BluesKing777 Posted September 15, 2014 Posted September 15, 2014 As promised, I spent some time doing some test tracks with my 2010 J45 Standard and my little recording setup, including my wonderful new Neumann KM184 mic....crystal clear! So here is my acoustic/vocal version of Memphis Willie B's "Brownsville" which I borrowed from John Miller of SGGW! And while sometimes I change Brownsville for another name called Grantville, a town not far from me....I forgot in the heat of the recording light. While I have never been to Brownsville, and fairly unlikely that I will, (but never say never), there is a Brownsville locally on the southbound M1 Freeway from Sydney which I probably have been to, but don't remember...... BluesKing777.
Rambler Posted September 15, 2014 Posted September 15, 2014 As promised, I spent some time doing some test tracks with my 2010 J45 Standard and my little recording setup, including my wonderful new Neumann KM184 mic....crystal clear! So here is my acoustic/vocal version of Memphis Willie B's "Brownsville" which I borrowed from John Miller of SGGW! BluesKing777. Very nice, B. That's a deep tone. Brings to mind John Lee Hooker. Your rig caught it well.
BluesKing777 Posted September 15, 2014 Author Posted September 15, 2014 Very nice, B. That's a deep tone. Brings to mind John Lee Hooker. Your rig caught it well. Thanks Rambler! Yes, I am very happy with the mic, if you can't tell! The track sounded better as I recorded it, played back through my monitors, before being reduced to the low fat internet version, but the bottom end has been retained fairly well...which is a good thing. BluesKing777.
duluthdan Posted September 15, 2014 Posted September 15, 2014 Wow ! Impressive playing, impressive microphone !
BluesKing777 Posted September 15, 2014 Author Posted September 15, 2014 Wow ! Impressive playing, impressive microphone ! Thanks DD! BluesKing777.
blindboygrunt Posted September 15, 2014 Posted September 15, 2014 awesome BK. really like this sort of thing. While I adore old acoustic blues , the recordings are lacking due to how and when they were all recorded. how beautiful would it be to have the Robert Johnson / McTell / Hopkins stuff recorded with today's technology ! Every time a newer artist attempts this sort of stuff they seem to get the sound right but lose the spirit . you somehow manage to still have that in your playing . maybe it's the amateur (and I mean that in the nicest way possible) that still allows that to come through. egoless playing . off to listen again.
MorrisrownSal Posted September 15, 2014 Posted September 15, 2014 BK again this is just great, and thanks for posting.
BluesKing777 Posted September 15, 2014 Author Posted September 15, 2014 Thanks Sal and BBG! There's a hole in my soul, BBG! I don't like analysing things too much, as you said they have a way of evaporating real quick if the cash rolls in... But I was lucky enough to get in with a bad lot of blues 'mafia' in the late 70s/80s and I saw a lot of the real blues people - I use to go to everything, and that experience doesn't leave you. Another ingredient is I get the lessons that have the original artists along with the lesson teacher, and I am use to scratchy old records! BluesKing777.
Rambler Posted September 15, 2014 Posted September 15, 2014 Not to nitpick over a mike demo track, but I would really like to hear a version of this tune with more of a sung vocal. The spoken approach works well for the pop covers, but the blues wants something more felt, that in the trenches feeling. This ear, anyway. Check out some of our man (simialr vocal range but more depth) for that ache in the vocal. My two cents. R
BluesKing777 Posted September 15, 2014 Author Posted September 15, 2014 Not to nitpick over a mike demo track, but I would really like to hear a version of this tune with more of a sung vocal. The spoken approach works well for the pop covers, but the blues wants something more felt, that in the trenches feeling. This ear, anyway. Check out some of our man (simialr vocal range but more depth) for that ache in the vocal. My two cents. R Some good points there, thanks Rambler. The guitar is a fraction loud in the mix too, to carry that vocal style on, too late and the trouble with live recording. It probably needs the capo to raise the key to E, maybe F, for me to do what you are saying, but I liked the tone of the guitar in open D. Old quandary for guitarists there, isn't it - you get the guitar bit, only the find it a stretch for the rest. BluesKing777.
blindboygrunt Posted September 15, 2014 Posted September 15, 2014 Thanks Sal and BBG! There's a hole in my soul, BBG! I don't like analysing things too much, as you said they have a way of evaporating real quick if the cash rolls in... But I was lucky enough to get in with a bad lot of blues 'mafia' in the late 70s/80s and I saw a lot of the real blues people - I use to go to everything, and that experience doesn't leave you. Another ingredient is I get the lessons that have the original artists along with the lesson teacher, and I am use to scratchy old records! BluesKing777. Don't mend the hole ! scratchy records I love. The sound of the clicks and scratches is a lovely noise....IF you get the warmth. its the treble empty noise from all those old recordings that is the nuisance ! neil young's latest is a pain in the *** , lovely versions of lovely songs but sounds terrible !
BluesKing777 Posted September 15, 2014 Author Posted September 15, 2014 I haven't done a 'slide test recording' yet! The mic may be too bright and pick up too many slide noises - I need a rest from the recordings though... BluesKing777.
j45nick Posted September 15, 2014 Posted September 15, 2014 I haven't done a 'slide test recording' yet! The mic may be too bright and pick up too many slide noises - I need a rest from the recordings though... BluesKing777. I don't see my old favorite: the top to a lipstick tube that I used to use (and still have, by the way). And no, It wasn't the lipstick I was using: just the top. I think I must have stolen it from my mother.
BluesKing777 Posted September 15, 2014 Author Posted September 15, 2014 I don't see my old favorite: the top to a lipstick tube that I used to use (and still have, by the way). And no, It wasn't the lipstick I was using: just the top. I think I must have stolen it from my mother. Ha ha, you realise OWF gonna have a field day if he reads this?
j45nick Posted September 15, 2014 Posted September 15, 2014 Ha ha, you realise OWF gonna have a field day if he reads this? He needs the entertainment. It's hard living out there near San Francisco.......
blindboygrunt Posted September 16, 2014 Posted September 16, 2014 He needs the entertainment. It's hard living out there near San Francisco....... you wouldn't find men with lipstick in San Francisco now would ya! !
j45nick Posted September 16, 2014 Posted September 16, 2014 you wouldn't find men with lipstick in San Francisco now would ya! ! Men wearing lipstick? In San Francisco? Chance in a million!
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