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AndyR

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Irish Tours - As Long As The Price Is Right
« on: January 28, 2009, 03:11:18 PM »
I've been sat on this one a couple of weeks, trying to do something about the drums...  :lol:

My problem is that the Boss Micro-BR only does 4/4 patterns, and there's a bunch of 2/4 bars in here. I know a way round it, but I really can't be @rsed (I'm not even sure it'll work)!

Then after being off on holiday for a few days, I decided that seeing as it was originally started as an IT demo, and it does that job, and seeing as the drum issues will take loads of time, and seeing as the track is stopping me working on other stuff... I shall call a halt, mix it, post it, and have done with it! :D

So here we are, Larry Wallis's "As Long As The Price Is Right" (a Dr Feelgood staple from the Gypie Mayo period), with a wall of Irish Tours from my Japanese 62 re-issue strat, a guide vocal (can't be bothered to sort that out either...), and the original click track I recorded it all against.

I'm afraid I can't remember what pickup positions on the strat or what amp models I used, but I do remember that the leads didn't use any in between positions, that I used a mixture of fingers and plectrum for picking, and there's some violin-bowing on the volume control (that took me hours to capture, when in fact a pedal would have been a lot quicker!). I also remember thinking that the rhythm parts would have sounded better with one tele rather than several strats :roll:, and that I've probably recorded it too slow (I'm still waiting for a CD I've ordered - I had to do this from memory...)

But, all in all, I'm still very impressed with the combination of Boss Micro-BR, and my VOX Tonelab for the amp models :D
« Last Edit: January 30, 2009, 12:38:33 PM by AndyR »
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Re: As Long As The Price Is Right - Irish Tours
« Reply #1 on: January 28, 2009, 11:01:03 PM »
Great stuff Andy- enjoyed that a great deal.
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Re: Irish Tours - As Long As The Price Is Right
« Reply #2 on: January 30, 2009, 12:43:18 PM »
Thanks for that :D

I was a little worried posting something with vocals on - I've never seen any actual complaints, but I do remember reading somewhere on here that some folk would rather not hear BKP clips with vocals on... ?

But I tried it without the vocals and it is extremely boring (and the breaks between verses sound oddly disjointed once the vocals are gone...)
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Re: Irish Tours - As Long As The Price Is Right
« Reply #3 on: January 30, 2009, 07:12:22 PM »
No it was fine. Funnily enough I recorded a live version of Clapton's "Old Love" with a view to posting it but thought I wouldn't as it had a vocal on it . I said to the guys in the band that next time we rehearse I'll get them to jam something and I'll noodle away with my Apache laden Strat and get the other guitarist to play my Slowhand equipped Strat.
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Re: Irish Tours - As Long As The Price Is Right
« Reply #4 on: January 30, 2009, 07:37:55 PM »
Sounds great to me. I'm not really into strat sounds at the minute but it definitely sounds like a strat should :) Great playing/production as well.

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Re: Irish Tours - As Long As The Price Is Right
« Reply #5 on: January 30, 2009, 11:23:59 PM »
Liked the singing :) I could just leave that kind of stuff on in the background

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Re: Irish Tours - As Long As The Price Is Right
« Reply #6 on: January 30, 2009, 11:32:49 PM »
Wow! Really nice!!!! :D

Not sure if I got about the vocals it's you or it's a recorded guide?
I like it anyway!

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Re: Irish Tours - As Long As The Price Is Right
« Reply #7 on: January 31, 2009, 09:47:09 AM »
Yeah, it's me Fernando, but it was only a "guide" vocal to show me where the verses etc were while I was tracking the guitars. I'd always intended to redo it, but it's surprisingly difficult to sing if you haven't got a voice like Lee Brilleaux! (So I gave up :lol:)

What I love about this one is when the track first kicks in - it really sounds like "the band" means it... the vocal's ok, but for me it doesn't quite deliver on the promise in the intro (and there are a lot of annoying "mouth" noises in the first verse :lol:).
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Re: Irish Tours - As Long As The Price Is Right
« Reply #8 on: January 31, 2009, 10:39:10 AM »
Andy,

It sounds great, the vocals do too.  I'm really impressed with the Tonelab as I've said before, it seems to do really well with the low / medium gains where other moddelers fail.

I think you should be getting out playing live again, you know you want to :D

I can half imagine you singing into your BR while the wife and kids in the other room wondering what the hell you are doing!


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Re: Irish Tours - As Long As The Price Is Right
« Reply #9 on: February 01, 2009, 10:53:49 AM »
Really, really great stuff there. I can't sing a note so the vocals sound really good to me!
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Re: Irish Tours - As Long As The Price Is Right
« Reply #10 on: February 08, 2009, 03:05:31 PM »
I think this sounds really good - Very nasally strat sound and gritty vocals. Well Done.

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Re: Irish Tours - As Long As The Price Is Right
« Reply #11 on: February 08, 2009, 03:14:45 PM »
I don't usually listen to much in the Players section but I stumbled on this one.  Very nice work, Andy!  And it's great to hear something with vocals, to be a guitar player and singer seems to me to be the best thing in the world.  Yes, you should be getting out playing live again!  :)

Speaking of Strats, I'm having a bit of a Strat dilemma this weekend.  I've got so many necks, bodies, pickups and scratchplates... I want to keep the numbers down but I'm tempted to build just one more....
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Re: Irish Tours - As Long As The Price Is Right
« Reply #12 on: February 08, 2009, 03:24:03 PM »
Many thanks :D

Yeah but there's all that gear-lugging, and I don't drive anymore, and you have to compromise with other musicians, and you have to rehearse, then you end up playing to 2 people and a dog at 11pm on a wednesday night, and... I'm guessing that the musicians aren't allowed to smoke anywhere in the venue nowadays?!! How can you do a gig without smoking?!!! :lol:

By the way, have you got those ITs into one of these strats yet Philly?
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Re: Irish Tours - As Long As The Price Is Right
« Reply #13 on: February 08, 2009, 03:38:31 PM »
By the way, have you got those ITs into one of these strats yet Philly?

Well, that's part of the problem.... I just bought a VHII and decided to use it with the neck and middle ITs (sorry, I know you're not a fan of HSS :P ).  Trouble is, it's a white VHII and I've realised it doesnt actually suit any of my Strats.

So now I'm thinking maybe I should get a white body... I've got a spare neck, neckplate, tuners, loads of scratchplates...  :?

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