Soft Rock with PRS and P90s

ImmortalSix

ImmortalSix

John Mayer's Mankini
Song is called "Red," for some odd reason.

UPDATED with Vetteboy's drumming: 12/23/2008 --- MAJOR PROPS!
http://soundclick.com/share?songid=7172666

Soft rock type of song I wrote so I could test out how the new PRS sounds when clean. Neck P90 panned left, bridge P90 panned right. Accent parts are also PRS / P90.

Bass is played poorly, and recorded with too much woof and not enough punch, but I only did one track and I was feeling like it was time for bed.

I think the clean accents really help this song along.

I tried it with my Hotstepper freeware for a drrum beat and it was the wrong feel, or I'm just not a very good drum programmer.

Kind of going for a "Jimmy Eat World" feel on this one.

If you want to make me a drum track, post up and maybe I can help you out with something too.
 
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Why, he has a PRS SE Soapbar II! :)

I dig it! Great sound, very clear. Interesting idea to do the different pickups on different sides, instead of just playing on the middle setting - you got a similar sound to the middle setting, but its much fuller. Accents sound nice.

I know what you mean about bedtime recording, haha. I did some recording last night at 4:00 AM and my timing is not the greatest; but sometimes the focus is on raw ideas, you know?
 
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nice tones there ... some very cool chord grips you got ringing out too
thanks for sharing it
 
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Haha...it sounds like you took your bass advice for me and doubled it. :D

Neat chords and stuff though. If I get some free time floating around I'll see about messing with a drum track for it.

Hey - did you ever do anything with that one track 'village' that you were working on a while ago?
 
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alex1fly said:
Why, he has a PRS SE Soapbar II! :)

I dig it! Great sound, very clear. Interesting idea to do the different pickups on different sides, instead of just playing on the middle setting - you got a similar sound to the middle setting, but its much fuller. Accents sound nice.

I know what you mean about bedtime recording, haha. I did some recording last night at 4:00 AM and my timing is not the greatest; but sometimes the focus is on raw ideas, you know?
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Thanks! I appreciate the remarks about the left/right panning --- that's what I was hoping for.

Also, INCORRECT! I don't have a PRS SE Soapbar II --- I have a PRS SE Soapbar. The II is a "PRS" shape, and the one I have is a Singlecut / Les Paul shape.
 
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Vetteboy said:
Haha...it sounds like you took your bass advice for me and doubled it. :D

Neat chords and stuff though. If I get some free time floating around I'll see about messing with a drum track for it.

Hey - did you ever do anything with that one track 'village' that you were working on a while ago?
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Vetteboy said:
:scratchch

http://soundclick.com/share?songid=7172666

Unfortunately hard-panned strumming spacey electric guitar chords do not a good click track make. :(
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Holy crap man! That sounds great! I am blown away that you made a drum track for that song!

I'm pretty excited because I never hear my songs with real drums --- only in my head or with crappy electronic drums. Anyone who's written any music can tell you how good it feels to hear something go from an idea to your stereo.

Thanks a lot to perhaps my oldest e-friend who brought me an excellent early holiday gift!

Thanks so much, and cheers

-Hunter
 
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And Vette, about "Village," I still have that song.

I have it recorded as both an acoustic solo piece, and as an aggressive high gain rock piece.

I will email you or link you to that stuff in the next couple of days --- maybe you can help me figure out what the right feel for that song is --- it kicks ass as both soft and acoustic and aggressive and rock. Maybe we can do one of those "Layla" deals where you kick ass and then skin 'er on back for the outro, or it could be like "My Last Serenade" where you start soft and then go into aggressive mode (verse is lame, chorus is just like intro only marinated in awesome sauce and cooked well-AWESOME)
 
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ImmortalSix said:
Holy crap man! That sounds great! I am blown away that you made a drum track for that song!

I'm pretty excited because I never hear my songs with real drums --- only in my head or with crappy electronic drums. Anyone who's written any music can tell you how good it feels to hear something go from an idea to your stereo.

Thanks a lot to perhaps my oldest e-friend who brought me an excellent early holiday gift!

Thanks so much, and cheers

-Hunter
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More than welcome, and I had a fun time doing it. Now I feel like I should have given it a little more effort though. :laughing:

I'll give you a hint: the parts where I cut the overhead mics are a lazy substitution for a bandpass filter on the whole drum kit...that's more what I had in mind.

ImmortalSix said:
Vette: I found those Village tracks --- neither are decent recordings, but you can at least hear the songs.

I think these were both recorded over 3 years ago --- in a weird tuning too. No, I don't remember :laugh2:
On my Soundclick

http://www.soundclick.com/bands/default.cfm?bandID=663744
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Want a hint? ;)

HotSeXJ said:
It's tuned to DADADe.
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Vetteboy said:
More than welcome, and I had a fun time doing it. Now I feel like I should have given it a little more effort though. :laughing:

I'll give you a hint: the parts where I cut the overhead mics are a lazy substitution for a bandpass filter on the whole drum kit...that's more what I had in mind.



Want a hint? ;)
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Man, you are just full of the early christmas presents this year aren't you!?
 
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Very nice! I would personally take the bass a little down.. It overpowers a fair bit, at least through my speakers.. But overall, really cool! :)
 
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Tor said:
Very nice! I would personally take the bass a little down.. It overpowers a fair bit, at least through my speakers.. But overall, really cool! :)
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Haha. I had to give his mix a -12 dB cut @ 50 Hz to keep it from blowing up my headphones. :laughing:
 
Re: Soft Rock with PRS and P90s

interesting tones. i like how you panned the pups in two channels.

loved the mix!
 
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Love the vibe. It kinda reminded me of something Incubus would do :) I love some of the leadwork in this, great flow to the song! I'm a little late to the party considering this is from '08, but it still rocks :D
 
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I liked the guitar work, sounds nice and so does the over all vibe.

My CC on the mix would be start over, the levels are pretty out of balance. As a rule of thumb I think it's good to get a mix on the drums where they are all balanced with each other and set the over all level of the drum mix at about - 6dbs. Then start to fill in the rest with the bass first (which needs a low cut filter on it right now) and then the guitars. Turn your monitors way way down and listen to the balance of all the instruments, work some more then turn them down and check again. Put on a reference CD and check again.
 
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