General Music Chat

I posted three tunes ripped from a live thing we did, It was recorded originally by the venue, ripped and converted to mp3. The recording quality is really poor but perhaps you guys can see where I'm headed. I promise to get some better stuff up there but at least I've got some music up again.

Cool, a lot more acoustic than I was expecting. Good job.

Thank You Jimmy: Weve got basicly three levels or short "sets" Heavy Moderate and Soft. As we were Playing for a Church on a Sunday night. It was a combo of some of the Moderate and Soft tunes. We played our Heavy set for the youth group about a month latter. They really seemed to enjoy it.
I am becoming increasingly disappointed with the variation of tone I'm getting out of the stomps I use. And am considering going back to the Line6 amp I had and micing into my PA.

Yeah, you need a better tone.

I love Line 6 amps. Great amps for the price, and many effects built in to play with. Get the pedal board that goes with them, so you can change your tones on the fly.

"All The Really Matters" - liked that one.

I bet if you could get in a studio, it would make a big difference too. The songs are pretty good. A real studio will bring everything out for you guys. I'd like to hear some of those tunes done professionally.

Im like Jimmy, I was expecting more crunch for some reason.

George, These are some good songs to build up. I recently have recorded a couple of songs that have a clean or acoustic sounded rythym. A trick Ive been using to liven up these songs is to throw in a guitar line that is clean but has a flanger, phase or auto wah. Dont play the whole chord just kind of outline the chords fundamental notes on the middle strings or the high strings. It kind of spices things up. Maybe on the first verse of a song play on the A-D-G strings and then on the next verse play the same notes on the G-B-E strings. Youve got a lot of space there to play with. When you get to your leads try to think about singing. Play a short melody with a little space like a person would do if they were singing. When you go to your crunch chords you might play them an octave higher to mix things up a little. You might try to play a harmony line with your singer in there to mix it up. I always like to throw a stop or two in a song to give it a little contrast.

You guys have a very balanced sound and seem to play well together. Noone seems to be trying to hog the spotlight. I wish I had a group of guys to play with like you do, you are very fortunate in that respect.

I really like the second song, I think it has a lot of potential.

Thanks for sharing.

JW

ATRM is one of or oldest tunes Ray wrote the basic for it when we first got together just he and I. This song has changed dramaticly in the last two and a half years. One night as we were struggling with tempos I told Ray to sing and play it as if he were sitting on the porch dead tired and reflecting on his day. He did just that and I stopped trying to drive it and assumed a passive back up guitar role, except for the lead parts. It sounds much better played on our equipment vs having he venue in control of our sound. All is a work in progress and I appreciate your input.
I am going to change my guitar set up, I must be able to vary tone and effect for the different types of music we play. Thanks Again.

Hey, just gave a listen.
Live recordings can be a pain, eh? "Walk" could use the vocals more up front. The others seemed much better balanced.
You guys have a nice sound.

I agree, you should record these in the studio. I think they are pretty good. I would beef up the guitar a bit.

Yea the sound man at the venue had to boost the vocal after we did The Walk this was about the third or fourth time we'd ever plated this song. The lyrics came from a poem Steven's (drummer) brother had written.
Mike what in spacific do you mean by "beef up" the guitar. I value you opinion and want you to be more specific if you dont mind.

George,
You are fast becoming one of my favorite down home rednecks. If I'm ever passin through Kilgor, I'd be much obliged to stop by for a jam and a beer.(I would prefer to drink it out the bottle if you wouldn't mind, as I'm a bit leary about the way your cat is eyeing up that ol' blue mug.)
Rock On!
John

Bottle it is John. PS that aint the toilet pissin cat, but i,ll watch my coffee cup just the same.

LOL I thought the coffee tasted funny.

Posted two more tunes. Risin Inside Me is brand new. If you only hear it through one speaker its my bad, sorry. I was using my Zoom H4 and did not have both monitor levels on.

not to bad at all sanshouheil...i like "risin inside me" even in mono
i think the songs and the band have potential i understand its kind of new for you guys but with time and practice you guys could be on to a winner.
keep it up

Thanks Again: The cleaned up version of Risin Inside Me is now on our Bandmix site but for some reason its really slooow. Sounds much better on the myspace site Ray operates for us.