ManglingTheClassics#8
OK, here's my latest mangling:
http://www.digitech.com/soundcomm/guitar_view_music.asp?productid=199&music_id=2689
You guys that're as old as me :roll: will remember this song well. Kewl jam.
Actually, I'm pretty proud of this one. For one, it's the first time I've ever even USED a slide. Plus, I did the thing entirely on my GNX4, except for the drums, which I did on my little ZOOM drum toy, mostly playing by hand, real time.
It's also the first time I did a cover that sounded something like the song I was covering. I kept the intro a little shorter than the real thing, 'cuz I figured you guys would get bored and not listen to it.
Despite the fact that I'm happier about the way this one came out than anything I've recorded yet, I have to say that it was an really difficult process. I put more hours into this one than usual...I often knock off a cover tune in 4-6 hours, sometimes 8, of studio time. For some reason, whatever I was trying to prove, I decided to do this whole project on the GNX, instead of using my Fostex digi-8trk or even Pro Tracks and my puter. This already made it hard, like having to play back a whole track just to punch in for 5 seconds near the end. Lots of bouncing/merging tracks, to put riffs in empty holes of other tracks, etc, to save open tracks. Argh. So I wasn't able to mix exactly how I'd have liked...
Worse yet, and perhaps the worst thing I've discovered about my GNX yet, is the fact that there's no way to protect your recording from erasure; I recorded the keyboard tracks THREE DAM TIMES - each taking at least an hour or two - only to have each one accidentally erased by a bounce of the contacts on my \"stop\" footswitch or a wrongly-pushed pedal; and had to recreate them each time. This was downright painful, to finally nail a track full of riffs, only to have it disappear.
Nonetheless...after much labor, it's done, and I like it. Let me know what you think of it...
http://www.digitech.com/soundcomm/guitar_view_music.asp?productid=199&music_id=2689
You guys that're as old as me :roll: will remember this song well. Kewl jam.
Actually, I'm pretty proud of this one. For one, it's the first time I've ever even USED a slide. Plus, I did the thing entirely on my GNX4, except for the drums, which I did on my little ZOOM drum toy, mostly playing by hand, real time.
It's also the first time I did a cover that sounded something like the song I was covering. I kept the intro a little shorter than the real thing, 'cuz I figured you guys would get bored and not listen to it.
Despite the fact that I'm happier about the way this one came out than anything I've recorded yet, I have to say that it was an really difficult process. I put more hours into this one than usual...I often knock off a cover tune in 4-6 hours, sometimes 8, of studio time. For some reason, whatever I was trying to prove, I decided to do this whole project on the GNX, instead of using my Fostex digi-8trk or even Pro Tracks and my puter. This already made it hard, like having to play back a whole track just to punch in for 5 seconds near the end. Lots of bouncing/merging tracks, to put riffs in empty holes of other tracks, etc, to save open tracks. Argh. So I wasn't able to mix exactly how I'd have liked...
Worse yet, and perhaps the worst thing I've discovered about my GNX yet, is the fact that there's no way to protect your recording from erasure; I recorded the keyboard tracks THREE DAM TIMES - each taking at least an hour or two - only to have each one accidentally erased by a bounce of the contacts on my \"stop\" footswitch or a wrongly-pushed pedal; and had to recreate them each time. This was downright painful, to finally nail a track full of riffs, only to have it disappear.
Nonetheless...after much labor, it's done, and I like it. Let me know what you think of it...
Comments
Oh ya 8)
God Bless!!
Partch
I actually think you sound a little like seal
Good stuff
P.S., have I told you how much I love that new mic of yours
Surely I don't sing like the songbird...we're not in the same league. We're not even in the same sport. But, give it a listen anyway...especially you old guyz