Blue Jean Blues .. hope you like it

[Flat357]

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

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

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

Flats

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

[bluesation]

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

:-)

[tweeddeluxe]

Originally Posted by Flat357

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]

Originally Posted by bluesation

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

Originally Posted by tweeddeluxe

Fantastic job, Flats. I love it!

Thanks TD

[Flat357]

Originally Posted by bluesation

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 ?

[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!

[Flat357]

Originally Posted by 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

[Wally]

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.

[Daddydex]

Keep em coming Flats!

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

Dan

[garytelecastor]

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]

Originally Posted by Wally

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 .

Originally Posted by Daddydex

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

Originally Posted by garytelecastor

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
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 They were the good old days lol when pc's were'nt around

[Wally]

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.

[Flat357]

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 ?

[Wally]

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=3sJUf...eature=related

[Flat357]

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 .

[Flat357]

[Flat357]

Song has just got airplay
http://www.tdpri.com/forum/bad-dog-c...ohoo-o%29.html

[Texsunburst59]

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...songID=5071695
http://www.soundclick.com/bands/page...songID=4993409

[Flat357]

Originally Posted by Texsunburst59

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...songID=5071695
http://www.soundclick.com/bands/page...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 .

[Texsunburst59]

Originally Posted by Flat357

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.