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Mangling The Classics #12

shreddshredd
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This is a REAL mangle job. And on a RUSH tune, no less :shock: ...normally I don't touch their stuff 'cuz they're so dam good and I'm so bad, and it's kinda like blasphemy. And kinda hard to sing, too... :?
But I was foolin' around this afternoon while trying to get the CD writer on my beloved Tascam to read/write CDRW's and not just CDR's.
And this was the pitiful result. Now you know why I wanna meet someone who can SING!!!
Hopefully some of you old guyz will recognize this tune...if I haven't mangled it TOO badly! :lol:

Done entirely on GNX4, with my Dean ac/el, Roland Juno-60, and a cheap Nady dynamic mic.
http://www.digitech.com/soundcomm/guitar_view_music.asp?productid=199&music_id=3343

REPOSTED, using my MXL condenser for vocals. Better sound, same awful singing. Sorry Geddy... :oops:
http://www.digitech.com/soundcomm/patches/GNX4/spherenewvox.mp3
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  • DenScoDenSco
    not blasphemy not even close, keep em comeing.
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  • partchpartch
    Hey Shredd don't know this song. BUT I don't think you did a bad job or anything man 8) Sounded good to me! I mean I must confess maybee not your strongest vocal but O.K.
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  • shreddshredd
    edited October 2007
    Thanks partch...you're probably just not old enough to have heard it. :lol: Half the guys on this forum weren't even born when this was written! It's the final segment of one of RUSH's old album-side-length epics. Nice little piece, but recording it demonstrated to me how feeble my singing is, or at least my ability to create a decent vocal sound when I record...to me, my vocals ALL sound like this. :?
    So why does't LeeAnn Rimes call me back when I invite her to record with me??? :roll:
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  • johnukjohnuk
    This is from my favourite Rush album of all time.
    Hemispheres

    The Sphere A Kind of Dream

    Great version Shredd 8) although it is hard to sing like Geddy.
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  • shreddshredd
    \johnuk\ wrote:
    This is from my favourite Rush album of all time.
    Hemispheres \"The Sphere-A Kind of Dream\"
    Great version Shredd 8) although it is hard to sing like Geddy.
    Yah, great album alright! I love early RUSH stuff...they didn't put out anything less than excellent until Counterparts, maybe Roll The Bones...
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  • shreddshredd
    Just reposted with a newly recorded vocal. I used my MXL condenser mic this time...much better sound, same awful singing. :oops:
    The link is up at the top.
    Forgive me, Geddy... :oops: :oops:
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  • DenScoDenSco
    I like better every listen. nice emotion in voice.
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  • partchpartch
    Ditto I have to agree with Densco on that I listened quite a few times at home last night to both. Even did some youtubing to hear this tune from some others I was thinking hopefully Rush to hear the original BUT could not find it?? I realy think you did a great job on both!! 8) The second one sounds a little cleaner did you do some reverb or something to it? Sounds considerbly different from thr first even more so than it's just a different \"better\" mic? Anyhoe great job Shredd keep em comming man 8)
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  • SlashNBurn99SlashNBurn99
    Cool man, liked it alot. 8)
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  • Gregory PGregory P
    That was great! I was back in High school doing unspeakable things! 8)
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  • shreddshredd
    \Gregory P\ wrote:
    That was great! I was back in High school doing unspeakable things! 8)
    Yeah, that happens to me when I listen to old Genesis albums. 8) Oh Barb, how I miss ya!!! :twisted:
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  • shreddshredd
    \partch\ wrote:
    Ditto I have to agree with Densco on that I listened quite a few times at home last night to both. Even did some youtubing to hear this tune from some others I was thinking hopefully Rush to hear the original BUT could not find it?? I realy think you did a great job on both!! 8) The second one sounds a little cleaner did you do some reverb or something to it? Sounds considerbly different from thr first even more so than it's just a different \"better\" mic? Anyhoe great job Shredd keep em comming man 8)
    First ver. was done fairly clean with a cheap Nady mic. I thought it was awful. So the next day I rerecorded a few takes of the vocals with my MXL990 condenser mic, which is sparkly clean but of course also reveals every micro-flaw there is. I used a hint of reverb and a teeny bit o' delay; I also used a light phaser set to 0 speed, almost like a filter. Then recorded at low levels, singing real close-up to the mic (with a condenser this sensitive, you can stand across the room and sing if you want), and what you hear is how it came out. I dig RUSH so much, I'd love to do more of their stuff, but I don't have the voice OR the chops.:?
    The re-do was better, but I still don't think I'd play this for Geddy... :oops:
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