The Watering Hole

Mixed in headphones again, so no idea if this sounds good or bad  :)

Just a bit of twiddling to keep my hand in....so to speak  ;D

I think it sounds good, Jon.  I dig the playing.  I can hear everything.  Vocals are a little low. ;D  You on the Bass?

DM — Sep 05, 2015I think it sounds good, Jon.  I dig the playing.  I can hear everything.  Vocals are a little low. ;D  You on the Bass?

Thanks for the listen.   Yep, me on bass.  I used to use a full scale bass but couldn't get on with the big stretch so I recently bought a Squire short scale bass and that makes everything a lot easier as it's almost just like playing a guitar, no big stretches.

The guitar on this was metal amp room vst.....it sounds very brittle, so I just tried some reamping tests

The Original with metal amp room VST
http://www.mp3.mushroom-farm.com/download/2015/2015-09-06/2015-09-06-163015-Nearly-a-song.mp3

Reamped
Catalinbread NagaViper pedal into Catalinbread RAH pedal into Two-notes torpedo studio - REAMP-1
http://www.mp3.mushroom-farm.com/download/2015/2015-09-06/2015-09-06-163035-Nearly-a-song-REAMPED-INTO-RAH-PEDAL-TAKE1.mp3


Reamped
Catalinbread NagaViper pedal into Catalinbread RAH pedal into Two-notes torpedo studio - REAMP-2
http://www.mp3.mushroom-farm.com/download/2015/2015-09-06/2015-09-06-163050-Nearly-a-song-REAMPED-INTO-RAH-PEDAL-TAKE2.mp3

Reamped - this time with both reamped takes combined with the 2nd one delayed by 45ms.
http://www.mp3.mushroom-farm.com/download/2015/2015-09-06/2015-09-06-181658-Nearly-a-song-REAMPED-INTO-RAH-PEDAL-TAKE3.mp3

Quite satisfying twiddling the knobs on the NagaViper whilst reamping.

Might test this into Supro amp later and mic up the cabinet, couldn't be assed today :)

Hey Jon.  Finally got around to listening to all of these to compare.  I had a busy weekend flying everyday, so I got fuck all else done.

I personally prefer the second of the four.  It seems to have a little more raised mids which I think enhance the guitars to my liking.  The third to me seems to have more drive, which is OK but I like the cleaner versions.  The last seems to roomy for me.  All perfectly OK, but I like the cleaner sounding takes.

I listened to these in the shop on my computer speakers.  I listen to most music through these.  They are cheapo but do the job.  Certainly not reference monitors, though.

the last 20 seconds... man, keep going with that, I was totally into it.

Thanks DM.  Yep, I do prefer the cleaner tone myself, just messing about tweaking knobs whilst reamping to see what happens.

Sheep:  Yeah, the last bit did sort morph into a tune which was not really intentional as I was just tone tweaking.  I might have  a go and develop that into something.  Remove the first bit, add a main theme and then make the last 20 seconds a sort of chorus with a bit extra added....or maybe just fuck-it and leave it as it is  ;D  all depends on availability of time !

thanks for the listen

by way of suggestion... start without the lead - just bass/rhythm guitars with lower velocity drums (particularly cymbals)... bring the lead in with the stuff that starts around :54... then the last part... then back to another lead part... repeat till you get sick of playing lead parts ;)

ironsheep — Sep 09, 2015by way of suggestion... start without the lead - just bass/rhythm guitars with lower velocity drums (particularly cymbals)... bring the lead in with the stuff that starts around :54... then the last part... then back to another lead part... repeat till you get sick of playing lead parts ;)

Yep, will give that a go and see what happens. Also I will ditch the drum track and get my son to play "live" drums on it to add some variety.