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Administrator Since: Apr 03, 2002

It's in my profile, called "Now". Once again, I lean on presley for his vocal magic and my friend and former bandmate Art Keith for his bluesy leads.

Just a quick mix, playing with some simple synth fills...hardly a finished mix, but I'd be curious of your thoughts...

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Member
Since: Jul 02, 2003

Feb 29, 2004 02:45 pm

Really good song dB. I hear influences from (goin way back here <G>) The Seeds, along with Grateful Dead, and Hendrix. The song has that raw early 70's sound to me. Presley's vocals are great (man that guy can sing!) but sound just a bit too low in the mix to me and the lead guitar could use a little more oomph. The higher parts of the lead sound like a DI'd guitar and lack that punchy blues sound. The rest of the mix sounds really good has the perfect balance for the type of song IMO.

I really like this alot, right up my alley. :)

Dan

Administrator
Since: Apr 03, 2002

Feb 29, 2004 02:53 pm

Thanks OD, I appreciate the comments. Yes, the guitar is a DI and a miked mix (from the one and only session that me eBay'd MK319 worked). I need to fatten it up a bit...

Ya, presley is somethin else, man...and what's cool is he does it really fast too...at 16 that kid has promise...

I'll keep workin on the mix, thanks much for listening.

Help I'm stuck in Utah!!!!!!!!!
Member
Since: Dec 10, 2002

Feb 29, 2004 03:46 pm

dB,
Just curious to what happened with the one that Gutter and I was helping with?

Administrator
Since: Apr 03, 2002

Feb 29, 2004 04:04 pm

Actually, I have been playing with that the last few days as well, hopefully that will be posted before too long...

Member
Since: Jan 18, 2003

Feb 29, 2004 06:03 pm

listening to it now. love that lead guitar! the chord progression is quite good also. lots of movement. presley, nice vocals man. db, is there some way we can download songs from the member's section? i dont see a way to save these. i'd like to start saving some of these to listen to when out and about.


Bohemian
Member
Since: May 04, 2003

Feb 29, 2004 06:08 pm

wow db
you simply amazed me with this one
it's so much different from the first version of "now" which i taped my tracks to
i really liked this song and was waiting to hear the final :D

thx for the compliments olddog and dB :D
that really boosts my ego (which allready is way to big for a 17 year old (edit: it said 16, I forgot I was 17 allready )LOL)

btw dB if you want me to retake these tracks cuz of the lack of compressor back than ( I didn't own one but now I do) just say so, cuz I'll be having plenty o'time this week,

wow again:D soo coool:D this one's going on my mp3player

Administrator
Since: Apr 03, 2002

Feb 29, 2004 06:29 pm

Hey Guys, thanks much for the props, glad to hear people like it.

forty, no, I don't enable the download of my tunes...but maybe I should, I am very flattered anyone wants to :-)

presley, yeah, I did a bit of work on it since you did the vox. I just uploaded a new mix of it just now where you vox stand out a bit more. you didn't compress but I compressed the hell out of 'em. Oh, and 16 or 17, your still a young pup :-) hehehe, but a talented one.

I am hoping to finish a little 5-song EP here shortly just so I can say I accomplished something in this darn studio with MY OWN music as opposed to helping everybody else out with their stuff...one drawback tho, doing my own stuff doesn't pay as well...or, at all really, and after making the CD's it'll actually wind up having COSTED me...just ain't right!

Bohemian
Member
Since: May 04, 2003

Feb 29, 2004 06:35 pm

I always just thought it was me not being able to download the songs LOL

but I always just took um from temporary internet files

I am not a crook's head
Member
Since: Mar 14, 2003

Feb 29, 2004 07:52 pm

Great start here dB. It looks like you've enlisted the help of some very competent musicians!

My only suggestion would be to maybe nix one or two of the short guitar solos, but only so that the more significant solos have more impact.

It's a rare (but nice) opportunity to hear something new from you, hope you can find more time soon to enjoy using your "rack of death (tm)" setup! :)

Member
Since: Jan 18, 2003

Feb 29, 2004 11:16 pm

presley...songs played through the HRC flash player show up as temp files? what do you do then, just rename them with .mp3?


