Some fusion for y'all...

Vetteboy

Vetteboy

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TimmyPage's post in the 'why don't you record' thread made me think of this one. This is back from early 2003, and it was a roughing-out of a fusion song I was working on at the time. Everything kinda clicked together with it and the piece came out surprisingly organic and 'spontaneous', which is rare in a situation where it's just one dude overdubbing stuff.

http://soundclick.com/share?songid=7223342

There's a lot of slop in it, and the piece could probably stand to be a good minute shorter...but I still kinda like this one.

Guitar is my Soloist, played through my Ampeg with some kind of chorus added. I still dig the solo/sound at 2:20.

If anyone's interested, I've got a couple more things like this I can put up.
 
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Sounds pretty cool. Not sure if it was intentional or subconscious, but from :43 to 1:09 sounds like a riff off Flight Over Rio by Al Dimeola (approx. 2:09-2:34). Check it out.
I had to go through a host of songs to figure out which song it was as it is one of the cooler riffs I like by Dimeola.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZrnJEFH9SI
 
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Fusion1 said:
Sounds pretty cool. Not sure if it was intentional or subconscious, but from :43 to 1:09 sounds like a riff off Flight Over Rio by Al Dimeola (approx. 2:09-2:34). Check it out.
I had to go through a host of songs to figure out which song it was as it is one of the cooler riffs I like by Dimeola.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZrnJEFH9SI
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Honestly, I don't really know any of Dimeola's stuff at all. I like that track you linked...there's definitely a lot of great riffage in that one. This one's gonna have to be chalked up to coincidence though.
 
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Great track --- looks like the Soundclick info could handle another look though!

:laugh2:

I like the bass work a lot, even more than the guitar, oddly!

The piano makes it sound a lot like Phish when you start climbing the scales!
 
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That's great stuff right there, man! Really had my foot tapping. Always a good sign.

(And I'm with Hunter on the Phish-esque piano stuff.)

MORE! MORE! MORE!

- Keith
 
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I am always amazed at how you can play Phish-esque jam, modern country, pop rock, blues, fusion, and metal / hard rock, and all of them sound exactly like you.

You are the man, Vetteboy!

"So crack open an ice cold Bud Light, oh renegade of the recording studio..."
 
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ImmortalSix said:
Great track --- looks like the Soundclick info could handle another look though!
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Pink Unicorn Horsey said:
That's great stuff right there, man! Really had my foot tapping. Always a good sign.

(And I'm with Hunter on the Phish-esque piano stuff.)

MORE! MORE! MORE!

- Keith
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Thanks! You got it...

ImmortalSix said:
I am always amazed at how you can play Phish-esque jam, modern country, pop rock, blues, fusion, and metal / hard rock, and all of them sound exactly like you.
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I'm going to try and change that.

:D
http://soundclick.com/share?songid=7236087

Progressive Latin! 7/4 for the win! And one of the only recorded occurrences of my nylon-string guitar, which I was very happy with for this song.
 
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Pink Unicorn Horsey said:
This is very, very excellent stuff! I love the Montgomery-esque octaves. That guitar sounds gorgeous. Did you do the rhythm as well as the lead? How did you mike it?

- Keith
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Yeah, I did all the tracks on that one as well...the lead is admittedly hacky in some spots but it worked OK for what I needed.

How it's miked...now you're getting into trade secrets. Check this out... :D

About 10 years ago, Radio Shack made this weird-looking mic.

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There are some older versions of it referred to as their PZM model, which is sort of a cult classic...it was licensed to Radio Shack from Crown. However it was discontinued and replaced by the one in the picture, which was generally regarded as "not as good".

I picked up two of this "not as good" model on clearance at my local Radio Shack for 10 bucks each. I figured they'd be cool for recording live shows and stuff. Curiosity got the best of me and I opened up the little housings to see how they worked, and it turns out the mic element was about the size of a small watch battery and made by Shure.

At some point in this experiment I lost some pieces to put the mic back together, so I had basically an open mic element attached to a long cable with tiny little wires. I got a piece of heat shrink tubing and put it around the end to protect it. Then I started using the mic this way, and promptly made the same modification to the other one.

10 years later, every single drum track (which is dozens more than what I've got posted on Soundclick), and nearly every acoustic track, piano track, and percussion track I've done has used this pair of microphones. I usually end up hanging them from the ceiling; you can see one over the drums in this pic:

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The nylon acoustic on that track was recorded sitting on my drum stool, actually behind the drum set, with the overhead mics lowered down somewhat, panned hard left & right. :) So were the bongos, for that matter.

If those mics ever stop working, I'll probably cry.
 
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That is very cool stuff! You've got some one-of-a-kind equipment there. Take care of it, because it's obviously doing some great things for you. I very much dig this recording.

- Keith
 
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I listened to most of this then clicked away to do something else. I found myself wanting more so I clicked back and listened to the rest of it. Nice job!
 
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