Blue Jean Blues .. hope you like it

Started this one this morning and just finished it as much as I can really do with the gear I have .
Found the vocals quite hard to phrase , as i'd never even played this song before today , and to be honest , I could probably do with a little advice regarding recording vocals anyway :oops:

Sung into an AKG plugged into a Behringer desk , and added a small amount of reverb , before sending it to my Edirol interface .

Again Pod xt to keep the neighbours happy , and a mixture of a Tele and Strat .

Again , if someone could tell me how it sounds through speakers i'd be grateful .
I have 3 gig spare on my pc , and the files for this took 2.4 gig lol , so it needs to be in the bin quick he he :lol:

Thanks for taking the time to listen , and any comments welcome .

Flats

http://www.soundclick.com/bands/page_music.cfm?bandID=812941

Flat357,

it seems you like this song.
I did this too, but instumental. Tell me if you like it:

You find at soundclick http://soundclick.com/share?songid=4182753

:-)

Started this one this morning and just finished it as much as I can really do with the gear I have .

Thanks for taking the time to listen , and any comments welcome .

Flats


Fantastic job, Flats. I love it!

Flat357,

it seems you like this song.
I did this too, but instumental. Tell me if you like it:

You find at soundclick http://soundclick.com/share?songid=4182753




Cool :cool:

Fantastic job, Flats. I love it!

Thanks TD :razz:

Flat357,

it seems you like this song.
I did this too, but instumental. Tell me if you like it:

You find at soundclick http://soundclick.com/share?songid=4182753

:-)

BTW Where did you find that backing track ?

Great playing Flat357!
I checked your soundklick page and it`s great!!!
Nice tone and great guitar work,I really enjoyed it all!
Cheers,Wikur!

Great playing Flat357!
I checked your soundklick page and it`s great!!!
Nice tone and great guitar work,I really enjoyed it all!
Cheers,Wikur!

Nice that you like them .Thanks very much for the comments :grin:

Flat357, good job. There is a great deal of The Ventures in there, don't you think? Quite spacey behind that blues guitar up front. I enjoyed listening.

Keep em coming Flats!

This one sounds great. I love the sparse and spacey feel.

Dan

Beautiful job as usual, Flat. I love the Duanne Eddy-ish guitar work. Leads are nice and vocals on the money.
Keep up the good work man.

Flat357, good job. There is a great deal of The Ventures in there, don't you think? Quite spacey behind that blues guitar up front. I enjoyed listening.
Thanks Wally .
I decided to try and give it a James Wilsey type vibe in the background , using a Strat trem and some cavernous reverb , before swapping to a tele with Bardens for the lead .
I recorded the single notes , and the strums seperately , and panned them differently to try and get it all to ring out , at the same time avoiding having to slide up to the Em which would have given little time to avoid movement squeak .
I then faded the ends out to quieten each bit down .

Keep em coming Flats!

This one sounds great. I love the sparse and spacey feel.

Dan

Thanks Dan .
My recording methods still suck , and i'm still at a loss what to do with things once i've laid the tracks down , regarding mixing , effects etc .
Vocals are especially difficult for me to get sounding good .
At the moment , i'm singing into an AKG mic ( standard , not condenser ) which is then put through a Behringer desk , and the desk is one of these high tech things which i'm gonna have to get the manual out and have a look at , as it's been sat in the box almost for 2 years or so since I first built my studio etc .
Lots of my gear is still on loan to friends who continued to record when I gave playing up , but I still have enough around the house to do basic stuff .

Again , I don't have a clue ( or software ) to help the vocals , nor do I know enough about compression tecniques either to make them sound better .

Your vocals sound great , so maybe you can let me in on a few tips :wink:

Beautiful job as usual, Flat. I love the Duanne Eddy-ish guitar work. Leads are nice and vocals on the money.
Keep up the good work man.

Cheers Gary .
Since my hands recovered from that whiplash thing , then the finger break , i've started to take things real easy with playing , and no longer feel I have to impress anybody with flurrys of notes etc .
It's fun to use a pc for recording , but it's a whole lot easier to have someone else press record and do all the hard stuff instead lol :lol:
I'm slowly learning as I go about all this software stuff .