Bohemian
Member
Since: May 04, 2003

Mar 01, 2004 04:46 am

now they just show up as mp3

for example, this song was in my temp files under

now_eq.mp3 or something like that

Administrator
Since: Apr 03, 2002

Mar 01, 2004 05:13 am

I am looking into new ways to stream these files to cut out the flash player and possibly add a hi-band/lo-band playback for each one. Yes forty, anything streamed is saved to your PC somewhere, though if somebody does not enable downloading, I would like to think other musicians would honor that request...save maybe the musician's that actually helped in the making of it ;-)

Administrator
Since: Apr 03, 2002

Mar 01, 2004 07:15 am

Thanks for the comments Tadpui. Yeah, working with those solos is trying for me. I like it all and hate being put in the position to decide what gets cut and what stays. I plan on doing some editing before the "EP" actually gets done and some will probably go, however I also have the gut feeling this is kind of a "guitar rock" song and all the leads kinda fit as such...plus, I love Art's work...I dunno, I'm torn...

The fat one always watches us.
Member
Since: Nov 08, 2002

Mar 01, 2004 07:40 am

i felt Deep Purple meets Bon Jovi (once the singing starts. great stuff.

sloppy dice, drinks twice
Member
Since: Aug 05, 2003

Mar 01, 2004 12:17 pm

Cool, man! Good one. That guitar lead tone is killer - very appropriate for the song, I think. Nice vocal harmony, hey good vocals and intruments all around.

Raw early 70s sound - yeah, that's a good description. Unapologetic, dirty, rockin' rock. You go, guys.

"Hey man, is that Freedom Rock??? Well turn it up, man!" (ok you non-US guys might not get that reference... sorry - it's an old commercial on tv every now and then)

Administrator
Since: Apr 03, 2002

Mar 01, 2004 12:19 pm

hehehe, thanks TCB.

And I got it ;)

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Raw early 70s sound - yeah, that's a good description. Unapologetic, dirty, rockin' rock.

My music tends to get that kind of description a lot, or something close to that...which is good, since that era is most of my influence :)

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i felt Deep Purple meets Bon Jovi

yeah, presely usually takes my music in a direction I don't intend or hadn't invisioned, but I always like it.

** The guitar sound
And for those that liked the guitar sound, he uses a Tele with a little single 12 vox amp. I miked it with an SM57 right on the cab and an Oktava MK319 back about 3 feet and up about a foot against a brick wall with sound panels on either side. I also ran a DI from the amp but don't use it any more. I doubled the miked sound and EQ'd one side emphasizing the 2.5k range and cutting the bottom and one side boosting the bottom and panned them about 20 degrees opposite directions from center...

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Member
Since: Jan 28, 2003

Mar 01, 2004 01:55 pm

heh, that's not really my style of music, but the sound quality is pretty good. I like the layering of vocals especially at the end of verses when they are doubled and then get reduced to single layers. good job.

Czar of Midi
Administrator
Since: Apr 04, 2002

Mar 02, 2004 10:45 pm

Yup, I like that one as well. Its gettin to be rock time. I come from Walts Jazz piece and then turn this up, hell ya he says.

Presley , indeed a wonderfull vocal part. and the bluesy ballsy guitar solos rock.

Im with coolo on the vocal treats as well, it really adds to the tune.

Rock is and will always be Rock. Pure raw rock at that.

The fat one always watches us.
Member
Since: Nov 08, 2002

Mar 03, 2004 06:37 am

For those that havent seen it, School of rock will be coming out soon, a Must rent in my book. a really fun film, and i think all the kids are actually playing. quite impressive...
for those about to rock, boooooom!

Administrator
Since: Apr 03, 2002

Mar 03, 2004 06:50 am

Yup, got released on video yesterday, since I have more tests and crap today I prolly will just be laying around, I think I'll go rent it on the way home from the radiologist.

Czar of Midi
Administrator
Since: Apr 04, 2002

Mar 03, 2004 08:51 pm

Tuna wants to go buy it. The kid gots good taste at least. He likes Jack Black big time. he wants me to enter some contest to win Jack autographed Gibson SG from the movie.

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