ParlourMan Posted September 7, 2012 Share Posted September 7, 2012 A wee bit of fun from the rehearsal room the other night, end of the night try out new songs time..... I reckon a wee bit of steadying and tightening up, plus expanding the second guitar part to something more like the original and it should be OK. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Begav4lrCk0&feature=g-all-u Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanvillRob Posted September 7, 2012 Share Posted September 7, 2012 DR: Love it !- the harmonizer gives it a flavor, pretty cool little machine. Ya know, Dan...It adds a lot to the most simple songs, (which are about the only kind I do!). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ParlourMan Posted September 7, 2012 Share Posted September 7, 2012 Another wee bit of fun from the end of the night at rehearsals, as usual accompanied by cheesy iMovie effects. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXK55DzMmjs Sounds a bit funky on this one, had to compress it down a lot as it was loud and there was some clipping. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drathbun Posted September 10, 2012 Share Posted September 10, 2012 I just recorded a cover of the James Taylor song "Fire and Rain". Soundclick Link: Fire and Rain Acoustic: J200 Bass: Squire Vintage Modified Jazz Bass Drums, Keys and Cello: Edirol Quartet and Orchestral Midi Samples Many thanks to James Taylor for showing me (finally) how to play this magnificent song! Here's a video from James on how to play it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTjd4sna_4o Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duluthdan Posted September 11, 2012 Share Posted September 11, 2012 Nice job on Fire and Rain guitar work sounds great - really impressed that most of the backup instruments are digital samples, I'm still trying to figure out how to record just one track in Garage Band. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drathbun Posted September 11, 2012 Share Posted September 11, 2012 Nice job on Fire and Rain guitar work sounds great - really impressed that most of the backup instruments are digital samples, I'm still trying to figure out how to record just one track in Garage Band. Thanks Dan! :) I don't know about GarageBand. I use Sonar X1 on a PC. But routing MIDI triggers to Synths and then bouncing them to audio tracks is not intuitive at all! It took me a LONG time to figure it out to the point I could pump a MIDI track through a synth and get a wave form audio out of it. I still don't really know how it all works with the channels and the patches. I just know what buttons to push to make it go through my Edirol synthesizer (basically samples of different instruments). Here is a screenshot of my Sonar X1 program with Fire and Rain loaded (two screens). This is a huge image so I'm only linking it here: Screenshot Sonar X1 The screen on the right has the three synthesizers (Edirol Orchestral and SuperQuartet and Cakewalk Drumkit). The tracks that are muted (yellow buttons) are the MIDI tracks which are patched through the synths and then "bounced" into audio tracks which are labeled below. Only the audio tracks can be edited and output as a wave file. Usually I'll bounce the MIDI drum track and other instruments I don't play (piano, strings etc.) and then use those as a bed to lay over the guitars, bass and vocals. I've made my own MIDI tracks (drums mostly) but usually it is easier to use someone else's already created MIDI file as the bed and just use the tracks I want. You know those free MIDI files that sound like crap on your computer? Put them through a good synth and you can almost not tell it isn't a real instrument. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duluthdan Posted September 11, 2012 Share Posted September 11, 2012 Huh ? I am SO lost. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drathbun Posted September 12, 2012 Share Posted September 12, 2012 Huh ? I am SO lost. Ooops. Sorry. Made it more complicated than it needed to be. The "notes" in a MIDI file are not really music; they are just triggers. You can make them trigger any sound you connect it to using a software synthesizer. When you play a MIDI file on the web, it is just your computer giving the "triggers" a voice... usually a really awful computerized sounding voice. If you have the right voices (called samples) you can have the MIDI notes trigger samples that were recorded from real instruments. That's what I've done with the non-guitar tracks in my cover song. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Del Nilppeznaf Posted September 24, 2012 Share Posted September 24, 2012 Ooops. Sorry. Made it more complicated than it needed to be. The "notes" in a MIDI file are not really music; they are just triggers. You can make them trigger any sound you connect it to using a software synthesizer. When you play a MIDI file on the web, it is just your computer giving the "triggers" a voice... usually a really awful computerized sounding voice. If you have the right voices (called samples) you can have the MIDI notes trigger samples that were recorded from real instruments. That's what I've done with the non-guitar tracks in my cover song. Your cover of Fire n Rain is excellent Drathbun..very pro sounding I use pro tools and drum tracks downloaded from web. What midi files are you using for your drums? Do you make them yourself? also you play keyboard i take it?.. very nice Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Del Nilppeznaf Posted September 24, 2012 Share Posted September 24, 2012 Another wee bit of fun from the end of the night at rehearsals, as usual accompanied by cheesy iMovie effects. