"Speak to Me" (mark2b)
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i was wondering why no one was commenting.....
went to check the link, link was dead.
WELL, the original file was at lightning mp3, the site crapped on my upload.....
so here's a new parking spot for it:
http://www.nowhereradio.com/artists/album.php?aid=2302&alid=-1
use the far right button (downward arrow) to download, or the button left of that, to stream.
here are the guitars and cab that was used:
a custom strat hybrid, and a USACG strat, roland cab, with greenback.
miced with a ADK Hamburg condenser.
the amp:
'81 mesa boogie mark2b 60w
went to check the link, link was dead.
WELL, the original file was at lightning mp3, the site crapped on my upload.....
so here's a new parking spot for it:
http://www.nowhereradio.com/artists/album.php?aid=2302&alid=-1
use the far right button (downward arrow) to download, or the button left of that, to stream.
here are the guitars and cab that was used:
a custom strat hybrid, and a USACG strat, roland cab, with greenback.
miced with a ADK Hamburg condenser.
the amp:
'81 mesa boogie mark2b 60w
Damn... I have to say, that was weird as hell but very well done at the same time. Quite a bit different than the last one I checked out of yours (something to do with a casino... On The Strip?) but of equal caliber. I like the vocal harmonies throughout, very cool. Nice work :mrgreen:
well, last night i remixed the whole thing.
i figure........ why not?!
:mrgreen: LOL
so, since the original music backing tracks had been done by my collab-friend crispy, and he had only given me a 256kbps mp3 as a 'go-by', and then disappeared off the face of the earth..
i had no choice, if i wanted to continue working on the song, but to use the mp3 file..... convert it to 24 bit wav......and use it.
it sounds flat, even tho it's a wide-spread mix, because of the loss of fidelity due to the mp3 process.
so....
creative eq and plugins, meet your mp3 file to convert and widen!
so i applied (2) waves plugins-
(1) a 8-band paragraphic EQ. this helped me tweak lows, some nice mids that were completely missing from the mp3 file, and some smoother high end, without making it gritty.
(2) S1 stereo imager.
i simply took the width out to about 135%, and that made a HUGE difference.
subtle, but there.
psycho-acoustic spatial imaging....
no ****.
LOL
then, i took my lead vocals...
now, those are 2 seperately sung lead vocals, that i blended at 5%left, 5%right, and mixed evenly. both had a hall reverb, and a medium-length spacey delay on them, with the reverbs and delays thrown on opposite sides from the panning.
now, i took the delay off the voices entirely.
brought up the reverb, to get rid of the dryness.
took the 1st lead vox track, and centered it.
i took the 2nd lead vox, and applied a 40ms delay to it, and threw all of that delay-mix only send, hard right, and took the actual vocal track, and panned it hard left.
i mixed them dead even with each other.
this effectively gave me a nice wide 'stereo' feel, on top of the somewhat constricted music backing tracks.
in general, it made the mix feel more 'stereo'.
i mean, there's nothing wrong with mono mixes, or tight to center mixes, but that wasn't really the idea with this mix to begin with, i was simply forced into a situation, and used it as a learning tool.
i figure........ why not?!
:mrgreen: LOL
so, since the original music backing tracks had been done by my collab-friend crispy, and he had only given me a 256kbps mp3 as a 'go-by', and then disappeared off the face of the earth..
i had no choice, if i wanted to continue working on the song, but to use the mp3 file..... convert it to 24 bit wav......and use it.
it sounds flat, even tho it's a wide-spread mix, because of the loss of fidelity due to the mp3 process.
so....
creative eq and plugins, meet your mp3 file to convert and widen!
so i applied (2) waves plugins-
(1) a 8-band paragraphic EQ. this helped me tweak lows, some nice mids that were completely missing from the mp3 file, and some smoother high end, without making it gritty.
(2) S1 stereo imager.
i simply took the width out to about 135%, and that made a HUGE difference.
subtle, but there.
psycho-acoustic spatial imaging....
no ****.