What was really funny was that I re did the vocals because I wasn't happy with them , but they were originally a lot stronger .
When I rerecorded them , it was about 3 oclock in the morning , so I had to keep the noise down lol .
In the last line , which I think sux , I realised that I had mixed up the gender of the song , and said ' he ' instead of she .
By the time i'd realised , I had deleted the files as i'd had enough .

I thought I was going to be the next gay icon of the soundclick world , untill it dawned on me that i'd actually sung ' be ' not ' he ' , which was right , and I had a good laugh about it .
Shows how tired I must have been lol .

When we were kids , we would record using tape and play drums on bread bins and pots :lol: They were the good old days lol when pc's were'nt around :razz:

Flat, good job AFAIAC. James Wilsey is new to me. I'll google.
I have listened to The Ventures for over 40 years. Almost all guitarists have whether they know it or not. They added to the lexicon. I speak their language to somes extent. I can remember reading on the jacket of one of their albums back in the early-mid '60's...something like 'all of the sounds on this album were produced with guitars. There are no ....' Space surfing??? Telstar... IN the vernacular of the times...they were out there, man! LOL I have a compilation of theirs in the player now.
IN front of that you played some good blues guitar and blended it well.
Anyway, I enjoyed it, minor seventh.

James is one of our members .... wicked gtr

Tell me more about the Ventures .

I've definitely heard some of their stuff i'm sure .
Didn't they do things like the hawaii 50 theme tune etc ?
Kind of like a cross between the surfaris and the shaddows ?

Any other ventures fans out there ?

Yes, The ventures did the Five-O theme. They have been the most visible and commercially successful instrumental 'pop music' group since the early
'60's.
They did some music inspired by the 'space age' that is akin to the background for your blues. Check out the video for an introduction. They have been playing this music steadily...huge in Japan all of these years. They keep working.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sJUf4NMI5w&feature=related

I certainly like the surf rider and slaughter on 10th street tunes .
Who is doing up to date versions of these songs these days with better quality productions ?
I could definitely get into that type of stuff .

BgRlPGz3mUQ&feature=related

Song has just got airplay
http://www.tdpri.com/forum/bad-dog-cafe/103240-holy-smoke-im-radio-woohoo-o%29.html

Way to go Flat357. Nice rendition you got there,and congrats on the airplay. I've always liked this tune,and I've got some takes I did a while back. These are jjust short clips.

http://www.soundclick.com/bands/page_songInfo.cfm?bandID=633883&songID=5071695
http://www.soundclick.com/bands/page_songInfo.cfm?bandID=633883&songID=4993409

Way to go Flat357. Nice rendition you got there,and congrats on the airplay. I've always liked this tune,and I've got some takes I did a while back. These are jjust short clips.

http://www.soundclick.com/bands/page_songInfo.cfm?bandID=633883&songID=5071695
http://www.soundclick.com/bands/page_songInfo.cfm?bandID=633883&songID=4993409

Those amps sound very good .
It's time I started to think about getting another amp and may possibly look at the Fender range .
I normally use an old 80's rewired Triumph 60 or an amp that was made specially for me by a guy called Alan Stratton which is hand wired and has total vintage parts , all inside an old Gibson cab .

I've not had the pleasure of using the Zendrive as of yet , but i've heard of some good reviews and a few guys i've met are apparantly using them to good effect .

Nice playing BTW .

Those amps sound very good .
It's time I started to think about getting another amp and may possibly look at the Fender range .
I normally use an old 80's rewired Triumph 60 or an amp that was made specially for me by a guy called Alan Stratton which is hand wired and has total vintage parts , all inside an old Gibson cab .

I've not had the pleasure of using the Zendrive as of yet , but i've heard of some good reviews and a few guys i've met are apparantly using them to good effect .

Nice playing BTW .

Thanks Flat. I guess it's kinda hard to sound bad on a good Fender amp.:mrgreen:

Thanks Flat. I guess it's kinda hard to sound bad on a good Fender amp.:mrgreen:

Lol , I find it easy to sound bad on lots of amps :lol:

The page of samples leads me immediately to the Rev. Willy G. and Merle Haggard, two very big guys- I don't know which is the bigger ask, but both very good...

I've gotta say that your BJB is great, especially like the David Lynch-esque tremolo on the rhythm guitar underpinning very heartfelt lead work...

