Apr 11, 2008 05:17 am don' work!
The Daily Melodies April 7 - 11
Posted on Apr 11, 2008 12:55 am
Cabsy
Daniel Calabro
Member Since: Apr 02, 2008
Here are this weeks daily melodies guys
monday
dailymelodies.com/player/?file=2008-04-07.mp3
tuesday
dailymelodies.com/player/?file=2008-04-08.mp3
wednseday
dailymelodies.com/player/?file=2008-04-09.mp3
thursday
dailymelodies.com/player/?file=2008-04-10.mp3
friday
dailymelodies.com/player/?file=2008-04-11.mp3
enjoy
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Apr 11, 2008 08:09 am hmmmm, that's weird... not sure what's going on... the links turn into play buttons... looks like the site tries to transfer data rather than let you link...
maybe this will work better:
monday
dailymelodies.com/uploads/files/2008-04-07.mp3
tuesday
dailymelodies.com/uploads/files/2008-04-08.mp3
wednesday
dailymelodies.com/uploads/files/2008-04-09.mp3
thursday
dailymelodies.com/uploads/files/2008-04-10.mp3
friday
dailymelodies.com/uploads/files/2008-04-11.mp3
crossing fingers......
Apr 11, 2008 01:34 pm is working now, am listening, nice work indeed.
Apr 12, 2008 09:12 pm Yep, Cabsy you need to link directly to the files for it to work. Can't link to a player page or player.
I gotta agree with pjk, very nice work. You are getting a very nice sound going there. Wonderful and thick guitar sound for sure. I really like the tones you seem to be getting.
May I ask what guitar/guitar's you are using and amp type as well as mic you are recording with?
Apr 13, 2008 04:30 am hey thanks dude
I am using an Australian guitar called a Maton... Tommy Emmanuel uses this brand amongst others... the model is EBG808L and it's a smaller body but has a tight sound and is very even across the board - no boomy bass or empty highs
I don't use a mic, i've tried to get a good tone with some Neumann condensers (KM185's) but without a decent compressor or mic pre in my rig it just sounds drab.
The tone is not true enough, and the mics are too directional... which bit should i pickup? the neck tone? the body? behind my ears? It's all these characteristics i need, not one.
plus the ambient noise is too hard to isolate... some tracks have up to 6 parts so this ambiance becomes a hurricane after mixdown...
Anyway, I use the inbuilt Maton AP5 pickup... it's a nice unit with individual sensors for each string so there's no bias towards big resonating strings and it's been tuned to be even... so the tone is pretty uniform and accurate.
I plug straight into a MOTU 828mkII firewire console (this has some nice mic pre's that slightly beef the tone) and through a tc electronic G-Force rackmount FX unit... I only use verb because I want to explore as much natural tone as possible and the verb makes up the difference for what is missing without the mic... some 'room noise'
I use Logic 7 to track and find the built in compressor in this program is enough to give every track it's 'individuality' without squashing the s**t out of everything... I compress each track separately depending on the tone I want to capture and the role of the part (eg. riffy parts have a tighter compression, and melody parts have a slower attack) - i don't do an overall compression on the mix
I'm not a tech-head (although I am a gear addict) so the acoustic option was all about minimizing my need to understand too much about e.q. and the finer points of mixing like phasing and compression... The attitude was to stay in an area that i have some understanding of and just work within that...
I mix through a pair of KRK V8's and these are the sweetest things I own... holy crap man... good monitors are the cornerstone of any tone-searching and music has never sounded so good as when it's pumping out of these little near-field gems!
People work really hard to produce beautiful tones in the studio and to listen to them through quality monitors is doing their skills justice...
MP3's, i-pod phones & 2-inch laptop speakers are bad news for the craft...
hope this was the kind of info you wanted... i'm guilty of the odd ramble!
Apr 13, 2008 03:44 pm I wondered how you were getting such a clean sound. It does honestly surpass the sound most direct recording gets. It is much fuller and warm sounding.
That is a very nice looking guitar as well. Looked at some of the custom shop stuff, very nice as well.
There are a couple places were it actually sounds like an electric hollow body along the lines of an ES335 or something. Maybe my ears are fooling with me but I would have sworn I heard an electric at times. Nicely done on that then.
On the KRK's, I use an older pair of their K-Roks and love them. Very straight forward sound and after years of searching they worked perfectly for me.
Anyway, rambling is good around here. You'll find lots of it at times. I've gotta say you have some really good pieces there and I've enjoyed all that I have heard so far. Very well done.
Apr 13, 2008 11:31 pm thanks man, thanks a lot
i know what you're saying re: the electric hollow body tone... it could be partly to do with the strings being pretty dead too... no real acoustic 'zing' at the mo...
i think dead strings can have a very usable tone that a lot of players don't explore properly... obviously the harmonics have to be good for the intonation, but the woodiness of an older string has it's own qualities...
they would not have invented flat-wounds if there was no merit in a flat/woody tone...
Apr 14, 2008 01:03 am i still cannot hear them. i get a continuous 'waiting for daily melodies.com' message at the bottom of the browser
Apr 14, 2008 09:50 pm Thats odd. I just played them yesterday. I'm wondering if his server is having an issue. The second set of links worked for me yesterday as I stated.
Cabsy, I guess I could see that having an effect like that. But indeed it is still a pretty rich tone listening here for sure.
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