Reamp song #4 -- The Traders

[TwilightOdyssey]

Today was the penultimate reamp session for the next AF album. Working title is The Traders.
EAST Studio 2, SM57, SSL channel strip used on all guitar tracks.
Left guitar is Bogner Harlow > Bogner Uberschall > MXR Script 90
Right guitar is Bogner Harlow > Empress Heavy
All guitar tracks are my Tele thinline.

Mellotron is from the Fab Four library for EastWest. Orchestration is East West Symphonic Orchestra Gold.
Analog synth is Arturia Modular V.

No mixing or any other fixes yet, and these are drum loops not the final drums. Also, no vocals yet. So this is pretty raw sounding!

 

[Phantasmagoria]

Re: Reamp song #4 -- The Traders

That's nut's EPIC man..intro gave me goosebumps! The mix sounds anything but raw to my ears lol.

 

[TwilightOdyssey]

Re: Reamp song #4 -- The Traders

Thanks! All I hear are the mistakes lol. If you give it a critical listen you will here there is a 'squonk' on the pick attack from the Tele; it drives me nuts lol. I hear a bunch of other things that need help, too.

My basic methodology is: write/record DI and sims > replace temp synths > reamp guitar and bass > replace drum loops with live drums > write/record vocal parts and lyrics > send out rough for vocals > begin editing/mixing process. As you can see, I still have several steps to go!

 

[Lampy H]

Re: Reamp song #4 -- The Traders

Awesome work, as always.

I see you use that Harlow pedal a ton, could you give me a mini-review of it? It looks pretty interesting, but still too new for a lot of people to have tried it.

 

[TwilightOdyssey]

Re: Reamp song #4 -- The Traders

Awesome work, as always.

Thanks!

I see you use that Harlow pedal a ton,

I am a HUGE advocate of tracking guitars w compression. It makes the final product sound much better, saves processing later on when it is time for mixing, and helps you to commit to using effects early on in the process.

could you give me a mini-review of it? It looks pretty interesting, but still too new for a lot of people to have tried it.

Sure ... not too much to tell. It is a fantastic-sounding boost and compressor. It can go from very transparent to downright syrupy style optical compression (at least, it sounds like an optical compressor to my ears). It has a silly amount of gain on tap as well; when recording, I usually set it for unity gain, so all I am getting from it is the glue and slight compression on the transients -- otherwise, you wouldn't even know the compressor was on. The tone control is more like a set-gain Q which boosts a certain frequency. I am fairly certain that the tone control is pre-compression, so when you set it to boost the lower frequencies you get a nice, juicy, fat tone. I really have no idea what the Neve transformers in the Bogner pedals are supposed to be for, but there is definite pixie dust there! Compared to my other favourite pedal compressor, the Pigtronix Philosopher's Tone (still my go-to compressor for bass guitar) the Bogner has much more of that sound you get when you push the input on an analog console that has input transformers on it (a la Neve). The resultant tone is a slightly hyped version of your tone without it; the transformer on its own, with no compression and the boost at unity gain adds a certain amount of 'muscle' to the tone as well as an analogue-style grittiness that works really well with my guitar tone, as I never play squeaky clean and love a lot of character in my guitar tone. Whether that translates to my recordings, however, is another story!

 

[Lampy H]

Re: Reamp song #4 -- The Traders

Wow, that was very helpful, thank you! It sounds like a great "special sauce" pedal, so to speak. Maybe something worth investing in in the future. I'm glad it's worked out for your tone.

 

[TwilightOdyssey]

Re: Reamp song #4 -- The Traders

No problem!

 

[Phantasmagoria]

Re: Reamp song #4 -- The Traders

Thanks! All I hear are the mistakes lol. If you give it a critical listen you will here there is a 'squonk' on the pick attack from the Tele; it drives me nuts lol. I hear a bunch of other things that need help, too.

My basic methodology is: write/record DI and sims > replace temp synths > reamp guitar and bass > replace drum loops with live drums > write/record vocal parts and lyrics > send out rough for vocals > begin editing/mixing process. As you can see, I still have several steps to go!

...wow..hhaa ...and I have'nt really gone beyond two drive pedals/4 tracks with my looper :laugh2:

j/k...you can definitely tell the time/effort that goes into the stuff you do...it's totally pro