SDUGF Collaboration with Hoss!

[Nightburst]

Behold!

Hey guys,

This is a cover song by Pearl Jam that I recorded. It's got 3 guitars and Hoss on vocals! What more could one ask for? Hope you enjoy, and feel free to leave any comments!

Special thanks to innerdreamrecords for a little help on the mix, I hope we do right to his reputation!


!EDIT! Uploaded new version with the vocals a bit more present in the mix, please let me know what you think! !EDIT!

 

[JOLLY]

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That sounds great. My only complaint is that I think Hoss's vocals could be up a little louder in the mix. However, I've never heard the original. Maybe they're like that in the mix.

 

[Hoss]

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Dennis provided some great music to sing to! It was a fun project!

 

[Aceman]

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Wow - off the top; VERY cool. I'm digging it! I could totally hear that as an acoustic number.

+ Really liked Hoss on vocals; There a slight flange or something on there? Very cool sound.
+ Tasty tone on the little solo at the end. Tele in the middle position or strat?
+ Just a nice groove overall.

Great job guys!

STOP HERE IF YOU JUST WANT TO BATHE IN THE AWSOME

the following are a few very minor issues, but I really feel they could make this thing perfect!

1. Crank the bass down a touch. Perhaps go fretless
2. Add something to just soften the main guitar rhythm/riff. A touch more of delay, or use an acoustic to double perhaps
3. More of that solo at the end! I was just getting into the groove and it ended!!!!!!!

Stellar job boys!

 

[JumpMarine]

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That was great guys!

 

[ImmortalSix]

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I can dig it man!

Hoss, you have a strong voice --- I feel like you need to belt a little more to harness your total potential --- sorry, but you are a rocker, not a crooner :laughing:

Good stuff all around! Cool that you guys collaborated, at least 3 of you!

 

[St_Genesius]

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Soundclick is blocked at work, but I look forward to checking it out when I get home.

 

[ginormous]

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Hoss, you have a fine equine voice.

The solo was just starting to crank up, but then the excerpt rooster-teased us and cut off. Boo... :thumbsdow

If that's a drum machine or sample, it doesn't spin my propeller. I've come to dislike those little fatherless kids, but they're a necessary evil in some situations.

All in all, a worthy effort!

 

[Kam]

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I've listened to this a couple of times since last night. I'm a huge Pearl Jam fan so I'm gonna be pretty critical of covers of their stuff but that was awesome guys. Really nice work. I, like Aceman, would've liked to hear some more jamming at the end. I like that you're being respectful of the song but come on, you're two guitarists posting on a gear forum! Rip that **** up!

Hoss, you got a great voice but I have to agree with I6. Have a bit more confidence in yourself and open those lungs, bro!

All in all, I liked it a lot, guys. Congrats on a job well done. :beerchug:

 

[Hoss]

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Wow - off the top; VERY cool. I'm digging it! I could totally hear that as an acoustic number.

+ Really liked Hoss on vocals; There a slight flange or something on there? Very cool sound.
+ Tasty tone on the little solo at the end. Tele in the middle position or strat?
+ Just a nice groove overall.

Great job guys!

STOP HERE IF YOU JUST WANT TO BATHE IN THE AWSOME

the following are a few very minor issues, but I really feel they could make this thing perfect!

1. Crank the bass down a touch. Perhaps go fretless
2. Add something to just soften the main guitar rhythm/riff. A touch more of delay, or use an acoustic to double perhaps
3. More of that solo at the end! I was just getting into the groove and it ended!!!!!!!

Stellar job boys!

thanks bro! i'm sure Dennis will take the mixing stuff to heart! it's our first collaboration together.

 

[Hoss]

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I can dig it man!

Hoss, you have a strong voice --- I feel like you need to belt a little more to harness your total potential --- sorry, but you are a rocker, not a crooner :laughing:

Good stuff all around! Cool that you guys collaborated, at least 3 of you!

I'll be the first to admit i was holding back quite a bit...i felt like that was the vibe that was most inherent in Eddie's original track. I probably should have pushed it to the edge a little more though?! Plus i'm not sure how my built in speaker in my macbook would handle it if i really cut loose?! One of these days i'm gonna have to get one of those snowball jobbies or something?

 

[Hoss]

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Hoss, you have a fine equine voice.

The solo was just starting to crank up, but then the excerpt rooster-teased us and cut off. Boo... :thumbsdow

If that's a drum machine or sample, it doesn't spin my propeller. I've come to dislike those little fatherless kids, but they're a necessary evil in some situations.

All in all, a worthy effort!

thanks man...and equine voice...that's fitting here at derby time...haahah!

