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New Recording Project - "Southern Lady"

#23
Once again, since I know this is a kind, loving and supportive group... I'll throw out the nekkid bass track. :help: Just please keep in mind how nice it sounds when it's got the drums and guitars covering things up. :rollno::rollno:

"Southern Lady" Mix 3 (Bass Only)

I dare say I must've been on the hairy edge of overdriving the USB interface. There's some mild fuzz every now and then, especially when I start riding the B string at the end. Sorry 'bout that! :rollno:

And while I'm posting new sounds, here's the last mix I'll do before Danny retracks his parts. I fixed some overdrive in the vocals, and I evened out the drum instruments.

"Southern Lady" Mix 3
 
#25
I'd have to say that you could have paid some $$$'s to record that in a studio and end with it not sounding that good!

Of course you bass tone and playing are their usual high stellar quality but I've got to say that I'm most impressed with the drum part that you wrote for the song. Having struggled writing the drum parts for my songs, I can greatly appreciate how good your drum parts sound!

A+ dude! :bassist:
 
#26
Thanks, Joe! Yeah, that drum part was a lot of fun to create. I was going for something tight and crisp to match the opening guitar riff. It turned out tight and crisp, alright... so much so that I now want to go in and loosen it up a bit. :rollno: :help:

I find the biggest help when programming drums is to do a lot of listening with no drums and do plenty of air drumming. :eyebrow: :D

The cymbals are the really important part. Kick, snare and fills pretty much take care of themselves. It's the judicious use of the high hat (open, closed, pedal), ride cymbal (edge & bell), and crashes/splashes that can provide lift during choruses or bring it down during a verse. The first and third parts of the chorus are a nice example of cymbal play. The ride cymbal edge gets the downbeats, and the bell gets the upbeats. It gives a nice bounce that otherwise wouldn't be there if I went all edge or all bell.

Of course, most important of all is the drum sounds themselves. I don't care how long I worked to polish a BR-600 drum program, it would NEVER sound like this. Session Drummer 3 is the plug-in that contains the drum samples and some of the user interface in Sonar to create the drum track. I believe a limited version of that comes with Sonar Producer 8.5, but I might be making that up. All I know is I've got the limited version (whether it came with Sonar or not), and I've got some serious GAS to go get the full-blown deal.

I'm also fortunate to get to play with my favorite drummer in the world (George Penn Jr.). He's uber crisp, fantastic pocket, rare tasty fills, never overplays. So I try to picture George sitting at his kit when I program drums. :bassist:
 
#27
You guys might laugh when I tell you how the guitar stuff was recorded. I mean, that opening guitar riff just sounds AWESOME!! But believe it or not, all of the guitar parts were played on a Fender '57 re-issue strat with one of those early MIDI guitar pickups that you taped to the body. That ran into some sort of early guitar/amp modeler that could make it sound like a Gibson SG (opening riff) or whatever else you might want. It's a really cheesy rig by today's standards, but you can make it sound mighty fine if you slap enough reverb and delay on it :)

Danny also said the vocals were sung through a Shure SM-57. That's not a bad mic for some things (like mic'ing guitar cabs), but it's definitely not a good vocal mic. Danny will sleigh the sound quality of this stuff when he retracks it with more serious mics and preamps.
 
#31
Oh, boy, my Bass Orchestra clips pale in comparison to something like this tune, don't they? I've never gotten close to this much power and push when I do an entire clip by myself. Something about Danny's playing gets me amped up and makes my bass playing better.

I'm convinced that I hear (or better yet imagine) rhythm in a fairly limited way at the moment. It's like my rhythm ears are mono and Danny's are stereo. I'm able to react to his rhythmic ideas, but I might not come up with them on my own. What can I say? Collaboration is a good thing.
 
#32
I agree with you on the co-lab for sure, always seems that playing with others makes you play, and think, in ways you wouldn't on your own, espcially when its a situation where you gel with the other guy, like yourself and Danny.

I know when I play with most guys, I'll stick to the roots/fifths, and keep it simple & plain, where as when I play with my friend who I always play with, I'll try more, and sometimes even be convinced I need to try a solo. :help:
 
#33
Holy Sh*t!!!!! Danny re-tracked his vocals, and then we produced the heck out of the project...

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What do you guys think?!?!

We had a travelling band from NYC come in the store today, and one of the dudes was hanging out while we mixed. As he walked out the door, he was singing the tune at the top of his lungs to his bandmates. Pretty cool!

Hang in until the end if you can - I'm so proud of Danny's harmony vocals, I had him take us out (Danny's vox times 4).
 
#39
RocketMusic said:
Holy Sh*t!!!!! Danny re-tracked his vocals, and then we produced the heck out of the project...

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What do you guys think?!?!

We had a travelling band from NYC come in the store today, and one of the dudes was hanging out while we mixed. As he walked out the door, he was singing the tune at the top of his lungs to his bandmates. Pretty cool!

Hang in until the end if you can - I'm so proud of Danny's harmony vocals, I had him take us out (Danny's vox times 4).
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You guys have done a lot of work :cool:. Damn good job man!

:D

God Bless, Ray
 

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