i'm in, got IT set, BG set VHii bridge, Stormy m neck.....and can do really cheesy stuff if needed BUT.....
my cr@p recordings would be a dead giveaway and my complete inability to deal with more 'complex' recording may
be an eliminator eg i don't even understand what mdv suggesting.still i'm willing and could do something over a
pre- done back track.
good idea whatever the outcome.
Good that youre up for a ready made backing track. I hope more people are willing to do that, as it would make things MUCH easier. It would be cool if some very flexible, mid-tempo blues/rock based beat were made for all the songs that can handle styles from Free-ish to Metallica-ish. No Harke or Kollias beats required, just something thats versatile and unrestrictive.
Consolidate: all the tracks in the project are extended so that they are the full length of the project. No floating overdubs and certainly not a series of 30 10 second punch ins with no way for me to know where they go, time wise. That way, I can load up all the wavs starting at time = 0 and everythings in the right place.
DI: a signal directly from the guitar to a high impedence input to the DAW.
Reamp: I play that back out using one of my reamp boxes into one of my amps. I have plenty of tonal versatility here, good amps, good cab, good mics and decent acoustics so the chances are good that I can improve on something done on a pod, for example, and level the playing field for people that dont have access to the means to record good tones. It is IMPERATIVE however that the DI is tracked right (primarily input level and the impedence of the input device; most interfaces have a passable DI on them though, but its very tempting to track a DI too hot) and is of good playing (as in clean, clear and in time, whether it be smoke on the water or for the love of god). Well, I say imperative, I can polish some aspects of turdiness (not all), but would really rather not: its tedious.
As far as the initial trials go; I'm willing to do some extremely rudimentary pseudo-mastering to level the playing field a bit for the entries, but I'm not mixing each one. Happy to mix the final ones, however.
I will reamp trial entries in extreme cases (where the playing or material merits it and is worth doing it for, but the sound really isnt competing, or sticks out a lot, in a bad way) but not for all of them, since in theory there will be dozens.
For the final tracks, I think a DI for the option of reamps should be a requisite.