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXK55DzMmjs Sounds a bit funky on this one, had to compress it down a lot as it was loud and there was some clipping. You guys are good PM.. nice upbeat stuff..I bet you are fun to see live... what shoes ya got on in these vids then ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mojorule Posted September 24, 2012 Share Posted September 24, 2012 You guys are good PM.. nice upbeat stuff..I bet you are fun to see live... what shoes ya got on in these vids then ? He bought them from the lad at his local chip shop. Which begs the question. If you cover Paolo Nutini's 'Brand New Shoes', do you have to change the title? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ParlourMan Posted September 25, 2012 Share Posted September 25, 2012 You guys are good PM.. nice upbeat stuff..I bet you are fun to see live... what shoes ya got on in these vids then ? haw haw, touché He bought them from the lad at his local chip shop. Which begs the question. If you cover Paolo Nutini's 'Brand New Shoes', do you have to change the title? Don't knock it, I got a chicken supper and two bags of chips thrown in Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drathbun Posted September 26, 2012 Share Posted September 26, 2012 Your cover of Fire n Rain is excellent Drathbun..very pro sounding I use pro tools and drum tracks downloaded from web. What midi files are you using for your drums? Do you make them yourself? also you play keyboard i take it?.. very nice Thanks Del! I'm still not happy with it. I think I'm going to re-record the guitar part with my Songwriter instead of the J200. The J200 seems a tad harsh here. As to the drums, they are just part of the midi file I downloaded from the web. I get rid of all the tracks but drums and keys and use the midi to trigger my drum and keyboard samples. I play a bit of keyboard, but not enough to play a part like this. On my cover of "Everything", I took a stab at figuring out the chord shapes (the keys part on that song is basically plunk plunk chord chord). I played it using my little MIDI keyboard. Thanks again for your comments and for listening! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murph Posted September 30, 2012 Share Posted September 30, 2012 Here's my first installment...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DanvillRob Posted September 30, 2012 Share Posted September 30, 2012 Here's my first installment...... http://soundcloud.co...t/01-kelly-blue Good stuff, Murph....I'm envious! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MorrisrownSal Posted September 30, 2012 Share Posted September 30, 2012 http://soundcloud.com/sal-from-chatham/driving-wheel-1 I did this on Garage Band with a Snowball Mic. I played the drums, the bass, the acoustic and electric guitar, and sung the two vocal tracks, which need a little help finding pitch at times. If you have any suggestions on how to make the vocals less forced, I'd love to hear. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MorrisrownSal Posted September 30, 2012 Share Posted September 30, 2012 Good stuff, Murph....I'm envious! That is great man. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MorrisrownSal Posted September 30, 2012 Share Posted September 30, 2012 Here's my first installment...... Outstanding. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spanisheyes Posted October 2, 2012 Share Posted October 2, 2012 Not entirely acoustic but has a Gibson AJ in the mix: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hJzgXOyQJo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murph Posted October 6, 2012 Share Posted October 6, 2012 http://soundcloud.com/sal-from-chatham/driving-wheel-1 I did this on Garage Band with a Snowball Mic. I played the drums, the bass, the acoustic and electric guitar, and sung the two vocal tracks, which need a little help finding pitch at times. If you have any suggestions on how to make the vocals less forced, I'd love to hear. I love that. That is like early Eagles, Grateful Dead, Michael Murphy, etc. The vocals are fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duluthdan Posted October 7, 2012 Share Posted October 7, 2012 http://soundcloud.com/sal-from-chatham/driving-wheel-1 I did this on Garage Band with a Snowball Mic. I played the drums, the bass, the acoustic and electric guitar, and sung the two vocal tracks, which need a little help finding pitch at times. If you have any suggestions on how to make the vocals less forced, I'd love to hear. Most excellent ! Love the style, and all the instruments, wow, I would never have the patience, metter of fact I don't even have the patience to figure out Garage Band. I have a soft voice - and find that the microphone needs to have a giant amount of sensitivity for me to sound good. I have no idea what a snowball microphone is, but I think you'd have fun with a large diaphragm condenser mic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billdraper Posted October 11, 2012 Share Posted October 11, 2012 Just a short clip of J-35 for fun! Bill 1939 J-35 soundclip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murph Posted October 12, 2012 Share Posted October 12, 2012 Benstrumental A few Gibsons.... http://soundcloud.com/tracks/search?q%5Bfulltext%5D=ben+dummitt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ParlourMan Posted October 13, 2012 Share Posted October 13, 2012 A wee bit of fun from rehearsals while trying a new song out last night, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKIvAAtMe1c&f None of us really know the song that well yet, so will have to develop it a bit over the next week or two.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duluthdan Posted October 13, 2012 Share Posted October 13, 2012 Good song PM, suits the trio of players very well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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