Awesome song man. Sometimes reminds me of Pink Floyd - One of these days
The slide sounds awesome.
How did you record this? Everything sounds so cool. Drums, bass, guitar, vocal, really no complains
Thx. Emir!
I will try to describe the process below, the goal here was to make a more "vintage" sound without any harsh high digital frequencies, so in general I cut a lot of overtones out above 10 kHZ, and boosted some between 8-10 kHz instead.
The recording itself was pretty straight forward - guitar was miced with one SM57 20cm off-axis, and a RÖDE NTK condensor about 2 meters in the same height as Your ears pointed towards the amp at the floor. Furthermore basically all frequencies below 250 Hz was cutted and the high ones at 10-12 kHz was reduced a lot. Also I found a "sweet spot" at around 2,5 kHZ for the lead slide guitar. There is some delay added with Powercore as well as the main reverb, which is a plate-reverb at 3.7 seconds - instead of a hall, since those where heavily used in the old times....
The vocals was also recorded with the RÖDE NTK. I have a channel-strip on my Powercore, so that was used to do some compression, also I added the Renaissance Compression from Waves here, as well as cutted everything below 250 and made a dip at around 1200 Hz, which I always do, since my voice tends to sound more nasal in those frequencies.
The bass is from Trilian, and is a Fender P-bass I think, it was played "live" at keyboards and are not hardly edited at all - eg. its not quantisized. Also the Renaissance Compressor from Waves was added and some frequencies round 80 was boosted and some high at 11-12.000 was cut. And 120 HZ was alittle bit cutted as well, since I wanted to leave some space for the bass drum here.
The drums was EZ-drummer from the beginning with pre-made patterns - which I later edited a lot, adding cymbals and changed the groove a little bit, as well as modifying some fills. For the mix I changed that to Superior drums instead - the N.Y Legacy sounds - which was exported as .Wav files and imported in the project as separate channels, one pair for each drum in the kit including overhang & ambience mics. The reason for this is really that my 4GB maxes out pretty quickly, and having the bass & drums as .wav-files instead saves a lot of memory..... Also I eq'ed the drums a lot - eg. the same principles applied as before, cutting some frequencies for bass drum at 80 and boosted round 120, cutted all except the bass drum under 250. Applied a sweet spot for the snare at 4 kHz. Also the master reverb was added to all drums, the snare has a litlle more than te other ones though, and the BD a little less.
On the main bus are the Nomad Factory Inflator - which is a plug-in that simulates an old tube compressor, I believe. I just used one of the factory presets. It really sweetens the sound a lot, I think it evens adds a little distorsion. Furthermore there is a 30 band EQ from Waves that I only used for some small adjustments and last in the chain is a brickwall limiter from Powercore to keep everything under 0db, its not heavily used though and actually has no function other than keep some strong notes to go over the top. Also I added a stereo-imager from Cubase 5 here to widen the sound a little bit....
That was just about it.... goosh, I didn't realize that it was THAT complex....
It didn't felt like that, it was really made in a couple of day's, with me working on the same time - going down to the basement for some 20 minutes back & forth......
//Staffay
This is a cool song Staffy.. I really like your recording material... You did great with the slide ...
Thx.!!!
Great song Staff! I like the lyrics. Slide sounds great too.
Thx!!! It was a hard time for me trying to play with slide, first I tried with the Les Paul, bit it didn't worked well at all - probably because of the short scale neck, which made it very difficult to keep the notes in tune. So I switched to the strat instead, even that I really would have preferred a thicker LP-sound for the solo guitar... I think I will go for one of this resonator guitars.