But your 'Working Man' is KICK-ASS HELLA GOOD. I live in England, Yoorp, and people generally don't have the first clue about Merle, Buck Owens, or any of that stuff- we suck!

Well... you asked!!

The page of samples leads me immediately to the Rev. Willy G. and Merle Haggard, two very big guys- I don't know which is the bigger ask, but both very good...

I've gotta say that your BJB is great, especially like the David Lynch-esque tremolo on the rhythm guitar underpinning very heartfelt lead work...

But your 'Working Man' is KICK-ASS HELLA GOOD. I live in England, Yoorp, and people generally don't have the first clue about Merle, Buck Owens, or any of that stuff- we suck!

Well... you asked!!

Thanks man .

I have to say i'm one of those people really .
I don't know squat about playing Country music . I kind of hear a vibe and improvise .
The working man was fun , as I can't sing to save my life , and had to come down real low to give it a shot .
I knew if I tried to play straight Country over it , i'd probably have made a pigs ear of it , so I cheated a little by playing a few riffs which kept it in the right ball park , and the rest was pure improvisational bull lol :lol:

Do you live near me ?

beautifull...

beautifull...

Thanks psycho http://i158.photobucket.com/albums/t99/ANGERMANAGER/smiley_thumbsup.gif

You have some great tones happening on that song-the vocals sound pretty darned close to the original-Billy Gibbons moaned them a little more is all.
You're lead tones are sounding very cool, the warbling rhythm tone thats panned to the right side is a slight bit overpowering in the mix-drop it's level a little-several dBs ought to help, and I think all will be fine!

GREAT playing on everything Flat!! Blues, country, SRV stuff.... gobs-O-tone!!....Soundclick is impressive, as well!!! I think that Maiga might not have given our British friends enough credit, as far as I'm concerned you guys spawned two of the greatest "Country Bands" ever... The Beatles, and Hermans Hermits...we know they listened to at least some Buck Owens, Carl Perkins, and Chet Atkins, and I wouldn't hesitate to say those two bands, held these Americon icons in the highest of esteem. Harrison, and Leckenby were almost "caricitures" of our country players at the time, and exaggerated the country "vibe", and I couldn't get enough!! Let's not forget two more of the greatest "Tele" Icons period... Albert Lee, and Ray Flack.... GREAT work Flat!!...........Pauly

You have some great tones happening on that song-the vocals sound pretty darned close to the original-Billy Gibbons moaned them a little more is all.
You're lead tones are sounding very cool, the warbling rhythm tone thats panned to the right side is a slight bit overpowering in the mix-drop it's level a little-several dBs ought to help, and I think all will be fine!

Thanks bud .
The masters were binned a long time ago , so I can't do much about it now unfortunately . I don't take my recordings too seriously , so after a few days , I tend to delete the files to save much needed hard drive space .
I can sometimes blame the sound of the guitar on lack of recording knowledge and cheap pods as opposed to an amp , but where singings concerned , I have no excuses lol .
Strictly speaking , i'm a crap singer :lol:
If I could sound like Billy , I would be delighted .

GREAT playing on everything Flat!! Blues, country, SRV stuff.... gobs-O-tone!!....Soundclick is impressive, as well!!! I think that Maiga might not have given our British friends enough credit, as far as I'm concerned you guys spawned two of the greatest "Country Bands" ever... The Beatles, and Hermans Hermits...we know they listened to at least some Buck Owens, Carl Perkins, and Chet Atkins, and I wouldn't hesitate to say those two bands, held these Americon icons in the highest of esteem. Harrison, and Leckenby were almost "caricitures" of our country players at the time, and exaggerated the country "vibe", and I couldn't get enough!! Let's not forget two more of the greatest "Tele" Icons period... Albert Lee, and Ray Flack.... GREAT work Flat!!...........Pauly

Cheers Pauly .
Still waiting for those free guitar lessons you promised me lol .:razz:
I think there are , and indeed have been some incredible Country artists coming from the UK , but the states is where it's at for me .
I'm certainly tempted to explore country a lot more than I do , but I guess not having the full range of country chops at 39 is probably leaving it a little late he he .
Blues is so much more uncomplicated :lol: No steel / fiddle players blowing you off the stage every 2 minutes :lol: