Bare Knuckle Pickups Forum
Forum Ringside => Players => Topic started by: igloo0213 on June 09, 2007, 07:05:56 AM
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This is an instrumental song which my friend wrote, and which I helped him record. He played all the acoustic bits, then I went back over and filled in the bass, electric, and the drum programming.
I used my Nailbomb bridge for the rhythm parts, and the Cold Sweat neck for most of the lead, with a bit of lead on the Nailbomb. The pickups are in an Epi LP Custom. I've had these pickups since last September, just never got around to making a decent clip. I'm really digging the sound of these pickups, especially the Cold Sweat.
The recording is in rough shape, all the soloing (except the first solo) was improv, and I'm not exactly a great guitar player. Let me know what ya think.
For anyone who cares, I was running my guitar into a Zvex Box of Rock and then into my AX84 Renegade (Basically a modded JCM 800). This, into a home built 2x12, close miked with a Sennheiser e609 and distance miked with a Rode NT2a, through a Mackie mixer, into Cakewalk Sonar. All effects are added post recording.
EDIT: I posted up a new version, with a revised solo, and with the rhythm guitars not quite so up-front. Tell what you think of the tones, the playing, the recording, whatever.
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Good stuff, nice recording and cool playing. It's good to have some neck Cold Sweat clips on here.
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Hey dude
Sounds pretty nice, the overdriven rhythm guitars have a bit too much bottom end and are a little bit too loud for the mix in my opinion. But overall it sounds pretty good, nice repetitive lick towards the end there which worked well.
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hej man, i canīt download it, it says that attachment was removed :cry: .
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Hmmm...seems to work here on this end. You might want to try right clicking and saving the link or the target to your desktop, and play it from there. I had that problem when I first uploaded it, and saving the file fixed it. Give that a shot.
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holy shite! this is so good! the guitar playing is gold! The electric is drenched in emotion and so heartfelt, wow... i have no words (well, beyond those that i have already wrote :P). I WANT MORE!
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holy shitee! this is so good! the guitar playing is gold! The electric is drenched in emotion and so heartfelt, wow... i have no words (well, beyond those that i have already wrote :P). I WANT MORE!
+1
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Thanks a ton! That definitely put a smile on my face! :D
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CS sounds f'ing AMAZING! absolutely nothing to complain about the nailbomb either tho :wink:
Cool playing and very nice song!
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Thanks. Yeah, the cold sweat was really everything I was looking for in a neck pickup. I was looking for a Petrucci type lead sound, really smooth and high gain, and that's exactly what the cold sweat has. Sound sick clean split too. Then the nailbomb is pretty gnarly for any kind of rhythm work I have. Not bad on the cleans there either.
It was actually lepersmeesa's Pastel Shades clip that convinced me to get this set, and I must say, it delivers. Props to Tim for turning this average guitar into a beast.
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Very cool, well done :twisted: :twisted:
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Very nice!I like it even with my shitey speakers ! :lol:
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Dude, those lead tones are pretty much exactly the kind of warm smooth tones I'm looking for. I'm definitely going with a cold sweat neck...maybe bridge too.
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Cool, good to hear. If that's the sound you are going for, then the Cold Sweat is definitely it. I highly recommend the Nailbomb bridge as well, but I'm sure the Cold Sweat is just as capable of a pickup (it's a BKP :wink: )
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sounds great!
I've got a CS/NB combination in my 7 string, and I'm really liking it
(after initial dissapointmet with the Nailbomb)
I will try to post up a clip or 2 so you guys can here it thru my JSX rig.
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Dude! That was beautiful. I listened to the old one and the new one fixed any thing wrong in the mix. In fact, when I redownloaded it, when it started playing, I had already memorized the initial singing melody before it came in, so that means, if you can sing it in your head after one listen, then it's a keeper. Great tone, and exactly what I'm saving for(nb +cs ) in a ibanez s540 mahog. Just confirms my G.A.S wishes for the Cold sweat in the neck. Those acoustics sounded good too. What where they?
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Omg the neck pups is so sweet and full. I need to get a set of Cold Sweat. Btw what is the spec of the Cold Sweat neck pups. It can't be ceramic for sure but maybe i am wrong.
igloo0213 was your amp set to dead clean or did you set it abit Dirty and used the Box of Rock to push?
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my cold sweat neck is 8-9k, alnico 5
and it sounds exactly like this clip (in a les paul) :D
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Thanks guys! You're too cool
Lifted: I've never really been happy with how that singing melody in the beginning sounds on this mix. I loved how it sounded on the old one; unfortunately I lost all my project files. The acoustic is mine, a Dean Exotica FM. Pretty budget guitar. I got a really good deal used on it, and the guy had lowered the action and installed an Earvana nut. The action is almost identical to my LP. It had pretty old strings too, so I was surprised by how good it sounds recorded. I love that guitar
Dane: My CS is stock spec. Around 9k I believe, Alnico V. I have my amp set to a pretty distorted tone already, but it will clean up pretty well. Then I send it over the top with the BoR, and it has become one of my favorite tones.
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nice tone and playing! I also use the Rode NT2-A, it's a very very nice mic, even quiter than a Neumann. I like the dark tone you have achieved in the solo/lead parts, it sounds like you spent a while getting the right sound for once, it's a good clip, nice work. :P
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igloo0213: I hope i do not sound silly but what scales or modes were you soloing in?
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The entire song was played in F# minor, and the soloing was all F# Aeolian (Natural Minor)
Edit: With a few pentatonic licks thrown in for good measure. :P
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Ok coll Thx man. Really love the emotion you put to it.
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Yeah, you're welcome. Thanks for the kind words guys. Keep 'em coming
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Good stuff.