Mincer's Indian-sounding clip

[Mincer]

From my band, Hazard Factor- a song called Shiva, from a Hindi chant:

http://www.hazardfactor.com/test/Shiva020104.mp3 9mb

Used my Brian Moore, and my Adamas SMT for acoustic parts. Bass and other sounds are guitar synth. Solo at the end is my Roland GP-100 direct to the computer.

[JOLLY]

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Very interesting to say the least. I love the acoustic sounds. I like the transition at the 4:50 mark. Great playing as usual...but that's a given.

[Closed Eye]

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I'm a huge fan of that little solo break from 2:25 to 3:20. It's not that it's a particularly amazing or head-spinning break, but just that it's very solid, very great musicianship. I thought the smooth sounding electric guitar solo (starting at 6:46) was very inspiring, up-lifting, and dynamic.
My only complaint was that flurry of notes starting at 8:30, it just seemed out of place considering the atmosphere of the rest of the mix and the nature/evolution of the solo.
This is definantly getting a five-star rating.

[Mincer]

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thanks all, for the kind words!

[tone4days]

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very nice .. i enjoyed it alot .. exceptional musicianship and 'vibe' .. i would love to see you live doing this kinda thing

care to tell us a little about how you recorded it? .. how many overdubbed tracks? anything sequenced? which software used? etc ...

thanks

t4d

[Mincer]

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Thanks again! Yeah, we do this stuff live too!
I recorded it on the PC, using Sonar 3, with nothing sequenced, it was all played live. The strings and Chiors were the Brian Moore triggering G-Media's M-Tron, a supurb Mellotron emulation. The tablas are another softsynth, triggered by keyboard. The bass at the beginning is a Chapman Stick sample from the Roland XV-5050, the fretless bass is from the same source. The bass pedal sounds at the end are Moog Taurus bass pedal samples from Spectrasonics Atmosphere- a wonderful softsynth.

Total so far is about 50 tracks, although most are just small snippets of sound- nothing goes all the way through the song at all.

[tone4days]

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thanks for the details .. you are in heavy rotation on my desktop

cheers,
t4d