LOL
then, i took my lead vocals...
now, those are 2 seperately sung lead vocals, that i blended at 5%left, 5%right, and mixed evenly. both had a hall reverb, and a medium-length spacey delay on them, with the reverbs and delays thrown on opposite sides from the panning.
now, i took the delay off the voices entirely.
brought up the reverb, to get rid of the dryness.
took the 1st lead vox track, and centered it.
i took the 2nd lead vox, and applied a 40ms delay to it, and threw all of that delay-mix only send, hard right, and took the actual vocal track, and panned it hard left.
i mixed them dead even with each other.
this effectively gave me a nice wide 'stereo' feel, on top of the somewhat constricted music backing tracks.
in general, it made the mix feel more 'stereo'.
i mean, there's nothing wrong with mono mixes, or tight to center mixes, but that wasn't really the idea with this mix to begin with, i was simply forced into a situation, and used it as a learning tool.
dodger916
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Well done! Sounds great.
adamlanghans
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If I may ask; what type of recording equipment did you use? That's a very great, crisp track you got there.
fluff191
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**** that's a good quality recording. Fantastic!
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mrd said:
Hey Mr. Condescension, you have to plug mics into something to make a recording.
I'm talking about mic preamps, mixing boards, interfaces, effects, DAWs, computers, and what-have-you. That's what I meant by recording equipment.
EDIT: Mainly, what I'm wondering about is the interface. Those data converters are crisp!
adamlanghans said:
Lol, sorry, I didn't mean to come off as condescending. I guess I assumed you were talking strictly mics, etc. He has another post where he goes into more detail about his preamps, boards, etc. I think it's the Recollection thread, check it out.
adamlanghans
hey, well thanks for the interest....
my gear line up is very simple.....
A Designs Audio MP-1 tube mic pre, DBX MC-6 compressor, ART DPS (digital conversion AND 2 tube mic pres built in), Sansamp Bass DI, mesa mark2b, weber attenuator, palmer PDI-09 (for direct guitar capture), audio technica 4033, shure sm57, ADK Hamburg, KRK Rokit monitors, hafler power amp, yamaha natural sound power amp (headphone amp), Sonar professional edition 6.0, Maudio Audiophile 192 sound card, various custom guitars, carvin lb70 bass, ibanez Mikro bass.
that's about it for my end...
the fellow that did all the backing tracks, used ACID, various soft synths, and put it together in Nuendo.
i don't have a run-down on his software.
thanks for listening!
mrd
some guys want it all!!
LOL
so that's cool, i'm glad anyone is even interested.....
fluff191
thanks man. it's pretty basic on this one, get the drum tracks done, throw a mic on the cab, and overdub guitars, overdub vocs, that's all i did on this one.
i had the entire demo done in guitars.... and gave it to my buddy crispy, and said 'make a new noise', but follow the same arrangment, and that's what he gave me!
hey, well thanks for the interest....
my gear line up is very simple.....
A Designs Audio MP-1 tube mic pre, DBX MC-6 compressor, ART DPS (digital conversion AND 2 tube mic pres built in), Sansamp Bass DI, mesa mark2b, weber attenuator, palmer PDI-09 (for direct guitar capture), audio technica 4033, shure sm57, ADK Hamburg, KRK Rokit monitors, hafler power amp, yamaha natural sound power amp (headphone amp), Sonar professional edition 6.0, Maudio Audiophile 192 sound card, various custom guitars, carvin lb70 bass, ibanez Mikro bass.
that's about it for my end...
the fellow that did all the backing tracks, used ACID, various soft synths, and put it together in Nuendo.
i don't have a run-down on his software.
thanks for listening!
mrd
some guys want it all!!
LOL
so that's cool, i'm glad anyone is even interested.....
fluff191
thanks man. it's pretty basic on this one, get the drum tracks done, throw a mic on the cab, and overdub guitars, overdub vocs, that's all i did on this one.
i had the entire demo done in guitars.... and gave it to my buddy crispy, and said 'make a new noise', but follow the same arrangment, and that's what he gave me!
