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DanC ( 73)
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| | Posted: Wed 17 Sep 2008 21:18 | |
We've just recorded a rehearsal of two of our new songs - All of Me and Falling. It's still just the two of us, but we've been working on getting a bigger sound through the joys of technology. No backing tracks were used in the making of this racket and to the best of our knowledge no animals harmed.
We'd love to know your thoughts. Comments on recording quality would be superfluous as it was a mic in front of two amps. There's a limit to how much editing you can do on that...
Follow the link below... Thanks for listening!
http://www.reverbnation.com/tunepak/761762
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Fraser_S ()
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| | Posted: Thu 18 Sep 2008 7:16 | |
I love a music that can accompany a person throughout desolate places of mind and emotion, and remain a partner of integrity, sensitivity and understanding.
Not only that, but this technology mularky to your sound is brilliant, too. Also, I'm feeling that strength in the music now, where your working together as a performing duo is seriously coming together. This stuff is not superficial cool - it *is cool imo; unique - always an exotic oasis of musical colour.
Again - great songwriting; and those cello moments in 'All of Me' - yes please.
You should be up there - thi contemporary music scene needs thi! The time is Striking Poses! 
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stevestory (  15)
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| | Posted: Thu 18 Sep 2008 15:18 | |
Falling to my ears sounds a bit like Elbow mixed with elements of Pink Floyd...quite a beautiful song actually. I like both the new songs. One minor criticism for me is the vocals in both songs sound a little low in the mix.
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rabs (48)
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| | Posted: Thu 18 Sep 2008 15:40 | |
yeah tasty stuff, i here the floyd influence too. Well the big sound is working well, especially the piano in "falling" its a nice song guys, i would second the minor crit on the vocal, for me its too dry and low in the mix, perhaps beef up the vocal stereo width and add some subtle reverb/echo, you may have to lose some volume in the backing track if you increase the vocal gain but a good multiband limiter should sort it out as at the moment the vocals are not prominent or defined enough.Another thing, is this an uncompressed mix? it just sounds like the cello overpowers in places especially in the bass regions. Great arrangements.
Great work guys
All the best
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DanC (73)
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| | Posted: Thu 18 Sep 2008 16:29 | |
Thanks for the very positive comments guys, very much appreciated.
A quick word on the "mix" Basically there isn't one yet lol. It was just a few microphones put in front of a couple of amps. So it just recorded what it heard. These and more tracks will be recorded "properly" over the winter, but will still be recorded as much as possible live.
For those interested I am playing a variax through a vg 99 with one channel an electric guitar sound and the other cosm channel a bass guitar. The midi channel is playing "strings" generated by a korg microsynth. Finally the output from the variax (a 12 string) goes thru a digitech vocalist 4 to generate the vocal harmonies. Finally Deryns electric cello goes thru a line 6 floorpod and a boss looper. Also she plays a Roland Juno g on a few tracks. Now if I could just figure out how to get her to oplay piano and cello at the same time..........cloning maybe!
Thanks again guys
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Fraser_S ()
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Yorkshire
| | Posted: Sat 20 Sep 2008 12:33 | |
A cornucopia of technological wizardry. The Variax and Vocalist 4 sound particularly intellestling; had a look at some demonstrations on YouTube - just out of curiosity. Aye - the stuff they can do, these days. |
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Gilmour1978 (8)
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Warrington
| | Posted: Mon 22 Sep 2008 18:20 | |
Yip. Liked that! Can here the Floyd influence in there too. Very nice tune indeed.
http://www.myspace.com/mikegarvey78
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