten it up). |
06-25-2010, 01:34 PM
| | Drunk on power... and beer | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Co. Kerry, Ireland. | | | Sweet! |
06-25-2010, 05:28 PM
| | Giver of GAS
Owner, Rocket Music | | Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Blacksburg, VA | | One of these days, I'll learn that compression and EQ are crutches and do nothing but rob good bass tone in a recording environment...
I pulled all that stuff off the bass track, and I tried a different setting on the multi-band compressor that is running on the stereo master bus. The new MBC setting adds some crunch/bite to the guitars, and the Gadow really delivers a knock out punch now all by itself (no crutches required). You can get a really good feel for the bass tone in the version with no vocals. The thing sounds pretty fricking awesome if I do say so myself, especially when I start working the B string on the outro. Wow! Southern Lady (Rough Mix 2) Southern Lady (Rough Mix 2, No Vox) |
06-25-2010, 05:35 PM
| | Drunk on power... and beer | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Co. Kerry, Ireland. | | Oh yeah, thats the ticket, definatly better this time. 
More gas, too!  |
06-26-2010, 01:29 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: Casa Grande, Arizona | | | That tone, and your playing, sound great!! I really like that bass.
Mark |
06-26-2010, 07:41 AM
| | Providing the Lowend for the High One | | Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Bonaire, GA (near Macon) | | Man! You just proved that a song without bass is like a car without gas. It just won't go nowhere!
You got a huge thick tone on that track. You've really got me curious now. Is it the Gadow or your massive engineering skills?
I'd sure like to hear your Roscoe on that track! |
06-26-2010, 08:23 AM
| | Giver of GAS
Owner, Rocket Music | | Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Blacksburg, VA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by JOME77 Man! You just proved that a song without bass is like a car without gas. It just won't go nowhere!
You got a huge thick tone on that track. You've really got me curious now. Is it the Gadow or your massive engineering skills? | I think it's mainly that a bass player had his fingers on the sliders. The bass is definitely mixed on the hot side, it's louder than you would normally hear it on a commercial tune. There's very little in the way of production trickery going on. Nothing on the bass track itself, and then just a multiband compressor and the WAVS L2 on the master bus.
I spent some time levelling the various drum instruments last night (brought the snare up & some of the cymbals down). I'll try to push out a mix today that will feature those changes and a more typical bass level. |
06-26-2010, 08:43 AM
| | Drunk on power... and beer | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Co. Kerry, Ireland. | | | I was thinking an "all of the above" answer was apropriate. | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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