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Well, here it is for your listening pleasure...

"What we have is the original song minus bass. You should still be able to hear everything from their recording, especially Grace's vocals. I added bass guitar. iagtrpyr's better half added some sweet backing vocals which enhance without taking over, and he added the cajon (center stage with the bass), percussion, and electric guitar (both channels) all through Reaper. Here it is converted from .wav to .mp3...

SR said it all. Thanks, buddy, for posting. He mentioned it but I thought someone here a few months ago had to pull their Beatles tune down even though they were using it for practice and wanted to demo to us how they used it. Does anyone remember that? Regardless, thanks for giving it a listen if you're curious. SR yanked the bass out and I lowered most everything but Grace's vocals.

Then, as Jim said, we added his bass, percussion including a Cajon for some bass drum, my Tele through a Marshall Silver Jubilee plugin, and then #2's harmony vocals. All in all, it took a couple of weeks. Minus the day job, it would've been much faster, but without that, I wouldn't have my studio!

So this is our first transcontinental recording with SR's California bass-playing and we here in Ioway. The main thing is we had fun doing it and that's really all that matters. If you're bored and looking to spice up your playing a notch, then I wholeheartedly recommend investing in an interface and giving it a try. I still have so much to learn, but some teachers told me once that learning is fun and I must admit that they were right!

Feel free to comment, especially the constructive kind where you think something can be improved. I also learn from the many mistakes I make. On tap are 4-5 songs to begin work on and then go from there. I know we'll be working with Soul Reflection again real soon. Thanks again, SR, for throwing this up here and in the sixties bassists thread.
 
Well, here it is for your listening pleasure...

"What we have is the original song minus bass. You should still be able to hear everything from their recording, especially Grace's vocals. I added bass guitar. iagtrpyr's better half added some sweet backing vocals which enhance without taking over, and he added the cajon (center stage with the bass), percussion, and electric guitar (both channels) all through Reaper. Here it is converted from .wav to .mp3...
What kind of file is this? I’d love to hear it but all I get is an error message. Can’t play it or download it.
 
Well, here it is for your listening pleasure...

"What we have is the original song minus bass. You should still be able to hear everything from their recording, especially Grace's vocals. I added bass guitar. iagtrpyr's better half added some sweet backing vocals which enhance without taking over, and he added the cajon (center stage with the bass), percussion, and electric guitar (both channels) all through Reaper. Here it is converted from .wav to .mp3...

Great version of one of my faves. Good job, y'all!
 
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My Ampeg BA-110 has started giving me trouble. I use this as a rehearsal amp and it’s always worked fine. But recently it has developed an ear splitting buzz about 20 minutes into rehearsal. I’ve tried different guitars, cables, unhooking the pedal board with no success. After a little while it settles back down and is okay. Not sure how to tackle this but I gotta figure something out.
 
View attachment 4594406 My Ampeg BA-110 has started giving me trouble. I use this as a rehearsal amp and it’s always worked fine. But recently it has developed an ear splitting buzz about 20 minutes into rehearsal. I’ve tried different guitars, cables, unhooking the pedal board with no success. After a little while it settles back down and is okay. Not sure how to tackle this but I gotta figure something out.
I'm no amp-tech but reading the symptoms I would think in the direction of the cooling circuit.... Someone more gifted will deny or confirm this.
 
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I'm no amp-tech but reading the symptoms I would think in the direction of the cooling circuit.... Someone more gifted will deny or confirm this.
Swink, so I took the amp partially apart to see if anything obvious jumped out at me but nope - it's clean as a whistle inside the electronics bay. Of course something electronic could be going south and I cant tell visually. Give me a broken bolt, leaky cylinder or cracked weld any day - at least I can see those! I have another amp I'll use tomorrow. We're supposed to get rain here all week so I may be stuck indoors which I could spend playing around with this.
 
View attachment 4594406 My Ampeg BA-110 has started giving me trouble. I use this as a rehearsal amp and it’s always worked fine. But recently it has developed an ear splitting buzz about 20 minutes into rehearsal. I’ve tried different guitars, cables, unhooking the pedal board with no success. After a little while it settles back down and is okay. Not sure how to tackle this but I gotta figure something out.
Try turning it off, take a beer break, turn it back on. Might work.