"Lovely Stuff" Roland Cube 15XL, Blue Snowball Ice...

[innerdreamrecords.co]

Dean Markley guitar, Predator & Tone 2 Firebird synths, Battery drums.
I mic'd 2 tracks of the cube and direct for the rest. It's still a work in progress so crits always welcome.

Lovely Stuff

 

[Kosh Naranek]

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I loove synth pop or indie-tronic or whatever they call it!!
The synths sound HUGE!
Where'd you score a Dean Markley guitar? I saw one in a shop in FL once, and I wish to this day that I'd snagged it. They made only a few, top quality from what I have heard, but decided not to stay in the guitar maker biz.

 

[innerdreamrecords.co]

Re: "Lovely Stuff" Roland Cube 15XL, Blue Snowball Ice...

I loove synth pop or indie-tronic or whatever they call it!!
The synths sound HUGE!
Where'd you score a Dean Markley guitar? I saw one in a shop in FL once, and I wish to this day that I'd snagged it. They made only a few, top quality from what I have heard, but decided not to stay in the guitar maker biz.

Thanks for the listen man!

The Dean Markley belongs to a friend, it's a super strat. He places products on TV and Dean Markley gave it to him back then when they made guitars. It's a well built guitar the pups are not great but other than that it's nice.

 

[TheLivingDead]

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I like! That Blue Snowball sounds pretty good!

 

[everdrone]

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I needed to turn my sub off to listen pretty awesome 80s synth work! good vocals/lyrics, nice prominent sounding vox - crispy and not buried. I would add some harmony vocals to the chorus. cheers :beerchug: ..drinkin a sam adams boston lager rignt nowz

 

[innerdreamrecords.co]

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I could use a beer too don't hog it all.

Thanks for the listen and tips!

The Snowball does sound pretty good considering it went direct into the usb slot and then to Ableton Live for recording, no mic pre. I did a lot of work on the mixing of the vocals though.

 

[Kosh Naranek]

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Thanks for the listen man!

The Dean Markley belongs to a friend, it's a super strat. He places products on TV and Dean Markley gave it to him back then when they made guitars. It's a well built guitar the pups are not great but other than that it's nice.

I shared the tune on facebook too so a few friends listened. One said he could listen to a whole album of this stuff.

We graduated in the 80's, of course.

The Dean Markley guitar I saw was a super Strat. It was 1988, so of course it was. Kind of a clear blue/gray finish, H-S-H OBL pickups, with a Floyd. Maple fretboad with black markers, I think. Just different enough from the Kramers and Jacksons which were everywhere at that time that I remember it to this day.

BTW what do you use for a loudness maximizer? That mix sounds huge and loud. I have the Sonnox, Wave Arts, Kjaerhus, and T Racks limiters and compressors, as well as the maximizer and limiter plugins that come with Cubase 5. I also discovered the Waves Tony Maserati Group plugin sounds great on a mix. But with those, I still struggle getting the punch and power (without pumping or other nasty artifacts) that I hear in commercial mixes.

 

[innerdreamrecords.co]

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I shared the tune on facebook too so a few friends listened. One said he could listen to a whole album of this stuff.

We graduated in the 80's, of course.

The Dean Markley guitar I saw was a super Strat. It was 1988, so of course it was. Kind of a clear blue/gray finish, H-S-H OBL pickups, with a Floyd. Maple fretboad with black markers, I think. Just different enough from the Kramers and Jacksons which were everywhere at that time that I remember it to this day.

BTW what do you use for a loudness maximizer? That mix sounds huge and loud. I have the Sonnox, Wave Arts, Kjaerhus, and T Racks limiters and compressors, as well as the maximizer and limiter plugins that come with Cubase 5. I also discovered the Waves Tony Maserati Group plugin sounds great on a mix. But with those, I still struggle getting the punch and power (without pumping or other nasty artifacts) that I hear in commercial mixes.

Cool man thanks for posting on FB! Yeah, we're all in the same age bracket I'm afraid. LOL

Here's a pic of the guitar it's midnight blue, it has a maple neck and I'm not sure about the body but it doesn't sound like mahogany to me.

For loudness I have a Waves SSL compressor on the master fader just lightly then I master the track in Wavelab with Waves, Multiband compressor, EQ and the L2 Limiter. I suggest mastering separate from the mix for example with T-Racks. You should be able to get good hot masters with T-Racks.

 

[STRATDELUXER97]

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Dean Markley guitar, Predator & Tone 2 Firebird synths, Battery drums.
I mic'd 2 tracks of the cube and direct for the rest. It's still a work in progress so crits always welcome.

Lovely Stuff

Cool.....Your voice reminds me just a little bit of Billy Idol,but only until your range comes up...Cool tune...Something along the lines of "Simple Minds" from the 80s..

Nice job!

 

[STRATDELUXER97]

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Bumped for others to hear!

 

[innerdreamrecords.co]

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Cheers guys! Thanks for the listens and comments. I'll let the thread die now.