I've listened to this a couple of times since last night. I'm a huge Pearl Jam fan so I'm gonna be pretty critical of covers of their stuff but that was awesome guys. Really nice work. I, like Aceman, would've liked to hear some more jamming at the end. I like that you're being respectful of the song but come on, you're two guitarists posting on a gear forum! Rip that **** up!

Hoss, you got a great voice but I have to agree with I6. Have a bit more confidence in yourself and open those lungs, bro!

All in all, I liked it a lot, guys. Congrats on a job well done.

Maybe we can find a song in my wheelhouse that i can crank out and really rock with and maybe i can get a mic that will handle it?

 

[cream123]

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Here are some comments I left Hoss in a message regarding the mix etc

great guitar tone and overall sound with the mix. I like the vocal effects but when you do put modulation on vocals, you should consider a little bit of compression and raising them in the mix because the modulation can tend to lower volume a bit. Well performed though. I like it overall...captured the vibe well. Also consider panning the guitar left about 10% more than you did but I am listening through headphones so that might be wrong. In fact I'd consider expanding the whole stereo field.

 

[Nightburst]

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Thanks a lot for the kind comments guys! Glad you liked it and the constructive criticism is invaluable as reference for future projects! Really like that instead of just, 'thats awesome' or 'this sucks'. I'm learning a lot from this.
It's interesting to notice that you guys have really good ears, kudos to that and I agree with everything said about the mix and vocals. It's just that I can't adress those issues anymore without rerecording the majority of the parts.
The problem is that I lost the original project file and the guitar wav files during a transition to a new computer. Maybe I'll rerecord something and extend the music but Hoss and I wanted to throw this out on time for the CD that Robert S is making.

Drums were based on a midi track off the Internet and could be better but all in all it was a lot of work and basically my first project of this magnitude. So I had to start somewhere. Bassguitar is Midi as well.
As for the guitar solo: It could have been longer but I thought that Mike McCreedy was genius to keep it short like that, it leaves you wanting for more so stay tuned for the next song guys . The solo tone comes from my Brobucker equipped '75 Gibson SG straight into the Bogner xtc, red channel.
Other guitar used is a Squier strat with a JB.

Again I'd like to thank innerdreamrecords for helping me out on some mixing techniques and tricks. It really did make everything sound better than it was in the first place. This guy is awesome.
Then I knew that Hoss was the right guy for the vocals, still remembering his collab with Jolly(? or was it Jeff B, I'm not sure anymore) doing Plush by STP.
Might have took a while for him but in the end he stepped up his game and delivered on a song he wasn't really familiar with. I think he did a great job. I like how he starts off holding back and opening up more toward the end.
The effect on his vocals are a mystery to me as well, I didn't add really much just a little compression and eq. Might be his mic or recording software?

 

[Redmist]

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Only just found out this was in here...

Can't hear it right now on the iPhone here in hospital, but getting out in a few hours and can listen back at home.

 

[Gearjoneser]

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I'll be the first to admit i was holding back quite a bit...i felt like that was the vibe that was most inherent in Eddie's original track. I probably should have pushed it to the edge a little more though?! Plus i'm not sure how my built in speaker in my macbook would handle it if i really cut loose?! One of these days i'm gonna have to get one of those snowball jobbies or something?

Overall, I liked it. It was a little tame in the vocals, but it's been awhile since I heard that song, so I can't recall how Vedder sang it.

A better vocal mic would definitely help too, just to give the voice more presence.

Sounds good....no need to pick it apart.

 

[Vasshu the humanoid typhoon]

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Love it guys!
And as usual I always dig when Hoss sings

 

[Hoss]

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Any feedback/critique is good! Thanks for listening. I guess the next track we do is gonna have to rock hard! Something like Harry Connick Jr. Maybe!?

A Tapatalk BooOOyah!

 

[Redmist]

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Nice one lads!

Some great tones and strums going on there, they really sit well together and the instrument level mixes sound fine to my ears on monitor speakers.

Hoss dude, I didn't know you had such a soulful set of lungs on ya!!!
I could believe that you actually wrote those words with the amount of feeling you chucked at them. Good to put a voice to a face as well ....

With headphones on, the vocal sits a wee bit low in the mix, through speakers it sounds a bit better, and sounds spot on through the Macbook onboard jobbies. Suppose it's just what you listen on that makes the difference.

I'm not going to try to search for things I'd change if it was mine, (it's certainly better mixed than my garageband effort), but my only criticism is the pretty sudden fade-out at the end (but that's just maybe me - I'm a sucker for a good fade-out )

Well done to yas, a worthy contribution to this years compo disc :friday:

 

[innerdreamrecords.co]

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Cool bros! Sounds good. A couple mix things I would do. Compress the vocal much harder it's getting lost in certain spots yet the volume is fine. Did you mult the drums to a compressor? Look that up or New York compression. I think it would punch up the track a bit.